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.

Bad Mom? Bad Wife?
The Massachusetts trial of Lindsay Clancy for killing her three young children (recently declared a mistrial) became a litmus test for couples – with some publicly breaking off engagements due to disagreements over her culpability. Writing in The American Mind, Evie Solheim ponders the malign influence of social media on the marriage decision for younger generations. “When men and women treat existence as a zero-sum game, everyone loses,” she writes, pleading for greater understanding between the sexes. For more on marriage, see this C2C article.


