While dodging the issue of his own ten thousand dollar speaking fees this past week, Mike Mann thinks its all a big hugely funded conspiracy (like those WUWT calendar sales). From a hilarious interview at The Independent:
A climate scientist who says he has been subjected to a vitriolic hate campaign has denounced the way that American billionaires have been able to secretly finance the climate-sceptic organisations that have attacked him.
Professor Michael Mann of Pennsylvania University, who has been targeted by climate-change sceptics for his work on global temperature records, said it was wrong for wealthy individuals such as the oil billionaire Charles Koch to surreptitiously finance the “counter-movement” that denounces the science of global warming.
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It was only when he was researching a book that he became aware Koch was assisting some of the organisations that he says have been attacking him and his colleagues for so many years, Professor Mann said. He said the sceptic organisations had “single-handedly sought to poison the public discourse over human-caused climate change. In the process they have potentially mortgaged the futures of our children and grandchildren. You couldn’t invent villains like this if you tried.”
On the subject of the Koch Brothers and funding of sceptic organizations, Dr. Mann might recall that his criminal acquaintance, Dr. Peter Gleick’s document theft was helpful it putting that issue to rest once and for all. From Junkscience.com
As this page shows, the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation only gave $25,000 to Heartland in 2011 (about 0.5% of Heartland’s budget) for a health care project. Heartland only hoped to get $200,000 from the Foundation in 2012 — again for its health care project. But Dr. Mann would never talk about such adverse results.
Nor does Dr. Mann like to talk about the millions he has received in grants at Penn State.
From the American Spectator:
Inarguably the next-largest culprit is Michael Mann, Mr. Nature Trick, who is not to be confused with the Nature Boy or the other “Heat“-making Mann. He has had his grants available for public viewing for a while, so I’m surprised I’ve not seen those spread around the ‘Net. They are right there listed in his curriculum vitae. (now deleted -AW)
2009-2013 Quantifying the influence of environmental temperature on transmission of vector-borne diseases, NSF-EF [Principal Investigator: M. Thomas; Co-Investigators: R.G. Crane, M.E. Mann, A. Read, T. Scott (Penn State Univ.)] $1,884,991
2009-2012 Toward Improved Projections of the Climate Response to Anthropogenic Forcing: Combining Paleoclimate Proxy and Instrumental Observations with an Earth System Model, NSF-ATM [Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann; Co-Investigators: K. Keller (Penn State Univ.), A. Timmermann (Univ. of Hawaii)] $541,184
2008-2011 A Framework for Probabilistic Projections of Energy-Relevant Streamflow Indices, DOE [Principal Investigator: T. Wagener; Co-Investigators: M. Mann, R. Crane, K. Freeman (Penn State Univ.)] $330,000
2008-2009 AMS Industry/Government Graduate Fellowship (Anthony Sabbatelli), American Meteorological Society [Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann (Penn State Univ.)] $23,000
2006-2009 Climate Change Collective Learning and Observatory Network in Ghana, USAID [Principal Investigator: P. Tschakert; Co-Investigators: M.E. Mann, W. Easterling (Penn State Univ.)] $759,928
2006-2009 Analysis and testing of proxy-based climate reconstructions, NSF-ATM [Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann (Penn State Univ.)] $459,000
2006-2009 Constraining the Tropical Pacific’s Role in Low-Frequency Climate Change of the Last Millennium, NOAA-Climate Change Data & Detection (CCDD) Program [Principal Investigators: K. Cobb (Georgia Tech Univ.), N. Graham (Hydro. Res. Center), M.E. Mann (Penn State Univ.), Hoerling (NOAA Clim. Dyn. Center), Alexander (NOAA Clim. Dyn. Center)] PSU award (M.E. Mann): $68,065
