Mark Steyn’s struggles run well over a decade long and have been well covered on this blog. Now, we have an update – of sorts.
Mark Steyn is a Canadian journalist who is very intelligent, charismatic as well as eloquent.
And, deliciously sarcastic.
He got himself into trouble by criticizing ‘The Mann’ himself, an extremely litigious individual who is the author of the now long-debunked by (in 2004/2005 by McIntyre and McKitrick, if memory serves me correctly) ‘Hockey Stick Hoax’ that would turn any data entered into an ‘a Hockey Stick’ graph of ‘catastrophic climate change’ and that is still the basis of the current de-carbonization conspiracy that enriches many large businesses while lowering the living standards of human beings.
Twelve or so years in to the litigation (a punishment in itself), in the highly politicized D.C. area of Columbia in the USA (where the jury is suspected of being not exactly impartial), Mark Steyn was found to have caused $1.00 of actual damages to Dr. Mann – and then ordered to pay him $1,000,000.00 plus court costs anyways.
Well, here is an update to the story: not a win as such, but, perhaps a glimmer of a light.
Of course, not before the process caused Mark multiple heart attacks.
Mark Steyn is not the Only Canadian Michael Mann had sued, leading to him earning the colloquial term ‘Canuckaphobic’ up here in my neck of woods.
At least one of the subjects of his lawsuits, also a Canadian (Dr. Tim Ball), had been sued almost literally to death by Michael Mann. Let’s hope there is hope for Mark Steyn and for the future!
In the mean time, I present you with a musical classic: Hide the Decline!
Xanthippa's Chamberpot 