Ep. 4 | Michael Mann's Vomit: Excuse Me, While I Puke

Climate Change on Trial

Unreported Story Society

Science

4.9 • 942 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Finally after 12 years of litigation and delays, defendant Mark Steyn takes the stand in the most important free speech trial in over half a century. Steyn is being sued by climate scientist and activist Michael Mann for criticizing his hockey stick graph and the investigation into Mann’s alleged scientific malfeasance.

Now Mann has a chance to question Steyn. But has he chosen the wrong opponent? Hear Michael Mann’s explanation of why he falsely claimed to have won a Nobel prize. And hear Mark Steyn’s response. Listen to the incredible details about Michael Mann's previous lawsuits and how they ended in tragedy. And hear Mark Steyn refuse to reveal the name of a journalistic source who leaked the “Climate Gate” emails revealing the alleged rot at the heart of climate science.

This is a true courtroom drama with genuine twists and turns. The evidence takes you on a journey from the nude beaches of St Tropez, France to the photocopying room in the headquarters of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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0:00.0	Hello and I'm Phoeia Mackelheney and I'm Phoelea Mackelier and this is a daily
0:09.2	podcast from inside the DC defamation trial of writer and broadcaster Mark Stein.
0:14.5	Stein is being sued for defamation by climate scientist Professor Michael Mann.
0:19.7	Stein described Mann's famous hockey stick graph as a fraud.
0:23.0	Man who was a professor at Penn State and who is now a professor at the University of
0:28.2	Pennsylvania is also suing writer Ran Simburg who made similar comments. Now we're presenting this
0:34.4	podcast in a very special way by having actors react verbatim from the
0:39.9	transcripts the most exciting exchanges in court each day.
0:44.0	So...
0:45.0	Welcome to climate change on trial, day four.
0:48.0	Michael Mann, vomit, excuse me while I puke.
0:54.0	So we're going to do today's podcast in a kind of reverse because the afternoon saw Mark Stein,
1:00.7	the defendant, take the witness down for the first time.
1:03.6	He's representing himself, and of course he gave that blistering opening statement on Friday,
1:09.6	and he has actually cross-examined a witness, but this was the first time he was questioned in court
1:15.5	under oath. And it was as amusing and combative as you would think, Ann, wasn't it it? Yeah and it was also quite something to behold because
1:27.4	Mark had to take the stand as it were and obviously he isn't able to stand he's in a wheelchair so we
1:34.4	you know there was a whole situation getting him into the into the stand during
1:39.3	the break and I think it took it really winded him for a while so we had a bit of time to get himself together before the jury came in but
1:45.8	But he was in flying form I mean you know it despite that he was in absolutely flying form and it and it and that hit off almost from the get-go because
1:54.7	you know the jury came in and then he was sworn in Mark was sworn in you know and
1:59.6	I swear I'm mighty God you know well the lady who gave the oath you know she gave the oath which doesn't include
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