A Washington, D.C., court ordered University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann to nearly $500,000 in legal fees combined to the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and writer Rand Simberg on Thursday, 13 years after Mann first filed a defamation suit against the writer and think tank.
In February 2024, Mann initially won his defamation trial against conservative writers Mark Steyn and Simberg, both of whom criticized his “hockey stick” climate model as flawed. However, Judge Alfred S. Irving of the D.C. Superior Court ruled Thursday that Mann must pay CEI and Simberg $477,350.80 in attorney’s fees within thirty days under the Anti-SLAPP Act, a law that provides legal protection to safeguard public speech......
“The details of Mann’s conduct here remain shocking — especially in a nation such as the United States, which was built atop the foundations of free expression. All those years, all those words, all of that litigation, over … a couple of blog posts that criticized Mann for an argument that he had offered up during a quotidian political dispute,” National Review’s editors wrote in January. “Science — to which Mann is supposed to be devoted — inevitably involves disagreement. And yet, Mann proved incapable of handling dissent. Instead of engaging in debate, he sued us — for defamation and for the infliction of emotional distress. This, suffice it to say, is not how debate in America should work.”............. To Read More....
My Take - I've been following this case, tracking information, publishing articles, linking articles, and writing articles since it started in 2012. It's all been convoluted, corrupt, and outrageous, and those of us who've stood against this whole anthropogenic climate change fraud are now being vindicated. Time and truth are on the same side, but time and truth are not on the side of the climatistas. Here's my files on the Mann Chronicles, Mann v Steyn, Ross McKitrick, Stephen McIntyre, and Global Warming. RK
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