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After being told by the IPCC in no uncertain terms that he can’t make claims like “Nobel Prize Winner”, now with enough cash, he could at least make the claim of Nobel Prize owner.
It seems that one is for sale. From IO9:
How much would you pay for a Nobel Prize medal?
Nobody has tried to sell a Nobel medal in 70 years, so the final price will establish a new and interesting precedent as far as these things go.
Full story here: http://io9.com/5986996/how-much-would-you-pay-for-a-nobel-prize-medal
ABC News reports on the motivations behind the sale.
Of course after the ribbing he must have taken after this full page ad appeared in the PSU student newspaper, he may no longer be interested.
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Well, I guess he can afford it with all his big oil money and all.
Hmm. I’m kind of surprised one hasn’t been sold before, considering the amount of olympic gold medals, superbowl and other sports championship rings, etc. that float around.
It’s the title, the honor and respect, and not the physical medal, that dignifies a person.
Imagine crowd sourcing a couple bucks each to establish a foundation that uses the funds raised to buy the Nobel and then enshrine it in honor of all Mann kind.
Mann hasn’t the merit, but he’s likely got the money for a Nobel Prize. Of course, that would likely diminish the value of all other medals, but that’s the consequence of dealing with a “climate scientist” of his caliber.
“…and then enshrine it in honor of all Mann kind.” Possibly the Peace Prize (it’s been pretty much debased anyway) but NOT any of the scientific prizes.
If he isn’t the high bidder, he’ll just have to be content being the proud owner – of a fasimile – of a certificate – of an award – made to a committee.
Yep. One of those prizes and a buck will buy you a cup of coffee at McDonald’s these days.
Still a bit dicey. Mann could purchase the medal and diploma. However the Nobel Prize comes with a hefty sum of cash (about $1.2 million). He wouldn’t be getting that, he’d be paying out. But in Mannian Statistics(TM) where up and down don’t make a difference, I guess it all would work out.
M. Mann (the AMO man) may be Nobel prize’winner’, but my Geo-Solar geomagnetic based AMO reconstruction appear to have higher correlation, despite protestations from some other quarters
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/AMO-recon.htm
Being allowed to own a Nobel Prize should have require an Ethics clause.
Wait- that would leave out quite a few of those who actually got one, let alone mann.
Nobel prizes aren’t what they used to be, before Obama got his:
Free prize1
Free prize2
Free prize3
Hi Michael
I could forward this personalised copy by email,
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/NoBellCert.htm
no payment required, no gold medal though.
But if Mann buys it, won’t he have to change his name to Crick?
Avoid “Big Oil” because it is evil, but “Big Dynamite” is to die for. That seems to be another consensus view of climate change scientists.
Mann’s a leftist.
A Berkeley grad and activist that can be seen hobnobbing with leftist Democrats all the time in his promotion of climate change. The hockey stick was a fabrication, consistent with the needs of a leftist ideology that wants to tone down the human footprint (in other words: de-industrialize).
“A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States… [we] must design a stable, low-consumption economy in which there is a much more equitable distribution of wealth.” -John Holdren, Obama’s Science Czar
“We’ve got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing …” -leftist Senator Tim Wirth, 1993
“I gave up on Judith Curry a while ago. I don’t know what she think’s she’s doing, but its not helping the cause.” -Michael Mann, Climategate Email
“We have to offer up [fabricated] scary scenarios… each of us has to decide the right balance between being effective [lying] and being honest [ineffective].” -Stephen Schneider, lead ipcc author, 1989
“It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.” -Paul Watson, Greenpeace
“The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.” -Daniel Botkin, ex Chair of Enironmental Studies, UCSB
How about we take up donations to purchase this for him. Of course if we were successful we would present it so someone else, maybe Anthony, to hold for Mr. Mann.
Perhaps Josh could draw Mann a special medal to go with his calendar?
Oh this is capital indeed!!!!
I am far out of my league here, to be fair. I am a scientist, though not a climate scientist. Still, those with which I am acquainted do find Mr. Mann’s Maniacal Machinations quite … um… mirthful.
See, this is exactly why the congress should’ve negotiated with Obama and given him additional tax increases (after all, it’s not our money anyway) so the US could avoid the upcoming sequester. Now, where will that public servant (ok, it’s just a term, it doesn’t really mean anything) in Washington find the money to purchase a Nobel Prize (under the auspices of research funding) for our Dr. Michael Mann. Sure, Mikey will not have actually ‘won’ it, but this is not the world of reality. The world of reality is a fantasy. The world of fantasy is the world of reality. And with a surreal Nobel Prize under Mikey’s generously proportioned belt the Obama administration could at least only semi-falsely claim (you know: the old argument; is the cup half true, or the cup half false?) that they spent taxpayer money only semi-wastefully on semi-useful research into fantasy (the new reality) global climate… warming… change… whatever, and with the authority of that illusionary, yet real, Nobel Prize winning research proceed to enact destructive climate mitigating policies that actually will destroy our pay checks, crash the economy, and so on. Now, Michael Mann won’t get a virtual Nobel Prize, Obama can’t claim to be virtual savior of the planet and will, instead, have to destroy our pay checks, crash the economy, and so on, with illusionary budget cuts in a sequester. Not quite so high falutin’ noble (sorry about the pun) a means to acquire his transformative (a surreal word if there ever was one – and nasty too) change. Life’s tough for Michael Mann and Barack Obama.
BTW: Does someone make a golf club that looks like a hockey stick?
Why spend all that money when you can just do cocktails with the biased Nobel committee members for a new one. A few side gifts from WWF and others might need to be leveraged also, but that is a technicality.
A quarter of a million dollars?
So, if I sell my share of the EU’s Peace Prize (about one five-hundred-milionth part) – unless I’ve missed a zero or two [Mann and Auto both have ‘a’s, so it may be possible] – then I will raise one two-thousandth of a greenback – one twentieth part of a cent.
Hey Michael – yours for fifty bucks, cash!
Then you [like my cats] will be a partial recipient – no mere contributor with photocopied A4 certificate – to a Nobel Peace Prize.
OK – Sarc off. [I hope you didn’t think the above comments were too serious . . . . ]
I think it a pity that Crick’s family are, seemingly, having to sell.
I’ll not ride my hobby-horse about the state of the West [and the UK certainly not excepted!].
I think we could avoid a lot if expense if we just fabricate the Nobel medal on a 3d printer, give it to Mike and tell him it’s a real Nobel Prize. Remember, his standard if evidence is really, really low for things he wants to believe.
Dignifies? Apparently not!
As a U.S. taxpayer, I also contributed to the award given the IPCC:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/02/13/new-bill-to-limit-ipcc-funding-from-usa/
Where’s my plaque, er, plack, er, whatever that was a picture of?