The 'class act' of Michael Mann and Joelle Gergis

Prof Mann has done such shoddy work that no one in the Scientific community relies on his garbage anymore. His papers are not cited….which is a blow to him. I am not sure he is smart enough to actually do good work.

Well, what would you do if your reputation is jeopardized among peers ?
Networking.

Climate shroundwavers and sceptics alike, are engaged in a
totally futile argument over questionable data, questionable models and
questionable interpretation all revolving around ‘data’ collected over a
mere 1/ 10^8 of the history of this planet, and influenced by short term
political perspective. For god’s sake consider how this planet formed
4,500 million years ago, how the crust and mantle differenciated from
the metallic core, how primitive forms of life permitted the formation
of an atmosphere containing oxygen, how volcanoes in the process of a
differentiating crust fed the atmosphere with carbon dioxide, how after
plants populated this planet the carbon in carbon dioxide was deposited
in vast deposits of coal, limestone, chalk, oil and gas. From the
beginning volcanic activity has contributed carbon dioxide to the
atmosphere at a gradually decreasing rate. The rate has changed at
times because volcanic activity has waxed and waned. The vast forests
of carboniferous times soaked up the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
and plants have continued to remove it from the atmosphere since then.
The carbon from the atmosphere has been converted, by plants, to peat
and coal on land and to limestone, chalk, oil and gas in the oceans and
oceanic sediments. That process continues today. The tenor of carbon
dioxide in the atmosphere has, irregularly, declined to the point where
it is now sub-optimal for the growth of most plants. This has happened
because, on average, the rate of deposition of carbon in soils and
marine sediments has overtaken the rate of emission of carbon dioxide
from volcanic sources both on land and in the oceans. Many things have
influenced climate throughout the history of this planet, among them are
the output of the sun, the orbit of this planet around the sun, the
positions of the land masses on the surface of the planet which
determine the location and strength of the oceanic currents which
transfer heat from equatorial to polar regions, and changes and
reversals of the earth’s magnetic field. Of all these matters we have
much less than total understanding and over none of them do we have any
control whatsoever. Nevertheless we are beset with idiots knowing next
to nothing, obsessed with the number of angels able to dance on the head
of a pin and insisting that we, puny creatures that we are, are about to
destroy the planet by burning a trivial proportion of the coal, oil and
gas reserves stored in the earth’s crust, thus returning to the
atmosphere that which came from it.

Great comment, Roger Dewhurst.

Here is the actual UCS “report” which is really a bunch of talking points for how to deflect and avoid virtually all critical scrutiny:
http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/scientific_integrity/science-scrutiny.pdf
It’s clearly influenced by and written with cases of such paragons (sic) as Michael Mann and Ben Santer, the IPCC and the Hockey Team, etc., in mind.
Remarkable (though not surprising) how much it is a whitewash of bad behaviors of Mann and other climate scientists.
The document assumes that critical scrutiny is rarely legitimate and mostly to be evaded. In light of the sordid history of the Hockey Team, the IPCC, CRU/UEA and Climategate etc. this is really a squalid dishonest document from the UCS.