Um, no. Sorry, Charlie, I disagree. It is NOT worth reading and if SCOTUS actually hears this case, it is make or break for SCOTUS with pertinent ramifications should he win.
But he won’t win. He can’t, not on merit.
Furthermore, the article itself is a fraud, ignoring 100% Mann’s technical loss to Dr. Tim Ball in BC for Mann’s refusal to produce the data for his ubiquitous graph.
The article is birdcage liner, not worth anyone’s time to peruse beyond the excerpt. Did you read it???
The Hill is MSNBC redux. The only reason I ever read their soiled pages was for John Solomon, who can now be found at his own website thanks to the machine having targeted him.
Mann cannot win any defamation lawsuit without producing his data, arguing before a biased court, or both.
If he wins at SCOTUS, it is an indictment of the Court and a greater red flag that not only Trump must be president for another 4 years, but Republicans better pull their heads out of their asses (and I’m not referring exclusively to the politicians).
John Kruzel @ The Hill deserves to be excoriated for this piece of trash, the only citation with merit being the following of Mann:
“In short, he risks making an ass of himself. But that hasn’t stopped him before.”
Articles more worth reading for those with a “serious interest” in the fraud are the following:
https://climatechangedispatch.com/breaking-fatal-courtroom-act-ruins-michael-hockey-stick-mann/
“The spectacular rise and fall of climate alarmism’s former golden boy is a courtroom battle with even more ramifications than the infamous Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925. To much fanfare at the time, Mann had sued Ball for daring to publish the damning comment that Mann “belongs in the state pen, not Penn. State.” Dr Ball brilliantly backed up his exposure of the elaborate international money-making global warming scam in his astonishing book, ‘The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science‘.”
“The Canadian court issued it’s [sic] 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.
This extraordinary outcome is expected to trigger severe legal repercussions for Dr Mann in the U.S. and may prove fatal to climate science claims that modern temperatures are “unprecedented.” (snip)
Dr Mann lost his case because he refused to show in open court his R2 regression numbers (the ‘working out’) behind the world-famous ‘hockey stick’ graph[.]”
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“Punishment for Civil Contempt
Mann’s now proven contempt of court means Ball is entitled to have the court serve upon Mann the fullest punishment. Contempt sanctions could reasonably include the judge ruling that Dr. Ball’s statement that Mann “belongs in the state pen, not Penn. State’ is a precise and true statement of fact. This is because under Canada’s unique ‘Truth Defense’, Mann is now proven to have wilfully hidden his data, so the court may rule he hid it because it is fake. As such, the court must then dismiss Mann’s entire libel suit with costs awarded to Ball and his team.”
GLARING omissions by The Hill. But who’s surprised? Not I.
Fyi, find Solomon now at
www.johnsolomonreports.com
I agree Mann shouldn’t ultimately win, but we want to win by proving he is a fraud not on free speech grounds.