Judge Slashes Activist-Scientist Michael Mann’s $1M Defamation Award To $5K

Judge Slashes Activist-Scientist Michael Mann’s M Defamation Award To K

Climate Change Dispatch, March 5, 2025 Being accused of “molesting” data to promote climate alarmism is not worth $1 million in punitive damages, a judge ruled Tuesday in a 13-year-old defamation lawsuit that could have bankrupted the nation’s most venerable conservative magazine. [emphasis, links added] The District of Columbia Superior Court slashed the seven-figure punitive damages awarded to University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann, best known for his “hockey-stick” graph on climate change, to $5,000, rejecting Mann’s “entire rationale” for preserving the $1 million award: “deterrence and punishment.” Just the News covered the trial. Judge Alfred Irving wrote that …

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Five More Climate Lawsuits Shot Down

Five More Climate Lawsuits Shot Down

rclutz.com Feb. 9, 2025 Legal Newsline reports the string of climate lawfare defeats in their article Fifth judge agrees with Big Oil, dismisses another climate change case.  Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. TRENTON, N.J. (Legal Newsline) – A New Jersey state court judge refuses to be the one who sets international energy standards and has thrown out a climate change lawsuit brought by the state. Attorney General Matthew Platkin’s case is one of dozens around the country making state law claims under consumer protection and public nuisance laws, and Mercer County Superior Court judge Douglas Hurd …

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How can eager Governments get off the Net Zero hook?

Lecture by Dr. Benny Peiser held by Zoom on Wednesday, January 29, 2025 Lecture Slides In this, his farewell lecture as GWPF Director, Dr Peiser argues that for the first time since the launch of the GWPF 15 years ago, climate consensus is breaking down. For too long, climate science and climate policy have been dominated by dogmatism, censorship and eco-socialist control. The main reason for the deepening crisis of unilateral climate policy is the rising cost and financial burden of utopian targets that have led to voter rebellion. Most political leaders who have been driving the radical climate policy …

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FIFTY YEARS OF CLIMATE FEARMONGERING

FIFTY YEARS OF CLIMATE FEARMONGERING

This is a letter sent to various editors by Thorpe Watson. An earlier version was published in the Trail Times (“The ‘green’ road to poverty and misery”, 30 January 2025). It was a response to a letter critical of Russ Babcock’s letter entitled: “Mother Nature is in charge; she always has been”, 26 December 2024. This letter should provide at least some relief for anyone suffering anxiety attacks triggered by political propaganda alleging a man-made climate crisis. Please be assured that there is ample scientific evidence refuting the cultish belief in a CO2-induced climate crisis and that such alarmism stems …

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Climatists Make Their Case by Omitting Facts

Climatists Make Their Case by Omitting Facts

Science Matters Jan. 12, 2025 One of the world’s top economists has written an expert court report that forcefully supports a group of children and young adults who have sued the federal government for failing to act on climate change. (Source: Inside Climate News  here) Excerpts in italics with my bolds. Stiglitz, a Columbia University economics professor and former World Bank chief economist, concludes that increasing global warming will have huge costs on society and that a fossil fuel-based system “is causing imminent, significant, and irreparable harm to the Youth Plaintiffs and Affected Children more generally.” He explains in a …

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ClimateCite Appointment

For Immediate Release Dec. 8, 2024 It is with great pleasure and pride that I announce the appointment of the world’s foremost heliophysicist Dr. Valentina Zharkova, to the position of executive director of ClimateCite. As such Dr. Zharkova is responsible for all the scientific research conducted by ClimateCite, its employees and subcontractors, used in the fulfillment of our plan to tear down the misconceptions of man induced climate change. I am extremely honored and humbled that she has accepted the position. Dr. Zharkova and I spoke via teleconference last Friday and I stated my opinion that she has a bright …

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Covering Climate Now

Covering Climate Now

Not A Lot of People Know That Oct. 17, 2024 By Paul Homewood I have been tracking Covering Climate Now for some time now. They were set up to influence journalism worldwide, in order to push the alarmist agenda by, basically, telling lies: Covering Climate Now supports, convenes, and trains journalists and newsrooms to produce rigorous climate coverage that engages audiences. Co-founded in 2019 by Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation magazine in association with the Guardian and WNYC, CCNow invites journalists everywhere to transform how our profession covers the defining story of our time. Unless news outlets around the …

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