From Penn State, the best news they’ve had all month:
Mann to receive Hans Oeschger Medal from European Geosciences Union
Michael Mann, professor of meteorology and geosciences and director, Earth System Science Center, Penn State, was awarded the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geosciences Union.
The medal was established in 2001 in recognition of the scientific achievements of Hans Oeschger to honor outstanding scientists whose work is related to climate: past, present and future.
Mann’s research involves the use of theoretical models and observational data to better understand Earth’s climate system. He is best known for the “hockey stick,” a chart he and his co-authors published in 1999 using proxy climate data such as tree-rings and ice cores to estimate temperatures over the past thousand years. The hockey stick demonstrated that temperatures had risen with the increase in industrialization and use of fossil fuels and is the subject of Mann’s new book, “The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars,” due out in early 2012.
Mann received his undergraduate degrees in physics and applied math from the University of California at Berkeley, an M.S. in physics and a Ph.D. in geology and geophysics from Yale University. He was a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Scientific Assessment Report and has served as chair for the National Academy of Sciences “Frontiers of Science.” In 2007 he shared the Nobel Prize with other IPCC lead authors.
He will receive his award during the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union, April 22-27, 2012, in Vienna, Austria. Mann will also present a Medal Lecture during the conference.
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This presents a rather stark and interesting contrast. I don’t know how many others frequent the EGU’s Climate of the Past Discussions website (http://www.clim-past.net/volumes_and_issues.html), but as I have alluded to before, this is the most open peer-review publication process being practiced in the world today. Discussion papers are initially posted then follows an open on-line comment period, then a final paper is issued. All of it on-line and always available since 2005.
To give an award to someone who fights tooth and nail to shield data and methods from scrutiny?
I just don’t know. I just don’t know……………..
Benefits
Except for the travel and support awardees, all medalists and awardees will receive a fine, glass-framed document with their name and a short résumé concerning their achievement, free registration for the meeting and free accommodation for one night, and an invitation to the Award Dinner.
I’ve received bigger prizes picking up garbage, just sayin.
JohnWho says:
November 16, 2011 at 6:31 pm
One small step for Mann,
one giant leap backward for mankind.
Sadly so true, and since I can’t beat that I’ll stay put. Any further is [snip] territory.
What a bitter irony.
Everyone is celebrity crazy now-a-days. In the realm of “climate justice” Mikey Mann is a rock-star.
History shows again and again how Nature points up the folly of Mann.
@ur momisugly William McClenney
Politics, as they say, makes for strange bedfellows.
You don’t really think this is a “science” medal, do you?
But will he get his smiling face on the cover of the Rolling Stone*?
*By which I mean the peer reviewed geophysics journal: Rolling Stone Seismic Data.
D Marshall said on November 16, 2011 at 5:43 pm:
Nah, what would be really demeaning would be renaming the site DeeperClimate, DaSmoggyBlog, ReallyRealClimate, or (gasp!) WideOpenMind. If he started calling himself Tony Wattsbunney, and started talking in third-person about how the Wattsbunney thinks the IPCC was dead on except for dramatically understating the severity and the suddenness of the onslaught of global warming catastrophes, I hope good friends and family promptly hold an intervention followed by dragging him off for the involuntary inpatient mental therapy he’d obviously desperately need.
Wow, the snippers are awful busy tonight. What are they using? The kind we used in shop back in high school?
R. Gates says:
November 16, 2011 at 5:31 pm
Good for him. Congratulations!>>>
I was just thinking to myself I hadn’t seen a comment from my old friend R. Gates for some time now. Perhaps my fault as I don’t follow every thread, and may well have missed some here and there. But then I saw this thread was about one of the leading members the “the Team” and I said to myself…R. Gates will be there, supporting the team, as per usual.
I didn’t read the article, just skimmed through the comments to see if my R Gates theory was correct, and sure enough, there you are Mr. R. Gates. Since I missed the article, I surmise from your congratulatory comment that he has received some sort of positive recognition from someone. Not certain if I care what, or by whom.
I’d be interested though, if you could summarize in your own words R. Gates, what it is specifically that Mann has done that makes him deserving of the presumed accolade? No generalizations now, I’m seeking specifics.
Regards,
dmh.
When he goes over to the EU can we some how arrange for him to remain there??? Perhaps a nice side trip to Tibet could be arranged for this winter????
D Marshall says:
November 16, 2011 at 5:43 pm
Anthony, please remove the [don’t give away the joke] link from your post. It’s demeaning to your site’s standards.
D. Marshall –
Hey, it’s on the Internet, it must be true:
http://www.guffsturdpolish.com/default.php
So, for Dr. Mann, a “lifetime supply” will be quite a haul.
Anyone with an ounce of intelligence know that it is political.
