Things have been so busy on a national and world stage lately that I haven’t had time to keep up with everyone’s favorite self-aggrandizing climate huckster, disgraced Professor Michael Mann.
When last we saw the prickly pear of Penn professorship, he was sputtering away in court, trying to get out from under the burden that lying while testifying gets you – having to pony over the penalty cash.
An amount, delightfully enough, that was proving to be a bit of a struggle to come up with, as Mann had planned on using the million-dollar award he’d received from a D.C. jury in his defamation trial against columnist and rapier-wit Mark Steyn. But the judge overseeing the case had determined the award was so outside the pale that he slashed it to $5000.
Steyn and those concerned with justice were overjoyed.
By the end of this past May, Mann was in some deep financial doodoo and scrambling for relief and pity.
A District of Columbia judge ordered Presidential Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Science Michael Mann to pay additional legal fees to his opponents in a defamation case, further unraveling his victory from last year.
After winning his defamation case against bloggers Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn last year, Mann — Penn’s vice provost for climate science, policy, and action — has been ordered to pay attorneys’ fees totaling $477,350.80 based on the dismissal of three of his claims in 2019. The defendants filed the motion for fees under D.C.’s Anti-SLAPP Act, which is intended to protect those exercising free speech from frivolous defamation lawsuits.
Mann is also still on the hook for some $530K+ in damages to the National Review, so you see where the cool mil from Steyn’s award would have come in very handy for settling everything.
Now, Mann actually owes money to the people he’s harassed through his perpetual punitive lawsuits.
…In his most recent opinion, D.C. Superior Court Judge Alfred S. Irving, Jr. wrote that “CEI and Mr. Simberg were successful on the appeal of their anti-SLAPP motion and any other conclusion would be untenable under the terms of the statute and the Court of Appeals’ construction of the statute.”
As a result, Irving found that CEI and Simberg were “presumptively entitled to attorneys’ fees.” Irving’s decision followed a January ruling that ordered Mann to pay $530,000 to the National Review based on the same statute.
In March, Irving sanctioned Mann and his legal team for providing misleading and inconsistent information during the trial. Irving called disparities in the case “an affront to the Court’s authority” and referred to the “bad-faith trial misconduct” of Mann and his legal team. He also threw out the earlier penalty owed by Steyn and reduced the damages to $5,000, stating that the verdict against Steyn was “grossly excessive.”
Mann, for his part, is confident neither he nor his legal team ‘did anything wrong.’
I can’t find anything more recent or updated on where this legal saga stands now. Hopefully, they will continue kicking him to the curb.
For the Real Mann™, he hasn’t skulked back to his laboratory and scribbled a new hockey stick. He hasn’t had to, as the Trump administration is giving the bilious blowhard plenty to spew about. At the same time that he was being sanctioned by a court for mendaciousness and being told to settle with the people he’d wronged, Mann was busy trying to foment armed insurrection.
Is this the same Michael Mann who called for progressives to take up arms and form a militia against President Trump?
Why yes it is. pic.twitter.com/9AwpW1ZsPY
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) July 30, 2025
Until someone pointed out that’s what he was doing, and, eventually, he cravenly deleted the whacko Bluesky site posting.
I’m surprised he didn’t sue whoever he could for tattling on him.
Michael Mann, a climate professor and senior administrator at the University of Pennsylvania, appeared to threaten President Donald Trump on Thursday evening, writing on social media that “we’re in second amendment territory” if the president doesn’t comply with a federal court injunction.
“If Trump doesn’t comply, we’re in second amendment territory,” Mann wrote on Bluesky. Mann—whom the University of Pennsylvania named as its inaugural vice provost for climate science, policy, and action in late 2024—later doubled down and defended his comments.
“The second amendment refers to the right of the people to rise up and defend democracy,” he added in a follow-up post Friday morning. “To argue this is a threat against Trump is very dishonest.”
Mann’s comments came in response to a report that a federal judge blocked Trump’s plan to dismantle the Department of Education. Trump issued an executive order in March directing the Education Department to close, arguing that states are better equipped to handle the agency’s main functions.
Mann’s apparent threat could attract the attention of federal law enforcement officials, who have been quick to investigate similar public threats against the president. The Secret Service, for example, is investigating former FBI director James Comey over his recent social media post depicting seashells spelling “86 47,” which some interpreted as a call to eliminate the president, though Comey denied that interpretation.
