At this point he would not be welcome in my home or at any dinner where I was hosting. He is an utterly despicable human being.

Daniel Yergin suggests in his follow up to the Prize, that there was some basis for some of the data from Callender, a contemporary or Rivele, who was one of Gore’s professors, but after the ECRU hack, I have my doubts,

after they demoneticized anthony watts blog, I’m further skeptical, when you see that their goal is a variation on what they say will be the result, a mass die off, even concern,

the Klaus like villain in Kingsman, says as much to his spy interlocutor, the temperature readings are beside the point, that film whose centerpiece is a mountain lair much like Davos suggested too frankly the mindset of our ruling classes,

If you want to put the current climate hysteria in perspective:

Annual useful solar energy received by earth (i.e., what runs the tides, weather, photosynthesis, etc.) = 297 billion barrels of oil equivalent/day

Current hydrocarbon production = 386 million barrels of oil equivalent/day

Hydrocarbons as % of useful solar = 0.1299%

A 1% change in solar flux (happens all the time) is the same as a seven-fold increase in hydrocarbon use. And yet, we are supposed to believe that this hydrocarbon tail wags the solar dog.

For those few who get through the academic sieves, professional opportunities will dwindle rapidly once the ‘denier’ label is placed on someone. Whether it is academic appointments, consulting engagements for energy investment projects, environmental impact assessments, membership on professional teams of environmental or energy scientists, or even speaking opportunities at professional conferences – the ‘science is settled’, there is no more to be discovered.

And on that score:

“X-rays will prove to be a hoax”
Lord Kelvin, President of the Royal Society, 1883

Albert Einstein, 1932 “There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be
shattered at will.”

“The abdomen, the chest and the brain will
forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon”
Sir John Eric Ericson, Surgeon to Queen Victoria, 1870’s

“Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs
is ridiculous fiction”
Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872

“We are probably nearing the limit of
all we can know about astronomy”
Simon Newcomb, Astronomer, 1888

And here are 18 more failed predictions made on the first Earth Day (1970) by the Great and the Good of that era: https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/18-spectacularly-wrong-predictions-made-around-the-time-of-the-first-earth-day-in-1970-expect-more-this-year/

And much more, such as Judith Curry’s defamation by The Mann is added.
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/celebrity-climate-scientists-victory-libel-suit-raises-concerns-about-free

Wrongthink and wrongspeak have now been officially prohibited by a decree of the court (without any such law having been enacted).

Mann also falsely accused Curry of “sleeping her way” to her PhD and spread that rumor in the scientific community. A real class act, that guy.

I listened to two days of testimony excerpt re-enactments on Phileem McAleer and Ann McIlhenny’s podcast. Those two days happened to coincide with Michael Mann’s time on the stand in the trial.

The case should have been thrown out before it reached trial. There is no demonstrable way Mann was damaged. Steyn and Simberg’s attorney both clearly demonstrated that Mann’s income and speaking engagements soared after the articles were published and Mann’s one example of reputation damage was a dirty look he claimed he got in a grocery store. Steyn and Simberg’s attorneys gave example after example where Mann showed himself to be a thin skinned narcissist, including often claiming he won a Nobel Prize.

A true, travesty of justice.

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/climate-change-on-trial/id1713827256

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6jDpaNT18Yg0t8kIvfV0Du