Last week’s blistering courtroom rebuke of U.S. climate scientist Michael Mann – author of the infamous “hockey stick” temperature graph – is about far more than the US$1 million in legal costs awarded to the media outlets Mann was suing for defamation, asserts David Manney at PJ Media. With a judge ruling that Mann and his legal team lied to the court, Mann’s broader credibility has plummeted – something Manney terms a “cultural moment” that should encourage more scientists and journalists to question the scientific basis for global warming theory.
By Any Means Necessary
In the New York Post, Rich Lowry connects seemingly scattered dots including the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk, political protests, attacks on federal buildings, vandalism of Tesla EVs and dealerships, gunfire directed at federal immigration agents, and relentless vilification of conservatives by leftists (including the Democratic Party’s top leadership) to assemble a thesis that the “resistance” to Donald Trump’s second term comprises a dispersed campaign of domestic terrorism.