Mann vs. Steyn, the Trial of the Century

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Mann Misrepresents the UK Commons Committee

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Mann Misrepresents the UK Commons Committee

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Mann Misrepresents the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change

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Mann Misrepresents the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change

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Mann Misrepresents NOAA OIG

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When Science is Settled - by Government

Mark Steyn's latest commentary is here.

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ACLU and National Media Intervene in Mann v Steyn et al.

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ACLU and National Media Intervene in Mann v Steyn et al.

August 13, 2014

by Steve McIntyre

I get the sense that the Washington libel community and U.S. national media have belatedly woken up to the potential threat of Mann v Steyn and that the tide is now starting to run strongly against Mann in the anti-SLAPP proceedings. The most visible evidence of this is an impressive Amici brief from the ACLU and an imposing list of 25 other media organizations (the Reporters Committee for Press Freedom, the American Society of News Editors, the Association of American Publishers, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia (The Village Voice et al), NBC Universal, Bloomberg News, the publishers of USA Today, Time, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, The Detroit Free Press, The Seattle Times, The Arizona Republic and The Bergen County Record) filed on August 11, 2014. [...]

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Yet Another Misrepresentation in the Mann Pleadings

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Climate Audit

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The Original Hide-the-Decline

For years, no one in the consensus-science community challenged Michael Mann's hockey stick representation of modern global warming until after meticulous statistical analyses by a retired Canadian mining engineer, Steve McIntyre, exposed flaws and fraud in Mann's work.

Climate Audit is McIntyre's website, which contains an extensive record of his work analyzing Mann's work here.

I have been posting a series of more recent work by McIntyre specifically related to court filings in the Mann vs. Steyn litigation, the latest of which follows:

From Climate Audit

The Original Hide-the-Decline

September 6, 2014

by Steve McIntyre

In a twitter exchange among Jean S, Ronan Connolley and Tim Osborn, Ronan drew attention to an early spaghetti graph in a comment on MBH98 published by Phil Jones in Science on the day after (Apr 24, 1998) publication of Mann et al 1998. The Briffa reconstruction is in purple below. Like IPCC 2001, it hides the decline in the Briffa reconstruction (here a 1998 version) by deleting late 20th century values – here after 1950.[...]

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I must say that I was a little intrigued to find an example of hide-the-decline a full year before Briffa and Osborn 1999 or Jones et al 1999, previously the earliest hide-the-decline example. In previous analyses of hide-the-decline, I’ve repeatedly emphasized that the technique of deleting data to hide inconvenient results originated with CRU (I’ve previously termed it “Keith’s Science Trick” [Keith = Keith Briffa -JR]). Mann knew of CRU’s deletion of the decline, but, as Lead Author of IPCC AR3, Mann willingly and enthusiastically participated in the hide-the-decline scheme, because he didn’t want to “give fodder to the skeptics” or “dilute the message”. But the technique originated with CRU and the “exoneration” of Jones, Briffa and Osborn on hide-the-decline by Muir Russell and Oxburgh was totally undeserved. (Nor does assignment of blame to CRU excuse Mann’s participation in hide-the-decline as Lead Author of AR3, where Mann and CRU both were culpable.)

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Another Porky from Mann, Williams and Fontaine

Early on in McIntyre's pioneering statistical analyses exposing the dishonesty in Mann's work re the Hockey Stick graph, he was joined by Ross McKitrick, as is evident here.

With regard to McKitrick, see here, and here; click the Global Warming button on his home page to see links to his varied activities related to that subject.

I have been posting a series of more recent work by McIntyre specifically related to court filings in the Mann vs. Steyn litigation, the latest of which follows:

From Climate Audit

Another Porky from Mann, Williams and Fontaine

September 10, 2014

by Steve McIntyre

Jean S has spotted a highly amusing entry in Mann’s CV. The entry yields yet another porky in Mann’s pleadings.

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Mann’s claim that the WMO diagram “had absolutely nothing to do with Dr. Mann” stands exposed as yet another porky by Mann and his lawyers.

[John Reece]

Inventory of Hide-the-Decline

Early on in McIntyre's pioneering statistical analyses exposing the dishonesty in Mann's work re the Hockey Stick graph, he was joined by Ross McKitrick, as is evident here.

With regard to McKitrick, see here, and here; click the Global Warming button on his home page to see links to his varied activities related to that subject.

I have been posting a series of more recent work by McIntyre specifically related to court filings in the Mann vs. Steyn litigation, the latest of which follows:

From Climate Audit

Inventory of Hide-the-Decline

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Mark Steyn's latest...

Mark Steyn's latest comment re the Mann vs. Steyn et al. litigation is here.

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The Lonesomest Mann in Town

The introductory paragraph of Mark Steyn's latest update:

Yesterday marked a not unimportant court deadline in the upcoming Mann vs Steyn trial of the century, and I wouldn't want to let it pass without comment. Ever since this tedious suit was launched by Doctor Fraudpants in defense of his global-warming hockey stick, Michael Mann's supporters have insisted that it's not, as I and my fellow defendants have insisted, about free speech. Instead, as they see it, it's about science finally fighting back against a sustained assault by Koch-funded ...