Notorious climate alarmist Michael Mann, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, was ordered to pay more than $500,000 in legal fees to National Review, the publication revealed on Friday.
Mann filed a defamation lawsuit against the publication in 2012 after National Review editor Rich Lowry wrote a post titled “Get Lost.” The so-called scientist initially threatened to sue National Review after its blog, the Corner, ran a piece criticizing Mann’s research as “intellectually bogus and wrong” — a threat he made good on after Lowry published his article.
National Review ran the headline, “Pay up, Mr. Mann,” on Friday, more than a decade later, revealing that the climate change kook must fork over $530,820.21 within 30 days.
A court in our nation’s capital has ordered climate scientist Michael Mann to pay us $530,820.21 worth of attorney’s fees and costs, and to do so within 30 days.
It is time for him to get out his checkbook, and sign on the dotted line. https://t.co/lrt9BKcTEp
— National Review (@NRO) January 10, 2025
“For more than eight years, the climate scientist Michael Mann harassed National Review through litigation over a blog post — until, eventually, the First Amendment brought an end to his attack,” the outlet wrote in part. “It is time for him to get out his checkbook, and sign on the dotted line.”
Mann admitted during discovery that his lawsuit was meant to “ruin National Review,” according to the publication. […]
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