Largely because of Prime Minister malikis mismanagement of the military. He put incompetent shia officers in charge of the military, and in a very short period of time they destroyed what the United States had created and trained in terms of the iraqi military. So thats what happened. Thats where we are. Isis is a very significant threat to the stability of the middle east. Thats why were doing what were doing. Theyre a moderate terrorist threat to us today. Al qaeda actually in yemen and in anotherred a quite group in syria and al qaeda in pakistan are still a greater threat to us than isis, but given enough time in iraq and syria isis will pose the kind of threat that al qaeda posed to us before 9 11. Thank you director morell. Please give both gentlemen a round of applause. [applause] the director will be available in the lobby to sign your books and take photos. Please come back tomorrow for ian bremer. Youre watching 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books on booktv television for serious readers. Up next, political commentator mark steyn takes a critical look at the evidence authored by Climate Change proponent inside the Scientific Community including evidence generate bid computer based model. Mr. Steyn is a contributor to the book Climate Change. Ment the facts. He spoke at the International Conference on Climate Change held here in d. C. Good morning everybody. I spent about 16 years in the newspaper business before i tricked hmm into hiring me as the Communications Director for one of the mose prestigious think tanks in the world. Joe isnt here so id appreciate it if youd keep that in the room. And for any millenials, especially watching a live stream newspaper is a product that was put into a plastic bag thrown on to your wet driveway, but it had the benefit out only allowed the Mainstream Media to lie to you once a day as opposed to on your phone where you get those kind of lies all day long. What i was in the newspaper business i was a budding columnist, and that is when i came across one mark steyn and his writing and thats when realized i need to get out of the columnwriting business. Im no good at this. I dont know how you do that. And because really mark steyn has no peers in my opinion in the commentary game. He is simply the greatest writer of the english language in the western world himself insight his wit his laugh out loud funny lines are really theres no peer for that anywhere and a lot of columnists in the world that write for a living probably know theyre not mark steyns peer either. But we still have to read them. But it takes me five times as long to get through a piece boy mark steyn than a normal column and thats because you start reading and then you stop, and then you back up, and then you read that passage again. Oh then you back up and read it again. And then you call your spouse, honey, come here, come here, got to read this to you please, sit down. And then you both laugh out loud at what mark steyn has written ask think you think wow, such brother, and nobody in the world that writes quite like that. And im sure there oar people in this room that read mark steyn that i would. He is also a man of veried talents and interest. A coinsurer of show tunes. Mark stein steyn himself sings the american standard. I downloaded from his web site a due yet between himself and Jessica Martin called, a marshmallow world in the household Christmas Season doesnt start until i play martin singing a marshmallow world, and you hear that one time youll never forget it. Playing in my head all morning but it as an outstanding song, mark fills the season with even more joy and when you get that song for yourself it will become part of your holiday tradition as well. Mark steyn is known as the up documented anchor man at eye station eib in far northern New Hampshire when he is filling in for the great Rush Limbaugh on his radio program. I understand youre the keeper over the temperature data at ice station eib so when the climate miles come out in the future and tries to adjust the temperatures to make Global Warming seem more severe mark will be there flapping the real temperature data so for that service i appreciate it. Mark steyn is the worlds second most famous climate litigator. The first most came news climate litigator is that special snowflake, that Nobel Prize Winner michael mann. And the reason mark steyn is number with as the second most world famous climate litigator is because he has countersued michael mann because were going to get to the bottom of all of this stuff and stop having the legal system being used to bully people who stand up for free speech and sound science and mark steyn is doing this. [applause] that takes even norm mouse amount of courage and an enormous amount of money. Mark steyn does not have a Legal Defense fund like a lot of people. He prefers to do this, the free capitalism way by selling his wares, and so i recommend if you want to support this very important fight for free speech and for sound science you go to steyn online. Com and buy many of his outstanding books, which i have done. You can get a mark steyn coffee mug which i have. And thats how you can support this very important work. One of the books youll soon be able to get there is the new title from stockade book called a disgrace to the profession. And im just going to leave it to you guys to guess who that book is about and what is his profession. He is the author of his words the number one climatology hit parade blockbuster, Climate Change, the facts, which theyre running out of an amazon. Com because it is such a great book. Many of the coauthors are in the audience today they were kind enough to sign copies for everybody here at this conference and i hope their hand have recovered by now. Jay layer the science direct aror the Heartland Institute calls the book the best book on Climate Change for a general audience than has ever been put together. When you raved it you will certainly agree. Its my great pleasure and honor to bring to the stage, ladies and gentlemen mark steyn. [applause] stone the stage ladies and gentlemen mark steyn. [applause] [music] thank