Booker mentions Mann – Mann has a Twitter tantrum

Bahahahaha!
Sometimes all one can do in the face of a fool is laugh.
Please, Mr. Mann provide us with some more laughter, it seems all you are good for. Your skill in science is non-existent.
What a pathetic, narcissistic little man.

“Of course, there are still a few free-range climate scientists on the loose out there, but their increasingly erratic behaviour has isolated them from everyone, most interestingly their own side, who quite rightly fear it’s only a matter of time until they land themselves, and “the cause”, into another disaster of gleickian proportions.”
http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/the-climate-wars-revisited-or-no-truce-with-kings/
At this stage, he can’t help himself. He’ll eventually pull the pin.
Pointman

A sensitive wee soul !!!! 😉

Aaargghh!! What happened to his head!!

I wonder for whom Mann will be voting in November?
Such a sterling scientist surely makes such a major choice only after long, deep pondering.

The Booker article is a good summary of the low points of climate science. It should be read by all. Given Rio+20 in 2 months, Booker is giving fair warning for what is to come.

Is it just me, or does the mere sight of Mann, Gleik etc these days annoy the heck out of you? Perhaps I’m just imagining the air of smugness.

One wonders though, if this just isn’t an exit strategy that Mann has engineered himself. As we’ve seen though his many writings, he’s very good at self promotion.
Anthony, why don’t you apply for Joe D and Helen J Kington Professor in Environmental Change job at UVA? At a minimum, you should at least be granted an audience to tell UVA why Mann is wrong and you are right about climate change!

..it’s all about the science

@omnologos, maybe he was trying to hide the decline? Or it’s not him, but a model, where
the data’s been,er, corrected (hence the Redux in the photo credit)….PHB in training?

Why waste time on this?
Look, if Mann were actually a scientist and worthy of respect, he wouldn’t twitter about Willis plots, he would address them in some substantive way. I’m not certain how he might proceed to do that — Willis is just plotting the data, after all, he didn’t obtain the data himself and it is the same data, in many places, used in the Shakun paper — but the data is right there, he can get it for himself, plot it for himself, and analyze it himself. For that matter, anybody can go to the WUWT pages and look at the arguments and plots for themselves, although spread out over three posts its a bit tedious at this point to work though it all (which is why Willis should turn it into a paper and submit it somewhere).
What he does is not beyond criticism, by the way. I’m still not so sure about the validity of his rescaling the data to be able to put all of the temperature trends on the same scale because this makes some assumptions about where, how, and when the warming occurred that might need justification (at least I might need him to further argue that they are correct and reasonable, given that the way the warming proceeded in the tropics dominates the surface area because of the Jacobean and because yet another metric for the dominant warming would be warming in the band of latitudes with the greatest fraction of oceanic surface area and the latter — progression of the warming over ocean volumes — is what one would expect to drive the CO_2 concentration according to a numerically computable model, actually). However, that does not mean that he isn’t clear about what he’s done and how he’s plotted and analyzed the result.
What stops Mann from grabbing the data and doing the same general thing for himself? He’s presumably actually funded by Our Government for doing precisely this sort of research, unlike either Willis or myself or Anthony or many of the other people here who spend a fair bit of time actually messing with models and numbers.
The most impressive thing about Mann is that he is, in fact, the CAGW crowd’s own worst enemy. He has done more damage to the scientific argument in favor of CAGW than any other single human, precisely because he spends so very much time name calling and indulging in petty ad hominem and so very little in calmly reasoned argument.
What I think is happening is that the shoe is finally dropping. I hadn’t seen the Mauna Loa transmittivity data before today, but it is very, very worrisome. A 1% negative trend over only 30 years! Goodness gracious, and here we are worrying about carbon dioxide, which at most and according to its most ardent supporters is responsible for at most 100% of Mann’s hockey stick. I’m certain that somebody is quietly realizing that this 1% is enough to completely cancel all of this warming, and that is before looking at the extra 2% negative change in mean insolation due to the 7% increase in albedo over the last 15 years.
The temperature curves — even GISS and CRUT3 — are starting to turn down. Worse, we can understand why they are turning down, we can predict that they must turn down. We may not understand why the atmosphere is reflecting more light or absorbing more of it well above the surface of the Earth, but we can see that it is doing so by looking at reflected Earthlight on the dark side of the moon and at reflected light received by distant satellites. We can even connect it directly with a gradually increasing cloud cover. I think the CAGW enthusiasts — having literally bet their careers on CAGW and doomsday — are praying that a miracle will happen, the laws of physics will be suspended, and temperatures will turn around and go back up, or more reasonably, that whatever unknown conditions that have downregulated the transmittivity and increased the albedo will go back the way they were so doomsday can proceed, but at the same time they must know that the sun is probably the proximate cause and that thereby their careers are almost certainly doomed. Time to hedge one’s bets, get a good permanent job while you still can, and invest in a small castle to hold off the peasants with the pitchforks and torches who will, without doubt, come for you when they learn that they’ve spent thousands of dollars apiece indulging your heroic fantasy.
Maybe I’ll have time today to put together a top post on this. Lord knows I want to. But of course to do that, I have to stop posting to stuff like this…
So I conclude. Don’t waste your time on Mann. If the best he can do to reply to an article that challenges one of his scientific convictions is to call somebody names, he is completely ignorable.
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Trying to comprehend what the twiteratti write gives me motion sickness.