I had to laugh when I saw this post from climate blog regular caerbannog666 re-tweeted by Dr. Michael Mann:
That iron lung comment piqued my interest, and I wondered who is this guy? A well known climate blog regular, he’s been bloviating all over the climate blogs for years. After finding him though about a minute’s worth of Googling public information, I wish I could unsee what I found. Meet Caesar Augustus Rossi Carvalho (Caerbannog)
Caesar Augustus Rossi Carvalho (Caerbannog) on Myspace
http://www.myspace.com/caerbannog666/photos
http://www.myspace.com/caerbannog666/photos/17286555
http://www.myspace.com/caerbannog666/photos/4486705#{%22ImageId%22%3A4486705}
UPDATE: In retrospect, it should be noted that people are free to dress up any way they want, whether it be in the dark style above, or as a superhero like Professor Scott Mandia (aka SuperMandia), leader of Michael Mann’s legal defense fund to keep those public emails from falling into the hands on an inquiring public.
I just find it humorous that Dr. Mann’s supporters are so, er, emotive.
UPDATE: 7/16/2012 Caebannog writes at his UT San Diego Forum:
Note: I will neither confirm nor deny that I am this individual.
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childish, irrelevant. retweeting someone on twitter isn’t keeping “company” with them. stick to your strengths, challenging them on the science, not playing middle school popularity games
I’d make a comment about him looking like a typical Occupier, but it’s just too easy.
Oh god another Goth fallen for the Crow syndrome that’s the one where you think you are a mad avenging angle all swords and style but in reality you dance in a 2 foot square and get yer politics from family guy !
Definitely scary but glad you found it. It gives some insight into the minds of the warmers.
I vote with Jeff
Jeff,
“Friday Funny” Get it?
It’s not Delingpole at a party, is it?
Ahhh! It Burns!
Dad?
Funny.
That said, if my memory is correct, Jonas Salk used private donations, not coercively-obtained tax dollars, to fund his work. (A very generous donor being Richard Mellon Scaife’s mother.)
FOIA didn’t exist then, but had it done so, and had it somehow applied to private correspondence (perhaps in the firm if a tax you only have to pay if you don’t release your private correspondence – or would that be a penalty?), all it would show is a bunch of conservatives and others expressing concern for their fellow man, and generously trying to do things to help them.
Evidence for which the gentleman in the odd get-up can easily find now, just by opening his heavily made-up eyes.
Hey Caesar,
It is 12:06 am. Hallowe’en is over. Time for bed
The human condition is ripe for Friday Funnies. Being able to laugh at the human condition, even if it be us, is as necessary as challenging untenable science. Indeed, the endeavors depend on each other for strength to persevere.
I don’t care what he does in his spare time, he make a poor analogy. Sounds like Obama’s “truth” squad using canned propaganda.
Ok sure, it’s amusing and the guy looks like a bit of a weirdo (to put it mildly)…
but this just boils down to an ad hom, and we as skeptics should really be trying to rise above this sort of thing.
At least the 666 on the end of his handle is appropriate.
What is it?
But, I ask you, what does Alice Cooper have to say on the subject?
Mann’s response to the bizarre claim that his work is equivalent to Salk’s work that led to the eradication of polio (yeah, I know it’s not completely gone, but almost) tells us a whole lot about Michael Mann’s opinion of himself. . .
Looks like a classic ad hom to me. Attacking someone because of how they look.
REPLY: No its about costumes, a choice, much like views on climate. And are you saying it is OK for Mike Mann to point out when people put silly photos of themselves on the web for anyone to see, but not OK when I do it? I think your ire, much like your choice of climate views, is selective. – Anthony
Can you imagine if this wierdo and “Superman” Scott Mandia got together?
Rattus Norvegicus says:
July 13, 2012 at 7:56 am
“Looks like a classic ad hom to me. Attacking someone because of how they look.”
The guy has a choice: he doesn’t need to look like that.
Jeff says:
July 13, 2012 at 7:32 am
What don’t you understand about ‘Friday Funny’?
Well, I and some of my family and best friends have been known to cosplay for Anime conventions. Trust me, some of the looks go WAY beyond that rather tame exposition. Not that I would “dress” in such a manner normally. But when we’re in costume I will most assuredly take pictures of it. Not fond of his tattoos though, they don’t look particularly well done.
Wow, what a freak show these warmists are.
What’s with the Climate Crusader’s boots? “Knee deep in s***” comes to mind.