Climate Change
Michael Mann’s Defamation Case Against Deniers Finally Reaches Trial
After a 12-year journey through the courts, the climate scientist behind the ‘Hockey Stick’ graph tells a jury that bloggers sullied his name with a crass comparison.
Michael Mann, one of the nation’s most prominent climate scientists, told a Washington, D.C. jury on Wednesday that he was made to feel like a “pariah” and saw his grant funding plummet after right-wing bloggers sought to discredit his science with vulgar attacks in 2012.
Michael Mann’s Defamation Case Against Deniers Finally Reaches Trial