{"id":1588,"date":"2024-01-17T17:56:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T17:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/17\/us-climate-scientists-defamation-case-over-online-attacks-finally-comes-to-trial\/"},"modified":"2024-01-17T17:56:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T17:56:43","slug":"us-climate-scientists-defamation-case-over-online-attacks-finally-comes-to-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/17\/us-climate-scientists-defamation-case-over-online-attacks-finally-comes-to-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"US climate scientist\u2019s defamation case over online attacks finally comes to trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Mann alleges, in lawsuit first brought in 2012, that attacks on his work by climate denialists amount to defamation<\/p>\n<p>A lawsuit first instituted over 10 years ago, brought by an esteemed climate scientist over alleged defamation by a rightwing blogger and an analyst, goes to trial this week.<\/p>\n<p>The 2012 court case was brought by the University of Pennsylvania earth and environmental scientist Michael Mann, who is alleging that online attacks on his work amount to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2012\/oct\/24\/climate-scientist-michale-mann-sues\">defamation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/jan\/17\/michael-mann-climate-scientist-defamation-lawsuit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Mann alleges, in lawsuit first brought in 2012, that attacks on his work by climate denialists amount to defamation A lawsuit first instituted over 10 years ago, brought by an esteemed climate scientist over alleged defamation by a rightwing blogger and an analyst, goes to trial this week. The 2012 court case was brought &#8230; <a title=\"US climate scientist\u2019s defamation case over online attacks finally comes to trial\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/17\/us-climate-scientists-defamation-case-over-online-attacks-finally-comes-to-trial\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US climate scientist\u2019s defamation case over online attacks finally comes to trial\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}