D Marshall says:
November 16, 2011 at 5:43 pm
Anthony, please remove the [don’t give away the joke] link from your post. It’s demeaning to your site’s standards.>>>
I agree! Anthony, I am shocked! SHOCKED! That company went to a lot of work to come up with turd polish and they are no doubt proud of their product. That you would suggest demeaning their company, and their products, by suggesting it be used to polish Michael Mann, is probably very upsetting to them. I mean, they researched turds to come up with this product, they must be VERY dedicated, and proud of their results. You have probably hurt their feelings, they clearly created their product to serve a higher purpose than smearing it on such a foul recipient.
Oh yeah? Oh yeah?
Well, I won the Charles Palmer Davis Medal for Current Events in 9th grade. I think he founded ‘My Weekly Reader,’ but it’s like, you know, a medal and everything. It’s not like Nobel Peace Prizes, where they give them out to just anybody.
Anthony, I’m saddened by your decision to include the joke above. Much as I appreciate the humour, I’ve had more appreciation of your taking the moral high ground, up until now.
That said, the decision to honour Dr Mann reflects poorly on the EGU, in light of his adoption of invalid statistical methods, use of inappropriate proxies, use of the contaminated Tiljander proxies upside down, his ‘nature trick to hide the decline’, and failures in academic collegiality and scientific transparency.
This award seems hugely ironic. Poor Dr. Oeschger must be spinning 10-E6 in his grave.
I believe this Oeschger is the other half of Dansgaard-Oeschger, the two researchers who documented ice-core evidence of extremely rapid climate excursions, especially in the early Holocene.
D-O events, as they are known, are quintessentially non-anthropogenic.
To give this award to a statistical fraud who perverted the paleoclimate record with “tricks” and computational fallacies just flies in the face of the hard, deductive logic employed by Dr Oeschger to identify one of the interesting periodicities of natural climate variation.
This compares with awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Yassir Arafat. Emmy Award/Milli Vanilli etc.
R. Gates says:
November 16, 2011 at 5:31 pm
Good for him. Congratulations!
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OK. In a similar vein, then: “Good for Al Gore, Pachuri, Arafat, and Obama….for winning the Nobel Peace Prize.” Congratulations!”
Doesn’t mean much, does it??
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
Yah, well I hold the record for most wins by a PSU wrestler who grew up south of the Expressway and east of the Parkway (1) lettered in wrestling and got a degree in meteorology, and no one associated with the AGW movement will ever outdo that. so There ( just having some fun, okay)
Has anyone reading here any familiarity with the previous Hans Oeschger medallists and their work?
I recognize precisely none of them, but I’m not at all professionally familiar with the fields of “ice research and/or short term climatic changes (past, present, future).”
Would anybody be in the least bit surprised to learn that they’re each and every one of ’em an AGW “We’re All Gonna Die!” catastrophist?
What’s the big deal? I’m sure Astrologist organizations give notable astrologers awards and medals as well.
Quoting Hans Oeschger (1927 – 1998): “The worst for me would be, if there were serious changes in the next 5 to 10 years and we scientists are helpless and did not have the courage to point at these dangerous developments early.” Obviously this quote had to have been made over 14 years ago; what “dangerous developments” have occurred in this century other than global cooling and a drop in sea-levels?
http://woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:2001/to:2012/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:2001/to:2012/trend
Past, present, and future – in regard climate prediction that is the equivalent of saying a stopped clock is right twice a day. Sooner or later anything Mann says could come to pass. Safe grounds for an award. Beats being known as the nut that fell not far from the tree.
John_in_Oz says:
November 16, 2011 at 7:35 pm
“That said, the decision to honour Dr Mann reflects poorly on the EGU, in light of his adoption of invalid statistical methods, use of inappropriate proxies, use of the contaminated Tiljander proxies upside down, his ‘nature trick to hide the decline’, and failures in academic collegiality and scientific transparency.”
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Shucks, is that all? I’ve heard he kicks puppies and is a lousy tipper (no sense of humor, either).
Actually, I feel a slight bit of pity for Mann. Here we have a young man with a newly minted Ph.D.who got sucked into the whirling vortex of politically agenda-driven “science”. They turned him into a rock star before he turned 40. I fear there is no hope for a return to legitimate science for Michael Mann. In the back of his mind he has to know that the money and celebrity won’t last forever.
[nothing but a content free personal attack on another commenter]
In abjectly and utterly irrelevant response to my query about the previous recipients of the Hans Oeschger Medal, at 7:58 PM on 16 November, we have David Falkner posting (in toto):
To which the only proper reply is a request of Mr. Watts as to whether he’s going to lance this pustule of a Falkner or I get to declare open season.
All one to me, I assure you.
REPLY: “…lance this pustule of a Falkner?” Please, use plain English to describe your request. And no, you don’t get to declare “open anything”, it isn’t your blog. If you want to go off on a tear, do it someplace else. – Anthony