Canadian Paper Found Guilty of Defaming Climate Scientist Andrew Weaver With ‘Climategate’ Smears
The conservative Canadian tabloid National Post and several of its reporters have been found guilty of defaming a climate scientist in numerous articles that attacked his character. The defendants - the Post, its publisher Gordon Fisher, and its journalists Terence Corcoran, Peter Foster, and Kevin Libin - have to retract all their articles about climate scientist Andrew Weaver and pay $50,000 in general damages jointly.
She did not find the defendants guilty of malice, merely that they “deliberately created a negative impression of Dr. Weaver” because of their climate-change denial and “have been careless or indifferent to the accuracy of the facts.”
Dr. Andrew Weaver is one of the world’s pre-eminent paleoclimatologists, a professor at the University of Victoria since 1992. He has spent considerable time working to educate the public on climate change, writing Keeping Our Cool: Canada in a Warming World in 2008 and acting as a lead author for every IPCC report since 1995. During the
