It was DC, so a jury of welfare recipients or Fed.gov employees (same thing) means they have no concept of money, its value, or how it is made.
Mann “hockey stick” is a classical case of scientific fraud.
It should be studied at every school, how NOT to do science and why NOT to trust everybody who calls himself a scientist!
Steyn used very salacious language expressing this undisputable fact.
I believe, jury zoomed at that.
But the media reported it as victory for the global warming alarmists.