The Free Beacon article also has a terrific moral to the story.
…”Everything you need to know about the integrity of Michael Mann’s purported science research is illustrated by the Washington, D.C., court finding Mann engaged in ‘stunning’ misrepresentations to the court regarding his defamation case,” said James Taylor, the president of the Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank.
“If you would like to know just how credible the climate alarmism movement is, just assess the ethics and honesty of its foremost talking head, Michael Mann,” he continued.
SQUEEEEE!!!!
I love it.
Personally, I think the Dept of Ed should be crawling up UPenn’s butt, not just for whatever DEI they’re still clinging to like feckless abalone, but for naming this charlatan its ‘inaugural vice provost for climate science, policy, and action’ last year. Was that in anticipation of Harris winning, and they wanted to curry favor?
Well, hello – she lost, and he is on an epic losing streak. I’d be watching my six with him on the payroll if I were that university.
Especially since he can’t keep his big, flaming mouth shut.
Oh. Hello.
For a guy who is pretty pissy about a sideways glance in a supermarket and filing a lawsuit over cruel eyes (Yes, that was part of his lawsuit against Steyn)…
…Life altering…except, unfortunately for Mann, Steyn skewered him with it when he had the nerve to repeat the woeful anecdote as testimony in court.
But Mann, who can come across as an attention-seeking and vicious science nerd, is up against a skilled showman. This was evidenced by the following opening exchange when Mann complained that Steyn’s writings had led to him receiving a “mean look” in a supermarket. Having elicited precise details of where Mann received his mean look, Steyn observed:
Excellent. Excellent. Truly excellent answer there… I thought that was a good answer. Let’s say for the sake of argument you were in the pet food aisle and you were standing there. How do you know the mean look was not because you were blocking the guy because you were dithering between the Fancy Feast Gourmet Tuna and the Fancy Feast Salmon Delight?
…this is some big, breathy smack talk just because he doesn’t like the way things are going at the moment.
Scientists decry Trump energy chief’s plan to ‘update’ climate reports: ‘Exactly what Stalin did’
And it wasn’t scientistS in the plural, it was A scientist. Single, solitary one.
Three guesses who, and the first two don’t count.
…Wright was speaking days after his agency, the Department of Energy, produced a report claiming concern over the climate crisis was overblown. That energy department report was slammed by scientists for being a “farce” full of misinformation.
Speaking to CNN this week about the national climate assessment reports, Wright claimed they “weren’t fair in broad-based assessments of climate change”. He added: “When you get into departments and look at stuff that’s there and you find stuff that’s objectionable, you want to fix it,” he said.
…Asked about Wright’s comments on the national climate assessment reports, respected climate scientist Michael Mann said in an emailed comment to the Guardian: “This is exactly what Joseph Stalin did.”
Mann is such a bloviating buffoon.
And he told me “I think the worst thing about Stalin was reviewing climate change assessments.” pic.twitter.com/d2Rao68Fpy
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) August 8, 2025
But, by George, The Real Mann™ is reposting the hell out of every mention. He’s proud as can be.
…Michael Mann, a renowned climate science researcher, told The Guardian, “This is exactly what Joseph Stalin did.” The Soviet dictator was notorious for politicizing government data, even jailing and executing census analysts who produced figures that embarrassed the state.
LOOK AT ME!!!!
Yeah. Look at him.
IT’S WHAT STALIN WOULD DO
But climate scientists are not legitimate scientists. They are propagandists. Michael Mann is one of the leading climate alarmists masquerading as a scientist. Everything that he touches is suspect. pic.twitter.com/0e1t0peR3V
— David Chavous (@DACDAC4DAC) August 8, 2025
On second thought?
Never mind.
..
Every single day, here at HotAir, Ed, David, John, and I do our level best to bring you the best in conservative reporting. We work hard to expose everything from Green fever dreams to the radical left and the mendacious media, while delivering news and views you won’t find anywhere else.
And we’re pretty darn proud of that. But we can’t do it without your support.
Help us continue to tell the whole truth. Help us continue to bring you stories and news you won’t find anywhere else. We’d love to invite you to join HotAir’s VIP and use promo code FIGHT to get 60% off your membership.
Thank you ever so much again for choosing to be here at HotAir with us!
