Trying to erase lies from the internet through lawsuit - Will it succeed?

[Msterbeau]

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/04/climatologist-sues-for-libel-demands-copyright-of-articles.ars

"It's probably an unfortunate measure of the quality of modern journalism that few of us would be surprised to hear that an editorial on a politically controversial topic contained significant factual inaccuracies. But climate change seems to have reached the point where even some apparent facts have become points of contention, and at least some reporters have become comfortable with simply making things up and ascribing their imaginings to credible scientific sources. Apparently fed up with similar practices in editorials produced by Canada's National Post, a climatologist has now sued the publisher for libel and defamation. But the suit seeks a judgment that's remarkably sweeping: the scientist wants the publisher to hand over the copyright to the editorials so he can attempt to erase them from the Internet."

[Soulrev]

My best friend's uncle is in the process of making a web site that will show you temeratures, all time highs, all time lows, etc. all over the country and world, using real weather data from sources like Jeppesen, etc. Anyways, he came up to me telling me how he's so tired of hearing about this global warming BS. He said he's tired of hearing "Oh, Today is the hottest it has EVER BEEN!!". Well, his purpose of making this website is this- you think it's that hot? Find out for yourself. You want to say "Oh global warming is real just look it's 104 today it's NEVER EVER BEEN THAT WARM!" Well now you can look and see for sure if it has "never ever been that warm" using a simple system he's working on. I will try to talk to him and ask him for the URL. I'm pretty sure he's still developing it but last I saw he had quite a bit accomplished. I will definitely follow-up on this and post a link when I get it.