Aw, poor Michael Mann. People are being mean to him (some are actually being really, really mean. Read the whole story for full context)
At first, Michael Mann, a Penn State professor and a central figure in the Climategate scandal, but best known for his discredited “hockey stick graph†didn’t like being mocked in a YouTube video. Now Mann is alleging he’s a victim of hate groups.
On ABC’s May 23 “World News Sunday,†a segment from anchor Dan Harris alleged that threatening e-mails Mann received were part of a “spike†in violence aimed at the global warming alarmist community.
And Mann, who has a lawsuit against Minnesotans for Climate Change, a group that publicly mocked him for his discredited hockey stick graph, where he allegedly intentionally hid data to accentuate the argument of global warming alarmism, complained that the e-mailers are trying to trample his free speech rights.
“It’s an attempt to chill the discourse and I think that’s what most disconcerting,†Mann said.
Oh, really?????? I wonder if threatening to sue is an attempt to chill the discourse? How about this one from Talking Points Memo
‘At what point do we jail or Skeptical State Climatologist in Delaware silenced by Governor (May 2, 2007)global warming deniers’ — ‘Shouldn’t we start punishing them now?’
Most of these links come from the above Climate Depot link, which has plenty of the climate alarmists attempts to chill the discourse
- Joe Romm: “An entire generation will soon be ready to strangle you and your kind while you sleep in your beds,”
- Skeptical State Climatologist in Delaware silenced by Governor (May 2, 2007)
- October 28, 2008: License to dissent: ‘Internet should be nationalized as a public utility’ to combat global warming skepticism – Australian Herald Sun
- Barone: Warmists have ‘a desire to kill heretics’ — Calls for capital punishment for ‘global warming deniers’ – DC Examiner – June 9, 2009
- In 2006, the eco-magazine Grist called for Nuremberg-Style trials for skeptics.
- In 2008, Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki called for government leaders skeptical of global warming to be thrown “into jail.â€
- In 2007, The Weather Channel’s climate expert called for withholding certification of skeptical meteorologists.
- Greenpeace article, 2010: We know who you are. We know where you live. We know where you work. And we be many, but you be few.
No, no, nothing chilling to the discourse there.
