Friday, April 23, 2010

Friday Follies: Careful about those lawyers

Dr. Michael Mann, of "Hockey Stick" fame, has had enough. A group called "Minnesotans for Global Warming" did a very funny song ("Hide the Decline") in which the Good Doctor was, shall we say, prominently featured.

Dr. Mann's lawyers has sent the group a letter demanding the video's removal, as it “[leaves] viewers with the incorrect impression that he falsified data to generate desired results in connection with his research activities”. Youtube has pulled the video; presumably it's sharing a room with all the Hitler parodies.

The group, however, is not taking this lying down. Bring it on, they've told Mann:
“Minnesotans 4 Global Warming hope Mann will proceed with his lawsuit so that the legal discovery process will force exposure of data and methods Mann has still not released and that the official whitewash inquiries refuse to investigate.”
Hoist, meet petard.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Gotta be careful with those Monnesotans.
There are a few Conservatives and some Right Wing Terrorists(I have been accused of such) in this liberal State. And sometimes we just get pushed a bit to far. And then we get a bit cranky..And then we make the libtards nervous and pissy.

bluesun said...

I love their entire website. And the song is still up on Youtube periodically, but you will have to search "hide the decline" yourself as the video keeps getting pulled down.

It reminds me of the old Duckboy picture, with a group of people in parkas standing in a snowdrift with picket signs. Underneath it says: "Meeting of Montanans for Global Warming" or somesuch. Though these past few days I've actually worn shorts--but I think I'll chalk that one up to the fact that the sun is out more than it was in the middle of winter.