Posted on 02/21/2014 7:02:47 PM PST by P.O.E.
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.Mann arrest photo
Buoyed by Dr Ball's successes, journalist and free-speech defender, Mark Steyn has promptly decided to likewise countersue Michael Mann for $10 million in response to a similar SLAPP suit filed by the litigious professor from Penn. State University against not just Steyn, but also the National Review, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Rand Simberg. Ball's countersuit against Mann seeks "exemplary and punitive damages. " Bishop Hill blog is running extracts of Steyn's counterclaim, plus link.
Mann’s chief undoing in all such lawsuits is highlighted in a quote in Steyn’s latest counterclaim:
“Plaintiff continues to evade the one action that might definitively establish its [his science’s] respectability - by objecting, in the courts of Virginia, British Columbia and elsewhere, to the release of his research in this field. See Cuccinelli vs Rectors and Visitors of the University of Virginia...”
At last, after 3 years of legal wrangling, it is made clear why I was so bold as to formally undertake an indemnity to fully compensate Dr Ball for my own actions in the event Mann won the case. Respected Aussie climate commentator, Jo Nova was one of the few to commend my unparalled commitment to Ball's cause.
Steyn’s legal team, aware of the latest developments from Vancouver, have correctly adduced that Ball has effectively defeated Mann after the Penn. State pretender’s preposterous and inactive lawsuit against Ball was rendered dormant for failure to prosecute. Under law, Mann’s prevarications, all his countless fudging and evasiveness in the matter, establishes compelling evidence that his motive was not to prove Ball had defamed him, but more likely a cynical attempt to silence fair and honest public criticism on a pressing and contentious government policy issue.
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.
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Like the DDT study about birds eggs. Never was replicated.
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Mann belongs "in the state pen, not Penn. State."
There's some pretty clever phrasing here.
-PJ
Hopefully the Dusty Springfield version. :)
And the poster at #19 asks what Penn State will do about academic fraud.
I'm expecting the lawsuits to move south, and add Penn State to the mix.
-PJ
Wish he was an American.
Best news I have seen all day
Not aware of any Constitutional wording or Federal Case Law which says the President can “forgive” a civil award. The pardon power, AFAIK applies to all criminal penalties, and criminal penalties only.
“huhh..a US Presidential pardon in a Canadian Court decision/conviction.....”
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Hey, if he can stop the rise of the Oceans, he certainly can pardon Canadian crimes.
“Exactly. Another socialist scam-artist POS grave to urinate on.”
There are so many....
He needs to add FR to that list.
I guess that “SETTLED SCIENCE!!” isn’t so settled. after all.
Be sure to remind any Gobo Warmin’ believers that you know, that THEY are the Science Deniers.
Time for a Class-Action Lawsuit under the False Claims Act.
The real question is, what Attorney in the U.S. would be brave enough to take such a case, given the very real possibility of a government Crackdown on them? (IRS,NSA,SEIU,etc...)
The revenue stream for Leftists from the Globo Warmin’ fraud is HUGE, and won’t be given up easily.
If anybody is an expert at justifying pardons, it's Eric Holder.
-PJ
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