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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I see you’ve acceeded to the request to ‘dump the link’ that so many of your supporters made.
Respect.
Thanks for pointing that out – I didn’t notice. As the first (I believe) to ask that the link be removed, I suppose I should acknowledge this.
Here goes:
Anthony, thank you for deleting the link
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.
This continued shun of Jeremiah Wright and Kim Jong Il shall not go unnoticed!
Tsk. Mr. Watts, shame on you for deleting the link.
Los warmistas are peddling uncomposted bovine byproduct whether we observe the fact or not. They’ve been polishing those lumps of excrement for more than thirty years now, and striving fraudulently to pass them off as the legitimate fruits of alleged “research” that has cost taxpayers in these United States alone more than $79 billion over the past two decades, and far, far more when considerations of other government-enforced violations of individual human rights are appreciated.
Why not make the observation?
Seems this medal award had plans back in 2007
Alleged CRU Email – 1168883146.txt
http://www.au.agwscam.com/cru/emails.php?eid=771&filename=1168883146.txt
This medal was planned to go to Mr Mann way back in 2007
1168883146.txt
Sandusky sex-abuse scandal emerged from a secretive Penn State
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/11/20/130794/sandusky-sex-abuse-scandal-emerged.html
From Penn State University’s athletic department to the halls of its Old Main administrative building, the university long has sought to control the public’s access to information about its inner workings.
It received $270 million from state taxpayers this year, but is able to choose whether to make details of its budget public.
It’s exempt from most requirements of the state Open Records Law. It needs only to disclose the salaries of its 25 highest-paid employees, the salaries of officers and directors and the information filed in its federal non-profit form.
Ever since Al ManBearPig got a gong for his marvelous science fiction movie, i have given absolutely NO credence to any award or grant facility to do with the sciences, especially the climatological sciences. It saddens me to say, but I just don’t trust such methods of recognition any more – too sullied by weak character, ego & political ambition/motivation. That is what this entire global scam has done for my trust in the sciences – just sayin’.
Marion says:
November 17, 2011 at 3:30 am
Interesting that Ray Bradley was one member of the panel awarding the medal!!
http://www.egu.eu/awards-medals/award-medal-committees.html
Oh, and that Phil Jones is also a previous recipient – what a small incestuous world climate science is!!
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So… just as we suspected – see Climategate 2.0 email 1412
“raymond s bradley wrote:
I was totally surprised to learn I was selected for the EGU’s Oeschger medal this
year–so if you had anything to do with that, many, many thanks. I knew Hans quite well
and so this is especially meaningful for me. Phil got the first Oeschger Medal so I
know I am following in his big shoes. But I can’t help feeling it’s all a clerical error
somehow and a correction letter will appear any day now….
Phil Jones wrote:
Ray,
I have been nominating you for several years, as has Andre
and Jean – I think. Not sure how much the last two have been
involved [in the EGU] recently. I haven’t been for a few years.
So, congratulations ! If as in previous years, you get asked about
future awards, then consider nominating Keith and/or Mike. In the
past it has alternated between ice cores and others… “