Dr. Mann doesn’t seem to know who he’s labeling as a “garden variety troll”.
This is probably just a conditioned reflex on his part, since anyone who disagrees with the omniscient Mann is eventually labeled a troll, but in this case, Dr. Mann’s annoyance gives the extra distinction of “garden variety troll”. Observe:
Source: [ http://twitter.com/EcoSenseNow/status/426611745562447872 ]
Um, I think Dr. Mann doesn’t recognize a fellow PhD when he sees one, and surely you’d think Dr. Mann would recognize the co-founder of Greenpeace. Apparently not.
I guess Dr. Mann took exception to the “sensible” part.
UPDATE: A tweet by “AndyMac” is worth mentioning here, especially since I witnessed Dr. Mann and others decrying the poisonous atmosphere that apparently is all the fault of “deniers” at a special session of AGU 2013:
@wattsupwiththat Mann seems to split his time thusly…
1) Complain about abuse, etc, in the media/journals.
2) Abuse, name call on twitter— Уинстън смифф (@AndyMeanie) January 24, 2014
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Reblogged this on leclinton and commented:
Maybe Mr. Mann is still mad at Dr. Moore for his take down of Mann’s friend that other stellar PhD Mr. Fruitfly on SUN NEWS up here in CANADA
Mann is such a strange person
Mann and gang are getting harsher and more shrill on a near daily basis. Not to mention reactionary and ignorant. People who are winning based on evidence do not act like this.
I’ll think M. Mann is wery soon wery lone person. Nobody want’s to be mentioned at the same time with him. Poor bastard, he should go to therapy.
Mann was probably irritable from shoveling snow and scraping ice from his windshield. Ma Nature ain’t cooperating with the story line.
What is Mann known for in “science” – Hockey Stick, Hide the Decline
What skills has Mann got – high school maths seems to be beyond him, practically all of physics is beyond him.
What is left for Dr Mann – the only way he is noticed is when he is abusive. We can expect more of this as he becomes more isolated and more irrelevent.
I don’t understand twitter. Is it possible to see what made the Mann upset in the first place?
Well certainly Greenpeace does not think that Patrick Moore was a “co-founder of Greenpeace.
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/nuclear/patric-moore-background-inform/
REPLY: That’s not surprising they’d say that now, since Dr. Moore has pointed out that Greenpeace has lost its way, and now is more about the Green$ than the peace. He’s become a staunch critic, and of course they need to make sure their flock isn’t distracted by doubts from a sensible co-founder, so they create a distancing method.- Anthony
David Sanger (@davidsanger):
Greenpeace is not a reliable source of information on anything unless, of course, you want propaganda which fits whatever happens to be their current agenda.
Richard
Mann is such a hypocrite. He writes articles like these…
Harassment of climate scientists has to stop
saying how he is constanty being unfairly attacked, but then carries out exactly the same activity himself.
Does the warmist crowd really want this guy as their “man”? If I were doing any marketing for their side, I would strongly recommend a distancing…
There he goes again …
steveta_uk
Probably this tweet, retweeted by someone, came to Mann’s TL:
https://twitter.com/EcoSenseNow/status/426712330865754112
I do not have any time for the left wing neo-terrorists of Greenpeace. However I have lots of time for the very sensible Dr Patrick Moore. It is a real shame that extremists forced him out of Greenpeace as he had the right approach to nudging and encouraging corporations to be much more environmentally responsible, whilst not alienating them. The extremists running Greenpeace now are just a bunch of commie nutters.
Mann’s research has fallen out of favor and thereby he has become sidelined, best to be ignored. Then forgotten.
I too am puzzled by Dr Mann. I cannot but help think he may have a touch of the Walter Mitty about him, a type of fellow described on one site (http://www.reference.com/motif/arts/walter-mitty-syndrome) as
‘An ordinary, often ineffectual person who likes to indulge in fantastic daydreams of their own triumphs.Walter Mitty was an ordinary and unremarkable man who had a great imagination that allowed him to mentally depart from the person he was, and go to where he was beyond others in greatness.He was a legend in his own mind. He’d have fantasies about himself. He was performing tasks of great heroism or genius.’ [edited slightly to improve syntax].
Sanger:
Officially the Greenpeace Foundation came into being in late 1971, and Moore was part of that. The foundation was, however, a renaming of the “Don’t Make A Wave Committee”, whose creation predated Moore’s involvement.
So everyone’s right. That’s nice.
What, no one has said it yet?
State pen, not Penn State.
” David Sanger (@davidsanger) says:
January 24, 2014 at 8:22 am
Well certainly Greenpeace does not think that Patrick Moore was a “co-founder of Greenpeace.”
Unfortunately for the Peas, this is 2014, not 1984, where unpeople are memory-holed:
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/about/history/founders
http://web.archive.org/web/20021119050900/http://www.greenpeace.org.au/aboutus/founders.html
Simultaneous attack of winter in Europe, America and Asia. Forecast polar vortex at an altitude of 17 km on January 28.
http://earth.nullschool.net/#2014/01/28/1500Z/wind/isobaric/70hPa/orthographic=7.26,71.30,419
Encourage the Mann.
The more he speaks, the quicker this CAGW nonsense will collapse.
I found Dr. Moore’s book (Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist) an enjoyable read for anyone believes in a scientific, middle-of-the-road and commonsense approach to environmental protection. It’s too bad though that he is Canadian because IMHO he would be a great choice for heading the EPA.
As for Mann, if and when his massive and oversized head finally explodes someday, the only problem I would have with it is the mess that would need to be cleaned up afterwards. Yuck.
Massive egos like his can at times lead to one’s own self-destruction. Having a PhD is no guarantee that one has the common sense to understand that.
Will it never stop, the constant drum beat of climate alarmism? For a rare breath of fresh air take a look http://www.arizonadailyindependent.com/2014/01/24/the-eocene-climatic-optimum-and-paradise-lost-or-whos-afraid-of-the-2-degree-bogeyman/
@steveta_uk says: January 24, 2014 at 8:21 am
I don’t understand twitter. Is it possible to see what made the Mann upset in the first place?
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“Upset” is Mann’s default state of mind. Indeed, I think he would be upset were he not upset. He’s in a permanent state of tantrum. My kids stopped doing what Mann does when things didn’t go their way before the age of five. At the latest.
From Wiki:
Greenpeace[edit]
According to Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries Changed the World by Rex Wyler, the Don’t Make a Wave Committee was formed in January 1970 by Dorothy and Irving Stowe, Ben Metcalfe, Marie and Jim Bohlen, Paul Cote, and Bob Hunter and incorporated in October 1970.[6] The Committee had formed to plan opposition to the testing of a one megaton hydrogen bomb in 1969 by the United States Atomic Energy Commission on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians. Moore joined the committee in 1971 and, as Greenpeace co-founder Bob Hunter wrote, “Moore was quickly accepted into the inner circle on the basis of his scientific background, his reputation [as an environmental activist], and his ability to inject practical, no-nonsense insights into the discussions.”[7] From as early as September 2005 until its alteration in March 2007, the Greenpeace International web site included Patrick Moore in a list of “founders and first members”.[8][9][10]
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So, Greenpeace is desperate to re-write their own history…