Son of Log Lady !
Posted on 04/27/2010 10:03:55 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
The Penn State climate professor who has silently endured investigations, hostile questioning, legislative probes and attacks by colleagues has finally spoken out. He says he'll sue the makers of a satirical video that's a hit on You Tube.
Their response: Bring it on.
Michael Mann, one of the central figures in the recent climate-data scandal, is best known for his "hockey stick graph," which was the key visual aid in explaining how the world is warming at an alarming rate and in connecting the rise to the increase in use of carbon fuels in this century. E-mails stolen from a university in England were released online, revealing exchanges between climatologists and a reference to a "trick" that Mann had used to get the graph to portray what global warming scientists wanted to see.
The parody video, titled "Hide the Decline," had more than 500,000 viewers on YouTube and received national attention when Rush Limbaugh played it on his radio show. It features a cat with a guitar, a talking tree, and a dancing figure sporting the image of Professor Mann. It's the use of his image that Mann is complaining about, arguing that the video supports "efforts to sell various products and merchandise."
"The guy is crazy to threaten legal action," said Jeff Davis, the President of No Cap and Trade, a large organization that includes the group Mann is threatening to sue, Minnesotans for Global Warming. "A lawsuit would give us full discovery -- and there's a lot to look at in his work."
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He needs Rob Reiner’s machine to get Muhammed’s ‘goo’
Love that video! Love also “Imagine there no Global Warming” too..
Yes! Bring it on.
You can’t talk about us like that!
WE’re big, rich, important liberals!
Just imagine the embarassment of the grad school that gave this clown his PhD.
Seems like some other places than Harvard allow purchased degrees in their vast majority of marshmallow courses (including law, it appears).
However, I never thought it’d happen in intellectual subjects like physics.
LOL I saw that video months ago. What a sniveling little man he is (Michael Mann)
You wanna sue? Go ahead, make my day.
Is he calling a fatwa on South Park too?!!!
Mann is getting overheated - he’s contributing to global warming.
Great stuff! Funny!
Anyone can sue anyone else for anything or nothing. It just costs a few bucks to file.
Getting a court to hear it; that’s another thing.
Winning it; that’s another thing.
Collecting the winings; still another thing.
Video guys, I wouldn’t stay awake at night.
IANAL, and a question occurs to me. What does it take to start discovery? Do you have to get on the docket?
Michael Mann couldn't really want to go in for the anal exam he would face if he brought suit.
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Michael Mann = Sore Luuuuuuser
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