Michael Mann Faces Bankruptcy as his Courtroom Climate Capers Collapse http://www.principia-scientific.org...as-his-courtroom-climate-capers-collapse.html Massive counterclaims, in excess of $10 million, have just been filed against climate scientist Michael Mann after lawyers affirmed that the former golden boy of global warming alarmism had sensationally failed in his exasperating three-year bid to sue skeptic Canadian climatologist, Tim Ball. Door now wide open for criminal investigation into Climategate conspiracy. Buoyed by Dr Ball's successes, journalist and free-speech defender, Mark Steyn has promptly decided to likewise countersue Michael Mann for $10 million in response to a similar SLAPP suit filed by the litigious professor from Penn. State University against not just Steyn, but also the National Review, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Rand Simberg. Ball's countersuit against Mann seeks "exemplary and punitive damages. " Bishop Hill blog is running extracts of Steyn's counterclaim, plus link. Mann’s chief undoing in all such lawsuits is highlighted in a quote in Steyn’s latest counterclaim: “Plaintiff continues to evade the one action that might definitively establish its [his science’s] respectability - by objecting, in the courts of Virginia, British Columbia and elsewhere, to the release of his research in this field. See Cuccinelli vs Rectors and Visitors of the University of Virginia...” At last, after 3 years of legal wrangling, it is made clear why I was so bold as to formally undertake an indemnity to fully compensate Dr Ball for my own actions in the event Mann won the case. Respected Aussie climate commentator, Jo Nova was one of the few to commend my unparalled commitment to Ball's cause. Steyn’s legal team, aware of the latest developments from Vancouver, have correctly adduced that Ball has effectively defeated Mann after the Penn. State pretender’s preposterous and inactive lawsuit against Ball was rendered dormant for failure to prosecute. Under law, Mann’s prevarications, all his countless fudging and evasiveness in the matter, establishes compelling evidence that his motive was not to prove Ball had defamed him, but more likely a cynical attempt to silence fair and honest public criticism on a pressing and contentious government policy issue. The fact Mann refused to disclose his ‘hockey stick’ graph metadata in the British Columbia Supreme Court, as he is required to do under Canadian civil rules of procedure, constituted a fatal omission to comply, rendering his lawsuit unwinnable. As such, Dr Ball, by default, has substantiated his now famous assertion that Mann belongs "in the state pen, not Penn. State." In short, Mann failed to show he did not fake his tree ring proxy data for the past 1,000 years, so Ball’s assessment stands as fair comment. Moreover, many hundreds of papers in the field of paleoclimate temperature reconstructions that cite Mann’s work are likewise tainted, heaping more misery on the discredited UN’s Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) which has a knack of relying on such sub prime science. Where Do We Go From Here? It will likely be open season on Mann. Anyone may now freely dismiss him in the harshest terms as a junk scientist who shilled for a failed global warming cabal. Without fear of his civil legal redress, we may now refer to Mann for what he is: a climate criminal, a fraudster. Being that Mann's suit in the BC court was filed 3 years ago before he filed against Steyn, it appears Dr Ball will be first in line with his counterclaims and pipping Steyn for the well-deserved $10 million compensation prize. That’s if Mann's financial backers (most notably, the David Suzuki Foundation) aren't bankrupted first. (More at above url)
And in your deluded simpleton mind "hide the decline" is evidence of deceit, when in fact it is not and anyone with intelligence, objectivity, just a little intellectual effort and reading comprehension, would know that. Aside from the fact that no fewer than five investigations found no wrong-doing. So of course you don't. You prefer staying deluded and a GOP sheep.
LOL ....Pure propaganda website...Why don't you just get it straight from Koch Industries and the Heritage Foundation? You just love being a sheep don't you? Can you say bah? You really have no interest in the truth do you?
Principia Scientific International Background Principia Scientific International (PSI) is an organisation based in the United Kingdom which promotes fringe views and material to claim that carbon dioxide is not a greenhouse gas. PSI claims it provides its members with a “reliable port of call to ascertain the facts behind the news stories to better judge whether information being presented by third parties is accurate information and reflects a balanced view of all facets of the subject.” The PSI website says the organisation is “for everyone who supports the traditions [sic] scientific method against the rise of sinister and secretive government funded 'post normal science'.” The group claims on its website to be a “not-for-profit community interest subsidiary ofPSI Acumen Ltd.”
