Thread by @PhelimMcAleer

The Trial of the Century
Michael Mann Vs Mark Steyn
Climate Activism Vs Skepticism & Free Speech
Mark Steyns Opening Statement
A masterpiece of logic &oratory
From Papua New Guinea to Australia and Canada with cameos by Rupert Murdoch and Eleanor Roosevelt
@MarkSteynOnline

Steyn, who is representing himself, apologises to the jury for not being able to stand up " I have difficulty standing but I have no difficulty standing on the truth"

"the truth of what I wrote, the truth about what happened at a famous American institution and the truth about this man, Michael Mann - the plaintiff. To modify a famous line from an American courtroom drama, I think you can handle the truth"

Steyn went on to tell the jury: "In my world I can write something, Mr Simberg can write something and Mr Mann can write something. And you're free to read all or none & decide what weight to attach to all or none"

"But in @MichaelEMann's world, there's his taken everyone else has to be Hockey sticked onto submission and silence.I'd be inclined to say that's a little unAmerican but....Im a foreigner so it probably isn't for me to say what is or isn't American"

Manns counsel John Williams said Steyn was a Fox News host - possibly trying to cash in on the DC Jury's prejudices

"I would like to clarify something Mr Williams said because he can play a little Fast and Loose sometime.
am not a host on Fox News I have never had any contractual relationship with Fox News. I fell out with Rupert Murdoch about 15 years ago so he doesn't like me"

Murdochs late mother and his sister like him enormously (but they were a long way away in Australia) but not Rupert, Steyn said. "I have not appeared on Fox News in three years.

DOGGATE - the exclusive "the last time I was invited on, to Fox News it was to discuss Andrew Cuomo not wanting to keep his dog after leaving the governors mansion. And I thought Lifes too short."

described the Governors Dog story as "complete Codswallop."
Will Mann now sue Steyn for insulting a First Dog?
I digress

Despite objections Steyn produced the National Academy of Sciences code of Conduct. Does Mann have an issue with codes of conduct? Perhaps?

Code states "NAS members shall treat all individuals in the scientific enterprise collegially and with respect....colleagues, other NAS members, students, and interested members of public"

Steyn told jury code of conduct also says "NAS members must refrain from all forms of discrimination, harassment, and bullying in their professional encounters" - Can you guess where Steyn is going?

"The NAS described what Mann does all day every day on social media, discriminating against, harassing & bullying anyone who disagrees with him: "

He harasses and bullies "Colleagues or interested members of the public. Mann is one of the most vicious blowhards on Twitter, which is pretty much vicious blowhard central"

Steyn points out to the jury that Mann has produced THREE abusive emails from strangers to prove damages. Two are from "OverlordMustafa" and the third calls him a loser. "Is that all they've got? Steyn ask?

Loser? Steyn says Mr. Mann says far worse than call people a loser every moment of the day. "He doesn't even stop for public holidays."

I was shocked when I heard what Mann treated two days ago. Steyn told the jury that on MLK day, Mann tweeted that, Steve McIntyre, an upcoming witness in the trial who challenged Manns stats had "a disturbing connection with white supremacy."!!!!

Steyn said that if Mann had said this before a trial in the UK - it would be "witness tampering" and Mann would be "facing a spell behind bars."

Steyn:"Michael Mann is now an activist, tweeter..... couple of scientific papers provide cover for activism"But in the crazy world of Michael E. Mann, highly technical disagreement about Mann's use of principal components analysis is equivalent of burning a cross on your lawn.

If Steyn statements are defamatory of Mann, "why is Mann's statement not defamatory of Stephen McIntyre?
Mr. Mann wants a world where no one can criticize
him but he can damn anyone he cares to as a white
supremacist, a racist, a homophobe, whatever."

"This is extremely weird behavior from a scientist" Steyn told the jury. "Which is why so many scientists around the world want nothing to do with
him. Mann's a classic example of the guy who can dish it out but can't take it."

@Steynonline said Mann could not prove he had been damaged by his post "In the 11-1/2 years since the publications at issue he has been lofted onward and upward through the stratosphere of the American establishment."

In the most astonishing part of his opening Mark Steyn revealed how Prof @MichaelEMann has frequently and falsely claimed to have won the Nobel Peace Prize.

"Mr. Mann is a fraud, a terrible fraud." Steyn showed Manns original complaint to the court where he falsely claimed three times to have won a Nobel Peace Prize!

"It's the equivalent of... of stolen valor, those contemptible men one runs into from time to time who claim to have been in the thick of it at Omaha Beach on D-Day or in Vietnam in reality, they were back home in the La-Z-Boy recliner watching Dancing With the Stars"

Michael Mann is the only scientist on the planet for whom the director of the Nobel Institute has had to issue a statement explaining that he has not and never has been a, quote," Nobel prize recipient" Steyn told jury

Stay to jury: "So I wrote, starting in 2001, that his Hockey a fraud. But I came to learn very quickly, as that Michael Mann himself is a terrible fraud."

"How big a fraud do you have to be to keep putting
yourself up there with Einstein and Sir Frederick and
Madame Curie when the Nobel Institute itself has told you you're not and you are to cut it out?"

Mann benefitted from Corruption of Penn State leadership - "President Graham Spannier: Graham Spanier is prepared to cover up Sandusky child rape week in, week out, year in, year out, "

"why would he be the least bit squeamish about covering up a bit of hanky-panky with the tree rings and the ice cores?" that were used for Manns fraudulent Hockey Stick

If you want to hear @Steynonline speech to jury - this podcast has the highlights in audio - re-enacted. A gripping listen:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cli…