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  "ogHTML": "Click to Subscribe to OwenGregorian\n\nUPenn climate scientist’s lawsuit award drastically reduced, has to pay more opponents’ legal fees | The College Fix It’s been a bad week for University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann. The week before last he got heat for posting on social media (regarding a federal judge’s ruling on dismantling the Dept. of Education) that “If Trump doesn’t comply, we’re in second amendment territory.” After being called out for the seeming call to violence against the president, Mann deleted the post, but responded with “The second amendment refers to the right of the people to rise up and defend democracy. To argue this is a threat against Trump is very dishonest.” But Mann perhaps is best known for his over-a-decade-old libel lawsuit against National Review, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and bloggers Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn for referring to his methodologies as “fraudulent” and “intellectually bogus.” Mann initially won, being awarded $1 million by a court last year. However, three years before a court ruled that National Review and the Competitive Enterprise Institute were not liable for defamation. Mann said he would appeal. Then this January, DC Superior Court Judge Alfred Irving ordered Mann to pay National Review over $500,000 for its legal fees, and this was followed in March by a reduction of Mann’s “grossly excessive” $1 million award … to just $5,000. Finally, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that just over a week ago, Irving ordered Mann to pony up $477,000 for the legal fees of the CEI and Simberg. From the story: “My lawyers and I believe that the fee award entered by the trial court was not correctly decided, and we intend to seek further review of that award,” Mann said in a statement. ”In the meantime, we also are pursuing an appeal from the trial court’s earlier ruling reducing the punitive damages awarded to me by the jury and other errors.” … Part of Mann’s case was that his grant funding was impacted by the bloggers’ statements. But the figures he presented at trial were incorrect. For example, Mann’s attorneys presented an exhibit that said the scientist had a $9.7 million grant, but the budget of the grant was only $112,000. The misrepresentation was “an affront to the Court’s authority and an attack on the integrity of the proceedings,” Irving said in his March opinion. Read more: thecollegefix.com/penn-climate-s\n\nTo Mark Steyn,\n\nHere’s something you can use in trial to sink it in to Mann and the Judge: Climate Scientists studying climate change on Antarctica say themselves that there is no evidence of climate change.\n\nActually the 2nd Amendment is about defending the Constitution and the peoples' inalienable rights. No where in the Constitution is the word \\*democracy\\* found.\n\nI don’t believe he actually deleted that tweet because I know that Climate Scientists don’t cave to social or financial pressure. They always tell the truth.\n\n“Mann deleted the post” I know he didn’t delete the post, because Climate Scientists never cave to social or financial pressure.\n\nThe process was always the penalty.\n\nAdd another \"Legend in his own mind\" to the list.\n\nTsk--just chart that $112k grant as a hockey stick",
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