The Mann at TEDx PSU (Penn State) video is now available. There’s no political content warning unfortunately, as Mann spends more time standing if front of giant faces of politicians and political pundits he hates than graphs and data. This TEDx is light on science, heavy on political trash talk. He even manages to work a photo of a child with a polar bear in at the end. The best part of the video is that it is only 16 minutes long. Video below. From the YouTube description:
TEDxPSU – Michael Mann – A Look Into Our Climate: Past To Present To Future
Michael Mann is a professor in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, a climatologist, and the director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University. Michael is best known for his extensive background and research in the field of paleoclimatology. This work led to Michael’s graph of temperature trends over the last thousand years, popularly coined as the “hockey stick graph” because of its resemblance to the sporting equipment. The graph has received acclaim and criticism since its publishing. He has received many awards and honors including, but not limited to, the Outstanding Scientific Paper Award by NOAA in 2002 and also was named one of the 50 Leading Visionaries in Science and Technology by Scientific American. Michael is also one of the founders of RealClimate.org, a highly acclaimed climate science website that was chosen in 2005 as one of the top 25 “Science and Technology” websites by Scientific American and as one of the top 15 “green” websites by Time Magazine in 2008. Michael’s educational background includes an M.S. degree in Physics from Yale, and a Ph.D. in Geology & Geophysics from Yale.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
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Welcome to the North Korea of Climate Science.
“I always thought it was somewhat misplaced to make [the hockey-stick graph] a central icon of the climate change debate,” Mann told the BBC, back in 2010 when being investigated for his roll in climategate #1.
He’s seem to have changed his mind … Again.
Hey, he didn’t mention me!
Up to 4 likes, 54 dislikes.
Yet another video from the Bullshit Department.
But… maybe if you play that video backward, you will hear the passphrase for the protected FIOA files?
RE: nofreewind: (December 6, 2011 at 5:17 pm)
“… since 2000 CO2 emissions have increased by 30% while temperatures have flat lined.”
For an understanding of why that might be the case you might like to check out a plot showing the raw difference in ‘radiative forcing’ when the total CO2 in the atmosphere is increased from 300 PPM to 600 PPM. So far, from a 19th century reference of 280 PPM, we have increased the CO2 level to just over 396 PPM, a square root of 2 multiple, or 41% increase. The plot shows the minimal effect of a 100% increase:
File:ModtranRadiativeForcingDoubleCO2.png
“From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ModtranRadiativeForcingDoubleCO2.png
He is not doing so well on You Tube:
That graph he shows from Hansen is not the original one published in 1988! It’s been adjusted to more closely match what actually happened. They say they’re just using updated values for the CO2 sensitivity. Which they get, essentially, by comparing model projections like this to what actually happened.
Totally circular logic.
Really? TED has started covering religion now?
The Church of Global Warming has a wide reach indeed…
Anthropogenic global warming is a hoax, and Michael Mann is a major perp. He deserves long stay in a cold cell with a big, bum-raping cellmate.
snarfgibble 38 minutes ago
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This guy is a scientist? Sounds like an emotional zealot to me. He wants us to change our public policy based upon computer models? Models that go out 100 years. Hmmmm.
hwantx 45 minutes ago
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Wow, I dont think I’ll be watching any more TedX presentations if pseudoscience like this is touted as truth and cutting edge. Computer models say whatever you want them to say Mr Professor. And ending the first slide at 2004, ignoring 7 years of declining temperatures which would disprove your models is quite inconvenient. Very little science is discussed in this video too but alot of alarming predictions are made. Think of the children and the white brown bear which lives in the Artic. Doom!
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After reading few of the Climategate 1 and Climategate 2. You Mr.Mann you should hide under the rock. You are a horrible person.
317system 1 hour ago
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It’s a travesty! Still pushing his cherry picked bogus hockey stick. Was that a bristlecone he was playing with?
randoneur 2 hours ago
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As Al Gore fades into irrelevancy, along comes Mann, trying to salvage his career before the same happens to him.
pinroot 2 hours ago
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When he shows the Hockey Stick he doesn’t show the massive error bars, the fact that he cuts off the proxy data that has gone down and the fact that he added instrumental data onto the end to show the huge uptick even when his proxy data shows the opposite.
The fact of the matter is that his chart is utterly bogus. His proxies can’t even replicate modern temperature data much less temps from a 1000 years ago.
Look at his emails – he is a sociopath who tries to eliminate anyone in his way.
thegoodlocust 2 hours ago
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@glenncz Actually it would’ve been below that since they tend to fiddle with Hansen’s carbon numbers before showing his graphs.
