Mark Steyn

Mark Steyn

Credentials

Mark Steyn attended the King Edwardโ€™s School in Birmingham, U.K., leaving in 1978, at the age of 18. Steyn does not appear to have a college education or any background in climate science.1โ€œMark Steyn,โ€ Wikipedia. Archive.is URL: http://archive.is/i6wyz 2โ€œTop American Conservative Mark Steyn Didnโ€™t Go to College,โ€ Edbasic, July 9, 2012. Archived September 2, 2014. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/vVbLf

Background

Mark Steyn is the author and columnist of SteynOnline.com, where he writes โ€œSteynpostsโ€โ€”commentary on current eventsโ€”Monday through Friday, columns on politics and war, arts and culture, and on free-speech issues in the โ€œDefend Free Speech! sectionโ€ of his website.3โ€œDefend Free Speech!โ€ SteynOnline.com. Archived September 2, 2014. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/bWnhl

Steyn regularly appears on television including The Rush Limbaugh Program and The Sean Hannity Show, in addition to a weekly appearance on The Hugh Hewitt Radio Show. Mark Steyn claims he โ€œis an international bestselling author [โ€ฆ] and a leading Canadian human rights activist.โ€ According to his website, Steynโ€™s writing โ€œhas been published in almost every major newspaper around the English-speaking world, including Britainโ€™s Daily Telegraph, Canadaโ€™s National Post, The Australian, The Irish Times, The Jerusalem Post, The Wall Street Journal, and many more.โ€4โ€œMarkโ€™s bio,โ€ SteynOnline.com. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/oK2t1

He briefly ran The Mark Steyn Show, a show that was only aired for two months before being cancelled by CRTV. The Daily Beast reported that Steyn subsequently sued the conservative media startup for cancelling his show.5Lachlan Market. โ€œInside the Collapse of the Mark Steyn Show,โ€ The Daily Beast, March 13, 2017. Archived March 14, 2017 . Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/9b6qn

A 2004 profile of Steyn in the Boston Phoenix described him as โ€œthe most toxic right-wing pundit youโ€™ve never heard ofโ€ and โ€œa pungent columnist, essayist, and critic whoโ€™s not well known in the United States, but whose political screeds are published in English-speaking countries around the world. A native of Canada who divides his time among New Hampshire, Quebec, and London, Steyn is a self-described right-wing warmonger.โ€6Dan Kennedy. โ€œSteynโ€™s way: Write, twist, smear, and sneer. Repeat!โ€ Boston Phoenix, June 18, 2004. Archived March 23, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/WBbbi

The Phoenix compared him to Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter, writing that Steyn possesses โ€œa shrill, mocking tone of moral certainty that consigns those who disagree with him to the status of appeasers or even terrorists; and a willingness to distort, misrepresent, and omit facts in order to advance his argument.โ€7Dan Kennedy. โ€œSteynโ€™s way: Write, twist, smear, and sneer. Repeat!โ€ Boston Phoenix, June 18, 2004. Archived March 23, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/WBbbi

Stance on Climate Change

August, 2014

โ€œNow I donโ€™t consider myself a big credentialed expert or anything. I simply looked at a graph Michael E Mann hadnโ€™t been anywhere near and drew the obvious conclusion. Gave it two minutesโ€™ thought, if that. The reason itโ€™s taking climate science so much longer to draw that obvious conclusion is because ideology and the ideological enforcers like Mann got in the way.โ€8Mark Steyn. โ€œSettled Science Catches Up with Steyn,โ€ SteynOnline.com, August 27, 2014. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/d1HiJ

July, 2009

โ€œFor the last century, weโ€™ve had ever-so-slight warming trends and ever-so-slight cooling trends every 30 years or so, and I donโ€™t think either are anything worth collapsing the global economy over.โ€9Mark Steyn. โ€œClimate Change You Can Believe In,โ€ National Review Online, July 25, 2009. Archived September 3, 2014. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/cY2h2

Comments Surrounding 2021 Capitol Insurrection

Mark Steyn was among dozens of the individuals and organizations profiled in DeSmogโ€™s Disinformation Database who posted online or gave interviews about the events surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection. Some posted claims of election fraud, similar to those that drove the Stop the Steal rally on Jan. 6. Some circulated dubious information about the insurrection itself. DeSmog has preserved a selection of notable posts related to the events of Jan. 6, 2021, including some that were later deleted or removed.

