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.
what exactly is the news and when did it happen?
also, fwiw, i could not find out anything about the progress of this case, or lack of it, on wikipedia.
No doubt because he was expecting Hillary in office with BO working her marionette strings.
Years ago I remember reading somewhere - canNOT find it now- that Great Britain had pensions tied up in green energy funds. So in order for the to pay off, they had to be invested in - hence the push for ‘green energy’.
It has been a while - memory is fuzzy but remember something to this effect.
Follow the $$$. See who benefits - long side eye to Fat Ass Al Gore.
I wonder how much taxpayer money PSU has gotten over the years from the global warming scam. I’d be very interested in an accounting.
There was a face off in the corner?
Sorry, could not resist.
With the AGW crowd we are dealing with intellectual lepers.
Not to mention certain areas of research are completely out of bounds, because they’re “politically incorrect”. A few careers have been ruined merely for doing research in these verboten areas.
That’s the nub of it.
I wonder if Gore is now on suicide watch.
for a face-off.
Start with “hanging” Chad... I mean Al Gore.
Happy as in really drunk.
Absolutely correct. Science has been contaminated with politics for many years...biomed, earth/space, and anything soft, for sure. I think the geologists have known for years that peak oil was a farce, but played along with it for financial reasons.
Hide the decline.
My guess is, to use a simple analogy, is when you enter an old but luxurious building and expect to encounter some mouse droppings and then you realize a Donkey and an Elephant have been living there for years.....The clean up becomes alot more intricate then just bringing a broom....
This is HUGH! MSM will be all over this. /s
Again, what exactly is the news and when did it happen?
This article reads less like “breaking” news, and more like a PR release for the plaintiff designed to sway public opinion and the judge.
I would be all for the optimism expressed in the article, but the last legal activity mentioned in the article happened on February 20 (not a day or so ago in July, as implied by “breaking”).
Perhaps the actual news is that the judge did not immediately hold Mann in violation of the subpoeana or whatever back in February 20th when he missed the deadline.
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