J6 Attorney Roger Roots Weighs In On Another DISGRACEFUL VERDICT: D.C. Jury Awards ‘BULLY’ Professor Michael Mann $1 Million from Conservative Broadcaster Mark Steyn in Climate Defamation Trial | The Gateway Pundit

GUEST POST By Roger Roots, J.D., Ph.D.

The jury pool in Washington, D.C., is extra Marxist than the jury swimming pools in San Francisco or New York Metropolis.

DC residents constantly vote for Democrats over 90 p.c of the time. Most DC residents are both authorities workers or large authorities advocates ultimately. Prosecutors and plaintiffs know they’re just about assured a victory at any time when they prosecute or sue conservatives or libertarians.

On Wednesday, February 8, a jury of six DC residents rendered its verdict within the defamation trial of Ivy League Professor Michael Mann versus Mark Steyn and Rand Simberg.

The jury held that Steyn and Simberg every defamed Mann, to the tune of 1 greenback every, in compensatory damages. However the jury additionally held that Simberg owes one thousand {dollars}—and Steyn owes a million {dollars}—in punitive damages.

Dr. Mann’s lawyer used his closing argument to induce the jury to punish Steyn and Simberg to cease “assaults on local weather scientists.”

Steyn and Simberg each wrote separate essays again in 2012 which in contrast Penn State College’s investigation into Professor Mann’s deceptive “hockey stick” temperature graph to the investigation into Penn State’s pedophile soccer coach Jerry Sandusky. Each investigations had been whitewashes, designed to brush scandals underneath the rug.

Professor Mann, now at U-Penn, used his misleading hockey stick temperature chart to catapult himself to educational superstardom.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Local weather Change (IPCC) revealed the preposterous chart on the duvet pages of its 2001 Report.

Right this moment, Dr. Mann is the face of up to date doomsday “local weather disaster” science.

Dr. Mann is pals with Hollywood celebrities and main Democratic Social gathering figures.

Mann’s claims that international temperatures are catastrophically rising are cited as grounds for trillions of {dollars} in authorities spending world wide. Now there are individuals freezing to loss of life in Texas and going hungry in Europe as a consequence of authorities “inexperienced vitality” impositions.

Regardless of the jury’s final verdict, proof at trial plainly confirmed that Mann hid, disregarded or buried knowledge that didn’t assist his catastrophic international warming claims.

Dr. Abraham Wyner, a famend statistician, testified that Dr. Mann made quite a few selections concerning knowledge choice alongside the best way to producing the hockey stick chart. And Mann constantly—intentionally—selected choices that produced the startling hockey stick graph. One other witness, Steven McIntyre, testified that he repeatedly requested for the info supporting Mann’s hockey stick chart however that Mann (and others) had been hiding the info, together with their laptop coding.

Among the testimony was astounding, provided that your entire Western world is now barreling within the path of insurance policies based mostly on Mann’s and the mainstream “local weather science”’s calls for.

The trial confirmed that what passes for local weather science is extra akin to a government-subsidized faith.

Moreover, protection witnesses uncovered Mann as a really horrible particular person. Regardless of Mann’s personal skinny pores and skin, Mann frequently defames critics of The Science™ as “deniers” “white supremacists” or paid shills of business.

Mann bullies and leads boycotts towards educational journals until they flip away skeptical analysis research. Mann buries and hides knowledge that undermines his scientific claims.

Mann urges his fellow liberal professors to blacklist and assault scientists who disagree with him.

Mann withholds knowledge from skeptics who search to look at it.

Mann destroys the careers of students who criticize “local weather disaster” claims. Mann even helped fellow alarmist professors illegally delete emails to evade the Freedom Of Data Act.

Though a 2012 Penn State report presupposed to exonerate Mann of scientific misconduct, attorneys for Rand Simberg confirmed that Mann’s Penn State colleagues needed to censure Mann for unscientific conduct.  However Penn State’s president—who later went to jail for serving to cowl up Jerry Sanduski’s youngster molestation spree—interfered with the investigation of Mann.

Considered one of Mann’s fellow professors admitted that the Penn State “investigation” committee took Mann’s explanations at face worth.  They might have wanted the “sources of the FBI” to research Mann’s laptop manipulations and fudging of tree-ring knowledge.

Supporters of the federal government’s catastrophic-warming-by-man-made-CO2 idea seem like amping up their efforts to make use of courtroom lawfare to silence questions and criticism.

Keep tuned!