Bumping Gulo's old thread with some climate news they probably won't be sharing on the DailyWire, or whatever hole-in-the-wall shit "news" places that you guys read...
But it's a long time coming:
A jury on Thursday awarded $1 million to climate scientist Michael Mann who sued a pair of conservative writers 12 years ago after they compared his depictions of global warming to a convicted child molester.
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Mann’s research was investigated after his and other scientists’ emails were leaked in 2009 in an incident that brought further scrutiny of the “hockey stick” graph, with skeptics claiming Mann manipulated data. Investigations by Penn State and others found no misuse of data by Mann, but his work continued to draw attacks, particularly from conservatives.
I remember all that. Someone hacked PennSt's email and took comments from Mann
WAY out of context to claim all his data was fabricated. None of it was, but the people that were excited about the first part either ignored or pretended not to hear the second part.
“Mann could be said to be the Jerry Sandusky of climate science, except for instead of molesting children, he has molested and tortured data,” Simberg wrote. Another writer, Mark Steyn, later referenced Simberg’s article in his own piece in National Review, calling Mann’s research “fraudulent.”
The jury in Superior Court of the District of Columbia found that Simberg and Steyn made false statements, awarding Mann $1 in compensatory damages from each writer. It awarded punitive damages of $1,000 from Simberg and $1 million from Steyn, after finding that the pair made their statements with “maliciousness, spite, ill will, vengeance or deliberate intent to harm.”
This part, what a dumbass, LOL:
During the trial, Steyn represented himself, but said through his manager Melissa Howes that he would be appealing the $1 million award in punitive damages, saying it would have to face “due process scrutiny.”
Good luck with that, idiot. Maybe ditch the manager and hire an actual attorney to handle the appeal this time?
Pay up, fuckfaces.