Stanford professor drops defamation lawsuit against scientific critics
by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times
Feb 23, 2018
2 minutes
Stanford University environmental professor Mark Z. Jacobson made a big splash in 2015 with a paper predicting that renewable sources could provide 100 percent of the energy needed in the 48 contiguous states by 2050.
But he made an even bigger splash last September, when he responded to a critique of his claim published in a leading scientific journal by filing a $10 million defamation
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