The War on Free Speech
The Two Most Non-Essential Professions on the Planet
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A desperate move by Michael E Mann
Michael E Mann, Loser
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Dr Tim Ball prevails against a fake-o litigant who failed to prosecute his case
The Vertigo at the Top of the Stick
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Michael E Mann's defamation suit against me enters its sixth eighth year in the constipated bowels of DC justice...
End of the Peer Show
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A new low in the corruption of "peer-reviewed science"
Censorship Over Cocktails
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Having just returned from the United Kingdom's Global Conference for Media Freedom, guest columnist Andrew Lawton takes aim at the free speech hypocrisy of western governments and the sentencing of Tommy Robinson.
Contempt is the New Tax Evasion
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It's not illegal to be a bigoted, racist, Islamophobe as Tommy Robinson's critics allege he is. So the government got him on contempt of court and a parking ticket instead.
From Social Platform to State Enforcer
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Canadian Liberals wish not only to revive section 13 from the dead, but to give it untold powers to force social media companies to purge online speech from whomever the government deems the hatemongers du jour.
Lindsay Shepherd vs Parliament
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"Just remember who the Nazis are," Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith told free speech advocate Lindsay Shepherd last week in Ottawa
Return of the Thought-Crime Commissars
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Mark talks to David The Menzoid Menzies about free speech and the thought police:
Return of the Biovator
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Steyn speaks at a very weird parliamentary hearing
Transcript: Mark Steyn, Lindsay Shepherd and John Robson testify on Parliament Hill
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Normally transcripts are done by the parliamentary clerks, but given the justice committee has already decided to expunge a member of parliament's words from the official record, we thought it was safer to do things ourselves.
Once More Unto the Breach...
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Steyn returns to the Canadian Parliament
The Post-Free Speech World
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The Big Shut-Up advances ...from Facebook and Google to rugby and the Tory Party
The Wrong Way to Defend Free Speech
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A couple of weeks back, I was guest-hosting "Tucker Carlson Tonight" and introduced an interview Tucker had conducted with Dennis Prager, a man for whom I have nothing but the greatest respect: He is blessed with magnificent moral clarity, and an unerring grasp of what's really at stake in the flotsam and jetsam of the daily news churn. Like many of us, Dennis is concerned at the leftward tilt of Big Tech: Facebook and Google/YouTube are bigger and more powerful than many sovereign nations, and in the last decade their malign duopoly has shrunk the Internet from a vast jostling cacophony into a blander, tightly formatted landscape run by a cartel of devious algorithms. What to do about it? Some (including Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg) favor ...
Calling Out Around the World
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All jihad is local, but all "Islamophobia" is global...
A Cockwomble Reaches for the Hockey Stick
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Climate mullah Michael Mann and student-loan billionaire Cary Katz unite against the First Amendment
The Johnnie Cochran of the Great White North?
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Conrad Black on litigious billionaire and "absolute scoundrel" Cary Katz
If I Knew You Were Coming for Me, I'd've Baked a Cake (Round Two)
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Steyn on open-borders pancakes, transitioning patisserie, and a footnote per year from the sclerotic DC Appeals Court
Rationalizing Our Surrender
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Creeping Sharia watch: Just because a bloke has sex with a nine-year-old doesn't mean he's a pedophile...
The Shadow Over Our Heads
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A speech the British Government did not want its citizens to hear
The New House of Peers
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The dictatorship of the identitariat
Bray New World
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Steyn on an Ivy League know-nothing
Best Not to Mention It
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One of the most agreeable features of Common Law used to be its lack of interest in so-called group rights. What mattered was the individual, equal before the law. But that was then and this is now...
The Poisoning of Robert Spencer
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For a know-nothing social-justice warrior, it's easier to kill you than debate you
The State vs Free Speech
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Steyn on Ann Coulter and free speech - on both sides of the border
A Serial Transgressor of Scientific Norms
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In climate huckster Michael E Mann's defamation suit against me, there has been a most interesting development...
The "Craziness" of the Climate Science Echo Chamber
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The ugly misogyny of Michael E Mann's warm-mongers
Free Speech! (Does Not Include Legal Bills and Career Ruin)
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The assault on free speech continues around the world
Punching Back Twice as Hard (Oz version)
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Sticking it to the thought police Down Under
Complications and Curating
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The war on free speech across the western world: like the Charlie Hebdo killers, the Government of Australia is out to shut up cartoonists
Steyn vs the Big Climate Enforcers
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Mark talks climate change with The New Criterion
Trial of the Century Update!
