The Left are getting more radical across the board.
But issues regarding the environment might be at the top of the list.
And an environmental activist got hit with a huge lawsuit for one reason.
The establishment makes it very clear which topics are off-limits.
For instance, anyone who pushes back against radical environmentalist talking points instantly gets smeared as a “denier.”
Some on the Left have even called for censorship of climate “denialism.”
Shutting people up
That’s what made Penn State Climate Scientist Michael Mann’s lawsuit against Journalists Mark Steyn and Rand Simberg so chilling.
The two called Mann’s climate research “fraudulent,” which triggered a suit back in 2012.
Mann created the infamous “hockey stick” climate model that said temperatures were rising exponentially and catastrophically.
Mann’s research has been profoundly questioned by experts in the field.
Nevertheless, Mann eventually won his lawsuit in February 2024 and was awarded $1 million in punitive damages.
After the ruling, Mann said, “I hope this verdict sends a message that falsely attacking climate scientists is not protected speech.”
However, Mann might have to pay up himself.
He originally included National Review in his civil litigation, but the publication was eventually dropped from the suit.
Now National Review is suing Mann for legal fees.
Editors for the outlet wrote, “We cannot recover the time and effort that Mann has wasted, but we can recover more than a million of the dollars that we have lost defending our unalienable right to free speech.”
Mann previously stated that he intended to “ruin National Review” with his lawsuit, but that never came to fruition.
National Review editors added, “When we prevail, it will mark the first time during this entire affair that there have been any consequences whatsoever for Michael Mann’s disgraceful conduct.”
Don’t ask questions
Mann is indicative of the Left’s view on the climate.
Nobody is allowed to question the tenets of the “green” religion.
For example, the environmentalists refuse to discuss how electric vehicles have an enormous carbon footprint because of the heavy machinery required to mine the materials for the lithium batteries.
And the batteries themselves are not environmentally friendly.
The environmentalists are hellbent on lowering emissions, but they do not want to use nuclear energy, which is the cleanest form of energy.
They claim to care about conservation, but they promote wind and solar, which use land inefficiently and displace wildlife.
Journalists should not be fearful of raising legitimate questions about complicated scientific modeling.
But that’s the world that left-wingers apparently want.
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