While it’s not getting that much coverage, I’m sure anyone reading this is aware that the Mann v Steyn trial is on. In this new age of podcasting we have some podcasters doing daily podcasts with actors doing reenactments of highlights from the trial. They have an actor with a nice Shakspearian voice to portray Mark Steyn. Tom Nelson even has podcast interview with one of the podcasters. There’s also daily running commentary at Steyn Online where you can find WEBEX links to watch the trial on line. They’ll take you to a court PDF page where you can scroll down to page 518 where you can click the link (with a little bit of fuss) to watch the trial. Court proceedings start at 9:30 AM Eastern Time US from Mondays through Thursdays.

Whatever you do, don’t miss Brad Keyes running commentary at Judith Curry’s. A sample:

Joe, what’s so confusing?

The “residuals”, as Professor Mann explained using words that even we blue-collar folk understand, are:

1. irrelevantia the readers of his paper don’t need to see
2. (though Tim might find them helpful),
3. which could be weaponized to undermine the entire edifice of Western science for the last 300 years if the wrong people got their hands on his dirty laundry, where:
4a. ‘wrong people’ is a colloquial term used in private emails to refer to people of ‘bad faith,’
4a(ii). as opposed to legitimate climate scientists, who are famous the world over for their faith;
4b. and ‘dirty laundry’ is a medical condition suffered by navigators of Schmidt Creek who pack insufficient paddles.

I would be happy to deep-clean any residuum of mystery you may be experiencing.

Yours &c.

Got to go. Trials coming up.