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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GeologyJim says:
November 16, 2011 at 7:37 pm
Seconded
Right. And Obama and Gore got the Nobel Prize.
It’s a Europe thing.
savethesharks says:
November 16, 2011 at 7:45 pm
R. Gates says:
November 16, 2011 at 5:31 pm
Good for him. Congratulations!
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Congratulations to R. Gates too.
It may be later in life, but he’s finally found a tree-house that he doesn’t get kicked out of.
Joe Bastardi says:
November 16, 2011 at 7:50 pm
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Joe: does that mean you lost all but two of your matches? LOL.
If you were a PSU wrestler, you were GOOD. Really good.
Joe Bastardi says:
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)
But do you have a medal?
Tucci78,
Surely you must have recognized Raymond Bradley, after all, he has the coauthor of Mann’s most hated paper, MBH 99.
I also find it ironic that so many here love using the AMO to arguments against AGW. You do know who was co-author on the paper which found the (still disputed to some extent) AMO? That’s right, Michael E. Mann.
The white-wash continues…
Under the circumstances, it becomes evident that this is one of those peer nominated awards.
In 1991, Matthew Bailes and Andrew Lyne had a paper in Nature claiming to have found an exoplanet in orbit around a pulsar. But when Lyne stood up at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society to do a presentation on the find, he instead announced that they had made an error in their calculations and they could not claim the discovery of an exoplanet. He got a got a standing ovation for the announcement.
There are some truly inspiring moments in science. The European Geosciences Union awarding a medal for short centring of data prior to principal component analysis is not one of them.
Reminds me of Muttley from Wacky Races. He won lots of medals too…
In the final paragraph of my post above, “to” should read “in”
At 8:13 PM on 16 November, in response to my request for background on the previous Hans Oeschger medalists, Rattus Norvegicus writes:
I regret that among the many other three-letter acronyms (TLA) with which I’m not immediately familiar, “AMO” must be added.
WTF is “AMO,” please? The Atlantic multidecadal oscillation? Aviation Medical Officer? Association Members Only? A Miracle Occurs?
Hm. Considering Dr. Mann’s methodologies, that last “AMO” might be spot-on….
From Rattus Norvegicus on November 16, 2011 at 8:13 pm:
You must be desperate. A quick check of Wikipedia says otherwise:
I checked the reference at Nature, Mann is not a co-author. Mann is not a reference for it either.
Mann shows up far later. From the “Further reading” section:
This medal should be presented on the top of a log book. GK
Joe Bastardi says:
November 16, 2011 at 7:50 pm
Yah, well I hold the record for most wins by a PSU wrestler…..
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Hey Joe,
At least you earned them in an honest fight.
Yeah, I won a medal once. I won the fifty yard dash in the fifth grade in 1959. I think my mother lost it.
Why am I reminded of third world rulers bedecked in military medals ?
R. Gates says:
I completely agree. It is a fantastic example of the blind leading the blind. (Or you could also make the case that the pirates are following the pirates.)
At 7:50 PM on 16 November, Joe Bastardi boasts:
Along the Cape May County coast, or that little patch of Atlantic County which includes Pleasantville, Ventnor, and Somers Point?
I think I still have some family down in Ocean City.
Well, isn’t that SPECIAL…. I received a “distinguished inventor” plaque (OK not as SPECIAL as a medal, but it sure looks just as fancy) from a US corporation that was in the top 20 of the Forbes’s top 100 companies way back in the 1990’s.
This company is now barely in the top 250 companies in the list…..
What goes UP can come back DOWN even faster……
Time will tell if the “science” of the “climate” is worth a DAMN or NOT. I suspect that those that follow us on this planet will be having a great big laugh in 2050 about how foolish the “climate scientists” where way back in 2011….. “What Jacka__ really beleived they could predict the weather in one hundred years ????”
Just an observation, but the “doctor” that “perfected” the lobotomy operation won a Nobel Prize for his efforts.
YUCK, I’d rather die without a Nobel Prize than join the ranks of the “lobotomy perfectors”…….
Cheers, Kevin.
I would say that this award is just another lead-in to the Durbin Climate Circus.
Any bets that twenty to thirty years from now this award will be completely unknown especially if the grant money evaporates?
Also I wonder when it was decided to give the medal to Mann, before or after the Penn State football scandal….
davidmhoffer says:
“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.”
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Suggest you contact the nominating committee if you’re so keen to know. Or simply read his rather extensive Wikipedia listing. Since I didn’t nominate him nor did I say “well deserved” (though it well could be), but simply congratulated him, as it is the polite thing do…you’ll have to try to pick an argument with someone else.
savethesharks says:
November 16, 2011 at 7:45 pm
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
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All these men will be remembered long after most of have turned to dust…but then again, so will Osama and Charles Manson.
Rattus Norvegicus;
I also find it ironic that so many here love using the AMO to arguments against AGW. You do know who was co-author on the paper which found the (still disputed to some extent) AMO? That’s right, Michael E. Mann.>>>
I find it ironic that one good deed excuses a thousand sins in your mind. OK, ironic might be the wrong word. How about sickening?