And when even "Lord" Monckton is calling someone scientifically illiterate...... Actions July, 2013 PSI offers to host a sacked Australian climate sceptic professor, Dr Murry Salby, for speaking engagements in London. PSI says it has secured funding from publisher Stairway Press for the trip. A later website entry made during Salby's trip says that Ken Coffman, of Stairway Press, had donated a four figure sum to cover expenses for the Salby trip, which conisted of two speeches in London, one in Cambridgeshire, and two more in Edinburgh. A speech given in the UK parliament was sponsored by British Labour Party MP Graham Stringer and attended by PSI membership officer Terri Jackson. A speech given in the Scottish Parliament was hosted by Scottish Conservative Party MSP Murdo Fraser. May, 2013 In April and May 2013, PSI chief executive John O'Sullivan became emboriled in a public row with prominent climate science denier Lord Christopher Monckton. O'Sullivan wrote a letter to Monckton, saying he should not accept the basic physics showing carbon dioxide was a “greenhouse gas.” O'Sullivan wrote: “Greenhouse gas predictions (and thus the science) are shown to be wrong.” Monckton wrote back, describing O'Sullivan as “confused and scientifically illiterate.” O'Sullivan responded, saying Monckton's “belief in the greenhouse gas 'theory' is premised on misunderstandings, misrepresentations and half truths.”
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Ha ha ha ha ha. You must be kidding. Wow are you gullible. Which pasture are you in today? https://denierlist.wordpress.com/tag/principia-scientific-international/ Your "leading" scientists. LOL Joseph E. Postma November 23, 2012 in independant 'scientist', uncategorized Tags: jo postma, principia scientific international, slaying the sky dragon debunked Joseph developed a bit of a following for a pal reviewed paper [Joseph E Postma has published NO peer-reviewed paper in any legitimate science journal on climate science] that said a 100 years of scientific consensus on greenhouse gases was entirely wrong. The paper [and you will be wasting your time reading this] another PDF to clutter your download folder, ishere. As it has been heralded as, yet another, final nail in the AGW scam Skeptical Science did another painstaking review toillustrate its many flaws.The quick answer is here. It is yet another pal reviewed propaganda piece by the vanity online science journal Principia Scientific International set up by Tim Ball [geologist and climate denier] and pals who have real problems with being rejected by mainstream science because they are frankly nuts-an organisation too fringe even for Lord Monckton. There you will find law graduates, weathermen, and some retired scientists producing papers saying climate change isn’t happening and even a paper on a perpetual motion machine. [Even Anthony Watts accepts CO2 is a GHG] Alberto Miatello author of this paper REFUTATION OF THE “GREENHOUSE EFFECT” THEORY ON A THERMODYNAMIC AND HYDROSTATIC BASIS. and one on the human eye- THE HUMAN CORNEA AS A MICRO MULTILAYERS CRYSTAL LATTICE. BIO-MECHANICAL AND TENSILE PROPERTIES ACCORDING TO THE “HALL-PETCH”RELATIONSHIP. Don’t waste to much time reading it. Alberto Miatello is exclusively publishing with Principia Scientific International [if the website is ever down try the Google cache] and his qualification is being a law graduate. The publisher was set up by climate deniers Dr Tim Ball climatology professor emeritus University of Winnipeg, except he has a phd in historical geography and is no longer a professor. giving up his post in 1996. most recent peer-reviewed article on climate change was published in 1986, titled “Historical evidence and climatic implications of a shift in the boreal forest tundra transition in central Canada.” Works for a number of sceptic climate lobby ‘thinktanks’ and groups with the word ‘environment’ or ‘science’ in it. A founding member of a PROM publication/website [2011]-Principia Scientific International for climate deniers and wannabe scientists. How does it work- This is achieved by publishing a draft proposal of a submitted science paper onto our website. This is normally done after a preliminary internal review by our reviewing team to ensure elementary due diligence. Basically- write a paper critical of AGW, give it to this ‘peer-review e-journal’ who will review it favourably if it is anti-AGW and then members of the public can review it.