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On the vast placid frozen lake that is the Mann vs Steyn case there has been a small development...
The Criminalization of Dissent
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An update on climate mullah Michael E Mann's suit against Steyn
Checkpoint Charlie Hebdo
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A year ago, after the Charlie Hebdo bloodbath, Angela Merkel was walking directly alongside President Hollande in that hideous memorial parade at which the world's leaders proclaimed that no such bloody acts of violence would ever kill free speech. No, sir, when it comes to killing free speech, leave it to smooth house-trained western politicians. And so it was that Chancellor Merkel chose to commemorate the first anniversary of the Charlie massacre by clamping down on freedom of expression for her own benighted subjects. As The Washington Post put it: Germany springs to action over hate speech against migrants Who doesn't love Germans springing? Isn't that in The Producers? Spring time for thought-crime in Germany... [UPDATE! Scaramouche ...
Markey Mark
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An "international bestselling author, a Top Five jazz recording artist, and a leading Canadian human rights activist" walk into the US Senate - and they're all the same guy!
No Change at the Climate Court
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On this Thanksgiving eve, I am thankful for many things, but the sclerotic and depraved "justice" system of America's capital city is not one of them...
Imperialist Warmongering Deniers of the Human Right to Science
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The nations of the world have issued their demands for this month's Paris climate conference, and the Government of Bolivia has cut to the chase: "The capitalist system is a system of death..."
The Certainty of Uncertainty
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Nine years ago self-proclaimed "climate hawk" David Roberts was contemplating Nuremberg trials for deniers...
The Mason-Dippin' Line
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"Shut up!"chorus the Islamic enforcers - and the settled scientists...
Chance of Precipitating the End of Your Career 97%
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A cautionary tale from France's top weatherman
Safe-Space Totalitarian Groupthink
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There are not many takers for free speech these days, especially among the young
"Punching Back Twice as Hard"
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That headline comes from Instapundit's characterization of my new book, and it may be the pithiest summation, although this one from Laura Rosen Cohen is also among my favorites...
Freedom, Security, and Incentivizing Violence
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The struggle for liberty - then and now
State Department Advisory: Steer Clear of Steyn
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Ten years ago today the Danish Mohammed cartoons were published by Jyllands-Posten...
Big Climate's Sleazy Charlatan
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I'm in Sweden for a couple of days, threading my way between the "refugees" at the railway station. Nonetheless, a prudent man does not neglect book-plugging duties for long...
Names and Numbers
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Don't give me that Scarlet Pimpernel stuff...
Twenty More "Disgraces to the Profession"
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One of the most malodorous and disreputable aspects of American jurisprudence is the way laws intended to have very narrow application metastasize to target almost anyone the government is minded to stick it to. Thus, the 1970 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act - RICO...
Steyn on Mann "should be a Mandatory Textbook" for Ethics of Science
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Ben Mathis in Hollywood interviewed me on his KickAss Politics show and we covered a lot of ground, from my brand new book to how some no-account foreigner wound up guest-hosting America's Number One radio show.
It was a fun conversation, and you can hear it in full here. (Just click the Number One show at the top of the list.)
The Gravedigger of Science Weighs In...
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Population Bomb huckster Paul Ehrlich rouses himself in defense of Mann and savages Steyn's new book
Drawing Down
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The tenth anniversary of the Danish Mohammed cartoons
"Quite Possibly the Most Useless Book Ever"
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Mark's new book gets its first much-coveted one-star review!
A Disgraceful Week
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Earlier today I joined Glenn Beck for a lively hour on "A Disgrace to the Profession" plus climate change, the implosion of the Middle East, the invasion of Europe, and Donald Trump's upturning of the Republican primary...
Ice Follies of 2035
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Steyn on Obama's Alaskan warm-mongering and other cartoon climatology
Day of Disgrace
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I couldn't have picked a better day for the official launch of my new book:
"A Disgrace to the Profession":
The World's Scientists ~ in Their Own Words ~ on Michael E Mann,
his Hockey Stick, and Their Damage to Science
"An Outstanding and Important Book"
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My new book is officially released on Tuesday, which means if you pre-order it on Kindle before the big day it will magically be waiting for you on your thingummajig before you even wake up in the morning. How cool is that?