Steyn appeared on the Fox News show Tucker Carlson Tonight on Jan. 6, 2021. He then recounted on his website:10Mark Steyn. โ€œThis Is Not Who We Areโ€ฆโ€ Steyn Online, January 7, 2021. Archived January 28, 2021. Archive URL: https://archive.vn/nvH6z

โ€œOn Wednesday I joined Tucker Carlson to discuss the so-called storming of the Capitol. โ€ฆ

The media may be sentimental about the Capitol, but in my unscientific survey of my North Country neighbors the people arenโ€™t. Congress has an approval rating that falls somewhere between Isis and child pornographers. โ€ฆ The political class (represented by a Speaker who flies home to San Francisco on her own government plane) has been largely insulated from the pathologies they have loosed upon the land. For a few hours yesterday they werenโ€™t. โ€ฆ During the early evening I found myself wondering why the pundits were so insistent on standing on the Capitolโ€™s dignity. The obvious reason is that, for the most lavishly protected legislature in the world (okay, make that โ€˜legislatureโ€™), it was a total security fiasco โ€“ culminating in the murder of an unarmed woman by a (to put it mildly) totally incompetent copper firing into a crowd (which an American couldnโ€™t do in, say, Kandahar). The rubbish about the โ€˜desecrationโ€™ of the โ€˜sacredโ€™ โ€˜majestyโ€™, etc, etc, peddled by Democrats and Republicans alike is designed to evade the vile reality of that grotesque act. โ€ฆโ€

You can see the full hour of Tucker Carlson Tonight here.

He also posted the following quote, drawn from one of his own blogs, on Twitter on Jan. 7, 2021:

Key Quotes

November 23, 2018

Appearing on Fox News as a substitute host for Tucker Carlson on Tucker Carlson Tonight, Steyn was discussing the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi with Nigel Farage when he said:

โ€œAnd we should also be clear, too, Khashoggi is being presented as a hero of journalism. Heโ€™s probably going to be Time magazineโ€™s Man of the Year just because he is a dead so-called journalist. But in fact he was kind of a deep state Saudi spook who just happened to fall out with the royal family. In a sense, itโ€™s different sets of bad guys weโ€™re arguing about when weโ€™re talking about Saudi Arabia.โ€11Joe DePaolo. โ€œFox News Host: โ€˜Dead So-Called Journalistโ€™ Khashoggi Really โ€˜Deep State Saudi Spookโ€™,โ€ Medaite, November 23, 2018. Archived November 24, 2018. Archive.is URL: archive.fo/v3RU8. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.

January 18, 2018

On an episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Steyn criticised Nancy Pelosi and CNNโ€™s Chris Cuomo for being more critical of white supremacists than undocumented immigrants:12Judd Legum. โ€œThe unrepentant racism of Tucker Carlson Tonight,โ€ ThinkProgress, January 18, 2018.Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/On04n

โ€œThe white supremacists are American citizens. The illegal immigrants are people who shouldnโ€™t be here,โ€ Steyn said.

โ€œ[โ€ฆ] And this preference that Nancy Pelosi and Chris Cuomo and increasing people have for actually importing a class of citizen that they prefer to the ones they are stuck with is actually very revealing.โ€13Judd Legum. โ€œThe unrepentant racism of Tucker Carlson Tonight,โ€ ThinkProgress, January 18, 2018.Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/On04n

April 2016

โ€œEssentially we have two competing views of primitivism fighting for supremacy in our world. Both of them hate the Western developed world. The environmental crowd think itโ€™s a great evil. So do the Sharia crowd. And once every so often these conflicting models of primitivism interact.

Earth hour. You know Earth hour? This ridiculous thing every year where they turn off the lights for an hour on a Saturday evening and you pretend youโ€™re doing something to save the planet by sitting in the dark for an hour. In Sweden, a Swedish town a couple of weeks ago, they had to cancel earth hour because theyโ€™ve taken in so many so-called โ€˜refugeesโ€™ that itโ€™s unsafe to switch the lights off for an hour. Because the hot Scandivanian blonds are going to be feeling a lot of unwanted attention as theyโ€™re wandering around an entirely darkened Swedish town for 60 minutes.