2006-2007 Acquisition of high-performance computing cluster for the Penn State Earth System Science Center (ESSC), NSF-EAR [Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann, Co-Investigators: R. Alley, M. Arthur, J. Evans, D. Pollard (Penn State Univ.)] $100,000
2003-2006 Decadal Variability in the Tropical Indo-Pacific: Integrating Paleo & Coupled Model Results, NOAA-Climate Change Data & Detection (CCDD) Program [Principal Investigators: M.E. Mann (U.Va), J. Cole (U. Arizona), V. Mehta (CRCES)] U.Va award (M.E. Mann): $102,000
2002-2005 Reconstruction and Analysis of Patterns of Climate Variability Over the Last One to Two Millennia, NOAA-Climate Change Data & Detection (CCDD) Program [Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann, Co-Investigators: S. Rutherford, R.S. Bradley, M.K. Hughes] $315,000
2002-2005 Remote Observations of Ice Sheet Surface Temperature: Toward Multi-Proxy Reconstruction of Antarctic Climate Variability, NSF-Office of Polar Programs, Antarctic Oceans and Climate System [Principal Investigators: M.E. Mann (U. Va), E. Steig (U. Wash.), D. Weinbrenner (U. Wash)] U.Va award (M.E. Mann): $133,000
2002-2003 Paleoclimatic Reconstructions of the Arctic Oscillation, NOAA-Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research (CIFAR) Program [Principal Investigators: Rosanne D’Arrigo, Ed Cook (Lamont/Columbia); Co-Investigator: M.E. Mann] U.Va subcontract (M.E. Mann): $14,400
2002-2003 Global Multidecadal-to-Century-Scale Oscillations During the Last 1000 years, NOAA-Climate Change Data & Detection (CCDD) Program [Principal Investigator: Malcolm Hughes (Univ. of Arizona); Co-Investigators: M.E. Mann; J. Park (Yale University)] U.Va subcontract (M.E. Mann): $20,775
2001-2003 Resolving the Scale-wise Sensitivities in the Dynamical Coupling Between Climate and the Biosphere, University of Virginia-Fund for Excellence in Science and Technology (FEST) [Principal Investigator: J.D. Albertson; Co-Investigators: H. Epstein, M.E. Mann] U.Va internal award: $214,700
2001-2002 Advancing predictive models of marine sediment transport, Office of Naval Research [Principal Investigator: P. Wiberg (U.Va), Co-Investigator: M.E. Mann] $20,775
1999-2002 Multiproxy Climate Reconstruction: Extension in Space and Time, and Model/Data Intercomparison, NOAA-Earth Systems History [Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann (U.Va), Co-Investigators: R.S. Bradley, M.K. Hughes] $381,647
1998-2000 Validation of Decadal-to-Multi-century climate predictions, DOE [Principal Investigator: R.S. Bradley (U. Mass); Co-Investigators: H.F. Diaz, M.E. Mann]
1998-2000 The changing seasons? Detecting and understanding climatic change, NSF-Hydrological Science [Principal Investigator U. Lall (U. Utah); Co-investigators: M.E. Mann, B. Rajagopalan, M. Cane] $266,235K
1996-1999 Patterns of Organized Climatic Variability: Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Globally
Distributed Climate Proxy Records and Long-term Model Integrations, NSF-Earth Systems History [Principal Investigator: R.S. Bradley (U. Mass); Co-Investigators: M.E. Mann, M.K. Hughes] $270,000
1996-1998 Investigation of Patterns of Organized Large-Scale Climatic Variability During the Last
Millennium, DOE, Alexander Hollaender Postdoctoral Fellowship [M.E. Mann] $78,000
For those keeping score, that’s almost $6 million total for various predictions, models and reconstructions over the last 13 years by Mann and his playmates.
As for the “villains”, I’m reminded of this famous quote from Dr. Roger Pielke Jr.:
If Michael Mann did not exist, the skeptics would have to invent him.
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I propose a unit of measure for quantifying non-existence, called the Mann.
And of course if he would like to reveal his earnings from speaking, book sales etc? All made on the back of CAGW.
