My Question Is Finally Answered – Michael Mann is NOT a Fraud.

Michael Mann was awarded $1 million dollars from Mark Steyn for the simple fact that Mark called Mann’s hockey stick publications fraudulent. The verdict is of course ridiculous as Mann claimed he was financially hurt by the claim, but what really hurt Mann’s reputation was that his hockey stick work is completely bogus. This doesn’t mean Mann is a fraud, it means that he has choices. These are the two I see available to him:

1 – Mann is too stupid to know that his work is bogus and really believes in what he did.

2 – Mann is a fraud.

Apparently Mann believes in his work so much that he used other peoples money to win money from a conservative in a DC court where we all know common sense cannot defend a conservative. It appears then tho that Mann has chosen option 1.

Never assume malice where incompetence will do. 

Unfortunately, even being right cannot defend you from critiquing the climate religious these days. It’s complete heresy to suggest that there may be bad science in the field of climate. It’s dangerous to even write a post like this, you could even be contacted by the British Secret Service. Certainly, you could be doxxed by the guardian, or be placed on lists and called out by the gaian religious in actual newspapers for execution. People could then even write psychology papers using your name as a specific example while defaming your character. As long as you are a leftist, you are fine to act how you wish. Long time readers know these things happened.

But no, critiquing a man who comes up with multiple methods of automatically deleting data that doesn’t match his hoped for result and keeping the data that does, could cost you a million dollars. Even though your critique is completely 100% correct.

“I hope this verdict sends a message that falsely attacking climate scientists is not protected speech,” Mann said in a statement

The Washington Compost

Next Mann is going after the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which is the real goal of this charade. Stifling any critique of serial climate liars, not just Michael Mann’s apparently incompetent work. 

I have had several conversations with climate scientists over the years about Mann, I find him mathematically so competent that it is nearly impossible for me to believe his work is not intentionally fraudulent, however I don’t actually know that it is not stupidity. Basically I have asked others opinions on this several times and received a variety of answers, several of which agreed with Steyn. I guess they were wrong. So to end this over-long blog post, apparently Mann chooses option 1, stupidity and incompetence. At least the courts cleared that question up for me.  

Anthony Watts of WUWT has this article as well.