The Fall of Mann
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We're a few days away from the official launch of my new book, and it's already doing quite nicely at Amazon in print and Kindle - and not too shabby north of the border, too...
Punching Back Thrice as Hard
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We're only a week away now from the official launch date of my new book - on September 1st, which I see that His Holiness The Pope, in a helpful promotional tie-in, has declared the first annual International Day of Prayer against Global Warming. I confess I do occasionally wonder if Pope Francis, jumping very belatedly onto the climate-change bandwagon, has gotten hold of the wrong end of the stick...
The Ugly Misogyny of Big Climate
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Before we start, a quick addendum to my post about "science journalist" David Appell's false accusation that I doctored a quote in my new book. Mr Appell has now withdrawn the charge...
"An Absolutely Devastating Summary"
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The official launch of "A Disgrace to the Profession": The World Scientists - in Their Own Words - on Michael E Mann, His Hockey Stick, and Their Damage to Science: Volume One is less than a fortnight away...
Punching Back Twice as Hard
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UPDATE: "Steyn's book on Mann surges in Amazon rankings, leaving climate alarmism books in the dust."
Buy this Book and Stick it to Steyn!
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Dr Judith Curry of Georgia Tech, a scientist who has paid a great price for standing up to Michael E Mann and his Big Climate enforcers, has written a fascinating review of my new book...
What a Piece of Work on Mann!
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Via Judith Curry, I learn that the President of the United States, talking up the enviro-bureaucracy's latest throttling of the economy, actually stood up in public and said this...
"A Disgrace to the Profession"
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A guy can't sit around waiting for litigious fake Nobel Laureates to agree to discovery and deposition. So, with the Mann vs Steyn Trial of the Century currently stalled in the choked septic tank of the DC court system, I figured I might as well put some of the mountain of case research clogging up the office into a brand new book...
And Then There Were None...
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We noted last year the emergence of a new global health crisis: Climate Depression Is For Real. Just Ask A Scientist. Since then, alas, the legions of depressed climatologists have multiplied exponentially, leading some virologists to speculate whether the disease is now airborne and you can catch it just from reading a Michael E Mann #KochMachineDenier Tweet. This month's Esquire contains a massive peer-reviewed story on pre-traumatic planetary-stress disorder: Among climate activists, gloom is building. Jim Driscoll of the National Institute for Peer Support just finished a study of a group of longtime activists whose most frequently reported feeling was sadness, followed by fear and anger. Dr. Lise Van Susteren, a practicing ...
The Knees Have It
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I mentioned a few days ago the announcement by Charlie Hebdo that they are no longer in the business of Mohammed cartoons:
So another non-senseless act has paid off bigtime for the Islamic enforcers...
The Eye of the Goon
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Guest-hosting The Rush Limbaugh Show last week, I mentioned an outrageous and very direct assault on free speech by the Government of the United States. As I said on the air, federal prosecutors are demanding Reason, the libertarian mag, cough up any identifying information on readers who posted comments in relation to the Silk Road case. That was the trial in which the Silk Road drugs impresario, Ross Ulbricht, wound up being sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. This would not happen, obviously, in Sweden or New Zealand or anywhere else, but even by the standards of American courtrooms it was unusual: Judge Katherine Forrest gave Ulbricht a tougher sentence than the prosecution had asked for. Commenters at ...
Encyclical Variations
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The science has been settled by the Pope. On The Hugh Hewitt show this, Lanhee Chen asked me about the Pontiff's new encyclical on "climate change": MARK STEYN: Well, I'm not a Catholic, and so I take popes as I find them. And I preferred the other guy - the Pope Emeritus, as we rather improbably are supposed to call him these days - and he certainly wouldn't have come up with an encyclical like this... I'm the co-author of a book that's come out - and is doing rather well, in fact - called Climate Change: The Facts. And I'm the know-nothing, but there's a couple of dozen really hotshot scientists in there, and what we're all agreed with, really, is that we're now 18 years into the global warming pause, and the sky-is-falling alarmism ...