you thank you very much. Thank you very much. Its a great pleasure to be here a great honor to be here with the Heartland Institute. The Heartland Institute is an absolutely indispensable beacon of sanity on this issue. [applause] and im also honored to be here with some of the eminent scientist with whom im sharing the pages of our book, Climate Change the facts. Bob and pat michaels and willy sun, and Scott Armstrong and allen moore ran and anthony watts. Were all in this book. So you dont need to wait for us to write 25 different books. You can get the come compressed version in Climate Change the facts. Ive made no useful scientific contribution unlike those guys. I have been invited here because, as jim mentioned im being sued by the inventor of the Global Warming hockey stick michael mann. I wish there were a more exclusive club, actually are but in this very room i meat a couple of other folks he threatened and my fellow canadaan timbowles here, whom dr. Mann is suing in British Columbia. Im canadaan, and timbowl is canadian. Mann seems to be a bit canuckophobic, which in this very Identity Group the only phobia youre still allowed to have in america. So i dont know what is up with dr. Mann on this. Its payback for the war of 1812 or something. I dont know. [laughter] but anyway, im here because manns suing me, which as i say isnt really a useful contribution to science on my part owl though if i win and he loses, i like to think that will be a very lasting contribution to science on my part. [applause] now i understand my limitations. Its not up there with sir isaac newton. District of columbia superior court, and my lawyer, Michael Songer is actually here today. Last year in a trade secrets case, he won a big payout for dupont of 919. 9 million. And he has promised me we can take dr. Man f nor at reece a round billion by the time were through with him. [laughter] now as most of you probably know lawyers dont like it when clients talk about the case in public because it can cause problems with the judge. Youve heard t that. Right . Ive never heard it until this morning. [laughter] until he mentioned it to me just before breakfast and id already written my speech by that point. And im hopelessly adlibbing so im hopelessed at adlibbing so its too late to change it. Ill tell you where i stand climatewise this monday is 800 none anniversary of magna carta which i [applause] one ofmer majestys canadian subjects is applauding, which the barons forced king john to agree to in a field on june 15 1215. When i was a school boy we were taught that the england of 1215 was a degree or so warmer than today. And vineyards were sew n as far north as the isle of ely. Its a stones throw from where the east ang leah Climatic Research unit stands. So i will take globe warming seriously when they tear down Climatic Research unit, and making a vineyard. And until miningal e. Mann abolished the medieval warm period with a wave of his magic hockey stick it was acknowledged as a hugely beneficial phenomenon that led to the flourish offering the economy, agriculture industry, science, art and liberty as in magna carta. Magna carta the great charter of liberty. Apparently they dont have magna carta here in the district of columbia. Theyve got the d. C. Antislap law which so far is nowhere near as good unfortunately. After the medieval warm period we had the ice age and then the warming we have had since the 19th century. I accept the planet has warmed and i rejoice that it has warmed because as with the medieval warm period, its been hugely beneficial to mankind. Im canadian. The entire Political Economic development of my country has taken place during this warming peer. Nova scotia, 1848 the first responsible government in the british empire, 1867, the birth of the dominion of canada. My entire nation has been the beneficiary of this warming trend. Theres a statistic that some of you may be familiar with that says something like, 90 of the population of canada lives within 100miles of the u. S. Border. You know why that is . Because you go beyond that, its freezing cold. [laughter] when you revolutionaries and us loyalists carved up the constant inept, we should have done it northsouth down the mississippi. I was talking to professor van cooten yesterday and he said he moved from alberta to British Columbia because it was warmer. That is like moving from louisiana to mississippi for the skiing. [laughter] so, 90 of canadians live within hundred miles of the u. S. Border. If hadnt had the warming of the last century and a half, 99. 9 of canadians would be living within 100yard of the u. S. Border. Just be like one long Condo Development strung along the 49th parallel. That would be it. So when i first saw Michael Manns hockey stick 15 years ago i reacted much as jonathan jones, prefer of physics as Oxford University did. If you never heard of this Oxford University outfit, its apparently some whacky fringe koch funded denialist fun group where you can download a diploma for 17 shillings. No one takes it seriously. Professor jones says, quote like many people issue was dragged into this by he hockey stick. I was looking up some minor detail about the medieval warm period and discovered this weird parallel universe of people who a apparently didnt believe it happened. And even more bizarrely appeared to believe that essentially nothing had happened in the world before the 20th 20th century. The hockey stick is an extraordinary claim which requires extraordinary evidence, so i started reading around the subject, and it soon became clear that the first extraordinary thing about the evidence for the hockey stick was how extraordinarily weak it was and the second extraordinary thing was how desperate its defenders were to hide this fact. Id always had an interest in pathological science and it looked like i might have stumbled across a really good modern example. Unquote. I agree with that. For a generation of people, across the western world michael mann abolished not only the medieval warm period but the entire concept of natural climate variability. If you talk to some of these young activists who