Posted on 12/17/2012 7:26:49 AM PST by SeekAndFind
National Review Online (NRO) is currently running an ad/article explaining that Professor Michael Mann, the creator of the highly questionable "hockey stick" graph that global warming alarmists latched onto to pummel the entire world with dour warnings about the effects of man-made CO2 emissions on life as we know it, is suing NRO and Mark Steyn for defamation of character:
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"Let me recap: A lawsuit has been formally filed by Professor Michael Mann against National Review and Mark Steyn. You know Mann: The Penn State academic and self-proclaimed (and bogus) Nobel Peace Prize awardee best known, famously and infamously, for the "hockey stick" graph that allegedly proves that recent years were the hottest on record for more than a millennium.
Of course, he is also known for the scandal about embarrassing e-mails, pried out of the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit."
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According to Thomas Richard at examiner.com,
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"The suit is based on articles written by different authors at different times and can be found here, here, and here."
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Richard goes on to say,
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"In the lawsuit, Mann makes the claim that he has been "awarded the Nobel Peace Prize" in the complaint itself (page 2, paragraph 2). He premises much of his argument/suit that by winning such a prestigious prize, he has the right to sue the aforementioned authors for defamation of character.
I contacted the The Norwegian Nobel Institute to find out if Mann was indeed a Nobel Laureate, winner, etc... My questions were:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Mark has the $ to fight this, truth is an absolute defense, and when discovery proves mickey moron to be a fraud, many people who have been attacked by the left will have fattened wallets paid for by M. Moron and the university(PA if I remember). If this moron actually has filed suit, all of the universities(successful) work to protect the email and data from FOIA just got flushed, god I hope this is true. ALGORE must be wetting himself.
I just skimmed it without study. He certainly claims, more than, once that he shares a Nobel Prize. He also claims that his "Hockey Stick" chart is accurate. It seems simple to me that a single data point showing it's not true will exonerate Steyn and NRO. I believe there are thousands of reputable references that can prove that.
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