The link attached here refers to a denier and conspiracy blog and the creationist Tim Ball, who again, had to use the bad health and old age defense to weasel himself out of a court trial.
The Fake News goes like this:
“In a lawsuit, Michael Mann, who created a famous " hockey stick curve" , lost to a "professor of climatology" who refuted his graphic. This hockey stick curve is also the only basis for the "thesis of man-made climate change". He also had to pay millions of litigation costs. Ergo: Climate change is a hoax. The joke: Here everything is lied .
The truth:
Michael Mann has not lost a lawsuit, the suing professor is a geologist, not a climate expert, the "hockey stick curve" is not the only basis for the consensus (not thesis) on the climate crisis and was not only occupied by man. She was not disproved, and in fact she did not even have anything to do with the process. Man does not have to bear any costs. Yes, there is hardly a clearer example of how extreme the truth is bent to deny man-made climate change.”
Takeaways:
- The BC Court never made any finding that Mann failed to produce any data.
- Tim Ball used his old age and bad health to request the lawsuit to be terminated. After that he hilariously declared victory (as reported by denier blogs.)
- Thus Michael Mann didnt lose the case. IN FACT, HE IS WINNING ALL CASES NOW
- The Hockey Stick is not broken, it’s stronger than ever.
- Stick is affirmed by The National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
- This is just another attack on science and scientists from corporate polluters and their Denial for profit machine.
Here is the court paper:
“All right. I agree. The costs will follow the event, so the defendant (Ball) will have his costs of the application and also the costs of the action, since the action is dismissed.”
https://www.steynonline.com/documents/9740.pdf
Tim Ball Pleads For Mercy As An Irrelevant Sick Old Man, Gets It, Declares Victory
Lets bring in Michael E. Mann:
“The BC Court never made any finding that I failed to produce any data. Anyone claiming otherwise is lying or facilitating a lie.”
Michael E. Mann explains:
“Ball requested that the lawsuit be terminated.”
“p.s. What does it say about Tim Ball's honesty (and that of the right-wingers trumpeting the latest court development) that they conveniently failed to note that Ball sought to dismiss the case based on (a) his alleged health problems and (b) the assertion that his defamatory remarks about me were largely ignored anyway”
Tim Ball was able to get the case dismissed based on:
1. Complaints about his age and poor health
2. Arguing his attacks on me were impotent anyway.
My lawyer's statement is below.
“p.s. One last bit of mud to scrape off the denialist wall w.r.t. the Ball libel case (dismissed, as noted above, due to Ball's age & infirmity & lack of credibility!): Costs are *automatically* awarded if a case is dismissed. They represent a partial indemnity, not actual legal fees.”
Mann posted this on his facebook:
“Climate change denier Tim Ball & his supporters have been promoting a fake graph on social media (graph labeled "Tim Ball's version" below). See the real version of the graph (lower left) and read (lower right) what legitimate researchers have had to say about it in the peer-reviewed literature:
https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2009/2009_Jones_jo00100w.pdf
To summarize: Tim Ball & his supporters have been promoting a (A) FAKE version of a 1990 #IPCC graph that (B) only represented one locality (central England) and (C) was only ever meant to be a schematic illustration (rather than a quantitative reconstruction) of temperature).”
MICHAEL MANN IS WINNING ALL CASES NOW:
The fossil fuel funded think tanks that attacked Mann…now apologizes.
Michael E. Mann took climate change deniers to court. They apologized.
The Steyn issue.
"Steyn's special motion to dismiss..denied on the grounds that a reasonable jury is likely to find in favor of Mann in his defamation lawsuit, Mann's lawsuit against Steyn is far from frivolous or groundless..counterclaims are DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE.
Judge Jennifer M Anderson"
Supreme Court won't throw out climate scientist's defamation suit against National Review
Supreme Court won't throw out climate scientist's defamation suit against National Review
The Hockey Stick: The Most Controversial Chart in Science, Explained
This is what judges thinks of Ball:
A senior justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia denounce the professional “climate change sceptic” Dr. Tim Ball as incompetent, inattentive and, perhaps, indifferent to the truth.
