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.
Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.
