Tom Nelson reports:
I hate the idea of spending $9.99 on a climate hoax book, but I plan to get my money’s worth.
Searching Mann’s book for “denier” yielded 125 hits; “Morano” had 27 hits; “McIntyre” had 166 hits; “Watts” had 16 hits.
Mann’s book currently has 15 reviews on Amazon, all five-star, many by his warmist friends. I hope some climate realists eventually review the book as well.
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While I realize that many people don’t want to buy this book, please don’t pull a Peter Gleick and do reviews apparently in absentia. (I can’t emphasize this enough – don’t post a review if you have not read it.)
For some balance, may I also recommend Don’t Sell Your Coat by Harold Ambler.
The book is out on Kindle and doing much better, for instance competing successfully with Michael Mann’s The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars. It is now number 3 just ahead of Mann’s new book.
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12 subsequent reviews – presumably by non-“warmist freinds” :
2 x 5-star, 1 x 2-star, 9 x 1-star.
Average rating now down to 3.6, if this trend continues…………..
One of the Amazon reviewers, and ostensibly a climatist himself, gives away the game:
“The most disturbing sections of this book detail the personal attack on Mike Mann and his family as well as attacks on other prominent scientists such as Ben Santer Rachel Carson, Paul Ehrlich, Herbert Needleman, Stephen Schneider, James Hansen, Eric Steig, and Wei-Chyung Wang.”
There’s no doubt that government grant money is, to a great extent, driving the AGW gravy train, but I’ve long suspected that, for some significant subset of the “team,” and its fellow travelors, the real aphrodisiac here is ideology. One notes here some of the past kings of politicized junk science, at least one of which, it can be substantively argued, is to some degree responsible for the needless death and misery of tens of millions of people in the tropics due to completely groundless social hysteria regarding DDT that set the tone for most of the environmental movement/media created eco-scares of the next 30 years.
Without having read the book, the negative reviewers seem to be homing in on a core set of themes, the fundamental one of which I would catagorize as the sheer defensiveness and sense of being cornered Mann expresses throughout the work. Mann sees demons, devils, and boogeymen everywhere, and never sincere, principled disagreement with his views. Like the communists of old, it couldn’t be that his theories are faulty, so it must be “wreckers” “saboteurs” and “deviationists” under every bed.
When this individual finially slinks away into obscurity, it will not have been too soon.
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,260
One of the 5star reviewers, Aaron C. Huertas, claims to be the press secretary at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Comments on his review are as follows.
Florida Computer Guy says:
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((Full disclosure: I’m a press secretary at the Union of Concerned Scientists and the group has publicly weighed in many times to defend Mann against attacks from climate contrarians.)
Yeah, but did you actually read the book?
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In reply to an earlier post on Feb 8, 2012 1:10:59 PM PST
Aaron C. Huertas says:
Indeed, I did. Thanks for asking.
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Your post, in reply to an earlier post on Feb 8, 2012 2:01:12 PM PST
Chris B says:
“Full disclosure: I’m a press secretary at the Union of Concerned Scientists and the group has…….”
The “group” is more a hodge-podge of concerned activists rather than concerned scientists, if your actually going to fully disclose.
I suppose using the “Climate Contrarian” perjorative in the name-calling game is better than “Climate denier”. Although, as a press secretary for a so-called “Scientists” organization you ought to have better communication skills than having to resort to name-calling rather than deal with the arguments.
EOM
bought the book, read the book, nice easy style (easier than Mr plimmers style)
make a lot of sense and gives scope for following up with own research (for a layman like me)
just had to import the
“climate conspiracy”
from america for a good read as well but the best book for me is my
“the history of a candle”
written in1886 by Faraday now this was written my a scientist and its where the carbon dioxide thing started, and was put to bed the same day !
““Watts” had 16 hits.”
Was that as Watts/meter, you know 0.00033 Anthonys/Thermometer?
It is safe to assume, of course, that Mann filed all the necessary environmental impact statements and purchased a surfeit of climate offset credits prior to launching his magnum opus. Isn’t it?
I really hope this is the book by which Mr Mann’s career to date is judged and recorded for ever more.
If the reviews are anything to go by it sounds like a classic case to point of NOT how to act as a scientist:
– hurl abuse and names at those on the other side of the debate – check !
– wallow in my own self importance – check !
– hardly bother to describe or prove my science – check !
All nicely put together in one easy to read volume!
I do hope that those above him at his place of employment do indeed read this and come to the realization that this guy is a complete liability. Also how could anybody else in academia surely employ someone with this world view and public ego?? I really hope this is his last gasp before he disappears in the sea of total irrelevance..
Michael Mann’s new book is out
Which will be appropriately printed on homogenized tree rings.
I’d be wary of the electronic versions. Given the way certain (C)AGW-pushing sites operate, let alone the record of “peer”-reviewed publications, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a built-in auto-update for corrections and “clarifications” that’ll change things months and years later after the stated publication date, without notification nor notation of the occurrences. Which will allow the faithful to continually point to the “original” electronic text as proof Mann was right all along.
Goodness, I hope no one gets the idea of buying the ebook …and then putting it on Pirate Bay as a bittorrent. That would be truly awful!
I try very hard not to take any personal issue with any of the warmist climate scientists but Michael Mann’s behaviour and attitude has rendered me incapable of being objective in his case.
I was not sure if I could read this book. I mean the anger would start to boil in me. But as a true realist (sceptic/denier) I know I should as it is critical that I know the enemy. They call us deniers to link us to revisionist historians and holocaust deniers; in defence I call them watermelons and have done for some years now. I will read it, oh the pain! But I will grit my teeth and try and laugh.
