Gosh, what does one do to become a “professional climate change denier”? Does Penn State offer that course? Heh.
He does look happy though. Plus, he has an interesting choice of wall art, I thought sure he’d frame his famous graph. Maybe he has a special room for that. Despite this “exoneration” that according to Sir Muir, didn’t examine the science, his hockey stick still doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.
It’s dead. Jeff Id does a great review of what Muir missed, simple, basic, things that anyone who can read can see for themselves.
Here’s the link to the video interview, about 10 minutes long, if you can stand to watch that long.
About 6:45 into the interview Mann blames the current (east coast) heat wave on manmade warming. Of course we all know (because we are repeatedly beaten over the head with the phrase like we’re stupid or something) that “weather is not climate”. Me thinks it’s more about asphalt.
‘Scuse me while I go look for an antiemetic. (mmpf!)
h/t to WUWT reader Loodt Pretorius
Update: From WUWT comments (Philip Foster) we have this.
If anyone is moved to write to Sir Muir Russell, here is his office address:
Sir Muir Russell
Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland
38-39 Drumsheugh Gardens
Edinburgh
EH3 7SW
Scotland
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The wall picture is framed Batik art, found across the African continent. He probably got this from a Kenyan tourist hotspot, but there’s some fantastic examples to found around Ghana, Togo and Benin (all well worth a visit).
The hockey stick graph is probably in a photo frame, on his desk, facing his visitor seat (psychologists can tell you what that means).
The picture in the background looks exactly like a batik print my dad got in Kenya in the early 70’s. The same picture with the same frame. Imagine that.
jeef says:
July 8, 2010 at 1:29 pm
…The hockey stick graph is probably in a photo frame, on his desk, facing his visitor seat (psychologists can tell you what that means).
Do you mean…..still didn’t go out of the closet?
So the AGW scientists have all now been exonerated. They can now tidy up their house and get back to the serious business of saving the Earth. The AGW house has a brand new coat of paint… whitewash with green trim. I hear it is a nice red color on the inside.
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though (should be thought)
scruntiny (should be scrutiny)
I don’t think you meant a tiny “scrunt”, a grass-covered lupine that lays preternaturally flat, though “preternaturally flat” is certainly an apt description of his hockey stick graph that misses the Medieval Warm Period…
REPLY: Thanks, fixed. I was fighting nausea. -A
For Mann-made stomach upsets, I recommend turning off the TV and the Internet, throwing out today’s “obsolete print media” (newspapers), getting an engrossing novel to read, and fixing yourself some licorice tea. [Some people recommend ginger, but that is like trying to put out a fire by adding gasoline.]
O J was also happy.
I agree with him it is not coincidental. All the girls and parties at Copenhagen. Same chicks and parties at mexico City.
I notice he plays the tobacco card.
Well financed well organized attack. But he can’t name the person that leaked.
I get sick just looking at this smug sob. Infuriating.
After reading the e-mails and observing the methods and mien of Mann, I feel nothing but revulsion and disgust.
As a professional chemist, my understanding of the peer-review process and the conducting of science and scientific investigation has received a rude awakening. I would expect politicos, businessmen and advocates to be capable of subverting and exploiting existing systems. While I know from other instances (fraudulent research revelations for example) that the peer-review process eventually finds the fault and lays it accurately, the depth and breadth of this calumny will take a long time to unravel and unwind.
Thankfully, we will not rest until this unscrupulous wrong has been righted.
Chesire cat – Cheshire cat…
I thought sure – I thought for sure…
In my view, Mike was a lot more effective in the video that showed him tackling pine trees with a cheerful sound track:
Watched the Mann video, start to finish. He does lie well, and his use of ad hominems is remarkable. I rate it an A++ for Alarmist bafflegab and for self-satisfied puffery.
Need to take a shower now.
So, off into the sunset we go, singing “Que sera sera”. It was fun following and being a skeptic for a while. The slough of despond becons and “pliable” lives another day.
All this shows is that the rot in Science / Academia is worse than we thought. In fact, the Hockey Stick clearly shows the great increase of this rot in the latter half of the last century. There is definitely a man-made global warning, to say nothing of the Mann-made global warping.
Wait till the Virginia AG gets done with him…
“Gosh, what does one do to become a “professional climate change denier”?”
“I rate it an A++ for Alarmist bafflegab and for self-satisfied puffery.”
Many of us would take you more seriously, Mr. Watts et al., if you were not so obviously biased and antagonistic.
REPLY: I used sarcasm. But Mann’s biased and antagonistic comments are ok? Thanks for clearing that up. -A
Mikey seems to think he’s having the last laugh . . . let’s hope he enjoys it while he can.
Have a nice career Mikey.
How do you like your toast?
I watched only 20 seconds of this gurning fool’s verbal garbage before I simply HAD to switch off the video.
What a load of cobblers, right from the very beginning!
One day the entire AGW saga will make a great Mel Brooks movie.
Don’t worry.
In New Zealand we had an MP that was exonerated by a parliamentary enquiry of accusations of taking bribes.
As soon as he came out from under the protection of the then ruling Labour party, he had to face the same charges in a court of law, and is currently serving a gaol term. 🙂
Anyone with half a brain knows that the type of investigation that Mann & Jones have been subjected to are a complete joke, and the conclusions reached are worthless. They are always subject to “terms of reference” that actually mean that the investigation is hobbled deliberately so that the result can be predetermined.
An amazingly straight-faced series of lies. Mann knows that Steve McIntyre, for instance is not paid by the fossil fuel industry, but implies it. Of course the idea that he’s been exonerated is silly. I note the interviewer never asked him how he’d answer the charge that the panels were white-washes, and that not one of them actually looked at the science nor defended it. Others have mentioned the purposeful confusion of climate and weather. Mann also does the old poisoning the well “trick” bringing in the claim that climate change “deniers” are rife with tobacco “deniers.” His characterization of “climategage” is of note too. He claims the charges coming from a face value reading of the e-mails have somehow been refuted, though he gives on particulars. All in all, nice propaganda, but for those of us who have read the e-mails, and all the other things Mann and his cronies have done, the major value of the interview is that his lies and distortions are all there in one place to be pointed out when needed.
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♫♫♫
Roly Poly scrambled eggs for breakfast
Bread and jelly twenty times a day
Roly Poly eats a hard day dinner
It takes lots of strength to run and play
Well now he pulls up trees
And does the chores
Runs both ways through all the doors
He wears up that apetite that way
Roly Poly daddy’s Al Little Fatty
I bet he’s gonna be a politician someday ♫♫♫
There is the inconvenient fact of a law suit still on going. Of course Penn would clear him if they had half the chance. Otherwise they would be pleading guilty to the charges in the law suit and have to come up with the money to pay back VA.
It takes half a brain cell of the most idiotic specie that ever existed in the universe to see that Mann’s tree ring proxy based temperature reconstructions with hidden decline was not good science and was deceptive.