SUMMARY:
Dr Mann lost his libel case
because he refused to show
data behind his world-infamous,
and often criticized,
‘hockey stick’ chart
( shown below ).
Real science requires
open access to data,
so that skeptics can check
if results are reproducible.
"Climate change" is nothing
more than repeated predictions
of a coming climate change
catastrophe that can
never be falsified.
No matter what happens
to the climate, the alarmists
claim they are sure of a
coming climate crisis.
If their theories
can't be falsified,
it is not real science,
as Karl Popper defined it.
This is an important victory
in the process of refuting
the global "warmunist"
climate scaremongering.
DETAILS:
Penn State climate scientist,
Michael ‘hockey stick’ Mann,
created the bogus "hockey
stick' temperature chart.
The graph was first published
in 1998, prominently featured
in the 2001 UN IPCC Report,
and was featured in Al Gore’s
2006 movie, An Inconvenient
Truth.
The Mann chart
used tree ring data
to claim the average global
temperature did not change
for 500 years, from 1400
to 1900, then rose rapidly.
Tree rings are
a poor data source
for reconstructing
past temperatures,
because changes
in rainfall affect
tree growth.
More important:
The few tree rings
that Mann used,
reflected DECLINING
average temperatures
in the 20th century,
so Mann deleted that
inconvenient data,
and substituted surface
thermometer data showing
rising temperatures
in the 20th century !
79-year-old climatologist,
Dr. Tim Ball, accused Mann
of climate data fraud,
which was true,
and then was sued
by Mann for libel.
Michael Mann chose to file
a multi-million dollar
SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit
Against Public Participation)
libel suit in the British Columbia
Supreme Court, in Vancouver,
many years ago.
But Mann refused
to comply with
the court direction
to hand over
all of his disputed
graph’s data.
Dr. Ball explains:
“Michael Mann moved
for an adjournment
of the trial scheduled for
February 20, 2017.
... We agreed to an
adjournment
with conditions.
The major one
was that he [Mann]
produce all documents,
including computer codes,
by February 20th, 2017.
He failed to meet the deadline.”
Mann’s is now
in contempt of court.
Contempt sanctions
could include
the judge ruling
that Dr. Ball’s
statement, that Mann
“belongs in the state pen,
not Penn. State"
is a true statement of fact.
Mann hid his data,
so the court might rule
he hid it because it was fake.
Another Mann libel case against
Mark Steyn, remains tied up in
the courts, for many years.
The libel case against Dr. Tim Ball
resulted in Mann’s case thrown out,
and he was ordered to pay
Ball's legal costs, which were
probably a large sum.