Moderately Amusing Man Best Taken in Small Chunks
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A disciple of Mann forces himself to watch Mark's speech
Mann for Breakfast
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On Friday morning Mark gave the breakfast keynote speech to a capacity crowd at the Heartland Institute's 10th International Conference on Climate Change in Washington, DC - the same jurisdiction in which climate mullah Michael E Mann is suing Mark for defamation. We think you'll appreciate very much this Steyn summation of where the suit currently stands, although whether Mann and his lawyer will is another matter.
The video begins with a much deserved award for Anthony Watts, proprietor of the indispensable climate website WattsUpWithThat.com, and then Jim Lakely turns up to introduce Mark about 20 minutes in. After that, Mark touches on Magna Carta, the Medieval Warm Period, the warm bit of Canada, naked Nobel Laureates, Rajendra Pantsdowni jumping the tracks - and, of course, Doctor Fraudpants and his hockey stick. Sit back and enjoy - and do stay tuned for the q-&-a at the end:
Mann vs Steyn: The State of Play
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Some readers have asked for an update on the looming Mann vs Steyn trial of the century. I wish it were looming a bit more imminently, but apparently it would be unreasonable to expect the sclerotic District of Columbia courts to litigate a 270-word blog post in under 270 weeks....
"Stay Quiet and You'll Be Okay"
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There's no fine line between "free speech" and "hate speech": Free speech is hate speech; it's for the speech you hate - and for all your speech that the other guy hates...
Slapping with Yasser
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[UPDATE! Popehat takes a different view - with which not just crazy ol' me but my crackerjack legal team disagree.] As super-attentive readers will know, re the upcoming Mann vs Steyn trial of the century, I was not part of my fellow defendants' appeal to the DC Appeals Court to rule on whether DC's anti-SLAPP law is appealable - because I reckoned it would all prove a waste of time and, therefore, we might as well get the hell on with the trial. However, I confess that even I did not foresee that, amidst all the usual proceduralist bollocks of American jurisprudence, the entire anti-SLAPP law would be blown sky-high by Mahmoud Abbas' son Yasser. I hasten to add that I mean that metaphorically. He's a litigious type, after all. But that's ...
A Contemptible Man Punches Down
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I don't think I've read "Doonesbury" since the Eighties, although I assumed it was still out there somewhere - like "Blondie", but less edgy and with worse draftsmanship and drearier characters. So I didn't pay much attention when Garry Trudeau became the first cartoonist to be awarded the George Polk Award. The Polk Award is named after a journalist shot dead at point-blank range in 1948 while covering the Greek civil war. So you might have thought it would be in ever so mildly bad taste to use the opportunity of a Polk acceptance speech to piss on the graves of a group of journalists similarly murdered. Nevertheless, that's what Mr Trudeau did: Charlie Hebdo, which always maintained it was attacking Islamic fanatics, not the general ...
Global Warming in Hot Water
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Doctor Fraudpants tries to explain a two-decade global-warming "pause"
Just the Facts, Mann
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It's almost three years since I wrote a 270-word blog post about the corruption of the investigative process at Penn State under a university president since indicted and facing 20 years in the slammer for obstruction of justice and child endangerment. Michael E Mann, creator of the "global warming" hockey stick, didn't care for my post, and sued for defamation - and here we all are...
Romancing the Stone
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It is not a small thing when even a jumped-up twerp hack announces that the national legislature of the world's superpower is targeting seven private citizens for disagreeing with him
The Warmish Inquisition
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The news this last week reminded me of a piece of mine from May, called "Michael E Mann: Liar, Cheat, Falsifier and Fraud" (I toned down the headline upon the advice of counsel). Therein I wrote:
The Morning After
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The dead of Valentine's Day in Copenhagen have now been named: Dan Uzan was a 37-year-old Jew - sorry, I mean "member of the random community" - and he died outside the synagogue serving as a "security guard" for a Bat Mitzvah. That's part of the problem - long before anybody starts killing the security guards. In Europe in the 21st century, a young girl's Bat Mitzvah can only take place behind a security perimeter. What a sewer the EU elites have made of their Eutopia. The state church - the Church of Denmark - does not require security guards, nor elsewhere on the Continent do Catholic churches. But Jewish religious and social life in Copenhagen and across Europe is now possible only behind a barrier of security. Laura Rosen Cohen has a ...
