Posted on 07/05/2017 7:24:47 PM PDT by Ken H
Penn State climate scientist, Michael ‘hockey stick’ Mann commits contempt of court in the ‘climate science trial of the century.’ Prominent alarmist shockingly defies judge and refuses to surrender data for open court examination. Only possible outcome: Mann’s humiliation, defeat and likely criminal investigation in the U.S.
The defendant in the libel trial, the 79-year-old Canadian climatologist, Dr Tim Ball (above, right) is expected to instruct his British Columbia attorneys to trigger mandatory punitive court sanctions, including a ruling that Mann did act with criminal intent when using public funds to commit climate data fraud. Mann’s imminent defeat is set to send shock waves worldwide within the climate science community as the outcome will be both a legal and scientific vindication of U.S. President Donald Trump’s claims that climate scare stories are a “hoax.”
As can be seen from the graphs below; Mann’s cherry-picked version of science makes the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) disappear and shows a pronounced upward ‘tick’ in the late 20th century (the blade of his ‘hockey stick’). But below that, Ball’s graph, using more reliable and widely available public data, shows a much warmer MWP, with temperatures hotter than today, and showing current temperatures well within natural variation.
Michael Mann, who chose to file what many consider to be a cynical SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) libel suit in the British Columbia Supreme Court, Vancouver six long years ago, has astonished legal experts by refusing to comply with the court direction to hand over all his disputed graph’s data. Mann’s iconic hockey stick has been relied upon by the UN’s IPCC and western governments as crucial evidence for the science of ‘man-made global warming.’ As first reported in Principia Scientific International (February 1, 2017), the defendant in the case, Canadian climatologist Dr. Tim Ball, had won “concessions” against Mann, but at the time the details were kept confidential, pending Mann’s response.
The negative and unresponsive actions of Dr Mann and his lawyer, Roger McConchie, are expected to infuriate the judge and be the signal for the collapse of Mann’s multi-million dollar libel suit against Dr Ball. It will be music to the ears of so-called ‘climate deniers’ like President Donald Trump and his EPA Chief, Scott Pruitt.
Oopsies.
Excellent! Mark Steyn should be pleased.
But I think his court case is still stalled in the wonderful, slothful,
lethargic, US court in DC.
Mark Steyn will use this in his court case. Mann is a fraud. Scientific data used in a peer reviewed publication should not be a secret. He is only hiding it because he knows it was fraudulent.
Motion to dismiss and Rule 11 sanctions.
PSU surely can pick ‘em...
A Happy Life in Gay Valley at the State Penn.
It was so good I read it twice.
“Michael Mann, who chose to file what many consider to be a cynical SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) libel suit in the British Columbia Supreme Court, Vancouver six long years ago”
It shouldn’t take SIX YEARS to get to this point. That’s punishment for the defendant — a six year sentence of emotional and financial burdens — even if he finally wins.
As Steyn says, the process IS the punishment.
You can be deterred from saying a lot of true things, for fear of having to be dragged through the courts in a fraudulent suit.
So, let me get this straight. Mann files a libel suit because Ball claims Mann used faked data, but then Mann refuses to submit to the court the data in question. You couldn’t make this up.
This massive, carefully woven HOAX has recently begun the painfully slow process of becoming unraveled. It will be a long and tortuous work!
Props to all standing up to the monsters promoting the HOAX and the bullies defending the monsters & their hoax.
Hopefully it’s true, but a warning:
This source(PS) is not..well.. all that reliable.
It is unwise to play hockey against a Canadian. :)
If it is govt funded it should be public info. It is not his to hide.
The defendant in the libel trial, the 79-year-old Canadian climatologist, Dr Tim Ball (above, right) is expected to instruct his British Columbia attorneys to trigger mandatory punitive court sanctions, including a ruling that Mann did act with criminal intent when using public funds to commit climate data fraud. Mann’s imminent defeat is set to send shock waves worldwide within the climate science community as the outcome will be both a legal and scientific vindication of U.S. President Donald Trump’s claims that climate scare stories are a “hoax.”
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Good thing Trump has Twitter, because the corrupt media will pretend it never happened.
In the Internet Age, “Justice” should surely move more efficiently and hence quicker.
BINGO! And the emails that were leaked PROVE Mann's a fake and a fraud. I still have copies of all those emails on a hard drive around here somewhere too ... guessing they'll be useful again?
Mann is about to get his hockey stick shoved up his ass.
Buy more popcorn, this is going to be fun to watch!
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