Ep. 12 | Mann at War
Climate Change on Trial
Unreported Story Society
4.9 • 942 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
As this case progressed, we believed Michael Mann’s case was getting weaker and weaker. But we never thought the judge would agree.
It’s a devastating development for Michael Mann and his lawyers. Hear Judge Irving describe their case as “disjointed,” and wondered aloud just what the purpose of two of their witnesses was.
It kept getting worse for Mann. Listen to Dr. Judith Curry describe how his private and public smearing of her reputation devastated her professional life. We’ll also hear convincing evidence that the Penn State investigation into Mann’s scientific misconduct was indeed a whitewash, and from researcher Steve McIntyre, who’s behind some of the most enduring criticism of the hockey stick graph.
You won’t want to miss this explosive testimony.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and I'm Phila McElhir. This is a daily podcast from inside the DC defamation trial of writer and broadcaster Mark Stein. Stein is being sued |
| 0:14.8 | for defamation by climate scientist Professor Michael Mann. Stein described |
| 0:19.2 | Mann's famous hockey stick graph as a fraud. Man is also suing writer Ran Simburg, who made similar comments. |
| 0:27.0 | So we're presenting this podcast in a very special way by having actors reenact court transcripts verbatim so you get the most exciting |
| 0:35.1 | exchanges from the court every day. So welcome to climate change on trial day |
| 0:40.9 | 12. Man at War. |
| 0:45.0 | So we've noticed a lot of new people turning up and an increased interest in the case. |
| 0:48.8 | The courtroom is getting a little bit more crowded. |
| 0:50.8 | And a shout out to the people who turned up a few of them who are |
| 0:53.4 | fans of the podcast which was very nice and hello Bill and hello Kevin two |
| 0:57.8 | different guys that we that I talked to today so come on down if you're in the area a |
| 1:01.6 | Superior Court DC Superior Court. |
| 1:05.0 | Actually there's been a few journalists as well. |
| 1:07.5 | Washington Post sent someone last week and I think they came back today. |
| 1:11.5 | So the interest is definitely growing. |
| 1:14.0 | The trial, the interesting development is the trial that looked like it was going to last forever |
| 1:18.6 | because it's the litigation that lasts forever. It has already run over it to a lot of time, but it's now coming to what is a rather sudden end. |
| 1:26.0 | It seems that over the weekend there was a lot of haggling about how the case could wrap up within the new time limit that the judge imposed last week. |
| 1:34.4 | He's very clear the case has to go to the jury on Wednesday. |
| 1:37.8 | So he got a proposal for a schedule from actually from the defense from Simburg and Stein, and he adopted that that he said we're going to go with that |
| 1:45.2 | you know even though the other side weren't that happy he said yeah we're going to go with that |
| 1:48.9 | and we're going to we're going to stick with it and it's a very tight arrangement it's like |
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