The War on Free Speech, Day In, Day Out
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Today, Valentine's Day, a café in Copenhagen hosted a discussion on "Art, Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression". Islam knows not "freedom of expression", and the inclination of a certain proportion of its adherents is to respond to any "discussion" by opening fire...
Mannahu Akbar!
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The other day I quoted this letter from Mindy Alter in The National Post: Mark Steyn reminds us of the similarities between jihadists and climate-change alarmists. Both are fanatical. Both hew to ideologies that brook no dissent or criticism. Both go ballistic — albeit in markedly different ways — when some "blasphemer" has the audacity to make withering fun of them and their orthodoxies. Most crucially, however, is the fact that both are control freaks who seek to micro-manage our lives, the climate-change alarmists via onerous environmental regulations, the jihadists via Sharia law. To which I responded: Oh, c'mon on, it's not quite that bad: The Allahu Akbar crowd demand death for apostasy. So far the climate mullahs are only advocating ...
As Steyn Goes, So Goes Mann
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Michael E Mann's latest "hockey stick" confirms Steyn's criticism of 14 years ago
The Tree-Ring of the Fisherman
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I mentioned the other day Dr Judith Curry's New Year predictions: In terms of global temperature, I expect the hiatus to continue at last another decade, but won't pretend to predict year to year variations. In terms of U.S. politics, I expect the Republican dominated Senate to hold more congressional hearings related to climate/energy issues. I don't expect much to be accomplished in the Paris UNFCCC meeting. And finally I predict that Michael Mann's lawsuit against NRO/CEI/Steyn won't be resolved in 2015. I'll come back to that last one - personally, I wouldn't be surprised if Mann's suit against me lasts as long as "the hiatus" and then some. And I'll return to the first one, too. But let's start with that third one - the upcoming Paris ...
The Limitations of Lawyers
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Is Steyn being a Mean Girl to the Lindsay Lohan of climate scientists?
Norks Nix Yanks' Pix
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I was barely aware of The Interview until, while sitting through a trailer for what seemed like just another idiotic leaden comedy, my youngest informed me that the North Koreans had denounced the film as "an act of war". If it is, they seem to have won it fairly decisively: Kim Jong-Un has just vaporized a Hollywood blockbuster as totally as if one of his No Dong missiles had taken out the studio. As it is, the fellows with no dong turned out to be the executives of Sony Pictures.
I wouldn't mind but this is the same industry that congratulates itself endlessly - not least in its annual six-hour awards ceremony - on its artists' courage and bravery. Called on to show some for the first time in their lives, they folded like a cheap suit. As opposed to the bank-breaking suit their lawyers advised them they'd be looking at if they released the film and someone put anthrax in the popcorn...
Courts Can't Settle Science
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The Washington Free Beacon interviews Mark and finds him in a chatty mood
Where Steyn Goes, No Mann Goes
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The most interesting thing about today's hearing at the DC Court of Appeals was that Michael E Mann was a no-show
Mister Amicable
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In the third year of Mann vs Steyn, Mark prepares for a day at the DC Court of Appeals
Dr Mann, Super-Villain
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A curiously familiar character turns up in the latest multiplex blockbuster
A Pongo for Your Bristlecones
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Mann vs Steyn: The story so far
But Enough About the Planet, Let's Talk About Me...
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Is Michael E Mann suffering from Pre-Traumatic Non-Apocalyptic Warming-Pause Climate-Stress Disorder?
Up the Amazon with Dr Mann
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Michael E Mann, inventor of the global-warming "hockey stick" and self-garlanded Nobel Laureate, is a public figure. That is an important legal distinction in his interminable defamation suit against me, but it is also true in a broader sense.
Not every scientist or professor is a public figure, but a scientist who writes celebrity columns for The Huffington Post and The Guardian, and appears in campaign commercials for powerful politicians, and stars in a big-budget James Cameron telly series with Matt Damon and Jessica Alba, and writes a book not about science per se but about an epic global struggle for truth and justice with him as the embattled hero can hardly claim he wants to be left alone with his Bunsen burners.
So Dr Mann is a public figure.
The problem - both for his lawsuit and for his long-term mental health - is that he's temperamentally unsuited to be one...