And thatโ€™s fascinating to me. Thatโ€™s the the two different models of primitivism: Two groups that most hate the modern Western world and want to destroy it, and have competing models of primitivism. And the soft, delusional utopian primitivism of Western environmentalists when it came up against the hard, serious face of hardcore Islamic primitivismโ€”Earth Hour in Swedenโ€”the hardcore guys, their primitivism model won out. Because they mean it. And these soft, sappy, deluded, middle aged Western students donโ€™t.โ€14โ€œMark Steynโ€™s Stand Against Climate Alarmism: In-Depth with the Climate Crybully Conniption-Inducerโ€ (YouTube Video), uploaded by user The New Criterion, April 25, 2016. Archived .mp4 on file at Desmog.

November 2015

Mocking Bernie Sanders, on the November 16 edition of Fox Businessโ€™ Varney & Co. (video below):15โ€œOn Fox Business, Mark Steyn Invokes Image Of Terrorists โ€˜Sawing Bernie Sandersโ€™ Head Offโ€™ To Mock Him For Accurately Linking Climate Change To Terrorism,โ€ Media Matters, November 16, 2015.

โ€œ[ISIS leader] al-Baghdadi will be sawing Bernie Sandersโ€™ head off, and heโ€™ll be saying as his neck is being sliced, โ€˜If only weโ€™d had an emissions trading scheme.'โ€

April 2015

โ€œThere are all kinds of distinguished experts, including nobel prize winners all over the world who think that climate alarmism is a complete crock.โ€16โ€œLawton Online: Special guest Mark Steyn & more,โ€ (YouTube Video) uploaded by user Rebel Media, April 16, 2015. Archived .mp4 on file at Desmog.

July 2014

โ€œI want to get to court as soon as possible, and put Michael E Mann, PhD (Doctor of Phraudology) on the stand under oath. I havenโ€™t wasted two years on this guy to be denied my moment in court. Thatโ€™s one reason Iโ€™ve countersued Mann. He thinks the DC Superior Court is competent to litigate his fraudulent โ€˜hockey stickโ€™. Fine, letโ€™s get it to a jury โ€“ before the sclerotic DC โ€˜justiceโ€™ systemโ€™s procedural delays go on as long as the global-warming โ€˜pauseโ€™.โ€17Mark Steyn. โ€œIโ€™m Gonna Quash That Mann Right Out Of My Hair,โ€ SteynOnline.Com. June 7, 2014. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/rS1v6

December 2013

โ€œAntarctic ice is now at a 35-year high. But scientists are โ€œbaffledโ€ by the planetโ€™s stubborn refusal to submit to their climate models โ€ฆ Global warming will kill us. Global cooling will kill us. And if itโ€™s 54 and partly cloudy, you should probably flee for your life right now. Maybe scientists might usefully consider moving to being less hung up on โ€œconsensusโ€ โ€“ a most unscientific and, in this context, profoundly corrupting concept.โ€18Mark Steyn. โ€œIce Everywhere, But No Hockey Sticks,โ€ National Review Online, December 2, 2013. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/DE1H5

July 2012

โ€œMichael Mann was the man behind the fraudulent climate-change โ€œhockey-stickโ€ graph, the very ringmaster of the tree-ring circus.โ€19Mark Steyn. โ€œFootball and Hockey,โ€ National Review Online, July 15, 2012. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/2fG6K

Key Deeds

January 18, 2018

ThinkProgress reported that Steyn presented โ€œracist commentaryโ€ about Hispanic Americans on an epsiode of Fox Newsโ€™ Tucker Carlson Tonight. According to Steyn, the โ€œmajority of grade school students in Arizona are Hispanic,โ€ and suggests this means that โ€œArizonaโ€™s future is as an Hispanic society.โ€ โ€œThat means, in effect, the border has moved north,โ€ Steyn said.20Judd Legum. โ€œThe unrepentant racism of Tucker Carlson Tonight,โ€ ThinkProgress, January 18, 2018.Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/On04n

Earlier in the program, Steyn criticized Nancy Pelosi and CNNโ€™s Chris Cuomo for being more critical of white supremacists than undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children.