Weaver sued Ball in 2011 for one in a series of rabid diatribes that Ball had written for the website Canada Free Press (“Corruption of Climate Science Has Created 30 Lost Years,” Jan 10, 2011 — no longer available since CFP took it down and apologized for its defamatory content).
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Ronald Skolrood criticized Ball (a long-retired geography professor from the University of Winnipeg) at length. Justice Skolrood wrote:
“… despite Dr. Ball’s history as an academic and a scientist, the Article is rife with errors and inaccuracies, which suggests a lack of attention to detail on Dr. Ball’s part, if not an indifference to the truth.”
Later in the judgment, Justice Skolrood wrote,
“the Article is poorly written and does not advance credible arguments in favour of Dr. Ball’s theory about the corruption of climate science. Simply put, a reasonably thoughtful and informed person who reads the Article is unlikely to place any stock in Dr. Ball’s views, including his views of Dr. Weaver as a supporter of conventional climate science.”
Judge finds written attack on climate scientist too ludicrous to be libel
Climate Denier Tim Ball: Trump Approved, But Not Credible Enough To Stand Accountable For Libel
So just who is the creationist Tim Ball? Just another Heartland crank.
Ball is even lying about his credentials:
He is often seen titled as a “former Professor of Climatology at the University of Winnipeg.”
But the problem is:
The University of Winnipeg never had an office of Climatology.
His degree was in historical geography and not climatology:
"Ball was a former professor of geography at the University of Winnipeg from 1988 to 1996.”
Ball admitting he is a creationist:
"Even though it is still just a theory and not a law 148 years after it was first proposed, Darwinian evolution is the only view allowed in schools. Why? Such censorship suggests fear of other ideas, a measure of indefensibility."
Ball is a former board member of the astroturf canadian wacko creationist org “Friends of Science (sic), which spews anti science nonsense and ultra conservative propaganda faster than cows produce dung. These astroturf orgs is mainly used for sneaking fossil fuels self interests into the heads of conservative christians. After conservative christians abandoned Jesus when they realized he was a socialist, the fossil fuel industry replaced Jesus with robber barons and Ayn Rand.
UPDATE:
“Climate science denier and Trump transition team advisor Dr. Tim Ball, who a Canadian court earlier derided as incompetent, ill-intended, and apparently indifferent to the truth, has been further rebuffed in the British Columbia Court of Appeal and must now stand libel for a 9-year-old attack against prominent Canadian climate scientist (and outgoing BC Green Party leader) Dr. Andrew Weaver.”
Canadian Court Slams Trump Climate Advisor in Successful Libel Case
THE “HOCKEY STICK” IS STRONGER THAN EVER
Its affirmed by US National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
It’s confirmed and improved by the 4 most comprehensive studies done on the matter (+ ca 150 other studies).
New paleo-science further improves the Stick.
- https://www.nature.com/articles/...
- LATEST MAY 2020:
- MANN is now a member of The National Academy of Sciences.
BONUS:
THE “IPCC WIPED OUT THE MWP” DEBUNKED:
You'll find this diagram misrepresented a million places in denier-land. Here is the story behind it:
Its only a schematic, a chart, an estimate based on one (1) location in central England, and stopping in 1950, long before the last 30 years of dramatic rise in temperature, and consequently have nothing to do WITH GLOBAL WARMING. The diagram thus does not show that it was warmer in the world during the so-called "Medieval Warm period". (It is warmer on the planet today.)
When IPPC later came up with its NEWER graphs about global warming and the famous Hockey stick, they did NOT wipe out the MWP, they just finally used global data (from the northern hemisphere), NOT the regional data from this now outdated and misused diagram. Learn the difference between local and GLOBAL warming.
Climate Denial Crock of the Week
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This post is approved by Michael E. Mann himself: