Some days, you get gifts from on high.
Dr. Michael Mann apparently still doesn’t understand how his own actions invoked the Streisand effect. So, he compares people asking questions to the larval form of insects.
Steve McIntyre tips us off to this and writes with the driest wit possible:
From time to time, we hear from climate scientists that they are limited in their responses by the dignity of their profession. The dignity to which climate scientists aspire is nicely exemplified by the following remarks of a prominent real_climate_scientist:
hey trolls who have been given marching orders to flood the comment threads here like an infestation of beetle larvae: Don’t bother! We’ve seen the mindless talking points before, and coming here to parrot them simply (a) pollutes the otherwise thoughtful discussion in the comment threads here, and (b) exposes the intellectual bankruptcy of your climate change denial zealotry.
Here’s the screencap:
I wonder, has Dr. Mann just libeled everyone whose comments he has been serially deleting? The best part is Steve McIntyre’s response, be sure to read it here.
In other news, it has now been 10 days since Mark Steyn wrote the article that ticked off Dr. Mann, and now the backlash has sent him scurrying for entomological comparisons for lack of any better arguments.
Since the Steyn article is still there, I suspect that NRO has told Dr. Mann and his attorney to “go fish”. Well, at least he’s having bait delivered.
I’m reminded of this quote from Dr. Roger Pielke Jr.:
“If Michael Mann did not exist, the skeptics would have to invent him.”
Stay classy Mike!
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Yep, a climate bully !!!
Can I be a lightning bug larva? (Glowworm) Umm, are lightning bugs true bugs or are they beetles? I’ll check after dinner if someone else doesn’t get to that first.
Has Mann ever sounded more desperate than in that comment? “Intellectual bankruptcy of [our] climate change denial zealotry?” Hahahaha! Keep stepping up the ad hom, Mann, this is gold!
It’s time to shun Dr. Mann–he’s an insufferable boor that tries to be the rock star of climate science and has done a tremendous disservice to humanity instead.
Let him boor himself to death; let him tweet and email himself–nobody should try to understand him because he’s not understandable; it’s simply not worth the effort.
Don’t beetle larvae feed on dung, or dead flesh? Where does that put Mr. Mann in that particular food chain?
And while we’re at it, what ever happened to Tim Ball?
The plaintiff’s claims were filed in March 2011. Surely there’s been discovery by now…
And what’s the natural purpose of lavae and fungae?
He really is the shiny little fly perched on the manu…. Never mind lets not upset the moderators.
On the remote chance this gets within cannon shot of a courtroom, I really can’t see the judge being that impressed by a plaintiff who jumps up and down waving his arms and yelling “Look over there, libellous statement to see” when the whole point is supposed to be how disgusting, degrading and emotionally damaging it’s all meant to be.
At least we beetle larvae can reproduce the results of our science claims. [;)]
A theatrical old diva living on memories from the good old days and the phone isnt ringing anymore!
And now she hates everyone who doesn`t remember her acting in silent movies. I can really see Manns dramatic oweracting gestures to fit a silent mowie.
But wait. The real story of this post by Michael Mann comes in comments just below his outburst. Read what comes from a worker at NOAA. Having sampled Mann’s invective, David Nicosia, is all about signing him up to teach NOAA employees and stakeholders. Apparently rude ad hominen obfuscation is the perfect skill set for NOAA workshops.
Here’s the exchange:
David Nicosia – I work for NOAA and sometimes we have climate change education and outreach workshops for NOAA employees and our stakeholders. Can I keep you in mind as a possible keynote. This probably won’t have until next FY at the earliest. Anyway, miss happy valley and hope all this turmoil settles down…especially the cllimate stuff but also everything else. cheers.
Yesterday at 09:54 · 1
Michael E. Mann – Would love to David. Feel free to contact me off-line about this
Yesterday at 10:02 via Mobile · 1
David Nicosia – – certainly…will do. have a great day.
Yesterday at 10:04 · 1
Isn’t this akin to kicking a man when he is down? Not simply down, but laying spread-eagled on his back and peeing in the air? Ah. I just remembered why I despise the man and have come to my senses. Nevermind! 😉
Talk about underestimating your foe.
Gee, I would have thought he’d welcome beetle larvae, since going by tree ring width the worst infestations happen in the colder years.
Maybe he’s simply worried about beetle larvae causing too many holes in his Hockey Sticks. It’s getting harder to handpick proper trees for them.
The “otherwise thoughtful discussion” of the Manniac’s Facebook page consists largely of his adoring fans mindlessly kissing his digital posterior.
Mann’s vitriolic emails from Climategate showed that he is a vicious politicized hack. He is more at home in rabid far-left webzines than in “thoughtful discussion” of anything.
Micky Mann is a dignity denialist.
Lot of arrogance for a guy living off the discredited work of another.
A few years after Nixon was out of office, he made some gaffe, which a commenter in New York magazine quoted without comment and headlined, “Aging Like a Fine Cheese.” Boy, that made me laugh.
Mike Mann does not know the difference between a Beetle larvae and an upside down sediment record!
Is….’man-bear-pig’….morphing to….’beetle-larvae-bully’….a normal phase change ?
He forgot to add that we are financed by Big Oil or the Kochtopus or something.
/sarc
Mr. Mann is now lower than the actual larvae on the cell floor with Jerry Sandusky. Let’s hope he keeps digging.
coalsoffire says:
July 25, 2012 at 3:19 pm
Well, should it come to pass, one would hope that Mann can get control of his outbursts, since NOAA issued a Code of Conduct last December, which includes:
Perhaps Dr. Mann could send Ben Santer to “beat up” some people, including Mark Steyn. I would really like it if they would come for me.
Steve closed his thread on the subject. A shame, I would have like the chance to rebut the claim made by a commenter about pine beetles and AGW. The implication was that outbreaks of the beetles are increasing (due to AGW, naturally) and this is bad, because they make fires worse. Er, little problem with that last part:
http://www.cfc.umt.edu/cesu/NEWCESU/Assets/Individual%20Project%20Reports/NPS%20Projects/CSU/2006/06Romme_YELL_beetles_article.pdf
“This study has shown that a linked disturbance interaction likely exists between MPB outbreaks and wildfire in lodgepole pine forests of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. The direction of the interaction is opposite to what is widely presumed by the public, in that our study predicts a reduction in most measures of fire intensity for up to 35 years after a beetle outbreak, including a reduced probability of active crown fire.”
“Our overall conclusion was that the linkage of prior MPB disturbance to future fire disturbance generally results in a dampening, rather than an amplification, of fire behavior and intensity.”