Climate Scientist Michael Mann Hails VA Supreme Court "victory for science...academic freedom"

[lowkell]

http://bluevirginia.us/diary/11408/michael-mann-hails-va-supreme-court-ruling-as-victory-for-scienceacademic-freedom

Bottom line: we should all celebrate, along with Michael Mann, this "victory for science, public university faculty, and academic freedom." Hopefully, as Mann writes, this ruling "can serve as a precedent in other states confronting this same assault on public universities and their faculty." I'd add the hope that this ruling, along with Mann's likely victory in his defamation case, make these anti-science, anti-environment, fossil fuel tools think twice before they try anything like this again. More importantly, if we can clear out all the trolls in our path, we need to make rapid progress in combating climate change, first and foremost via a rapid transition off of fossil fuels and into a clean energy economy.

[2naSalit]

1. FWIW...