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Michael Mann, creator of the infamous global warming ‘hockey stick,’ loses lawsuit (T)
americanthinker.com ^ | 8/24/2019 | Thomas Lifeson

Posted on 08/24/2019 10:05:50 AM PDT by rktman

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Michael Mann, creator of the infamous global warming ‘hockey stick,’ loses lawsuit against climate skeptic, ordered to pay defendant’s costs

Michael Mann, a climatologist at Penn State University, is the creator of the “hockey stick graph” that appears to show global temperatures taking a noticeable swing upward in the era when humanity has been burning fossil fuels and dumping CO2 into the atmosphere. The graph was first published in 1998, prominently featured in the 2001 UN Climate Report, and formed part of Al Gore’s 2006 movie, An Inconvenient Truth.

The graph’s methodology and accuracy have been and continue to be hotly contested, but Mann has taken the tack of suing two of his most prominent critics for defamation or libel. One case, against Mark Steyn, is called by Steyn likely to end up in the Supreme Court. But another case, against Dr. Tim Ball was decided by the Supreme Court of British Columbia, with Mann’s case thrown out, and him ordered to pay the defendant’s legal costs, no doubt a tidy sum of money. News first broke in Wattsupwiththat, via an email Ball sent to Anthony Watt. Later, Principia-Scientific offered extensive details, including much background on the hockey stick.

The Canadian court issued it’s final ruling in favor of the Dismissal motion that was filed in May 2019 by Dr Tim Ball’s libel lawyers.

Not only did the court grant Ball’s application for dismissal of the nine-year, multi-million dollar lawsuit, it also took the additional step of awarding full legal costs to Ball. A detailed public statement from the world-renowned skeptical climatologist is expected in due course.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Philosophy; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: ecowankers; globalwarmingfraud; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; hockeystick; horsehockey; michaelmann; pennstate; pennsylvania
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To: rktman

He went from making movies to designing hockey sticks. This guy is versatile.


41 posted on 08/24/2019 1:19:24 PM PDT by LouAvul
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To: aquila48

The corporate news media is dying. Alternatives are sprouting up.

There’s a good development from the science angle in this news. I’ll explain later.


42 posted on 08/24/2019 2:21:18 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: rktman

I believe Mann did his work at Penn State and UVA ( I could be mistaken and I’m typing without looking into it.) and they have not released any information which illuminates or corroborates his work while in their employ.

They should have to pay as well!


43 posted on 08/24/2019 3:46:53 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: rktman

So the criminals and crooks in this sick and perverted civilization, launch lawsuits against anyone challenging their integrity ! Nuke it from orbit.


44 posted on 08/24/2019 3:58:38 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: rktman

This should at least cause any peer reviewed papers published by Mann and based upon the same work be retracted, including papers by others that have referenced Mann’s work as their only source.


45 posted on 08/24/2019 4:58:41 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Vince Ferrer

Those reviews should have been done years ago. They may have been.


46 posted on 08/24/2019 5:04:46 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Hostage

It’s frightening to think about how something so ludicrous is pushed so hard and accepted by so many.


47 posted on 08/24/2019 7:38:33 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: VRW Conspirator

Think of the carbon foot print of all of them driving cars in America. Also, driving all over town and back to mow lazy people’s yards once a week, even in winter when it is dormant.


48 posted on 08/24/2019 7:40:15 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: aquila48

Steyn’s case is still tied up in DC Court purgatory.


49 posted on 08/24/2019 10:20:22 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Why should Obama be worried “about rising sea levels”? After all, he told his supporters that he was “the one who would stop the rise of the seas”.

Just one targeted tsunami up at Martha’s Vineyard would get rid of Obie and a lot of too rich Marxist democrats, and restore the area back as nature intended, empty of human detritus.


50 posted on 08/24/2019 11:47:02 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: leaning conservative
“Manhunter” is one of the greatest movies ever.

In a gadda da vida.

51 posted on 08/24/2019 11:55:41 PM PDT by Stentor
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To: Stentor

There is two endings to the movie. In the one commonly shown, after the death of the killer, the scene cuts to the beach.

In the one I saw years ago on Showtime, after the death of the killer, the manhunter visits the next family in line to be slain where the husband is protecting his family with a .45 handgun. Then it cuts to the beach scene.


52 posted on 08/25/2019 7:05:21 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: rktman

Shouldn’t you ask the admin to put this into Breaking News or something? This is BIG!


53 posted on 08/25/2019 8:04:52 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (And that's a fact.)
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To: Stentor

Always ; )


54 posted on 08/25/2019 8:27:54 AM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: rktman
I'm re-posting the Youtube classic, Hide the Decline (LINK) for FReepers' celebratory joy.
55 posted on 08/25/2019 10:01:02 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Actually, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart." - DJT)
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