Hopefully this book is the “jump the sharks” episode.
“Climate Wars” – so this is Mann’s interpretation of the scientific method ?
Once I put it down, I couldn’t pick it up
For Rob Crawford, February 8, 2012 at 12:50 pm –
This looks a better intellectual investment
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bunkerbound-Novelty-Sudoku-Toilet-Roll/dp/B00175TFU8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328745325&sr=8-1
🙂
Mr. Nelson
Thanks for “taking one for the team” on this one! I hope you’ll report back after completing your onerous duty. I have no intention of partaking of this offering in any way, but one thing I would be interested to know is whether Mr. Mann exhibits the same overwhelming arrogance and condescension when writing for the mass market as he seems to in all his other communications?
I might buy it if I see it in a sling out bin for 50c.
Mandia’s review is quite lengthy…perhaps detailed enough to avoid having to read the book?
I think I’ll wait for the remake.
By the way, Apple’s new iBooks Author program is free but requires OS X Lion. It allows anyone to publish and distribute free books and to post them to the Apple Bookshelf for sale.
Amazon has a lending library of thousands of books one can checkout for free and keep as long as you like with their premium service; $79/year. I’m guessing books are a loss leader for the Amazon membership service.
There really isn’t any reason not to publish a variety of ibooks for education presenting the truth and exposing the fiction. WUWT is a wonderful repository of information.
Let me know if you need a volunteer to format WUWT books to give proper balance to works like The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars.
LoL.
Look fellas since Anthony’s going to provide the dime, and since we’re all being stolen from by this pseudo-science trash, I wanna explain to ya how you stop a global warming argument, in one,
fell, swoop: simply say this:
WHY DIDN’T you KNOW Mike Mann’s gear SPITS HOCKEY STICKS?
WHY DIDN’T you KNOW Mike Mann’s TREES can’t be “T.R.E.E.M.O.M.E.T.E.R.S”?
Why DIDN’T MICHAEL MANN, and E.V.E.R.Y. O.T.H.ER. P.E.R.S.O.N ENDORSING THIS SCAM,
KNOW THESE THINGS?
Until you give CRYSTAL CLEAR ANSWERS to WHY YOU ALL DIDN’T KNOW THE ANSWERS TO THESE TWO S.I.M.P.L.E. QUESTIONS, this conversation has you: D.I.S.M.I.S.S.E.D. back to AREA 51/BIGFOOT/C.A.G.W.
science violation
country.
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N.e.v.e.r. fails.
Some more questions you can pop them with rapid fire, and say “get back with me when you’ve got full answers to this”
WHY didn’t your scammers KNOW all they had to DO was CHECK with the INFRARED ASTRONOMY FIELD to SEE if THEY WERE RECORDING MORE, or L.E.S.S. INFRARED DOWNWELLING at NIGHT to SEE if their MAGIC GAS HYPOTHESIS was REAL?
WHY didn’t your scammers KNOW all they had to DO was CHECK with the OPTICAL ASTRONOMY FIELD to SEE if THEY WERE RECORDING MORE, or L.E.S.S. of the EFFECT called
ATMOSPHERIC SCINTILLATION – the T.W.I.N.K.L.I.N.G. of the S.T.A.R.S. over their ignorant HEADS: TO VERIFY RISING HEAT in ATMOSPHERIC AIR around us?
Because HEAT in the ATMOSPHER is T.H.E. R.E.A.S.O.N. the S.T.A.R.S. TWINKLE at NIGHT, and if the ATMOSPHERE is HOTTER, T.H.E.R.E. M.U.S.T. B.E. B.Y. DEFINITION MORE MOTION in the GAS CONTAINING that HEAT: an INCREASE in the PERCEPTIBLE TWINKLING of the STARS overhead.
There’s about a DOZEN ‘no need to even crack a book to shut this H.i.c.K. up” questions like this, that s.i.m.p.l.y. makes warmers G.O. A.W.A.Y.
Hit from
Location: University Park, Pennsylvania, United States
IP Address: The Pennsylvania State University (128.118.111.120)
Referring URL: wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/08/michael-manns-new-book-is-out/
Visit Page: http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/CHshow.htm
Dr. Mann on line?
Hi Michael, life is to short to take it too seriously.
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That address is from the Energy Institute. While this shares the same parent organization (College of Earth and Mineral Sciences) with ESSC, they are on opposite ends of the campus and probably wouldn’t share an IP block.
Florida Computer Guy says:
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((Full disclosure: I’m a press secretary at the Union of Concerned Scientists and the group has publicly weighed in many times to defend Mann against attacks from climate contrarians.)
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I look forward to UCS member K. Watts’ review. It would provide a valuable counterweight.
As I looked now on Amazon, there are 17 5 star reviews and 11 1 star reviews. Isn’t that the problem. People are just yelling slogans at one another. I realize that the RealClimate crowd are a lost cause but could someone rise above slogans so that we could have a discussion about this.
Steve McIntyre seems to be able to put aside, [for] the most part, any personal feelings in his analysis. That is why he is so successful. The RealClimate group has done great damage to the cause that they think they are fighting for. Perhaps we can put them where they belong as irrelevant players and move ahead.
Judging from the reviews at Amazon.com, Dr. Mann has reached the tipping point that separates scientists from deities.
I’d rather go to war with a smart bomb than a hockey stick.