Posted on 01/29/2024 6:12:06 AM PST by MtnClimber
It should be an open-and-closed case, but the trial is in DC Superior Court so who knows what will happen.
Manhattan Contrarian ping...
Fascinating that the trial has even got to this point. I think it’s Britain where, if you go to court in a civil case and lose, the defendant’s legal fees are passed to the plaintiff. Can you imagine what would happen to the US “court clog” if we had such a system?
>> It should be an open-and-closed case,
The courts have become unconstitutional political weapons.
If B claims A lied about subject S1, but B fails to prove S1 is a lie, but A is found to have lied about subjects S2 and S3 and can reasonably be thought as a dishonest person, should B still be liable for defamation?
Many people still believe in the hockey stick, including me, but I personally doubt CO2 is the main cause, partially due to radiation absorption graphs and because CO2 does not appear to prevent temperatures from dropping rapidly in Florida after 3pm.
Steyn as his own counsel should make for grand entertainment. A super smart guy with a wit second to none will destroy the pompous Mann and his phony hockey stick. As with Trump, it’s a shame both have to endure phony defamation suits brought by absolute zeros.
I don’t believe any private party should have to another party’s lawyer’s fees.
It is not my fault that the law is a mess and that people are unable to state their own case after 13 years of taxpayer-funded education.
I’ll give you an hour to restate whatever you intended.
For those who never heard of the despicable filthy closet homosexual Graham Spanier, who ran Penn State university to the ground in the 15 years that he was there, check out this festival that he promoted and allowed to occur:
https://www.psucollegian.com/archives/article_57e3888e-a1ef-5664-b7e3-89613ac74b36.html
Graham Spanier and Michael “Piltdown” Mann should be sent to prison awaiting their execution by lethal injection. /spit
A lot of people need defaming and the sooner that gets done the better.
There are two issues involved, the hockey stick graph and the importance of increasing CO2 levels. Late day temperature drops call in deep question the importance of CO2.
Mann is not just selling one theory, he is selling two, one of which is questioned by millions.
I won’t think badly of a pharmacist selling insulin for diabetes, but I will think ill of him for selling Ivermectin for Covid.
Not enough time.
“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.”
Richard Feynman
genuine Nobel Prize winner
Thanks for posting this. It’s hands down the best and most readable explanation of the case and its background. Prayers are up for Mark Steyn to endure and prevail. “The process is the punishment” is so true in his case.
Wasn’t there a case involving the hockey stick, and the people that created the hockey stick graph refused to show data that they used to create it and therefore, lost the case or withdrew it?
There is daily podcast of this trial done by an English Gent and an Irish Woman - both journalists and it’s fantastic!
It’s called:
Climate Change on Trial
They summarize every day and have actors read the transcripts for a reenactment of the days best bits.
I listen to it on Apple Podcasts...
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/6jDpaNT18Yg0t8kIvfV0Du
Apple:
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/climate-change-on-trial/id1713827256Mr. Steyn comes out very well spoken and clever.
Half hour left. Don’t hold your breath.
I sell OrthoMune and ivermectin for the placebo effect. After a couple of years, I am still amazed at the positive psychic power that is created when these placebos are taken. I don’t have the heart to tell them how I scammed them out of their money when they come back by to tell me they got better (sometimes in two days😱) and were overly thankful. For their comfort, I keep quiet and only say, “You’re welcome,”
I remember the WikiLeaks revelations of the climate conspiracy academics like Mann tried to push. He from Penn State University, East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (where Phil Jones and three other major academics helped, and NASA’s James Hansen colluded on ways to stop publication of alternate climate views and to provide supporting ‘peer review’ for papers/articles of no scientific merit that held the same climate tenets as they. They also discussed Mann’s ‘trick’ of hiding unwanted data a lot.
They did it because ALL of them had heavy funding in grants and contracts from governments to produce climate warming data. In the end, the UK for instance, spent more money on getting to Wikileaks over the internal emails than its University head department on whether their work was actually credible.
It may not be your fault, but you are paying for it because frivolous law suits raises the cost of doing business.
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