Climate scientist/activist Michael Mann is suing Mark Steyn for defamation for criticising his Hockey Stick graph.
But Discovery forced Mann to hand over relevant emails. So let's look at how Mann slimes and smears fellow scientists and others who disagree with his science (THREAD)
But Discovery forced Mann to hand over relevant emails. So let's look at how Mann slimes and smears fellow scientists and others who disagree with his science (THREAD)
Jury heard he emailed to colleagues accusing Dr. Judith Curry, former head of Georgia Tech’s earth and atmospheric science department, of “one of the oldest slurs against successful women..sleeping her way to the top”
He falsely claimed that when Prof Curry was a PhD student she slept with her professor. In court, he was forced to admit every fact in the email was false. All because she disagreed with his Hockey stick graph that claimed 1000 years flat temps and then catastrophic warming
In fact Curry was a tenured professor when she arrived at Penn State, and started a relationship with a colleague who had been separated from his wife for over a year. They later married.
Court transcript:
MANN: "Yes, I readily acknowledge I got those facts wrong."
Mann declined to apologize to Prof Curry or her husband who were both in court
MANN: "Yes, I readily acknowledge I got those facts wrong."
Mann declined to apologize to Prof Curry or her husband who were both in court
Court transcript:
STEYN: In fact, the upshot of your…e-mail is one of the oldest slurs against successful women. Isn't it? That she just slept her way to the top.
STEYN: In fact, the upshot of your…e-mail is one of the oldest slurs against successful women. Isn't it? That she just slept her way to the top.
In an email to colleagues Mann described Steve McIntyre, who published peer-reviewed papers pointing out errors in his Hockey Stick graph, as “human filth” and an “asshole,” and later compared his use of statistics to “white supremacy".
Mann also said in emails that McIntyre and University of Guelph economist Ross McKitrick’s paper criticising the hockey stick graph was “pure scientific fraud.” The paper was published in the same journal that published the Mann's 2nd hockey stick graph
Mann doesn’t slime just members of his own profession. He called Australian journalist Tim Blair a “misogynistic ogre,” and “one of the worst people in the world”who “better hope there isn’t a hell”
Some of Mann’s other slanders and smears twitter were presented to the jury through “judicial admissions”, meaning both sides agree they are fact.
Judge told Jury they must accept as fact: “Professor Mann tweeted people with contrary views on climate science are, “hired guns”..”tinfoil-hat-wearing conspiracy theory mongers”..“climate deniers,”... “horrible human beings”... “cowardly trolls”....“a misogynistic ogre”.
Michael Mann also labels his critics as deniers, a word used to describe people who deny that the holocaust. According to Mann those who disagree with his Hockey Stick graph are similar to those who deny 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis.
And those who disagree with his use of principal components in reconstructing temperatures are also anti semites 
For the true story of The Trial of the Century, Free Speech Vs the Hockey Stick listen to the podcast Climate Change on Trial podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cli…
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