Terrel L. Shields
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After trying to bully various scientists and skeptics who kept shooting holes into the models for climate change he created by putting two separate methods together without pointing out the "hockey stick" thus created was a data artifact, not real testable data, the tables have been turned on Dr. Mann. Mann owes the estate of Dr. Tim Ball (of Canada) $1,000,000 and he has reneged on that but the two judgements against him in the US proper, are going to be harder to escape. He should be fired for the fraud he is, but he won't be.
Washington, D.C., court ordered University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann to pay 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.
Mann was previously ordered in January to pay National Review — another defendant in his defamation suit —approximately $531,000. Between the two orders, Mann is now on the hook for approximately $1 million in payments to people and organizations he initially sued.
