How's my accent coming along? I spend so much time writing scribbling on American matters I like to try it out from time to time just in case I ever decide to visit 'over there'. However, you clever linguistic analysts will have spotted my deliberate variation on 'Man' and 'Mann' - "very witty, Wilde!" All this waffle - yes, alright I'm getting to it - is simply my way of bringing you 'Good News'!
I confess that the long-running brouhaha over so-called 'Anthropological Global Warming' which filled a void in my somewhat empty life has waned recently. Well, after 17 years of virtually no warming despite CO2 being pumped out at increasingly record levels it was obvious that the 'Warmers' were wankers! The fact that they had to drop the phrase "global warming" and replace it with "climate change" told you all you needed to know, the debate (or punch-up) was over, and so was my interest. OK, yes, I do pay the occasional visit to the Unified Church of Deltoids in order to interrupt their chanting but as I have mentioned before, my social life is not tremendously exciting and I need the laughs!
However, matters did take a more serious turn last year when the 'hockey stick' inventor, Prof. Michael Mann, decided to sue Mark Steyn and the National Review over an article in which Mr. Steyn was, well, Mr. Steyn; in other words, witty, sharp and deadly with his literary torpedos aimed at the Professor well below his 'scientific' waterline! Prof. Mann retaliated with a law suit. Goody-goody, I thought, rubbing my hands together, more free entertainment - well, as I say, my social life is . . . ! But then as time dragged on - and where does it ever drag slower than in the hands of lawyers? - I began to have my suspicions. In my mind I bet Mann will drag Steyn up to the doors of the court, which will take the statutory three years allowed for in American court procedures, and then 'he'll make his excuses and leave', thus denying Steyn his day in court and a proper judicial judgment.
If, and it has to be an 'if', that was Mann's idea then he has severely under-estimated Mr. Steyn, a tough opponent who took on the highest Canadian court and won, because he has now slapped a counter $10 million law suit on Prof. Mann and for sure Steyn will force him to defend it in the public arena. In the meantime, Steve McIntyre at Climate Audit has been dissecting Prof. Mann's claims against Steyn in which he avers that nine different enquiries absolutely exonnerated him from any scientific impropriety. With exquisite exactitude, McIntyre shows these claims to be false because Mann was not the subject of these enquiries. Now I am practically dribbling with joy and frustration because I simply cannot wait for this particular circus to hit town - simply too, too, delicious!
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/02/21/steyn-countersues-mann-for-10-millon-dollars/#more-103608
http://climateaudit.org/2014/02/21/mann-and-the-muir-russell-inquiry-1/
