[Slings and Arrows]

Steyn ping. (About him, not by him.)

[SatinDoll]

“Who is insuring Mann against this loss?”

Perhaps Al Gore? He has the money to do so.

[tet68]

seeking to establish a dogma that cannot legally be questioned.

Rather like our president and his democrat party...

[abclily]

OK!! Everybody pay attention!

Lesson for today:

1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.

2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.

3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.

4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.

5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.

Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?

[Yardstick]

Love this paragraph:

Mann has recently declared himself to be both a scientist and a political activist. But in attempting to intimidate his critics and suppress free debate on global warming, he is violating the fundamental rules of both science and politics. If it is a sin to doubt, then there is no science. If it is a crime to dissent, then there is no politics.

It's incredible to me that this lawsuit can even exist.

[hecticskeptic]

Breaking news!! Steyn is countersuing Mann.... http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/02/21/steyn-countersues-mann-for-10-millon-dollars/

[SuziQ]

A deterrent to the abuse of libel laws is the prospect of spending a lot of money on lawyers' fees for a lawsuit that fails. Who is insuring Mann against this loss?)

Apparently, he's being funded by deep pocket 'green' supporters.

[Noob1999]

BFL

[Political Junkie Too]

But it's typical of our upside-down political and cultural environment that when this issue does reach the courts, it will be in the form of a lawsuit against the climate skeptics... Note the glee with which the left slavers at the prospect of taking out a prominent voice on the right, with one leftist gloating that "it's doubtful that National Review could survive" losing the case.

Notice how, to the Leftists, it's already a foregone conclusion that Steyn will lose.

-PJ

[Intolerant in NJ]

Steyn and the others are being sued for criticizing Mann's scientific arguments...if that's true, then the first guy on the list to be sued should be Dr. Edward Wegman, who undertook an analysis Mann's Hockey Stick Snake Oil for Congress years back. Wegman, a first class statistician, found not only that Mann's publications had all been peer reviewed by a close-knit bunch of associates who very probably were all biased toward the global warming scam, but also that his studies were statistically unsophisticated and violated accepted analytical practices: "we explicitly looked at the first principal component of the North American Tree-Ring series and demonstrated that the hockey stick shows up when the data are decentered, but not when properly centered. We also demonstrated the same effect with the digitalized version of the 1990 IPCC curve". I've a hunch Mann doesn't want Dr. Wegman anywhere near any courtroom where his suits are tried.....

[EDINVA]

I’d be a LOT more comfortable if it weren’t in a DC court.