Do As I Say, or the Planet Gets It
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Forget ISIS, forget Putin, forget the Iranian nukes: John Kerry and Chuck Hagel are focused like lasers on climate change
Mann is an Island
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Thank you for your continuing forbearance while I attend to some sad personal matters. On a lighter note, the Government of the Australian Capital Territory has been handing out its taxpayer-funded arts grants: Aspen Island Theatre Company: $18,793 to assist with costs of the creative development of a new theatre work, 'Kill Climate Deniers'. I shall be on stage myself in Australia in a few months' time. Perhaps the Government of the Australian Capital Territory could just eliminate the middle man and give me $18,793 to kill myself. ~The ACT might more usefully hand out awards of $18,793 to respectable persons willing to defend in public Michael E Mann. The Nobel Fauxreate and the world's most un-exonerated man has been reduced to giving ...
The Mann Act
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Michael E Mann, the world's most un-exonerated man, and yours truly both happen to be in the British Isles this week. I, alas, am here for rather sad personal reasons, so I was unable to attend Dr Mann's lecture at Bristol University on Monday. Many eminent deniers did, however, show up, although you wouldn't have got that impression from the puffball lobbers the moderator chose for the q-&-a. After his hashtag debacle of last week, Mann was doubtless grateful to be back in the insulated climate cocoon in which the only questions that slip through the net are from sappy rubes who support climate alarmism so they can feel like they're "saving the planet" without actually having to lift a finger. Nonetheless, I thought this vignette from ...
"The Barbra Streisand Effect on Steroids"
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On Wednesday afternoon, the climate activist group Penn Futures hosted a Twitter q-&-a with serial litigant and self-conferred Nobel Laureate Michael E Mann under the new hashtag #AskDrMann. How'd it go? Well...
The Lonesomest Mann in Town
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Michael Mann takes a stand for science, but science won't take a stand for Michael Mann
Michael E Mann Repudiates His Own Hockey Stick
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More falsehoods in Dr Fraudpants' court filings
When Science is Settled - by Government
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The defamation suit against me, National Review, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Rand Simberg brought by Michael E Mann, fake Nobel Laureate and inventor of the global-warming "hockey stick", is now chugging into its third year...
Settled Science Catches Up with Steyn
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The journal Science, which is peer reviewed up the wazoo, has an interesting new study purporting to explain the 17-year "pause" in global warming, and, indeed, predicting how long it's likely to continue: The "pause" in global warming may last another decade before surface temperatures start rising again, according to scientists. Really? Why would that be? Well, the study suggests that there is a natural variability in the global climate that leads to three-decade warming periods followed by three-decade cooling periods: The cycle naturally produces periods of roughly 30 years in which heat is stored near the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, leading to warmer temperatures, followed by roughly 30 years in which it is stored in the depths, ...
My New Best Friends
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As you may have heard, Big Climate consensus-enforcer and fake Nobel Laureate Michael E Mann is suing me and a trio of co-defendants for disparaging his hockey stick. On Monday, as I mentioned the other day, various bodies from the ACLU to the Cato Institute filed a flurry of briefs with the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. That in turn has prompted a slew of news stories on the case, the general gist of which you can get from the headlines: Media and rights organizations defend National Review, et al. against Michael Mann (The Washington Post) Climate scientist faces broad array of foes in suit vs. National Review (Reuters) Groups rally around think tank, publication being sued for global warming views (Fox News) ...and of course: ...
Real Nobel Laureate Takes Pity on Fake Nobel Laureate
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Question: What do the ACLU, 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 have in common?
The "Needless Complication" of Free Speech
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The biggest setback for free speech this week came from, alas, Australia...
Complaining about Insufficient Complaints
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In my SteynPost on Michael Mann's Clime Syndicate and the latest beneficiary of their offers you can't refuse, I mentioned my previous legal battles with Canada's "human rights" regime over Section 13. Brian Storseth's private member's bill took an eternity to crawl through Parliament all the way through to Royal Assent, but it got there in the end and Section 13 formally bit the dust just last month. By then, I wasn't in the mood for celebrating, but I'm glad to see someone's been popping the champagne corks at this belated but significant victory. In 2008, when Ezra Levant and Maclean's and I found ourselves caught in the cross-hairs of Canada's "human rights" commissions, we had the great good fortune to be ensnared at the same time as ...
Year Three Begins
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Steyn's pushback against the Big Climate enforcers marks a grim milestone...
