The Climate Science Legal Defense Fund is working to make CSLDF a one-stop resource for scientists looking for legal resources and is currently pursuing several educational and legal initiatives. At this time, CSLDF needs financial support to help Dr. Michael Mann.

CSLDF statement: Support Mike Mann’s Legal Defense

The Climate Science Legal Defense Fund continues to receive donations and offers of help from various stakeholders. We are actively working with several organizations in order to make CSLDF a one-stop resource for scientists looking for legal resources and we are currently pursuing several educational and legal initiatives which will be made public in the future.

In the short-term, CSLDF would greatly appreciate your financial support to help Dr. Michael Mann. Funds are needed to:

1.     Fend-off the American Tradition Institute’s demand to take Dr. Mann’s deposition, which is a blatant attempt to harass and intimidate him for exercising his constitutional rights by petitioning to intervene in the case.

2.     Defeat ATI’s attempt to obtain Dr. Mann’s email correspondence through the civil discovery process, which essentially is an “end-run” around the scholarly research exemption under the Virginia FOIA law.

3.     Prepare for summary judgment on the issue of the exempt status of his email correspondence under the Virginia FOIA law.

Donations can be sent to CSLDF online or by sending a check made out to PEER, with Climate Science LDF on the memo line to:

Climate Science Legal Defense Fund
c/o PEER
2000 P Street, NW #240
Washington, D.C. 20036

Through PEER (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility), a private non-profit organization organized under Section 501 (c) 3 of the Internal Revenue code, your contribution will be tax deductible.

Sincerely,

Climate Science Legal Defense Fund

Earlier posts:
PEER adopts the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund

Favorable Virginia court procedural ruling in Michael Mann v. global warming denialist email raid

Letter calling on Univ. of Virginia to prevent inappropriate open records disclosure of climate scientists’ exempt emails and documents [Union of Concerned Scientists, American Association of University Professors, American Geophysical Union, Climate Science Watch]

In defense of academic freedom against denialist FOIA inquisition tactics
[Letter to University of Virginia President Sullivan from American Association
of University professors, Virginia ACLU, Union of Concerned Scientists, and
nine other groups, including Climate Science Watch]

Climate Science Watch interview with Michael Mann on the Penn State Final Report and the war on climate scientists

“The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars” – and a skirmish with denialists on Amazon

Also see:

Michael Mann, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines

Review of Michael Mann, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars, by Shawn Lawrence Otto

AAAS Board statement: Attacks on Climate Researchers Inhibit Free Exchange of Scientific Ideas

Chris Mooney: A Call For Supporting Michael Mann