Can I get a grant? I can spell climate change & global warming & extreme weather
In the process they have potentially mortgaged the futures of our children and grandchildren. You couldn’t invent villains like this if you tried.”
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“We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms.”
– Barack Obama
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amen
Hmmm … what kind of billionaire is George Soros?
Man has some data right. Skeptics have to get funds from somewhere, and that can mean a lot of small pockets (WUWT ad revenue) and/or a few big ones (Ive seen other Heartland climate notes, not just the specific one highlighted here).
Where he exposes himself as an a$$h0le is his gratuitous use of unnecessary adjectives like “single-handed” and “surreptitious”. It is not just Koch, nor is Koch secretive in any way about his opinion on climatology.
His pattern in public life seems to be wild extrapolations from insufficient analysis of incomplete data.
Reblogged this on Climate Ponderings and commented:
ADD :Mann received $541,184 in economic stimulus funds June 2010 to conduct climate change research.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703657604575005412584751830.html
Latitude says: amen
Appropriate.
Mann: “American billionaires have been able to secretly finance the climate-sceptic organisations”
See? It’s a secret, that’s why there’s no proof, you must believe on faith.
Mann is one of the 97% whose reputation would be most damaged by the recognition that “climate science” jumped to the AGW conclusion and unsurprisingly believes (at least publically) the AGW conclusion was not arrived at from scant evidence and wild imaginations.
Anthony Watts stated:
This is not the latest (dated Sep. 3, 2011), but these items should be added to the list found by American Spectator:
The Independent (not the Sunday edition) has a circulation of less than 85,000. Who else would listen to his ramblings and publish them but a dying newspaper.
…also…
In my school years, I once got in trouble for submitting the same long report to two different professors in two different classes. It was entirely my own work, and the first grade was an “A Outstanding!”. The second was an “F Come see me”. Seems that even if the work met the solution well, there was a principal involved.
I wonder whether any of those donors felt at least a little miffed to so obviously NOT getting unique output for their funding. I count a whole lot of overlap in the project space. Wonder if they ever compare notes.
Mann is nuts. I’ve learned that whenever left wing people say such things, it’s often the other way around. Nothing more than smoke and mirrors to distract us from what we should focus on the most – what is the ultimate goal by them when they have to go such extreme to try and discredit us based on lies? I’m afraid of what will happen the next 4 years with Obama seeking to gain more and more power and control over us. Billionaire Soros seems to have his dirty fingers in everything…
The future has already been mortgaged and skeptics are not part of the problem.
A sure fire sign that the “conspiracy” is working, is the complete lack of evidence about it.
His CV now says
Maybe just a glitch.
With some more effort he could prove Big Oil funding by analysing some more tree rings.
Here is Michael Mann’s CV page.
http://www.meteo.psu.edu/holocene/public_html/Mann/about/cv.php
“We will respond to the threat of “alien invasion”, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms created by these powerful beings.”
Ancient Alien theorists say the aliens are coming back and they probably have a peer-reviewed journal somewhere. How can we argue with peer-reviewed journals? The aliens could be coming and Obama should be saving us.
Not all arguments are valid, no matter how scientific sounding they may be. Climate change is just as probable as alien invasion or vice versa. Voting on accurate science is a really bad way to run a country.
I wonder whatever led Michael Mann to consider himself a tree ring expert? Maybe he studied fossilized tree rings. From his CV:
A bit interesting (and ironic) that for AWG proponents the “settled science” need constant funding for more research…seems to me if settled there is nothing to research.
Is it to early to tag him Mad Mann?
The truth is beyond the reach of many of Dr. Mann’s ilk:
http://bobtisdale.wordpress.com/2013/01/25/untruths-falsehoods-fabrications-misrepresentations/
Mann! Mann!………..er ah,isn’t that an expletive? Mensch!!!
This a**clown is stealing our tax dollars. Liars, Thieves & Whores, all of them.
Sounds Like Mann is fighting for his reputation