Allegheny Front Group
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Michael Mann's fraudulent Nobel claims fools gullible public-radio rubes, but not his fellow scientists
Letting the IRS Get Away with It
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Why Steyn won't be naming names to the Feds
Potemkin Laureate
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I wouldn't want to let the week end, without admitting that, alas, self-garlanded Nobel Laureate Michael E Mann is on to me. Along with legions of scientists around the world, I have been awarded a CDM for shilling.
Going My Way
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Herewith the latest commentary re the upcoming trial of the century...
I'm Gonna Quash That Mann Right Out Of My Hair
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If your kid is graduating from high school this week there has been no global warming his entire life...
A Non-Debating Society
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Three snapshots of free speech- from the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia...
Polar Bear-Faced Lie
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Michael E Mann is "scanty", "sloppy" and "sh*tty" - and that's just from the guys who agree with him on global warming
The Climate of Fear
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When the Canadian "human rights" commissions came after me and my friend Ezra Levant, we turned the tables and put the "human rights" system itself on trial. The eventual repeal by Parliament of the disgusting and indefensible "hate speech" law was personally far more satisfying than the not-guilty verdict the British Columbia "Human Rights" Tribunal graciously bestowed on me and Maclean's: By that stage, we had way bigger fish to fry...
Four-Alarm Fire
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Churches can't go around "scaring people into joining", but the Michael Mann Church of Climate Scientology can...
The Tree Rings of Pyongyang
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North Korea, where it's Earth Day all year round...
Forest of Sticks
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Should climate deniers be jailed? Or executed?
Saving the Planet, Suit by Suit
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The last non-disinvited college speaker in America drones on ...about climate change
Six Degrees of Warmerization
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Nice little peer-review journal you got here. Shame if anything were to happen to it.
The Descent of Mann
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The Big Climate enforcers and "Nostalgia for the Absolute"
Bengtsson Burners
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The Clime Syndicate swings into action against an iconoclastic Swede
Village Idiot
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Michael E Mann peddles his cartoon climatology in the Emerald Isle
Michael E Mann: Liar, Cheat, Falsifier and Fraud
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Most scientists know the truth about the appalling "science" of the hockey stick
The Warm Must Go On
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The phrase "climate change" is now officially meaningless
Life in the Expedited Lane
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Breaking news from the upcoming Mann vs Steyn Salem-witch-trial of the century. Actually, it broke a couple of days ago but I dozed off reading it...
Denial is a River in Sudan
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In Australia, Britain and America, free peoples are losing the habits of freedom
Lengthening Shadows
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How bad are things for free speech in America right now? This week the Supreme Court turned its attention to an Ohio law under which people can be fined or jailed if the "election commission" pronounces them guilty of "lying" in a political ad. Orwell's Ministry of Truth, as Justice Scalia rightly called it, is alive and well and living in Columbus and some 15 other state capitals...
Medieval Moralists
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The "new secular public morality" from climate change to identity politics to a complacent Canadian blogger...
The Clash of Sticks
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Were climate mullah Michael E Mann to prevail in the upcoming Mann vs Steyn trial of the century at the DC Superior Court, it would be the biggest setback for the First Amendment in the half-century since New York Times vs Sullivan...
Irony Alert
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Previously on Mann vs Steyn et al, National Review had filed a motion asking for yet another stay in discovery pending the appeals court's ruling on their appeal - or, indeed, the appeals court's ruling on whether they're allowed to appeal. Whatever. I'm bored by all this procedural flimflam and am anxious to proceed with discovery and go to trial, as I could have done by now in almost any functioning jurisdiction. So I filed an objection. Michael Mann eventually filed an objection, too. He also wants to proceed with discovery but only against me, not against him. A voyage of one-way discovery.
Anyway, yesterday Judge Weisberg announced his decision...
Only in Canada? Pity.
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Australia's campaign to restore free speech isn't going so well
One-Way Discovery Channel
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Climate mullah Michael Mann's credo is "Discovery for me but not for thee"
A Republic of Dullards
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A society without free speech is a society in decline
The Silencing of Science
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First, the big picture stuff. In the United Kingdom, Spiked has launched a campaign for Free Speech Now!:
'Every man should think what he likes and say what he thinks.'
