Moviegoing readers of WUWT probably remember this famous moment from a famous film based on a Michel Crichton book. While “State of Fear” might come to mind first, it’s actually one of the 50 Greatest Jurassic Park Moments.
Josh writes:
So why has Michael Mann’s new book got such great PR. My hunch is that this might be a media set up – hype the thing and wait for nature to take its course. Sit back and enjoy the show?
Bishop Hill writes:
I wonder if Columbia University Press is paying for this PR or whether there’s somebody else involved?
Whoever is behind it, the message doesn’t seem to be getting through. Despite clocking up nearly 100 Amazon reviews, the book is currently around 3500 on the Amazon chart (9500 in the UK). Is this a sign of the changed times or is it just that the market for climate books is dead?
Josh was inspired to capture this situation in paleo-vision:
Give Josh some tipjar love at cartoonsbyjosh.com
Hahahahahhahaa.
Can we have that as a T-shirt?
Awesome! Just AWESOME!
I see that Mann’s book is #3581 under Product Details at Amazon, but is there a way to get Amazon to display the whole list?
Don’t cry for Mr. Mann !!!
I’m sure that the IPCC will buy as many as they can (with taxpayer money) and give them away !!!
(or perhaps many colleges and universities)
Mann is the lawyer in the ‘Jurassic Park’ outhouse, blown over by global colding.
Delicious!
Did you hear that? What was that?
A couple out of the warmist handbook.
What the public dosnt know, im not gonna tell em.
Dont bother me with the facts, my minds made up.
If you cant attack the data attack the people.
Do your research by proclamation, investigation is too much trouble.
Oh mann….
I wonder, is there an idea behind the books looking like the romanian flag instead of say the german flag? o_•
Mann-made global whining……..
There’s hope. Not in tree ring based hockey sticks, but comic book bears.
The Berenstain Bears and the Truth
Ranked #1009
http://www.amazon.com/Berenstain-Bears-Truth-Stan/dp/0394856406/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331066154&sr=1-3
Mann’s trumped by comic book bears who learn a lesson in telling the truth.
How poetic. Simply poetic.
In the words of the TRex that ate the lawyer in Jurrasic Park…. “Chomp”
OK Josh, how do you keep coming up with so many funny cartoons?
LOL, I love it!!!
Hockey stick
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*In his best Ian Malcolm impression*
“I’ll tell you what you’ve done. You’ve patented it, packaged it, slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you’re selling it.”
😀 Nice one Josh. Nicely dramatic.
Josh, that’s great!
Charles: OMG, Mann is a UFO skeptic.
http://www.stantonfriedman.com/index.php?ptp=ufo_challenge
See a little down the page. Still, the behaviour to distort the truth fits as we’ve recently seen.
I’m liking the look of that goat…can I get fries with that?
OK, Darn it, I’m going to have to watch the whole schabang this evening and it’s your fault!
A great cast and a wonderful yarn with enough truth to be believable, unlike the hockey stick.
Loved Jeff Golblum as the eccentric “Chaostition”.
But the best line was by a bit player:
When the programmer was restarting the computers after the sabotage,
“Everybody hold on to your butts.”
S/B used for every new climate model run!
Now, where’d I put that popcorn?
Mike
Josh did you mean tethered, or tenured.
Mann”s Pennsylvanian tenure postdates his “Jurrasic” moment.
Fraud imitating life. LOL
From Bishop Hill comments.
“I’m not that keen on science fiction books.”
Mar 6, 2012 at 11:27 AM | Unregistered CommenterMac
in a recent Guardian Q&A, Michael Mann was asked: “Given that the term “denier” has obvious holocaust denial connotations, do you think that your use of that word is:
1. unacceptable for a scientist to use
2. one that could incite certain elements to violence against people who question the concensus
Or do you consider it a reasonable term?”
his response:
27 Feb: Guardian: Live Q&A: Climate scientist Michael Mann on the ‘hockey stick’ controversy
MM: Frankly, I think those who complain about this are often just producing crocodiles tears. As someone who lost relatives to the religious persecution of the jewish people, I would be as sensitive to anyone if I really though the use of the term has anything whatsoever do do with the holocaust. I find that argument quite disingenuous if not downright dishonest. For those who are denying mainstream science, the logical thing to call them is “deniers”. they are certainly not “skeptics” and even “contrarian” doesn’t always fit the bill. Given that some of the fiercest of our detractors have proudly declared themselves deniers (one such individual even wrote a book “The Deniers”) I find that this argument has no currency at all. I suspect its often used as a somewhat disingenuous ploy to get journalists and other commentators to grant the highly undeserved term of “skeptic” to those who are nothing of the sort
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2012/feb/27/michael-mann-climate-change-live-q-and-a
“denier” appears a dozen times on this Guardian page, in questions, answers and comments below. if his book is as repetitive (aka propagandist), it will only be of interest to CAGW alarmists.
Nice one Josh….. you keep getting better and better!
Now that is just plain evil, but oh, so very funny.
I love it!!! I want a T-Shirt, too.
I’m serious!