Mann Vs. Steyn: Who Is The Dead Denier?
Mark Steyn is complaining that the defamation case launched against him by climate scientist Mike Mann has taken forever. Well, on the face of it, the first response must be that he should suck it up. In Canada, at least, waiting four years for a defamation case to unfold is pretty standard; I doubt the U.S. court system is significantly less clogged. And of course much of the delay is a result Mark's various stalling tactics after the initial judgements went against him, tactics which included the promotion of arguments so novel as to be, as they say, "unknown to law". Also, there's this from his request for an expedited hearing: Many of Steyn's expert witnesses are emeritus professors and comparatively advanced in years, being of an age and eminence that enables them to stand against the bullying and intimidation that prevails in climate science. Therefore, the passage of time is not an unimportant thing. Indeed, one of Steyn's proposed witnesses has, i...