Ep. 13 | Mann and God

Climate Change on Trial

Unreported Story Society

Science

4.9 • 942 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

You’ve heard of Climategate, but now we bring you: Stalkergate.

It was a day of high drama, both inside and outside the courthouse.

This trial of the century is rapidly coming to its close. In today’s episode, you’ll hear from five separate witnesses for Mark Steyn and Rand Simberg. There is a theme running through all the testimony: Witness after witness spoke about how Mann was the driver of the bullying and vindictive tone of the climate debate both before and after the Climategate scandal.

We also got to hear some of the science behind the criticism of the hockey stick, and how the investigation into Mann’s scientific misconduct was secretly guided by former Penn State president Graham Spanier.

The day ended with Mann’s lawyers making a false statement to law enforcement and almost getting a certain journalist assaulted. We ask, does Michael Mann have the lawyers he deserves?

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:05.0	Phila McElier.
0:08.0	This is a daily podcast from inside the defamation trial of writer and broadcaster Mark Stein. Stein is being sued
0:15.6	for defamation by climate scientist Professor Michael Mann. Stein
0:20.6	described man's famous hockey stick graph as a fraud.
0:24.0	Man is also suing writer Ran Simburg who made similar comments.
0:28.0	We're presenting this podcast in a very special way by having actors reenact court transcripts verbatim so you get the
0:35.2	most exciting exchanges from the court each day.
0:39.1	Welcome to Climate Change on, day 13.
0:43.1	Man and God.
0:46.8	So we flew through the proceedings today.
0:49.4	It was actually interesting in many ways,
0:50.8	and then there was a dramatic development at the end which we will
0:53.4	call stalker-git which you know very little about and yes because it happened after you left
0:59.7	okay because I actually it's both stoker-Git and harassment, get.
1:04.3	So we will come to that at the end, so stay tuned.
1:06.8	It was a really, really busy day.
1:08.6	We had five separate people gave evidence in the morning,
1:11.6	though three of those were presented to the court by video
1:14.3	deposition. They had previously given depositions and rather than subpoena them
1:19.3	to come to court and funny I think in civil proceedings subpoena only has a geographical power
1:25.3	Oh really okay I remember that from the Kevin Spacey that you can depose anyone
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