Category Archives: Michael E. Mann

Tuesday Twitter titter

Posted on October 30, 2012 by

Note to Dr. Michael Mann: sarcasm only works when your don’t become the butt of the joke. Seen on Mann’s Twitter feed today with ALL CAPS for loud effect. About these ads

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Mann’s hockey stick disappears – and CRU’s Briffa helps make the MWP live again by pointing out bias in the data

Posted on October 28, 2012 by

Shock, awe. Untruncated and unspliced data used in a new paper from Briffa and Melvin at UEA restores the Medieval Warm Period while at the same time disappears Mann’s hockey stick. Here’s figure 5 that tells the story: Look at … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, Michael E. Mann, Paleoclimatology | Tagged , , , , , , , | 483 Comments

Michael Mann – never fully investigated, thus never exonerated

Posted on October 23, 2012 by

Guest post by Christopher Horner Michael Mann has made what will, I expect, prove to be his greatest misjudgment yet. He has filed suit against the Competitive Enterprise Institute (with which I am affiliated), a CEI adjunct, National Review Online … Continue reading →

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Mann has filed suit against NRO (now the laughing begins)

Posted on October 23, 2012 by

This just in. Here’s a potential bombshell for the Mann: Mann’s hockey stick disappears – and CRU’s Briffa helps make the MWP live again by pointing out bias in the data ======================================================== Popcorn futures* continue their unprecedented climb: UPDATE: Sunday 10/28 … Continue reading →

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Listen in on Mike Mann’s legal wranglings at AGU

Posted on October 22, 2012 by

Steve McIntyre reports that the AGU is schlepping for Dr. Mann’s legal defense with a live audio webcast: An Inside Look at the Michael Mann Case Featuring Peter Fontaine, counsel to Michael Mann and a leader of Cozen O’Connor’s Brownfield … Continue reading →

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New paper confirms the climate was warmer 1000 years ago

Posted on October 17, 2012 by

Mike Mann will have a twitfest on Twitter trying to knock this one down. Data from 91 Northern Hemisphere proxies was used to reconstruct temperature. See reconstruction graph (figure 5) below. Via The GWPF: A new paper, looking back at … Continue reading →

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Statement/Update on ATI v. UVa/Mann

Posted on September 18, 2012 by

From The American Tradition Institute – September 18th, 2012 Yesterday the American Tradition Institute (ATI) participated in more than four hours of oral argument in the Prince William County Circuit Court, in its effort to have faculty emails which were paid … Continue reading →

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New isotope based temperature reconstruction using McIntyre’s ‘Starbucks hypothesis’ tree core samples

Posted on September 11, 2012 by

A new paper in GRL published Sep 6th Secular temperature trends for the southern Rocky Mountains over the last five centuries makes use of some tree core sample data gathered by Steve McIntyre and Mr. Pete. Readers of WUWT and … Continue reading →

Posted in Citizen science, Michael E. Mann, Paleoclimatology | Tagged , , , , , | 137 Comments

Yay! Mike Mann took the bait, intends to file lawsuit against Steyn and NRO

Posted on August 23, 2012 by

UPDATE: Uh oh, looks like Mann will have to sue Investors Business Daily too, because they say that: It’s been the greatest fraud of all time, and Michael Mann has been at the heart of it. UPDATE2: Climate Depot has … Continue reading →

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Best Michael Mann headline evah

Posted on August 22, 2012 by

Readers may recall Dr. Mann’s emotional hullabaloo over an NRO published Mark Steyn editorial here. NRO responded to Dr. Mann’s legal threat today, and the headline is priceless. NRO’s headline is succinct and to the point, I like it. Here’s … Continue reading →

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Quote of the week – what planet does Michael Mann live on?

Posted on August 16, 2012 by

Via Tom Nelson: Dr. Michael Mann, author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars, responds to last week’s attacks from Dr. Richard Muller. On the Green Front – Dr. Joseph Romm and Dr. Michael Mann – 08/15/12 at On … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes, Michael E. Mann | Tagged , , , , , , , | 107 Comments

Status of the ATI -vs- Mann and UVa emails saga

Posted on July 26, 2012 by

AMERICAN TRADITION INSTITUTE – PRESS RELEASE July 26, 2012 The ongoing saga of the American Tradition Institute versus the University of Virginia moved forward this week with filing of the arguments of the parties http://www.atinstitute.org/law-ctr/hosted-foia-documents/ on the central issues of … Continue reading →

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Dr. Michael Mann compares visitors to his Facebook Page to “Beetle Larvae”

Posted on July 25, 2012 by

Some days, you get gifts from on high. Dr. Michael Mann apparently still doesn’t understand how his own actions invoked the Streisand effect. So, he compares people asking questions to the larval form of insects. Steve McIntyre tips us off … Continue reading →

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I’ve been Mannhandled

Posted on June 27, 2012 by

We love you too Mikey. At least we know he reads WUWT. Get a load of this response to the above:

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Mann at Orange County Water Conference – emotional presentation, polar bears threatened, still thinks snows of Kilimanjaro are receding due to ‘climate change’

Posted on June 26, 2012 by

Readers may recall: The question put to Dr. Mann at Disneyland today where WUWT regular Roger Sowell was one of the rare skeptics that got to ask Dr. Mann a question. The video is now online of the event.

Posted in Michael E. Mann, Presentations | Tagged , , , , , | 68 Comments

UVa board meeting ends in heckling

Posted on June 19, 2012 by

Readers may recall my earlier report on the strange weekend ouster of UVa president Teresa Sullivan last week where I suggested there might be a Michael Mann connection because supposedly he was offered the Kington chair, and the fellow whose … Continue reading →

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Mann’s ‘hockey stick’ claims of the MWP and LIA being local were refuted years before it was published

Posted on June 17, 2012 by

Pierre Gosselin at NoTricksZone reports: Geologist Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt found a Japanese tree-ring temperature reconstruction from 1995, one that should have been heeded by the IPCC and Michael Mann before they took the world on a 10-year joyride … Continue reading →

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The Neo Paleo Twitter war of Mann -vs- D’Arrigo

Posted on June 14, 2012 by

It seems that Columbia’s Rosanne D’Arrigo thinks Mann’s tree ring study isn’t representative proxies for volcanic eruptions, nor good for dendrochronology, though Mike Mann seems to think so. This Twitter interchange via Alexandra Witze from the AGU Chapman Conference on … Continue reading →

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Mannian paint by numbers? Connect the UVa dots

Posted on June 11, 2012 by

[UPDATE: 4:30PM PST The plot thickens. Breitbart is reporting that Sullivan has a history with scientific misconduct charges, as well as investigations that exonerate without actually asking the tough questions. h/t to reader Holly Martin ] Hmmm, this is more … Continue reading →

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Mann’s secret hot sauce

Posted on June 5, 2012 by

Steve McIntyre finds yet another instance where Mann applies his special “secret hot sauce” to data, selling the sizzle, rather than the steak. It is another familiar tale of data holdback, gatekeeping, obfuscation, and cherry picking by The Team. One … Continue reading →

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