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Climate Change on Trial

Ep. 2 | Mann Overboard

Climate Change on Trial

Unreported Story Society

Science

4.9942 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Michael Mann’s war on journalism continues as his lawyers demand the court ban journalists from asking him questions. As part of his war, podcast presenters Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney became part of the courtroom drama today. Phelim’s questions to Professor Mann outside the courthouse didn’t please Mann or Mann’s lawyers. But does this justify Mann’s lawyer, John Williams, misrepresenting what happened?

You won’t want to miss Mark Steyn’s eloquent defense of the rights of awkward journalists to ask awkward questions. Will we still be allowed to do our journalism? And what is Bill Nye the Science Guy doing in court?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and I'm Phoeialla Mecklehinni.

0:07.0

And I'm Anne Mecklehini.

0:10.0

And I'm Phoelea Meckleier. This is a daily podcast from inside the DC

0:15.7

defamation trial of writer and broadcaster Mark Stein.

0:19.4

Stein is being sued for defamation by climate scientist Professor Michael Mann.

0:25.0

Stein described Mann's famous hockey stick graph as a fraud.

0:30.0

Mann is also suing writer Rand Simburg who made similar comments.

0:35.0

This is climate change on trial, day two.

0:40.0

Man overboard. Because it's such an important court case, we're presenting this podcast in a very special way.

0:50.0

Every day, we'll pull the best, most interesting exchanges and testimony that happen in the courtroom and have them reenacted by professional actors.

1:00.0

You'll hear all the clashes, all the evidence, you'll hear how it was heard by the jury, and hopefully you'll get a feel for how the case is developing.

1:10.0

We just finished day two and things still haven't gotten started.

1:14.0

Yeah really today was taken up mostly with jury selection however.

1:20.0

We had some drama. We did have some drama and it's weird. You know we don't like this we don't like this it shouldn't be like this

1:27.6

But we actually became part of the drama ourselves. We became part of the center of the of the drama part drama it's usually not good for journalists to be dragged into a

1:36.1

court case that they're covering but I suppose this is a case about free speech

1:40.6

so therefore it may maybe it's appropriate.

1:43.0

So basically what happened, you know we need to go back to yesterday or to day one of the case.

1:49.9

After the case was over I did what I have done a thousand times in a 30 year journalism career.

1:56.6

I waited outside the court to ask Michael Mann some questions.

2:01.0

It's very typical for journalists to ask questions outside of courtrooms, not sorry not outside of court rooms outside of

2:07.9

Everything outside of well, but also outside of courthouses. You've seen it in a million TV shows and movies

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