โ€œThe white supremacists are American citizens. The illegal immigrants are people who shouldnโ€™t be here,โ€ Steyn said.21Judd Legum. โ€œThe unrepentant racism of Tucker Carlson Tonight,โ€ ThinkProgress, January 18, 2018.Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/On04n

March, 2017

Mark Steyn sued CRTV after the company cancelled The Mark Steyn Show, which had aired for two months. Steyn said that his โ€œemployees will suffer irreparable harm because they will lose their health insurance coverage as a result of [CRTVโ€™s] actions.22Lachlan Market. โ€œInside the Collapse of the Mark Steyn Show,โ€ The Daily Beast, March 13, 2017. Archived March 14, 2017 . Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/9b6qn

Steyn wrote on his website that he was protecting his employees interests in the suit, as โ€œI didnโ€™t feel the cameramen and production assistants and musicians and audio engineers should have to suffer because I was stupid enough to get into bed with CRTV.โ€23โ€œAnnouncingโ€ฆ The Mark Steyn Show Bag! (All bag, no show),โ€ Steyn Online, March 4, 2017. Archived March 14, 2017. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/fyOyT

The Daily Beast reported that not all employees agreed with Steynโ€™s intentions. Mike Young, supervisor for the show, said โ€œItโ€™s bullshit, frankly. They all hate him.โ€24Lachlan Market. โ€œInside the Collapse of the Mark Steyn Show,โ€ The Daily Beast, March 13, 2017. Archived March 14, 2017 . Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/9b6qn

Stynโ€™s CRTV contract demanded five episodes per week, amounting to about 45 minutes each when including time for commercial breaks. However, CRTV claimed that Styn only produced 11 episodes longer than 40 minutes, and had sent Steyn a breach of contract on February 8 requiring him to produce eight full-length episodes. When he only turned in four, the company informed Steyn the show had been cancelled on February 20. Steyn filed the lawsuit on February 22.25Lachlan Market. โ€œInside the Collapse of the Mark Steyn Show,โ€ The Daily Beast, March 13, 2017. Archived March 14, 2017 . Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/9b6qn

The showโ€™s crew members told The Daily Beast, in sworn declarations, that they thought Mark Steynโ€™s โ€œlack of preparation and refusal to cooperateโ€ made it impossible to meet the production requirements. According to another sworn declaration, โ€œMark Steyn was incredibly disorganized, often did not show up on scheduled production days, and snuck out of the studio so that nobody would know his whereabouts. Because of this conduct, it would take a week to shoot an episode instead of the designated day.โ€26Lachlan Market. โ€œInside the Collapse of the Mark Steyn Show,โ€ The Daily Beast, March 13, 2017. Archived March 14, 2017 . Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/9b6qn

March 29, 2016

Mark Steyn was a featured speaker at a conference titled โ€œThe Climate Surprise: Why CO2 Is Good for the Earthโ€ hosted by the CO2 Coalition and The New Criterion in New York City.27โ€œThe Climate Surprise: Why CO2 is Good for the Earth,โ€ CO2 Coalition, April 25, 2016. Archived May 7, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/BWkqz

According to the event description, โ€œMembers of the CO2 Coalition and many other experts argue that carbon dioxide enrichment of the atmosphere provides manifold benefits for humanity. And observed surface warmings are much smaller than predicted by climate models. Economic models that fail to include the benefits of CO2 and the serious exaggerations of climate models and are being used to advocate โ€œcuresโ€ that are much worse than the non-existent disease.โ€ Videos of Steynโ€™s talks below.28โ€œThe Climate Surprise: Why CO2 is Good for the Earth,โ€ CO2 Coalition, April 25, 2016. Archived May 7, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/BWkqz

All of Mark Steynโ€™s videos, as well as video coverage of other speakers are available at The New Criterionโ€˜s YouTube page. Featured speakers listed at the event included the following:

February, 2016

The Institute for Public Affairs (IPA) sponsored Mark Steynโ€™s speaking tour across Australia, Desmog reported. IPA promoted Steyn as โ€œthe worldโ€™s greatest conservative commentator and writer.โ€29Graham Readfearn. โ€œClimate Science Denier Mark Steyn Tours Australiaโ€ฆ And Other Reptilian Illuminati David Icke Weirdness,โ€ Desmog, February 16, 2016. 30โ€œMark Steyn Australian Tour,โ€ Institute of Public Affairs. Archived September 27, 2016. Archive. is URL: https://archive.is/y4AIz

December 8, 2015

Set to coincide with the Paris COP21 (Conference of the Parties), Mark Steyn testified at a hearing of the Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness convened by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) titled โ€œData or Dogma? Promoting Open Inquiry in the Debate over the Magnitude of Human Impact on Earthโ€™s Climate.โ€31โ€œData or Dogma? Promoting Open Inquiry in the Debate over the Magnitude of Human Impact on Earthโ€™s Climate,โ€ U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation. Archived December 4, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/9SbTE

