…with apologies to the Beatles and Sgt. Pepper. Most people don’t see how small and cliqueish climate science is, perhaps this perfect illustration courtesy of Climategate 2.0 will enlighten a few people. Thanks to Tom Nelson for ferreting this one out.
Teamwork: Tight little group of warmists write letters to support Michael Mann’s drive to make Phil Jones an AGU fellow
p.s. Kevin T is also writing a letter, as long as he can get it done before he heads out traveling in a couple days [Mann]…
Hi Phil,
This is coming along nicely. I’ve got 5 very strong supporting letter writers lined up to support your AGU Fellowship nomination (confidentially: Ben Santer, Tom Karl, Jean Jouzel, and Lonnie Thompson have all agreed, waiting to hear back from one more individual, maximum is six letters including mine as nominator). [Michael Mann]
Lonnie is also confirmed as supporting letter writer, along w/ Kevin, Ben, Tom K, and Jean J. (4 of the 5 are already AGU fellows, which I’m told is important! Surprisingly, Ben is not yet, nor am I. But David Thompson is (quite young for one of these). I’m guessing Mike Wallace and Susan Solomon might have had something to do w/ that 😉 [Mann to Phil Jones]
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Over at ‘Real Climate’ was this gem, posted on Dec 19
“I have long complained about the lack of willingness of most contrarians to attend and present their arguments at mainstream scientific conferences. After three years of convening climate-related sessions at AGU, I have yet to receive an abstract that argues against anthropogenic global warming.”
In the light of these particular ClimateGate exposes, I’d like to figure the odds against a ‘contrarian’ ever getting his abstract accepted for an AGU session.
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Anton
If you read the comments, you’ll see I’ve already answered this.
@ur momisugly Adam Gallon
I don’t think that’s appropriate.
Thanks Philip. So one has to blend emails from both batches to get the full picture. These charlatans should be frogmarched into the public square for mass ridicule, but instead they just keep piling up more undeserved awards, and boasting of them. I’ve never encountered children this pretentious and self-absorbed. I wonder if the Team’s parents all have bumper stickers on their cars saying “My kid is a member of (fill in the blank).”
Here’s a good rule of thumb: Believing oneself to be brilliant, evolved, enlightened, special, important, generous, charitable, spiritual, beautiful, handsome, or the center of the Universe almost always denotes the opposite.
@ur momisugly Phillip Bratby
Thank you Phillip for digging out the later emails. My memory served me well and thus there is still some grey matter between my ears 🙂
How appropriate, Isn’t a back scratcher hockey stick shaped?
Stacey says:
January 3, 2012 at 12:59 am
“They are so fragrant.
“The question is though does their actions break AGU rules and if so should they not be dealt with accordingly.
“I am sure there is a later email where Mann asks Honest Phil to return the favour?
Do you mean fragrant or flagrant?
I’d not thought of Mann, Jones etc as fragrant – but then they DO seem to surface after ‘enquiries’ smelling of roses… : )
It reminds me of all the medals and accomplishments of Kim Jong Un and his father before him.
With Mike Mann as a friend, who needs …….
Reminds me of the “Mean Girls” at my daughter’s middle school.
Anton;
Please introduce me to your relative! I have a line of fine Ferraris (made of cardboard, with square wheels) and a lovely hand-painted logo. Special one-time price to him, only $50,000 — less than half-price!
Some assembly required.
Brian, he wouldn’t buy, because he couldn’t frame it and hang it on a wall. He actually, honestly, truly believes that his diploma mill doctorate (in something, I can’t remember what) is 100% authentic, and gets mad when people don’t address him as “Dr. So and So.” Many of America’s foremost this or that have diploma mill degrees. England’s notorious former Bantridge Forest School, under the alleged Sussex College of Technology, and Bantridge University (including one “branch” in Hawaii and six or seven others elsewhere) have “graduated” hundreds of CEOs, teachers, professors, executives of every stripe, and a zillion bible-thumping ministers–all of them wielding fake Ph.Ds. Who knows how many are in government positions around the world?