Posted on 07/07/2017 6:57:23 AM PDT by pgkdan
...He did even worse; he launched a campaign of punitive lawsuits against anyone who criticized him. He has sued Mark Steyn, National Review Online, and climatologist Dr. Timothy Ball.
Mann shot himself in the foot with that last. For several years, Mann had refused to produce his data for the court (in support of his own case), claiming that it was proprietary. After missing a February 20th deadline, he now finds himself in contempt. Under Canadian law, the court is now required to dismiss the suit.
John O'Sullivan goes into detail:
"The defendant in the libel trial, the 79-year-old Canadian climatologist, Dr Tim Ball 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. Manns 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 Trumps claims that climate scare stories are a hoax.
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"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 graphs data. Manns iconic hockey stick has been relied upon by the UNs IPCC and western governments as crucial evidence for the science of man-made global warming.
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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 Manns multi-million dollar libel suit against Dr Ball. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
That makes this soooooooo much sweeter.
bkmk
I wonder how much taxpayer dough PSU’s gotten from this global warming scam..
Didn't a VA AG, after Mann fled to PSU, block investigations and requests for Mann's UVA research "data"?
Perhaps that explains the phenomenon of Mann's Canadian attorney's "unresponsive actions:"
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 Manns multi-million dollar libel suit against Dr Ball. ...Both Mann and McConchie know he's going to have to pay, and his attorney is probably underwater on the case anyway. Therefore, he's had to move on to other matters, and won't be opening his mouth on Mann's behalf any time soon.
It's just all an innocent misunderstanding. Mann didn't mean man-made global warming. He meant Mann-made global warming.
love it !!!!
great video
no no no no, it was the VA Atty General at the time (Ken Cuccinell) who sought to make the U. of Virginia share Mann’s publicly funded data. But the U. fought for secrecy and cover-up on behalf of Mann, and won on some legal grounds.
Both the NSF and Mann’s universities have been obnoxious and outrageous in defending his secrecy and refusals to share data & code to allow genuine replication or refutation of his results. So much for “openness in science”....
I guess it pays to be tighter there ;-)
A lot of people began wondering very loudly how this thing passed peer review without the primary data. Still haven’t heard an answer to that one either. What is so appalling is that if you attempt to defend that fundamental principle of science, you’re called “anti-science” by people with Grievance Studies degrees. Maddening.
Proving that Global Warming is a hoax to a Climate Change zealot, is similar to proving Islam is a hoax to a muslim. Will never happen. You just have to consider them fanatics and assume all their work is horribly biased trash. There are actually zealots out there that think the Great Barrier Reef is completely gone. And you cannot tell them otherwise. Even if you take them to the GBR and show them vast areas are alive and healthy. The issue is not the issue. All that matters is the cause.
One of the commenters on that website call him “Piltdown Mann”.
Gonna use that elsewhere.
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