Judge allows climate scientist compared to child molester to sue for libel.

It’s hardly notable when a climate scientist’s findings come under attack from right wing pundits, but it definitely turns heads if they compare that scientist to a child molester. Even more unusual is if that scientist—in this case, Penn State climatologist Michael Mann—retaliates by suing for libel.

Sure, its a refreshing departure from the norm at FR.

Force is all that liberals understand. I wish conservatives were willing to get down in the mud and fight the left on an equal basis. The Left doesn't best their opponents in the arena of ideas, they use lawfare to destroy conservatives. We could use a couple junkyard dog law firms to financially destroy the lives of a few prominent rats.

Mark Steyn’s crime

Football and Hockey
By Mark Steyn
July 15, 2012

In the wake of Louis Freeh’s report on Penn State’s complicity in serial rape, Rand Simberg writes of Unhappy Valley’s other scandal:

I’m referring to another cover up and whitewash that occurred there two years ago, before we learned how rotten and corrupt the culture at the university was. But now that we know how bad it was, perhaps it’s time that we revisit the Michael Mann affair, particularly given how much we’ve also learned about his and others’ hockey-stick deceptions since. Mann could be said to be the Jerry Sandusky of climate science, except that instead of molesting children, he has molested and tortured data in the service of politicized science that could have dire economic consequences for the nation and planet.

Not sure I’d have extended that metaphor all the way into the locker-room showers with quite the zeal Mr Simberg does, but he has a point. Michael Mann was the man behind the fraudulent climate-change “hockey-stick” graph, the very ringmaster of the tree-ring circus. And, when the East Anglia emails came out, Penn State felt obliged to “investigate” Professor Mann. Graham Spanier, the Penn State president forced to resign over Sandusky, was the same cove who investigated Mann. And, as with Sandusky and Paterno, the college declined to find one of its star names guilty of any wrongdoing.

If an institution is prepared to cover up systemic statutory rape of minors, what won’t it cover up? Whether or not he’s “the Jerry Sandusky of climate change”, he remains the Michael Mann of climate change, in part because his “investigation” by a deeply corrupt administration was a joke.

These numb-nuts are so stupid, they hold their AGW conferences in the winter when it is snowing up a storm. That still doesn’t stop them from saying that the snow is a direct result of AGW. Good ol’ Bette Midler is on Breitbart saying just that today. These are very stupid people who work for the Enemy - they should be openly ridiculed for being such moronic shills.

In the statement, Simberg calls Mann “the Jerry Sandusky of climate science, except that instead of molesting children, he has molested and tortured data in the service of politicized science that could have dire economic consequences for the nation and planet.” Stern then writes: “Not sure I’d have extended that metaphor all the way into the locker-room showers with quite the zeal Mr Simberg does, but he has a point.”

He has a point...

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