SSDD said:
Fraud is a crime punishable under the law and he is certainly guilty of fraud.
For the sake of the argument, we'll just leave out the fact that denialists are off in cult kookland about Mann, so we can move on to how you've now said you believe that fraud is reason to prosecute. That means your position is essentially the same as what Professor Torcello said:
"With such high stakes, an organised campaign funding misinformation ought to be considered criminally negligent."
Moreover, the context of the article makes is clear that Professor Torcello is referring to _knowingly_ engaging in a misinformation campaign, such a what the tobacco industry did.
So, given you agree with Professor Torcello, why are you screaming about him being evil? If he's authoritarian, that would make you authoritarian as well, given you believe the same thing about how deliberate fraud is grounds for prosecution.
Basically, why are all you denialists lying about what Professor Torcello supposedly said? He never said or implied that denialist fake-skeptics should be jailed. Pathological liar Delingpole fabricated that whopper, fangirl Stephanie breathlessly and brainlessly parroted Delingpole's big lie, and all the denialists piled on in a big rush to show their cult loyalty by blindly parroting the big lie some more.
The moral of this story? If you fail to understand Delingpole's pathologically dishonest nature and are stupid enough to believe something he said, you'll be left twisting in the wind and completely humiliated.
Oh, there is another possibility as to why certain people are upset, and that is they know how they themselves are part of an organized deliberate misinformation campaign. It would explain why Delingpole, Monckton and Watts are so upset.