According to the event description, the hearing focused on โ€œthe ongoing debate over climate science, the impact of federal funding on the objectivity of climate research, and the ways in which political pressure can suppress opposing viewpoints in the field of climate science.โ€32โ€œData or Dogma? Promoting Open Inquiry in the Debate over the Magnitude of Human Impact on Earthโ€™s Climate,โ€ U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation. Archived December 4, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/9SbTE

Ars Technicha summarized Steynโ€™s testimony as follows:33Scott K. Johnson. โ€œSenate Science Committee hearing challenges โ€˜dogmaโ€™ of climate science,โ€ Ars Technica, December 9, 2015. Archived December 10, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/HDE02

โ€œMark Steynโ€™s testimony focused on his accusations that climate science is fraudulent and oppresses contrarians. Steynโ€™s claim to climate fame is that heโ€™s being sued for defamation by Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann, whom Steyn has repeatedly accused of fraud.โ€

Steynโ€™s full testimony (PDF) us available on the Senate Committeeโ€™s website.34โ€œStatement to the Subcommittee on Space, Science and Competitiveness of the United States Senateโ€ (PDF), U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation, December 8, 2015. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

Other witnesses at the event included:

September 1, 2015

Steyn is the editor and author of a book attacking climate scientist Michael Mann titled A Disgrace to the Profession. Daily KOS noted that, in the promotional materials for his book, Steyn took a number of quotes out of context. One scientist Steyn quoted had previously co-authored a paper supported Mannโ€™s findings, a second had worked on a paper that confirmed Mannโ€™s findings, and another was contacted and said that Steynโ€™s attacks on Mann โ€œhave no justification.โ€ One quote is from a physicist who does not work in the field of climate science.35โ€œSteynโ€™s Peer-Review of Mann Backfires,โ€ DailyKOS, June 23, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/kftIL

June 11โ€“12, 2015

Mark Steyn was a speaker at the Heartland Instituteโ€™s Tenth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC10) in Washington, D.C.36โ€œSpeakers,โ€ Heartland Institute. Archived June 30, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/lpiqu

View Mark Steynโ€™s Breakfast Keynote presentation at the Heartland Instituteโ€™s ICCC10, below:37โ€œBreakfast Keynote with Mark Steyn,โ€ Heartland Institute, June 12, 2015. Archived July 14, 2015. Archived .mp4 on file at Desmog.

April 2015

Mark Steyn spoke about Climate Change: The Facts on the inaugural โ€œLawton Onlineโ€ podcast for TheRebel.Media (see below, starting at time 43:15). According to Steyn, โ€œWe have now been 18 years without global warming.โ€ He says is is proud to be among some of โ€œthe worldโ€™s most eminent scientistsโ€ as well as โ€œthe fellows who are there for a cheap knockabout like meโ€ who appear in the book.38โ€œLawton Online: Special guest Mark Steyn & more,โ€ (YouTube Video) uploaded by user Rebel Media, April 16, 2015. Archived .mp4 on file at Desmog.

Steyn describes Donna Laframboise as a โ€œold colleague of mine from the National Post days.โ€ Steyn also makes an unoffical challenge to David Suzuki to debate him on live television, saying that while he is not a climate change expert, he is โ€œfar more of an expert than [Suzuki] is.โ€39โ€œLawton Online: Special guest Mark Steyn & more,โ€ (YouTube Video) uploaded by user Rebel Media, April 16, 2015. Archived .mp4 on file at Desmog.

December 2014

Mark Steyn is a contributor to the book Climate Change: The Facts published by the Institute of Public Affairs and featuring โ€œ22 essays on the science, politics and economics of the climate change debate.โ€ The Institute of Public Affairs, while not revealing most of its funders, is known to have received funding from mining magnate Gina Rinehart and at least one major tobacco company.40โ€œInstitute of Public Affairs,โ€ SourceWatch. Accessed May 27, 2015. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/RtEoe

The book includes essays and articles from a range of climate change skeptics, with contributors including the following:

Editor Alan Moran summarized Steynโ€™s contribution as follows:

