Defenders of Mann stage protest rally at UVA

Athlete says:
August 20, 2010 at 9:12 pm
Five lousy stinking protesters? How is Mike going to hide this decline?
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He’ll use his Nature trick, obviously!
I’m sure glad I don’t have that creepy kid in one of my classes….I rather doubt that we would see eye-to-eye on a few things.

There sure are a lot of white people in that video! I’m one too, but couldn’t help noticing.
Anyhow, sure that I will get a “[snip]” and a bad dog for that first comment, well deserved may I add, I wonder why anyone should care? I mean, we can’t end the AGW threat because of the pipeline, we can’t adapt because that will just make it worse, we can’t do nothing because that will just make it worse, so why even bother protesting? We should really, given all of the possible endings laid out, do what many people say they would do given six months to live and start living the high life, right? Wouldn’t that be the logical choice?

Perhaps the kid is suffering from a serious medical condition (it certainly looks that way), so one shouldn’t ridicule his appearance (and his clothes are perfectly respectable).
Ridiculing the bored onlookers, on the other hand . . . .
Athlete’s “How is Mike going to hide this decline” question is hilarious.

Anton says:
August 20, 2010 at 10:03 pm
Perhaps the kid is suffering from a serious medical condition (it certainly looks that way),
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I was thinking the same thing… [bald guy, myself] regardless…and this is the crux of the matter:
Medical condition or not: his argument is WEAK.
Somebody can have terminal cancer and be on their death bed….and still have a stellar argument.
Or somebody like the once statuesque Arnold Schwarzanegger can stand up, with all of his oomph, and declare a year or two ago that all of the catastrophic fire in Cali were because of “global warming.”
No they weren’t Arnolt.
They were because of sinking air over the Pacific because of the the cool PDO.
Doesn’t matter if the deliverer is sick or healthy: A weak argument is a weak argument.
The converse is also true.
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA

Ryan McElveen has only organized the compassionate meeting because he has the same haircut as Mike Mann. 😉

Is it true that the UVA passed over Pat Michael’s emails to Greenpeace without a peep?
If they did it’s interesting that we’ve heard nothing from them (greenpeace) about them.

Luboš Motl says:
August 20, 2010 at 10:35 pm
Ryan McElveen has only organized the compassionate meeting because he has the same haircut as Mike Mann. 😉
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Luboš you are an extremely smart man on things meteorological and climatological.
But the age old legend [goes back to biblical times] about male pattern baldness, is really not true.
It is due to too much testosterone, not to little. 😉
Michael Mann is just a narcissist so MPB really can not account here as it happens to alot of guys.
This guy….has all his eyebrows missing and any other semblance of facial hair.
But all of that is a red herring, because it is not the person here, but the argument.
I suppose one could argue the reverse of Ken Cuccinelli, “stud” father of about 5 children, good-looking Italian Stallion.
Don’t fall into that trap.
Ken, even though his appearance is “better”, also has a stronger argument.
This makes the “weak” even appear weaker, if that is possible.
Says something about marketing, and about the “face” of science.
[Oh crap….the bald head of James Hansen comes to mind lol]
But the juxtaposition of the two mean absolutely nothing.
Moving on. This kid’s argument is weak.
Sure it would “seem” stronger if he looked like Tim Tebow.
But inquiring minds would venture beyond the surface.
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA

And all of this exposition….coming from a bald guy.
Did you expect anything less? LOL

“Organizer Ryan McElveen said, “Right now, professors have the freedom to research whatever they want. And if the attorney general is able to control what professors are allowed to research or what comes out of their research, then professors will not be willing to come to this state.”
Uhmm, wow, and he’s in academia. When I read stuff like this, I always wonder if the person making such outrageous statements really believe what they’re blathering or are they attempting to others believe the blathering? I never really know……

Pick your German demonstrant here; with prizes in Euro.
http://www.erento.com/mieten/agenturen,_personal_dienstleistungen/personal/demonstrant/

College profs have always been able to research whatever they want; I taught in college for over a third of a century, and no one ever told me what I could or could not research. The issue is paying for the research with other people’s money, which is what Cuccinelli is investigating.

I see people like Ryan and feel some-what sad. They are a product of what we have allowed to happen. Places of learning have been over run by those who can not think original thoughts, the teachers thus create clones. The attorney general can only nibble at the outside of a profoundly corrupted system, it will take a populist revolution in the education systems of all western countries to purge us of the elitist pigs with their snouts in the trough. The Ryans of the world will only ever disrupt and never create, sad sad sad.

2+2=5