Thursday, February 11, 2016

Looks like HockeyStick Mann really blew it

Massive counterclaims, in excess of $10 million, have just been filed against climate scientist Michael Mann after lawyers affirmed that the former golden boy of global warming alarmism had sensationally failed in his exasperating three-year bid to sue skeptic Canadian climatologist, Tim Ball. Door now wide open for criminal investigation into Climategate conspiracy.
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The fact Mann refused to disclose his ‘hockey stick’ graph metadata in the British Columbia Supreme Court, as he is required to do under Canadian civil rules of procedure, constituted a fatal omission to comply, rendering his lawsuit unwinnable. As such, Dr Ball, by default, has substantiated his now famous assertion that Mann belongs “in the state pen, not Penn. State.”  In short, Mann failed to show he did not fake his tree ring proxy data for the past 1,000 years, so Ball’s assessment stands as fair comment. Moreover, many hundreds of papers in the field of paleoclimate temperature reconstructions that cite Mann’s work are likewise tainted, heaping more misery on the discredited UN’s Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) which has a knack of relying on such sub prime science.
This sounds like Mann & Co. are likely to lose their collective ass.  And it couldn't happen to nicer people.




5 comments:

Toastrider said...

Oh boy. Mark Steyn is probably giggling like a little schoolgirl. He's gonna LOVE this as Mann was suing him too.

Firehand said...

My first thought, too; he had to've been on the line to his lawyer the moment he read it.

Anonymous said...

The article's from Feb. of 2014?

0007 said...

Need to figure out how to go after the deep pockets that have been financing this scam for years.

markm said...

According to commentary on the Volokh Conspiracy last year, Steyn could have had the lawsuit against him dismissed long ago. He passed that up because he wanted a trial at which Mann would be forced to disclose his data and defend his analyses.

Whenever Mann is finally pressed to the point where disclosure is necessary to continue a lawsuit, he has lost the lawsuit instead - but that's better than being found fraudulent in court, and the latter is what Steyn is after.