Court Orders Famed Climate Scientist To Cut Fat Checks To Org, Writer He Sued For Defamation
A Washington, D.C., court ordered University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann to pay nearly $500,000 in legal fees combined to the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and writer Rand Simberg on Thursday, 13 years after Mann first filed a defamation suit against the writer and think tank.
In February 2024, Mann initially won his defamation trial against conservative writers Mark Steyn and Simberg, both of whom criticized his “hockey stick” climate model as flawed. However, Judge Alfred S. Irving of the D.C. Superior Court ruled Thursday that Mann must pay CEI and Simberg $477,350.80 in attorney’s fees within thirty days under the Anti-SLAPP Act, a law that provides legal protection to safeguard public speech.
UPenn Climate Prof Quickly Backtracks After Seeming to Call for Armed Uprising Against Trump
Not even 24 hours later, UPenn Professor Michael Mann, who is listed as the "Director of Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media," would find himself in the spotlight after seeming to call for an armed uprising against President Donald Trump in a message posted on liberal social media echo chamber Bluesky:
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