The martyrdom of Mark Steyn

The Spectator ^ | 2/12/14 | James Delingpole

[Valpal1]

So let’s just cut through that crap and remind ourselves briefly what we know about the plaintiff. Michael Mann was an obscure young physicist-turned-climatologist who rose without trace in 1998 with the publication in Nature of his ‘hockey stick’ chart showing dramatic and apparently unprecedented late-20th-century global warming.

There followed almost instant fame, on which Mann has traded ever since — gaining tenure at Penn State University, drawing millions in public funding for research, often called on by the Guardian and the New York Times to sum up the state of climate science. Al Gore used a version of Mann’s hockey stick in his Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth. The IPCC used it five times in its Third Assessment Report and promoted Mann to lead author.

[llevrok]

I heard Mann was a Nobel Prize recipient.

Isn't every one on the Left these days?

[DB]

Just sent Mark four of his own $25 gift certificates as gifts...

[Elsie]

Committing a crime is no longer the crime? Exposing the criminal actions of others is now the crime?

It's similar to what happens on FR all the time:

Proselyzing a false religion is no longer free speech?
Exposing the false prophets of them are now a crime?

[Peet]

Mann forced “Minnisotans for Global Warning” to remove his image from their hilarious AGW spoof “Hide The Decline”

Search for ‘em on youtube, they are very funny...

[pas]

When Steyn’s lawyers ask for all documents and data related to his theory, they will end this.

[Elsie]

If it is a sin to doubt, then there is no science.

If it is a crime to dissent, then there is no politics.

--Scaramouche

 

 

 

 

 

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had...

 

Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2.

Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way.

--Michael Crichton

[skinkinthegrass]

hmm..when MS gets on RUSH's Radio program; he shall
ream this hoaxer, MM another hole in his vacuous head.

[CedarDave]

hmm..when MS gets on RUSH's Radio program; he shall ream this hoaxer, MM another hole in his vacuous head.

If Mark is indeed standing there alone, someone like Rush who has the ability to assist with dollars should jump in to help.

[Ben Ficklin]

"someone like Rush"

What about the coal or O&G industries?

A lot of people don't remember 2012, but Steyn's statements weren't unique. Others were using extreme statements as well.

Heartland Institute made the comparison to the Unabomber, but they didn't make the comparison to any one individual, like steyn did.

As a repercussion, all the insurance companies who had been working with Heartland abandoned Heartland. And many financial supporters also abandoned Heartland, forcing them to turn to the coal industry for money.

So, if coal can bail out the Heartland Institute, they can also bail out Steyn

[Liberty Valance]

bttt

[TChad]

When Steyn’s lawyers ask for all documents and data related to his theory, they will end this.

When the Mann lawsuit started, there was a lot of conservative bluster about how much fun could be had during discovery. The blusterers seemed to presume that Steyn would receive a fair trial. Ask Scooter Libby about how fair the D.C. courts are to prominent conservatives in political show trials.

[JLS]

Mark Steyn ping. Another article about him, not an article by him.

Freepmail me, if you want on or off the Mark Steyn ping list.

Thanks for the ping Slings and Arrows.

[mylife]

Mark is a warrior, and he deserves our support.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Excuse me, it’s early and I haven’’t had my coffee yet and may well just be thud-headed. But what do you mean by saying that Delingpole does not know how to write?

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thanks —— I just bought 2 certificates, one for me and one for a friend. I am proud to stand with Steyn.

[bert]

America is a tyranny of lawyers. The Stynn case is typical of the law being used as a cudgel to beat the opposition into submission.

[Gritty]

Outrage Bump!

[GOPJ]

...the hockey stick, on which Mann’s reputation largely rests, was and is a nonsense. It obliterates the medieval warm period; it is unduly reliant on proxy data — bristlecone pine samples — which are known to be unreliable; it is dependent on a flawed algorithm which, according to every statistical authority who has ever looked at the subject, creates the same hockey-stick data almost regardless of the information you feed into it.

Elite liberals don't care about truth, research methods or statistics - they care about winning.

[maica]

Can someone please inform the author that he does not know how to write?
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On what grounds? The writer is informing a conservative UK readership about Mark Steyn’s situation v. Michael Mann. I found the explanation very clear.

[EDINVA]

Are you a lawyer? Can you get involved, or persuade a colleague to work without pay for up to two years? Maybe more?