Union of Settled Scientists Threatens to Strike
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An historic first: Steyn quotes Michelle Obama in a court filing
Climbing Off the Hockey Stick
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The IPCC begins to discern that Mann-made climate alarmism is for losers
Behead Those Who Insult the Prophet Mannhammed!
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Death to the infidel, cry the mullahs of Climatestan
Should I Sue Bob Ward For Libel?
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Nobel Laureate Professor Sir Bob Ward lays down the terms of debate
The Steyn Route to Insanity
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The upcoming Mann vs Steyn trial of the century takes to the airwaves
What Kind of Fool Am I?
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Ever since I ended my joint representation with National Review and fired my lawyers on Boxing Day, the endlessly reprised refrain has been that "Mark Steyn has a fool for a client". So I am pleased to be able to announce today that several other fellows also have a fool for a client...
Doctor Doom
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The supermodels on the climate catwalk reschedule the end of the world for 2036
Oh, Won't You Stay-ay-ay Just a Little Bit Longer?
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More commentary on the upcoming trial of the century: Barry Bickmore, having fallen silent for some weeks, now returns with a somewhat earnest fantasy of me as a stripper "writhing around on the table..."
The Counterclaim of Monte Cristo
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Left and right, academics and attorneys, all agree that Steyn has flown the shark and jumped the coop...
Defaming for Beginners
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Bedfellows well met - and a layman's guide to libel
Steyn and Levant Together!
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To start a new week at SteynOnline, here's a rollicking one-hour special broadcast this weekend by Canada's Sun News Network. Mark joins Ezra Levant to talk various free-speech issues, from North America to Europe to Australia...
A Change of Climate
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"Climate Change Not A Top Worry In US," reports Gallup, deadpan. Washington's Potemkin parliament can hold as many pajama parties as it wants, but Big Climate absolutism is going nowhere...
A Barristerial Self-Ambush
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Steyn vs the Sock Puppets leads to Levant vs the Lone Sock
An Inspiring Day
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I watched Ezra Levant's defamation trial in Toronto with an eye to my own defamation trial in Washington...
A Guacalypse Now!
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I was distracted from my upcoming trial of the century by my comrade Ezra Levant's trial of the century...
Chief Spokesman of the League of Anti-Semites Stunned to Discover Organization is Anti-Semitic
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I'm not "Islamophobic" and "racist", only my writing
The Lie That Won't Die
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The Ayatollah Khomeini's settled science
Every Quote Ever Uttered By Anyone Exonerates Michael E Mann
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Are Dr Mann's nipples protected by copyright?
Michael E Mann "Sloppy and Unethical"
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The most damning views of Dr Mann are from those who believe in global warming
Mann About the House
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What Michael Mann's colleagues really think about him...
The Invisible Mann
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Michael Mann falsely claims to have been exonerated by the British Government
The Compliance of Science
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The cost of challenging Mann's hockey stick ...and of defending it
Rigor Mortis
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The non-exoneration of Michael Mann
The Corruption of the Republic
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A corrupt bureaucracy, politicized prosecutors and a sclerotic judiciary team up to torment Obama's enemies
The Mann I Love
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I've been tied up with court matters this week, so I've only just seen the photograph at right...
All the News That Fits the Government Guidelines
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Not to put too fine a point on it, but the Government of the United States is increasingly corrupt...
The Unexonorated Mann
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Michael Mann's characterizations of the "investigations" into him are as fake as his Nobel Prize
Yes, We Can (Say That)
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Because the alternative is to punch your lights out
If A Tree-Ring Temperature Falls in the Forest
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Proxies vs reality
The Martyrdom of Mark Steyn
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James Delingpole analyzes Steyn's legal fight in The Spectator. At first, he envied Mark for getting sued by Michael Mann. Now, not so much...
Climate Projection
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Oxford physicist and Guardian science writer David Robert Grimes comes up with a scientific explanation as to why people who disagree with him disagree with him...
Steyn Talks to ThinkProgress
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The leftie wallahs at ThinkProgress have a piece on the Mann vs Steyn trial of the century, and by comparison with the excitable Pajama Boys of last week (latest to Xerox the party line: Philadelphia Magazine) it's a pretty fair statement of where we're at...
Desperately Seeking Closure
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The herd of independent minds stampede in unison...
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