Originally posted by: PJ Stroh
Michale Mann lost a namecalling lawsuit in court - which according to you proves his position on climate is false?
I didn't know it worked that way.
Donald Trump lost a namecalling lawsuit with Bill Maher....so what issue does that prove Donald Trump was wrong about?
Your post is nonsensical. But have great day.
It was about more than name-calling.
The pertinent point is that Mr. Mann brought suit against Mr. Ball who claimed that Mr. Mann's "hockey-stick" graph purporting to show an unprecedented warming trend was a fraud.
"He (Mr. Ball) argued that the hockey stick was a deliberate fraud, something that could be proved if one had access to the data and calculations, in particular the R2 regression analysis, underlying it. Mann refused to produce these documents. He was ordered to produce them by the court and given a deadline. He still refused to produce them, so the court dismissed his case."
The referenced article concludes: "it is absurd for Mann to sue Ball for libel, and then refuse to produce the documents that would have helped to show whether Ball’s statement about him–'i.e. he belongs in the state pen'–was true or false."
i.e. Mr Mann refused to produce data to support his now largely debunked hockey-stick graph pertaining to global warming.
The interested reader, if any, may draw his own conclusion.