Ep. 1 | A Mann Apart

Climate Change on Trial

Unreported Story Society

Science

4.9 • 942 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Climate Change Theory is on trial in this long-awaited court case. The trial will ask which is more important in America: climate alarmism, or free speech?

It has taken over a decade to get to court. On one side is Michael Mann, a climate scientist and activist who claims he was defamed in a 2012 blog by writer and broadcaster Mark Steyn.

Ironically, a trial about climate change was delayed by a Washington DC snowstorm. The trial will also put the climate science field and the administration of Penn State University under the spotlight.

Using re-enactments based on actual court transcripts, journalists Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney will bring you the day's most dramatic courtroom clashes in the hunt for the truth about one of the biggest issues of our age.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and I'm Anne Mackelheney.
0:05.0	Climate Change on Trial.
0:06.0	I'm a Michael Lear.
0:08.0	Climate Change on Trial is a daily podcast from inside the DC defamation trial of writer and broadcaster Mark Stein.
0:15.0	Stein is being sued for defamation by climate scientists
0:20.0	Professor Michael Mann. Stein described Michael Mann's famous hockey stick graph as a fraud.
0:27.0	Mann is also suing writer Ran Simberg who made similar comments.
0:32.0	The sagous started way back in 2012 when in a blog post for national review, Mark Stein
0:37.8	criticized Michael Mann's hockey stick graph.
0:41.4	The graph purported to show a catastrophic rise in global temperature
0:46.4	since the Industrial Revolution. The hockey stick graph has been hugely influential in pushing
0:51.3	the theory of catastrophic global warming.
0:54.6	It claims to show global temperatures were basically stable until the mid 1800s.
1:00.9	That's the shaft of the hockey stick. The sharp surge in temperature after around 1850 is the blade.
1:08.0	And why this story is so important is because this went against the accepted science and the
1:14.8	accepted temperature graphs which up until then had shown a medieval warming
1:19.0	period and a later mini ice age and when you've got ups and
1:23.1	down and temperature then it becomes more difficult to attribute I suppose
1:26.4	climate change to CO2 so man flattened the temperature and Stein said the hockey stick graph was a fraud and that Mann had cherry-picked data to fit the thesis. Stein also criticized Penn State University where Mann worked at the time.
1:43.8	The university had investigated Megal Mann after allegations of scientific misconduct
1:48.6	following the leaking of the so-called climate gait emails.
1:52.0	Their investigation found he had not committed any misconduct.
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