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From Jennifer Marohasy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

January 21, 2024\u00a0By\u00a0jennifer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had been scrolling through Michael Mann\u2019s Twitter account, until Friday when I discovered I was blocked. Blocked even though I was yet to retweet or comment on anything to do with the defamation trial that he has brought against Mark Steyn and Rand Simberg \u2013 yet to comment on Twitter or anywhere else. I can\u2019t image that he is blocking everyone because according to Google, Mann has over 20,000 followers and tweets so much that he is acknowledged as one of the \u2018top 50 science stars of Twitter\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But for sure he is blocking me, at least since Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can\u2019t image that it is just for the weekend, that he has blocked me. Michael Mann doesn\u2019t take weekends off. He didn\u2019t even take Martin Luther King Jr. Day public holiday off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you listen to Mark Steyn\u2019s opening comments in his defamation trail, on that day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Michael Mann the \u2018vicious blowhard\u2019 \u2013 as Steyn describes him in his opening remarks in court room 518 of the District of Columbia Superior Court where Steyn is defendant and also representing himself in a defamation case brough by Mann \u2013 Mann was suggesting on Twitter that because Steve McIntyre is sceptical of the consensus on climate change, sowing doubt and all the rest, he is a racist and homophobe. I would like to go and see exactly what is written, but I can\u2019t \u2013 because I\u2019m blocked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Steyn also commented in his opening remarks, it seems Mann can damn anyone he wants as a racist and homophobe but he himself, Michael E. Mann, should be protected from offensive commentary, by the defamation laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is twelve years since Michael Mann began defamation proceedings against Steyn for insulting him, in particular for Steyn claiming that his last 1,000-year reconstruction of northern hemisphere temperatures is a fraud. Further, Steyn quoted from a Competitive Enterprise blog by Rand Simberg claiming:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mann could be said to be the Jerry Sandusky of climate science, except that instead of molesting children, he has molested and tortured data in the service of politicized science that could have dire economic consequences for the nation and planet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It is the case that Jerry Sandusky was finally convicted in 2011 of 52 counts of sexual abuse of young boys over a 15-year period from 1994 to 2009, with senior Penn State university staff failing to tell police of reported incidences of rape dating from 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was in November 2009, soon after the release of the incriminating Climategate emails that Penn State University announced it was going to launch an inquiry into allegations about Michael Mann\u2019s conduct:
1. Suppression and falsification of data
2. Deletion of emails and data
3. Misuse of confidential information
4. Deviation from accepted academic standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It ended up being nothing more than a two-hour interview with Mann, and without interviewing any of his critics, was done and dusted within a couple of months clearing Mann of all allegations. But not providing any documentation of the specific evidence relied upon. This was apparently in contravention of even the universities\u2019 own policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the lead up to the Mann v Steyn defamation case \u2013 that is now being heard in court room 518 of the District of Columbia Superior Court \u2013 Mann has been forced to hand over an e-mail where he described this Climategate inspired Penn investigation into his conduct as a \u2018cover our A$$es\u2019 exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This trial is being promoted by Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer as \u2018Climate Change on Trial\u2019. I hope this is what comes to pass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ann and Phelim are going to great lengths to get the details of the trial to all of us, every day. They are in court, and have actors reenacting critical exchanges from the court room. They have a dedicated new podcast series, that you can subscribe to here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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