One of the favorite smears from Dr. Stephan Lewandowsky used to try to diminish the arguments of climate skeptics is to create dodgy psuedo-scientific psychological studies with a bent on trying to prove that skeptics are conspiracy theorists. Except for the extremely gullible, such bleatings don’t appear to have any traction. But he does keep trying.
Meanwhile, right in front of his nose, there is a regular parade of conspiracy theory linkages happening daily. For example, get a load of this latest claim from Dr. Michael Mann:
You just have to laugh at the idea that the Koch brothers are paying people to write the sort of comments (27) as of this writing that appear on the Phys.org article: http://phys.org/news/2013-10-people-dont-high-climate.html
I dunno, how does one “smell” Koch in those comments? Is it anything like trained animals that can spot certain scents?
Practically every day now Dr. Mann imagines some Koch brothers connection to people who have honest disagreements about climate. Recall these recent ventures into conspiracy theory land:
Which I answer here: The other divergence problem – climate communications
It’s part of Mann’s recurring theme:Mann overboard! Pot, kettle, conspiracy edition
The reality is, Koch even contributes to Dr. Mann’s University: Oh the pain! #Kochmachine is in many American universities, including Penn State
IMHO, I think Dr. Mann needs to seek professional help for this affliction where he sees the Koch Brothers climate influence under every virtual rock and tree on the Internet. If nothing else, this affliction would make a good clinical case study for some psychologist.
Now watch, someone will alert Dr. Mann to this writing, and he’ll tweet something about it with some added smear, or retweet something from one of his followers along the same lines. It’s as sure as the sun rises in the morning, I don’t even need a computer model.
I like to refer to him as Michael “Piltdown” Mann.
After ” this piece sure smells like #Koch” comment is there anyone who still thinks his Cooch comment was an accident?
Make my day, Mr. watts. Sue Mann for libel.
After all I now think from his tweet that you have been in the pay of the Koch brothers all along.
I’ll never trust you again.
(Sarc)
Like an animal trapped in the CAGW cage, Mann is lashing out at anything that comes near. But the iceberg is fast approaching and he will crash into it & sink into obscurity.
The left is trying to marginalize the Koch Bros the same way they are trying to marginalize conservatives.
Worse still, the intellectually-challenged Mann doesn’t know it’s pronounced like “Coke”. “Hmm, smells like Coke to me…”. Idiot. I can only suspect he was bullied relentlessly whilst at school.
“On the blogs, the fight was particularly fierce. Fox PR staffers were expected to counter not just negative and even neutral blog postings but the anti-Fox comments beneath them. One former staffer recalled using twenty different aliases to post pro-Fox rants. Another had one hundred. Several employees had to acquire a cell phone thumb drive to provide a wireless broadband connection that could not be traced back to a Fox News or News Corp account. Another used an AOL dial-up connection, even in the age of widespread broadband access, on the rationale it would be harder to pinpoint its origins. Old laptops were distributed for these cyber operations. Even blogs with minor followings were reviewed to ensure no claim went unchecked. ”
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/10/21/muroch_s_world_npr_reporter_s_book_claims_fox_news_waged_pr_war_with_anonymous.html
Surely Michael “Meltdown” Mann is a better choice?
I’m sure mann smells something. But I’m fairly certain it is a Crock of something, and that it gets stirred with a hockey stick.
Yeah, feel free to [snip] that one….
Why doesn’t Lewandowsky study this? Because that would embarrass the wrong side. There’s a narrative to maintain, dontcha know…
Wow! Now if Mann can point out where I should submit my comments for a salary I’m on board. I will increase my output immediate – hey Mike how much would I make per comment?
In his latest email frenzy, he referred to a fellow scientist as a “denier,” as having “come out of the [denier] closet, and as not communicating in good faith. That is quite a string for one day. I think he is capable of much more. What an entertainer! What a climate rock star!
Theo ~ you meant ‘crock star.’
@ur momisugly D.J. Hawkins says:
“Surely Michael “Meltdown” Mann is a better choice?”
Michael “Ringer” Mann…
With all these paranoid falsehoods on the record, I think Mark Steyn’s and the National Review’s lawyers will have a field day cross-examining Mann, if the suit gets that far.
Anthony, what I find really remarkable is that anyone. Michael Mann included, would link a “HotWhopper” blog post as a supposed reputable source for any subject. Like Michael Mann, blogger “Sou” has always been a few tree rings short of a hockey stick.
Because it is not a phenomenon it is a known norm.
Do try to remember to send him a ‘Koch Bros’ xmas card this year.
The Mann os increasingly unhinged.Inhave asked my brother, a PSU alliums in good standing, to lodge a formal University complaint.
Also, Anthony, I can now report that my request for funding from the Koch brothers has now been a sticky post at my blog for over a week…
http://bobtisdale.wordpress.com/2013/10/15/open-letter-to-the-koch-brothers/
…and still no funding from the Koch brothers.
A gazillion-dollar donation sure would come in handy.
What do the Koch brothers smell like?
In reply to Mark R,
“Media Matters for America
mediamatters.org/ – Cached – Similar
1 day ago … A non-profit progressive research and information center dedicated to
comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative …”
Nice one, you post a link to a Soro’s run operation with supposed accusations from four unnamed sources. I’d say your source of information (Media Matters) is quite tainted in itself.
Just put a post on Mikey’s Facebook page daring him to take you on in a public debate to put all us ridiculous denialists in our place. Think he’ll take the bait?
Speaking of Cook & Lewandowsky.
You all might be interested in the itinerary of the science program at the upcoming AGU Annual Fall Meeting in San Francisco from Dec 9 thru Dec 13. It features:
– Cook & Lewandowsky are teamed up together to give multiple appearances each of two days during the 5 day AGU meeting. They were invited by the AGU leadership to give these talks.
– Cook & Nuccitelli are teamed up together to give multiple appearance each of two days during the 5 day AGU meeting. They were invited by the AGU leadership to give these talks.
– Cook & Mandia are teamed up together to give one appearance. They were invited by the AGU leadership to give the talk.
I appears anyone from the public can view, at the AGU website, the itinerary of presenters of the AGU meeting’s scientific program. Go peek at it and observe the representation of ‘IPCC centric consensus science’ vs independent skeptical science.
Last year’s AGU, which I attended, had several Cook talks, similar to the above. But this year they have ~doubled in number.
The AGU has sponsored, apparently, a Cook fest by invitation.
I shall attend the AGU meeting again this year.
John
Somebody could make a million bucks with an instant cure for apostrophe disease.