The only way I can look at a photo of Mann is if I imagine vertical steel bars in the image, and a number on his back. I haven’t figured out a way to watch more than 30 s of video with sound. GK
This mann is a liar from his very first sentence. I have no doubt that he believes his lies, but that does not make them true.
I’m actually sorry that I watched it. I truly wish that I had those 16 minutes back. I am truly worse off and feel less intelligent for having watched it. (I actually feel dirty after having watched it!)
For the sake of Penn State, they should shut this guy up. After the Jerry Sandusky/Joe Paterno scandal, only Micheal Mann could make Penn State look even less ethical.
I’m like most people, I can’t get myself to push the play button. I don’t want to have a sudden fit of AGW induced nausea… anyway, it seems that even 30 years from now they will still be showing graphs ending at most around 2005.
What did he do with with the 1988 Hansen “prediction?”
In that brief CV they forgot to mention his BBS (Bachelor of Bullshit), his DD (Doctorate of doctoring) and his Advanced Diploma in Coercion and Browbeating.
1. Start presentation with blatant lies about carbon dioxide emission levels and observed temperatures vis-a-vis Hansen’s predictions, which are demonstrably not even close to observations.
2. Move on to a litany of attacks on politicians who disagree with you, while readily quoting scientific know-nothings Henry Waxman and Al Gore (not to mention loads of ultra-liberal newspaper editors and political cartoonists).
3. What could go wrong? Surely this will convince everyone!
It appears that Mann did not present the ‘agreement’ between Hansen’s model and the subsequent actual temperature measurements accurately:
1) Mann truncated actual temperatures at 2005 (strange given the fact that the talk was recorded on 13 November 2011)
2) Mann says that the ‘medium model’ was ‘pretty much spot on’. Actually the ‘low model’ was as close to observation as the ‘medium model’ – and including years after 2005 shows that the ‘low’ model is in better agreement with observation.
3) Mann misrepresented the ‘high’, ‘medium’ and ‘low’ models. These were actually assuming increased, constant, or reduced CO2 output. The low model assumes reduced CO2 output. We have not reduced CO2 output since 1988 (quite the opposite) so the appropriate model for comparison would be what Mann called the ‘high model’.
See http://climatologyplagiarism.blogspot.com/2011/12/manngling-models.html
Well… I could watch Mike’s little you-tube thing but then I never watched Joseph Goebbels’ you-tube explanation of his own personal awesomeness either and I wouldn’t want to show favoritism to one hate-filled, uber-propagandist over another. And I’m out of kaopectate.
Here’s a response, titled “Notes from Skull Island,” I posted to the theory that our side is run under the aegis of a well-funded, well-organized campaign. It’s a list of things that would be happening, but aren’t, if that were true.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/05/out-manned-but-what-happened-to-the-science/#comment-760039
From a couple of clues I’ve read online, Mann is a far-leftist of the Orestes type, so the meme of scheming-capitalists-behind-the-scenes fits his mental template.
Look, everyone needs to watch this video before mouthing off on something you have never seen. I suggest that someone uses the video and produce a point/counter point.
richardK says – “I suggest that someone uses the video and produce a point/counter point.”
GREAT idea. I hope someone does ASAP.
When I logged my dislike of this video the score stood at 6 likes and 90 dislikes. It makes you feel nauseous watching the whole thing but we must suffer for our science? It reminds me of actors doing party political broadcasts in the UK.
Proof if ever needed that this Man(n) is not a scientist but a wannabe politician.
If I was connected to Penn state I would be ashamed, then again all the news stories coming out of there lately seem to show a complete lack of ethics.
I’m trying to think of the biggest clown figure in history to compare him to but no-one even comes close, so i guess bozo the clown :- http://thebsreport.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/bozo-the-clown.jpg
Well, you call Mann a liar but really do not show what is the lie ! Here is one example ..
First he say the models is VERIFYED, later he say we really can’t say what the warming will be 3-5 or 5-7 because the models are uncertain. So what is it ? Due to uncertainty maybe it’s zero due to CO2 ? (Just as likely as anything). At least it will turn out the models is NOT verifyed or really show me where and how ! If he can not he is really a liar !
OK, I watched it. Could someone medical explain why we always seem to heave up bits of tomato, even when we haven’t eaten any tomatoes?
Eeek! This short video is probably the primer for his book next year! Hundreds of pages of politics, whining about being persecuted, naff science, and ‘naming the guilty men’ who blasphemed against the Cause.
I hope you have many happy citations in the index Mr Watts!
“He even manages to work a photo of a child with a polar bear in at the end”
LOL
(I don’t have the stomach to watch the video)
vomit
sorry, couldn’t help myself.