A year ago Michael Mann was riding high after winning his 12 year old lawsuit against journalist/pundit Mark Steyn and Rand Simberg over comments sharply critical of Mann’s famed “hockey stick” graph. That graph purported to demonstrate a sharp rise in global temperature following industrialization, supposedly caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions. The offending comments were by Steyn in a National Review blog and by Simberg in a Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) blog. Here is a recent update:
Michael Mann, Mark Steyn, and the Reversal of Fortune – ClimateRealism
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April 18, 2025 at 01:49AM
Iowa Climate Science Education 
This review of a philosophical contribution to the warming debate includes a summary of important criticism of the governance of the IPCC and, towards the end, a short report on the damning review of Mann’s work conducted by the Wegman Committee convened by the Chairman of two US House committees.
https://open.substack.com/pub/rafechampion/p/explaining-how-the-science-of-global
At the end is a summary of the potentially game-changing work by Gordon Tullock who was inspired by Popper to investigate the social organization of science. Tragically, his book made no impact.
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