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To: Sdgla who wrote (1436870)	2/1/2024 10:43:51 PM
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"Leaked emails from 2009 hack dubbed ClimateGate:" That was Putin's hack. Nevertheless, the stick's blade is growing, just like your nose. Denial on Trial: Mike Mann’s Long Awaited Defamation Suit – This is Not Cool (thinc.blog) Some 12 years in the making, climate scientist Michael Mann’s defamation suit against denialist Loon Mark Steyn and others just wrapped. It’s like reliving the bad old days. Above, I worked with Mann over some weeks to weed thru the minutia of the climate-gate “Hide the decline” nonsense. DesmogBlog: On Monday, conservative blogger Mark Steyn wrapped up his confrontational cross-examination of Michael Mann, the climate scientist who is suing him and another climate denier for defamation in Washington, D.C. Superior Court. Steyn appeared determined to portray Mann, currently the Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania, as untrustworthy and deceitful, in an aggressive manner suggesting that more than a decade of litigation in this case has done little to dampen his contempt for Mann’s allegations, or for the science of climate change. It was Mann’s fourth and final day on the stand. – As part of the defense, Steyn et al showed a circa 2010 Richard Muller climate denial lecture. At the trial in Washington this week, where @MichaelEMann is suing @MarkSteynOnline, this video of a presentation by @RichardMuller was shown.https://t.co/RYQYQXX6YG — Matt Ridley (@mattwridley) February 1, 2024 I’m sure they probably didn’t show my own 2014 interview with Muller, who, after a deep data dive, completely agreed with the science consensus on warming. Mark Steyn's lawyers apparently showed a video of Richard Muller during a testimony in the court case with Prof Mann recently. What they left out was that Muller FULLY accepted human induced climate change after looking at global temp datasets himself. https://t.co/X7OEFOMHQV — BONUS (@TheDisproof) February 1, 2024 Among other gems, defense introduced forgotten gems of climate denial “humor” like this one, I guess because they thought it would sway jurors? Amazing highlight from @MichaelEMann v. Free Speech. 1. There are few video parodies funnier than "Hide the Decline", recorded in early 2010 by a group called "Minnesotans 4 Global Warming" after the Climategate scandal broke. 2. Mann sent the group a cease-and-desist letter… pic.twitter.com/khN9QziIUo — Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) January 30, 2024 More Desmog: As DeSmog has previously reported, in 2012 Mann sued Steyn and Rand Simberg, another right-wing writer, charging that their attempts to discredit his work in print and online had damaged Mann’s reputation and led to a decline in the scientist’s ability to secure research funding. In a 2011 blog post for the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a conservative think tank that has long espoused climate science denial and delay, Simberg stated that Mann had “molested and tortured data,” comparing him to Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State football coach imprisoned for child molestation. Steyn, who was then a regular guest on Fox News, quoted and amplified Simberg’s charges in the National Review, a prominent conservative magazine. —— Video sampling here – Steyn has moved from climate denial to anti-vax nuttery. Below, Steyn also has a no-doubt-lucrative side career as a lounge singer. Actual iterations of Steyn’s Twitter/X page: The Competitive Enterprise Institute is relevant today because members of that group went on to form another climate denial think tank, the American Traditions Institute, which then renamed itself E&E Legal. The group moved on from abusing, defaming and harassing climate scientists, porting the very same tactics to a hyper local level, where they are being used against farmers across the midwest whose only crime is wishing to save family farms by siting clean energy to diversify incomes.