February 8, 2024 – Climate Depot

WaPo Gloating! ‘Famed climate scientist wins million-dollar verdict against right-wing bloggers’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/02/08/michael-mann-bloggers-defamation-trial/ WaPo: “The verdict comes amid heightened attacks on scientists working on climate change, vaccines and other issues.” Excerpt: Michael Mann, a prominent climate scientist, won his long-standing legal battle against two right-wing bloggers who claimed that he manipulated data in his research and compared him to convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky, a major victory […]

Climatologist Dr. Judith Curry releases her Expert Report on Michael Mann from trial – Curry: ‘It is reasonable to have referred to the Hockey Stick in 2012 as ‘fraudulent’

Re the Mann v. Simberg/Steyn trial, I've posted the text of my Expert Report prepared at the request of Steyn's lawyers. While this wasn't admitted into evidence, it provides some much need context for the trial.https://t.co/tZwfcmhKli — Judith Curry (@curryja) February 8, 2024 JC’s expert report by Judith Curry Here is the text of the […]

Jury awards climate scientist Michael Mann $1 million in defamation lawsuit

https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-defamation-michael-mann-penn-state-61289ee2d8d2143768d28995c83899ef BY SUMAN NAISHADHAM Updated 7:02 PM EST, February 8, 2024 Share WASHINGTON (AP) — A jury on Thursday awarded $1 million to climate scientist Michael Mann who sued a pair of conservative writers 12 years ago after they compared his depictions of global warming to a convicted child molester. Mann, a professor of climate science at the […]

Jury finds in favor of Michael Mann in defamation lawsuit against Mark Steyn, Rand Simberg

https://tnc.news/2024/02/08/mann-defamation-lawsuit-steyn-simberg2/ By Andrew Lawton A Washington, D.C. jury has found that conservative writers Mark Steyn and Rand Simberg defamed climate scientist Michael Mann. The jury deliberated for close to a full day before reaching its decision. At issue were two blog posts, one by Steyn and one by Simberg, comparing the investigation into alleged academic […]

Watch Part I of our Alaska report on Conservation Nation today! Let Alaska Develop Its Resources

https://www.cfact.org/2024/02/07/the-biden-threat-to-alaskan-mining/ We just released a new episode of our “wildly” popular original video series, Conservation Nation. In this latest program, host Gabriella Hoffman (who also serves as a CFACT senior policy analyst) journeys to Alaska to look into how mining operations are carried out in this beautiful yet remote state. As CFACT supporters know, Alaska is […]

Biden Western Solar Plan will sacrifice 22 million public land acres to fight climate change

https://www.cfact.org/2024/02/06/biden-western-solar-plan-will-sacrifice-22-million-acres-to-fight-climate-change/ “The American public could embrace this latest evolution of our shared domain. Or we could reject further industrial development of our public lands and instead preserve them for the sake of wildlife habitat, healthy ecosystems and scenic hikes — while requiring renewable energy companies to find other places to build. So which should we choose: clean […]

Retreat from Net Zero is underway: Around the world, unpopular decarbonization policies are being shelved

https://mailchi.mp/51667c079eb7/retreat-from-net-zero-is-underway-200880?e=0b1369f9f8 London, 8 February – A new paper published by Net Zero Watch shows that governments worldwide are starting to ditch decarbonisation policies, as they seek to avoid electoral wipeout. Author Ross Clark shows that the economic pain inflicted by Net Zero policies has now become acute, and that voters are starting to rebel against them: “As you […]

The next big climate scare: Counting climate change deaths

Steve Goreham in Washington Examiner:

In December 2023, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke at COP28, the 28^th United Nations Climate Conference, and mentioned climate-related deaths. “We are seeing and beginning to pay attention and to count and record the deaths that are related to climate,” she said. …

On Jan. 30, Dr. Colin J. Carlson of Georgetown University published a paper in Nature Medicine titled, “After millions of preventable deaths, climate change must be treated like a health emergency.” Carlson claims that climate change has caused about 166,000 deaths per year since 2000, or almost 4 million cumulative deaths. Carlson admits that most of these deaths have been due to malaria in sub-Saharan Africa or malnutrition and diarrheal diseases in South Asia. But he goes on to claim that deaths due to natural disasters and even cardiovascular disease should also be attributed to climate change. If death from cardiovascular disease can be counted as a climate death, almost any death can be counted.

Your CO2-laden breath is killing people…science says so! STUDY: ‘Three Americans create enough carbon emissions to kill one person’ – Claim: ‘For every 4,434 metric tons of CO2 produced, one person globally will die’

2023: Just STOP Breathing! Peer-Reviewed Study Says Human Breathing ‘Contributes to Global Warming’ – Finds ‘Human respiration has a net warming effect on the atmosphere’ – Published in PLOS ONE

Update 2021: B.C. doctor clinically diagnoses patient as suffering from ‘climate change’ – ‘Picked up his patient’s chart & penned in the words ‘climate change’

2022: Watch: Hospital staff sing & protest by featuring Death Certificates citing ‘climate change’ as cause of death: ‘Cutting down on carbon will stop our bodies droppin’ – ‘Leaders should be yearnin’ to stop the planet burnin’

Climate PSYOP: Peer-reviewed Study: ‘Addressing climate change with behavioral science’ – ‘Effectively reducing climate change requires marked, global behavior change’

Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries

SCIENCE ADVANCES – 7 Feb 2024 – Vol 10, Issue 6 –DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adj5778

“Effectively reducing climate change requires marked, global behavior change…A growing body of research across the behavioral sciences has been investigating intervention strategies aimed at boosting sustainable intentions and behaviors such as recycling, public transportation use, and household energy saving (3, 8, 9). For instance, communications aimed at reducing the psychological distance of climate change, by making it feel more geographically, socially, and temporally close, were effective at increasing climate concern and amplifying self-reported intentions to engage in mitigating behaviors, such as reducing energy consumption.”

Day: February 8, 2024