“Calling Michael Mann’s work fraudulent is just patently false,” said Lauren Kurtz, executive director of the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund, a group that helped defend scientists facing legal attack in 54 cases last year. Mann, she added, has been “exonerated” of wrongdoing by multiple investigations into his work.
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Famed climate scientist wins million-dollar verdict against right-wing bloggers
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Michael Mann Wins $1 Million Verdict In Defamation TrialFebruary 9, 2024
Mann has “been attacked in all the ways that a climate scientist can be attacked,” Lauren Kurtz, the executive director of the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund, told DeSmog. “He’s been remarkably public about what’s happened to him, [and] willing to fight back in ways that other scientists haven’t necessarily wanted to take on.”
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Climate Scientist Michael Mann Confronts Defamers in Court After 12-Year DelayFebruary 7, 2024
“Climate scientists have a responsibility to untangle fact from fiction and to communicate with society clearly about the dangers of climate change,” he said. “If we do not actively take on that role, others will fill the vacuum that our silence creates.
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The Changing Focus of Climate Denial: From Science to ScientistsFebruary 7, 2024
“It’s a rare case where a climate scientist is fighting back against climate deniers,” said Mr. Gerrard, who also is a member of the board of directors for the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund, which previously helped Dr. Mann with a different legal battle."
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This Trial Between a Climate Scientist and Some Internet Yahoos Has It AllFebruary 6, 2024
Thirty-odd years ago, Mann published the famous "hockey stick" graph that charted global temperatures through the ages. This made the urgency of the climate crisis much more easily understood by the general public. This got up the noses of the extraction industries and their various sled-dogs in politics and the media, and they launched an assault on Mann and his work.
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A famous climate scientist is in court, with big stakes for attacks on scienceFebruary 6, 2024
The case comes at a time when attacks on scientists are proliferating, says Peter Hotez, professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology at Baylor College of Medicine... Mann isn't the only climate scientist facing attacks, says Lauren Kurtz, executive director of the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund.
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Prominent climate scientist is suing an author and a policy analyst for defamationFebruary 6, 2024
Michael Mann is far from the only climate scientist facing attacks. Lauren Kurtz directs a legal defense fund that helps climate scientists under fire. “We help more scientists every year than the year before. We actually broke a record in 2023.”
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Why the CT public record system needs to be overhauledNovember 27, 2023
In the face of growing calls for immediate climate action after the world’s hottest summer on record, fossil fuel-funded interests are intensifying efforts to undercut climate research and policies.
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Groups say Biden’s scientific integrity policy leaves a lot to be desiredOctober 23, 2023
The first revamped agency scientific integrity policy crafted under a Biden initiative leaves a lot to be desired, according to comments submitted by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and a coalition of ten public health, transparency, and environmental groups.
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Sign On Letter to Congress for Stronger Whistleblower Protections for Government ContractorsOctober 3, 2023
The undersigned 136 organizations committed to good government principles across political affiliations are united by our desire for accountability for taxpayer-funded government activities. We support credible free speech rights for whistleblowers who expose fraud, waste of funds or abuse of authority in federal spending.
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Safeguarding Science in State AgenciesSeptember 28, 2023
Most state and local officials worked tirelessly — often at risk to their own health and lives — to protect the public. But as was true at the federal level, senior state and local officials repeatedly failed to live up to the trust the public placed in them. Across the country, state and local leaders meddled in research and data and retaliated against experts in order to improve their political standing and cover up mismanagement.
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First revamped science policy falls short of fulfilling Biden’s promise to protect scientists, watchdogs saySeptember 6, 2023
The first agency within the Biden administration to rewrite its policy to protect career federal scientists from political influence as required by the White House has taken some positive steps, according to a conglomerate of watchdog groups, but is still falling short of ensuring its workers do not face reprisal and bad actors are held accountable.