Readers surely recall: Nominations are open for the first annual ‘Climate Duplicitist of the Year’ award.
The top nominations are in, now you can vote.
(poll is closed per original rules, result will posted Sunday night)
Only one vote per person, vote stuffing attempts are minimized by the design of the poll software.
Trenberth was added as bonus option, even though he’s been relatively quiet recently. I recognize that readers had many more suggestions for nominations, but these are the ones most numerous in comments.
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Mann is a perennial so this time I voted for Lewadowsky.
Michael Mann is always in the running for this one isn’t he?
I voted for Mann. He stays busy. Gleick is the most spectacular of all time. But what has he done for us lately? While Mann is like the Everready Bunny. He just keeps churning out this crap.
Too difficult to decide.
All the above?
I’m running a get-out-the-vote campaign for Kevin Trenberth. Sure, he’s a dark horse running in a field of thorough-breeds like Michael Mann – but I just know he can do it. He tries so hard.
GO KEVIN!!!!
So many choices (and all SO deserving).
Al Gore is da’ man! Whenever you want to buy some sincere climate duplicity, he’s your go-to guy… and he stays bought. Well, at least until it’s time to get out ahead of the crash.
In the absence of Canadian content (Suzuki, CBC) , Al Gore is King.
Perhaps the subname of the award is the James Hansen Award… because I note he is not a candidate.
Anyone who declares that the Earth’s crust is hotter than the corona of the Sun, gets to win it every year.
Just incase: du·plic·i·ty
d(y)o͞oˈplisitē/
noun
noun: duplicity
1.
deceitfulness; double-dealing.
synonyms: deceitfulness, deceit, deception, double-dealing, underhandedness, dishonesty, fraud, fraudulence, sharp practice, chicanery, trickery, subterfuge, skulduggery, treachery;
informalcrookedness, shadiness, dirty tricks, shenanigans, monkey business;
literary: perfidy. “He got caught up in the duplicity of his crooked partners.”
Trickery/dirty tricks lends itself to Mann.
Shenanigans, monkey business, and chicanery to Lew.
Fraud and underhandedness to Gleick.
But I don’t see ‘basic idiot’, so I guess I am going to scratch Turney.
And I am still out on Gore as to whether he is the classic ‘delusional messiah complex’ individual or something more.
So I got it down to 3 candidates, so tough. Kinda wish we had (dis)approval voting and I could cast 3 votes.
So many choices. Which to choose, which to choose?
It’s gotta be Trenberth. He churns out more papers to find the elusively hidden heat than anyone.
All so deserving. Maybe a lifetime achievement award for Mann, Trenberth & Gore. If it’s for the past year, I’m going to have to go with Lewdie or the Antarctic Iceman. Gleick would have been hands down winner for the 2012-13 duplicity season, so maybe a retroactive winner could be declared, with honorable mention for the dishonorable AGU for not perp walking the liar out of its Task Force on Science Integrity & the whole organization.
I think it needs to be Gleick. As bad as some of the others are (“self”-ethics review, horrendous statistics, blind willfulness, refusal to debate, refusal to release data, etc.), none of them, so far as I am aware, actually went so far as to forge documents as part of a frame-up job.
I still think “Climate Conniver” has more swing than “Climate Dupliciitst”–lots more.
Lewdicrous Lew’s Lewdoscience takes the cake!
I went with Mann – he’s the one that’s been most active this year. But actually, he and Al Gore could both receive life-time awards so then we could turn our attention to the also rans.
‘Climate Duplicitist of the Year’ award
Have they changed the rules?
…I understood that if you’ve won over 10 years in a row
you get the lifetime achievement award
I think it would be better if it were more like the college football polls: 5 points for first place, 4 for second, etc. down to 0 points for last place. It would provide a lot of information about the relative…. um…. notoriety of the candidates. Maybe someone could write up a Lewandowsky style attack paper based on the results.
I cast my vote for Mann on the basis that his work has had by far the most impact. As a scientist myself, I am offended at how he operates, more like a politician than an actual scientist — never admits a mistake, just moves on. Michael Mann is a cartoon. It’s hard to understand how academia still takes him seriously.
I went with Al Gore. Al Gore has made more money, is the most publicly visible, his lies have been far more widespread and widely quoted, not to mention that he made a lying movie for which he received numerous accolades. I agree with all that others have said so far about the candidates, but Al gets the prize. He may be the most duplicitous and untrustworthy character in all phases of his public life that I have ever seen.
I had to vote for Turney simply because he has one of those faces that make me want to punch the screen every time his photo appears.
We should do everything we can to have Mickey Mann at 9th International Conference on Climate Change
Les Johnson stole my thunder — — it has to be “All of the Above” with Julia Gillard and Steven Mosher added as a bonus.
Maybe we could call it the ‘Gore Hanson Lifetime (mal-)Feasance Award’ ?