Climate scientist Michael Mann was given a huge Christmas gift last week when a Court of Appeals ruled that he could move forward with a defamation suit against two conservative writers for the Competitive Enterprise Institute who published lies about Mann and his research on climate change. The Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this. Transcription…
The legal reporting of both the link and The Hill gets a flunk. The Sandusky simile is no different than the typical Hitler comparison. The defamation involves the claim that Mann manipulated data.
I hope they follow the money to the Oil Corporations who underwrite these shills.