Sticking it to us on climate change

Michael Mann, the Penn State climatologist and inventor of the "hockey stick" model, is suing Mark Steyn for libel.  Note this post by Steyn, quoting at length from Michael Crichton's State of Fear: 

 http://www.steynonline.com/6082/stick-of-fear

Also worth reading is the excellent and funny James Delingpole of the Spectator on the Steyn case.  Note his apt reference to Paul Johnson's Modern Times.

http://www.spectator.co.uk/columnists/james-delingpole/9136061/the-martyrdom-of-mark-steyn/