have been forcefed this stuff since kindergarten they dont even believe they dont know what natural climbs variability is. So i called the hockey stick fraudulent because it is in every sense, both in its construction in the uses to which its been put by the itcc and al gore and every schoolhouse and most governments throughout the western world. The hockey stick is what is called as all of you know, a proxy reconstruction. A proxy reconstruction. And there are only two problems with it. The proxies and the reconstruction. [laughter] other than that, its fine. But my government well, not my government. Dont want to make sound like i was responsible for it, her majestys government in ottawa used the hockey stick to sell kyoto to the native people and so did her maggis government in new zealand and virtually every other advanced station except the United States in between. So real people paid a real price. So i called the hockey stick in National Review and michael mann sued me for defamation he venue shopped well. He doesnt live or work in the district of culp ya, depressant work in the district of columbia about i voluntarily committed to their juris kicks because i thought if they were so eager to take the case theyd be capable of litigating a 270 word blog post in injure 270 weeks. We are now coming up to the start of the fourth year. Is this the section mocking and sneering at the incompetent d. C. Courts that you wanted me to take out . [laughter] okay. [laughter] [applause] now not every part of this case is the fault of the courts. Manns lawyer, John Williams, incidentally John Williams tried to sneak in here without paying yesterday. Im being serious. He had to be escorted out. You know, this is such a racist society, when black youths gatecrash a pool party in texas, the cops start cussing them out and they draw their guns and they shove these bikini clad teenagers to the ground. When michael man fs in 1,200 an hour white shoe lawyer gate cabreras the Deniers Party is kindly asked to leave. Come on, cant you tase him . [laughter] but im mention it because if you were kept awake last night by what sounded like occasional thumps against the wall, that was just michael mann are lawyer repelling down the ventilation shaft to get in place before breakfast. Hi john. What was that other thing you mentioned . Dont make cracks about the other guys lawyer. It makes it harder to reach a settlement. All right. Not all the delay in this case is the fault of the courts. The aforementioned mr. Williams, doctors machine ns counsel filed a compliment with the superior court accusing me of, quote, the professional and personal defamation of a nobel prize recipient. Unquote. This was a hitherto unknown crime to me. Definition of a nobel prize recipient. Thats not in magna carta. But its apparently a crime in the district of columbia. Until then i had no idea michael mann was a Nobel Prize Winner. And as it turns out neither did the Nobel Institute. [applause] a couple of reporters called them up, and the director, the thendirector of the Nobel Institute said, quote michael mann has never been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize unquote. Thats what he claims to have won, the Nobel Peace Prize. But notice the subtle illusion of his legal pleadings quote defamation of a nobel prize resivent. So not just a louse you old Nobel Peace Prize winner, where you are standing in the hall of fame between al gore and yassar arafat. But a bona fide Nobel Prize Winner where you are right in the same pantheon as einstein and the rest of them. Mann claims to be a Nobel Laureate because in 207. The i cc as an i constitution received the Nobel Peace Prize and man was one of thousands of upon thousands of people who had been associatinged with the ipcc since 1990. A couple of years later you may recall the European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize. So on mann criteria, the eu has 500 million Nobel Laureates. You cant swing a cat over there without hitting a Nobel Laureate. You go to one of those nude beaches in the south of france, in august, and its wall to wall naked Nobel Laureates from san to trope to monte carlo. Its so every eu citizen is a Nobel Laureate, my mom i irish and my father is belgium so im twotime Nobel Laureate. This to me is important. Its important. Because it gets to the heart of the bubble that these people live in. Why would they think twice about adjusting their figures . If a man seriously believed that the pantheon of laureates can be adjusted to include himself why would he be bothered about adjusting the 1915 temperature record the way to noaa did last week. Whats the big deal about that if you seriously believe yourself to be a Nobel Laureate as thousands of these guys do. And thats why they had no qualms about adjusting the 1915 the temperature record of the last century as they announced last week. I was absolutely stunned. That was the absolutely the most dramatically adjusted figure that i had seen since Kaitlin Jenner a couple of days earlier. [laughter] [cheers and applause] if you take michael mann out of this equation, a lot of the socalled lukewarmers and the moderates and all the rest of it. Dr. Richard bettss and dr. Edwards in england and they both said they dope think the term denier is useful. Who use the term denier more than anybody else . Dr. Mann has called just about everyone here deniers. Im just crew to go climate die knee irjoe bass. Climbed change denier john coilman. Momentum change denier roy spencer. Anthony wattses. Climate change deny extremist. [applause] you win anthony. There used to be a thing on broadway jim mentioned i have a liking for broadway. Used to be a thing adjust broadway a fashion for plays a few years ago i think sam shepherd wrote one where it was an inbred appalachian family and at one point there was a Stillborn Baby the just buried it in the yard and no one mentioned it, and even though no one mentioned it, the less they talked about it, the worse it got. It still infected and poisoned everything they did. And that is what theyre trying to do now with the hockey stick. If they could redo the third