Update: ‘Conservative Inc Folds’ – National Review, ‘in exchange for dropping the half million Michael Mann was ordered to pay them, Mann will drop his appeal of the verdicts in their favor. In other words: Mann wins, NR loses’
https://www.steynonline.com/15675/conservative-inc-folds by Melissa Howes Michael Mann vs Free Speech Excerpt: On Friday at Steyn HQ, we received an inquiry from a reporter seeking a comment on “the agreement between Mann and NRO.” Unfortunately, having had no communication from our “co-defendants” National Review (NR), we had to scramble around a bit to figure out what the reporter was […]
National Review: ‘Michael Mann Finally Goes Away’ – ‘Mann has finally dropped any claims against’ Magazine – But ‘Steyn & Simberg are yet to have their free-speech rights vindicated’
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/10/michael-mann-finally-goes-away/ By THE EDITORS More than a decade ago, the climate scientist Michael Mann wrote us a threatening letter demanding that we take down a blog post about his sketchy research by Mark Steyn. We told him to get lost. We let him know we would never take down the post, since it was First […]
Michael Mann’s legal woes continue: Mann now owes $1.1 Million to pay for opponents’ legal fees & penalties for misleading the court ‘in bad faith’
https://www.steynonline.com/15339/the-worm-has-turned by Melissa Howes Mann vs Steyn BREAKING NEWS IN MANN VS FREE SPEECH On Thursday afternoon, Judge Irving of the DC Superior Court ordered vexatious litigant Michael E. Mann to pay Mark’s co-defendants Competitive Enterprise Institute and Rand Simberg $477,350.80 in attorney’s fees – within thirty days. This is related to counts that were dismissed on […]
Court Delivers Massive Blow To Michael Mann, Who Sued Mark Steyn & National Review – Mann Mann ‘owes National Review approximately $530,000 to cover the outlet’s legal fees’
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/04/court-delivers-massive-blow-famed-climate-scientist/ By Nick Pope A Washington, D.C., court rejected University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann’s bid to postpone his required payment of hundreds of thousands of dollars to National Review on Thursday. The Superior Court of the District of Columbia ruled in January that Mann owes National Review approximately $530,000 to cover the outlet’s legal fees […]
Stephen McIntyre: ‘Mann’s DC Trick – The Statistics of Mann’s Grant Damages’
https://stephenmcintyre.substack.com/p/manns-dc-trick By Stephen McIntyre A year ago, I was a witness in the Mann v Steyn-Simberg libel trial. It was an extremely frustrating experience. Mann’s lawyers tried to block McKitrick and I from giving evidence against Mann. The judge ruled against them, saying that our evidence was relevant to the defense. However, the judge then […]
The downfall of climate change poster boy Michael Mann: ‘If Mann cannot even be trusted to tell the truth when he’s under oath & in court on pain of perjury, why on earth should any of us take him seriously on the subject of climate change?’
https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/03/the-downfall-of-climate-change-poster-boy-michael-mann/ By James Delingpole Even if you’ve never heard of Michael Mann, you will have felt his baleful influence on your energy bills. He is the inventor of the hockey stick chart, which shows a sharp increase in late 20th century global temperatures, like the blade of an ice hockey stick. It put rocket boosters […]
Judge sanctions Penn professor Michael Mann for ‘bad-faith trial misconduct’ in defamation suit
https://www.thedp.com/article/2025/03/penn-michael-mann-sanctioned-judge-defamation-trial By William Grantland A District of Columbia judge sanctioned Penn frofessor Michael Mann and his legal team on March 12 for providing misleading information during a defamation trial last year. In February 2024, Mann — Penn’s vice provost for climate science, policy, and action — was awarded more than $1 million in the suit against bloggers Rand Simberg and […]
‘In Bad Faith’: A DC court sanctions Michael Mann & his lawyers for misconduct ‘extraordinary in its scope, extent, & intent’
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/in-bad-faith By Roger Pielke Jr. Excerpt: The DC Court that heard the defamation case brought by climate scientist Michael Mann against two bloggers has ruled today that Mann and his lawyers acted in “bad faith” during the case, by presenting false claims on multiple occasions related to Mann’s grant funding: Here, the Court finds, by clear and […]
Prof. Michael Mann Sued Mark Steyn For Defamation But Judge Says Mann Misled Jury
https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/12/climate-scientist-critics-defamation-misled-jury-judge-says/ By Nick Pope University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann and his attorneys presented misleading information to the jury in his defamation case against critics of his work, according to a judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Mann won his defamation suit against conservative writers Mark Steyn and Rand Simberg, both of […]
Michael Mann’s Big Climate Change Payday Reversed on Appeal
Michael Mann’s Big Climate Change Payday Reversed on Appeal In one of the most closely watched climate change lawsuits of all time, National Review columnist Mark Steyn was ordered by a DC jury (of course) to pay world-famous climate alarmist Michael Mann of Penn State University $1 million in punitive damages for defamation. Steyn had referred to […]