Mark Steynโ€™s essay โ€˜Ship of Foolsโ€™ demonstrates how environmenยญtal activist, Professor Chris Turney inadvertently parodied Douglas Mawsonโ€™s Antarctic expedition. Turney had expected to see a path to the Pole cleared for his ship by global warming. After all, Al Gore had predicted an ice free Arctic by now. Instead, Turneyโ€™s Guardian backed expedition had to be rescued from expanding ice. A genuine scientist, as Turney claims to be, should have realised that Antarctic ice is expanding not increasing.41Alan Moran. โ€œClimate Change: the facts 2014,โ€ Catallaxy Files (blog), December 16, 2014. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/tCUVU

As reported by DeSmog, just as Steyn did in his article in The Spectator, Moran failed to point out that Turneyโ€™s expedition did know about recent sea ice trends in Antarctica because they explicitly identified this as something to study before they set off.42Graham Readfearn. โ€œAustralian Tax Breaks Help Fund Climate Science Denier Mark Steynโ€™s Libel Defense in the US,โ€ DeSmog, May 14, 2015. 43Graham Readfearn. โ€œWhatโ€™s going on with global warming and Antarcticaโ€™s growing sea ice?โ€ The Guardian, March 11, 2014. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/icllv

November 25, 2014

Mark Steyn was called to the D.C. Court of Appeals over the defamation suit originally filed by Michael Mann in 2012 in response to Steynโ€™s July 2012 piece in the National Review titled โ€œFootball and Hockey.โ€ The case has gone back and forth since 2012, with Steyn suggesting that Mann has extended the proceedings to make it more costly for the participants. Steyn had said he would represent himself, however later chose representation from Yale-Educated Dan Kornstein.44Betsy Rothstein.โ€Mark Steyn To D.C. Court For Defamation Hearing (You Wonโ€™t Want To Miss This),โ€ The Daily Caller, November 24, 2014. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/EHGIM 45Jonathan H. Adler. โ€œMann v. Steyn โ€” Steyn goes his own way,โ€ The Washington Post, June 9, 2014.

In his amicus brief (PDF), Steyn states that โ€œThe audacity of the falsehoods in Mannโ€™s court pleadings is breathtakingโ€ and claims that Mann has โ€œmanipulatedโ€ the anti-SLAPP process in order to slow proceedings for the purpose of โ€œprotracted and inevitably expensive litigation.โ€46โ€œBRIEF OF AMICUS CURIAE MARK STEYN IN SUPPORT OF NEITHER PARTYโ€ (PDF), Retrieved from Steynonline.com. Archived .pdf on file at Desmog.

The blog Popehat reported in detail on the legal proceedings, going back to the start of the suit in 2012.47โ€œD.C. Court of Appeals Agrees to Hear Merits of Anti-SLAPP Appeal In Michael Mannโ€™s Defamation Case,โ€ Popehat, May 2, 2014. Archived September 27, 2016. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/HHbXe

July 15, 2012

Mark Steyn publishes a piece in the National Review Online titled, โ€œFootball and Hockey.โ€48Mark Steyn. โ€œFootball and Hockey,โ€ National Review Online, July 15, 2012. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/2fG6K

The piece resulted in Dr. Michael Mann, of Penn State University, suing Mark Steyn, National Review Online, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), and CEI analyst Randy Simberg for โ€œdefamatory articles accusing him [Mann] of academic fraud and comparing him to a convicted child molester, former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky,โ€ on July 23, 2012.49โ€œCould A Climate Scientistโ€™s Defamation Suit Shut Down The Nationโ€™s Leading Conservative Magazine?,โ€ Climate Progress, February 3, 2014. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/wXQLW 50Mark Steyn. โ€œMann-made climate change turns up the heat on Steyn,โ€ SteynOnline.com, July 23, 2012. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/VywaB

Steynโ€™s article โ€œclaimed Mann had โ€˜molested and tortured data,โ€™ and described Mannโ€™s famous โ€˜hockey stickโ€™ graph as โ€˜fraudulentโ€™.โ€51โ€œCould A Climate Scientistโ€™s Defamation Suit Shut Down The Nationโ€™s Leading Conservative Magazine?,โ€ Climate Progress, February 3, 2014. Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/wXQLW

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Publications

According to a search of Google Scholar, Mark Steyn has not published any research in peer-reviewed journals. The search does list that he has published numerous books including America alone: The end of the world as we know it, After America: Get Ready for Armageddon, and Broadway Babies Say Goodnight: Musicals Then and Now.53โ€œMark Steyn,โ€ Google Scholar search.

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