assessment report of the ipcc, they would not put everything on the hockey stick. And they think they can get away with just not mentioning it. Just not looking at. I. Just ignoring it. Trying not to catch Michael Manns eye. The fascinating thing about the climategate emails is not the science stuff where the doubts they andded were wellknown, but the fact that but the actual personal relationships between mann and these pore shrubs in east ang leah who sound like Michael Manns batters wives. Theyre trying to avoid another slap from him but they dont want actually to finally get out and walk away. And they have to get up and walk away from the hockey stick and be seen to do so for the integrity of science. [applause] this conference is called a fresh start. And that it who was science needs. Urge you to read mattriedleys piece in the australian magazine quadrant, taking a wild ride on the hockey stake stick, corrupted the heart of Climate Science and to cleanse themselves they have to actually draw a clear line and admit that the last 15 years were wrong that it corrupted everything it touched from the prestigious journal, nature to peer review to the governments that embraced it to the Climatic Research unit which trashed the founders legacy. Huron lam was one over thegrass climatologists and they trashed his legacy to take a ride on Michael Mann Roz coattails and Climate Science has to make a fresh start and get beyond this because they will sound ridiculous. We heard earlier that many people have not fallen for this. And that takes a great courage. Most of us are not galileo. Im glad, by the way whoever said that imagine what galileo could have done if he had the internet. He would haye been posting cat pictures all day. Most of us are not galileo. Most people want to be like most people, and when you look at the polls, then, of people who say no Climate Change isnt important, its number 19, on my list of concerns, and you consider the abc and cbs and nbc and the bbc and the cbc in canada and the New York Times and the times of london and sidney morning herald and everyone else shoved this thing down peoples throatses now for 20 years and theyre still refusing to swallow it. That is extremely unusual given the levels of propaganda control. And that is why a fresh start is possible, but it requires Climate Science to recover it integrity and climb off the hock question stick. Thank you very minute indeed. Thank you. [applause] [applause] we have ten minutes available for questions so who has them . Jeopardy rules. Everything you say must be phrased in the form of a question. Start to do the song. Who has questions . All right. Way back one close center ill get to you sir. Really no questions . All right. Here we go. Mark, just to clarify things, mann sued you and you cows sued mann. Are both lawsuits still active . Yes they are. Were now i can tell from your accent youre as foreign to this jurisdiction as i am. Most of us foreigners know only two things about the American Court system. That it takes years of your life and its incredibly expensive. What i didnt realize was that actually takes decades of your life and its even more incredibly expensive. The antislap lou which allows you get a suit dismiss evidence quickly, thats the point. Its called the strategic lawsuit against public participation. Mann sues people like me and tim ball so that instead of going on the internet or on radio and television and stage and talking about michael mann, were just conferring with lawyers all day long and we have no time and he takes us out of the game for the seven years it takes. So they invented this thing called antislap where to get those cases dismissed quickly. Its a Public Policy issue. He wants to collapse the western economy and i dont. Thats something that you should talk about in the newspapers and on television and whatnot but not in the courts which frankly im competent to adjudicate that. So they had this slap law which youre supposed to use to get the case dismissed quickly. And theyre now the Appeals Court judges are now deciding whether the slap law which is brand new here is appealable because when they wrote it, they didnt know whether the law itself could be appealed. So you cant so its a test case. You cant know how thrilled i am to be part of an american test case. But when i served discovery on him a year ago. He asked for my discovery and i since, 23 cheap jokes i made about him in the last 15 years and then when i asked for discovery back, he asked the court to stay discovery and so that is the stage were at. I have countersued him for 30 million. I think the wish any did it for 10 million, but thats apparently like dr. Evil in the austin powers film. I doesnt impress anybody. So we moved it up to 30 million. Judging from the sales of his new book, he is going to be on other book tour for the next twothirds of a millennium to cover that if we win. But the so thats the thing. I think we will be going to trial on this and its a free speech case, and its an important free speech most important free speech case in half a century. I called his hockey stick fraudulent since 2001, in australia, the the united kingdoms biggest selling broad sheet, the telegraph. A lot of other newspapers around the world, all the way to hawks bay today in new zealand. Anyone here from hawks bay . Take a bow. Yay, go. And, really. I think theyre faking. Theyre from the general area of new zealand. But so we would be in the bizarre situation if mann won this suit, that you would be able to say things in canada, the unitees kingdom, new zealand, australia about Michael Manns science that you cant say in the United States. And i do not believe that it was the intention of the framers of the First Amendment that americans should have fewer free speech rights than countries which remain within the british empire. So it is an important free speech case. The most important for half a century. And if he loses it will be if he loses it will be a great victory for the First Amendment. If he wins, it will be an absolute catastrophe. His hockey stick will in effect have smashed the First Amendment into pieces