Scott Mandia aka “SuperMandia” (seen at left) outdoes himself with a new level of craziness. And here we thought Mike Mann really didn’t like hockey stick icons:
“I always thought it was somewhat misplaced to make it a central icon of the climate change debate,” [Mann] said.
Source: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/06/29/mann-says-hockey-stick-icon-is-misplaced/
Hold that thought, because SuperMandia is ready to leap tall tales with a single bound!
On Mandia’s Blog we have this: Support Climate Scientists & Look Cool Doing So!
Help the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund (CSLDF) raise money to cover the costs of Dr. Mann’s legal defense as well as other scientists who face similar challenges. To help raise money and reward those that contribute, we have rounded up some cool designs and gifts. CSLDF thanks Nicole Martinez and Lunchbreath who were kind enough to donate their designs for this fundraiser.
$25 gets you one of our t-shirts. They will be delivered a couple weeks after the fundraiser is over. We will check in with you about which design you want and what size.
$50 gets two of the t-shirts.
$75 gets all three of the t-shirts and our true gratitude.
$150 gets you all three of the t-shirts and a copy of Climate Change: Picturing the Science signed by Joshua Wolfe (www.picturingclimatechange.com)
$300 gets you a hockey stick signed by Mike Mann.
Mike Mann thought the icon was misplaced, and tried to minimize it in media reports, but it is OK to use it to to make money as a signed icon by the icon himself? What a freaking hypocrite.
I’ll buy one as soon as they confirm that “other scientists who face similar challenges” being helped by the money raised includes Dr Timothy Ball.
My money’s safe, methinks.
FergalR made me laugh so hard I cried! Also, please note, the signed hockey sticks are made from the finest fossilized trees from the Yamal Peninsula ( a Ken Briffa inside joke).
Scott needs the waders because he is knee deep in his own bullshit.
A fine incentive to donate to Dr Balls defense fund.
I want one.
How much is four t-shirts?
PiperPaul says:
April 4, 2012 at 4:16 pm
“Hey, we have to leave climbdown space for these individuals. Persecution is not the answer. Maybe they need re-education in some kind of camp or something.”
They should feel comfortable. These places are called “gulags” or something!
I would buy a hockey stick if I was allowed to take a swing at a particular dumb puck…
D Marshall says:
April 4, 2012 at 5:33 pm
At least he has a sense of humor, I would have thought that, since all of you enjoy Josh’s work so much, a little absurdity would at least rate a chuckle.
Color me disappointed.
You missed a “sarc/”
Dave says:
“Those who can, do (by working in industry). Those that can’t, teach (at a major university). And those that can’t teach at a major university, teach at a community college.”
And look down on us in industry while we create the very wealth they sponge off.
‘* A portion of your donation may be tax deductible. People interested in tax deductible donations should contact CSLDF directly…’
How does that work?
Hey my friends at WUWT: I found this ditty by Eugene WR Gallun , I would love to have just the first verse printed on a T shirt ( Big enough to read from a distance)
THE HOCKEY STICK
There was a crooked Mann
Who played a crooked trick
And had a crooked plan
To make a crooked stick
By using crooked math
That favored crooked lines
Lysenko’s crooked path
Led through the crooked pines
And all his crooked friends
Applaud what crooked seems
But all that crooked ends
Derives from crooked means
Yep, the hockey stick he bluffed the world about even before he had a PhD to his name – all done with daytime temperatures for land which was not too cold to grow trees.
And all blamed on Co2 when it started to bend up, having never bent down according to his nice tree rings,
Seeing that a microwave oven produces low frequency radiation far more intense than carbon dioxide could ever do, and yet its radiation is not absorbed* and converted to thermal energy in ice, what makes anyone think that radiation from carbon dioxide could warm all the snow and ice covered areas of the planet?
The mechanism by which microwave ovens heat water molecules is totally different from the excitation of atoms which happens when high frequency solar radiation warms water. The oven emits radiation at a very specific frequency which happens to resonate with natural frequencies of the water molecules which then “snap” or “flip” through 180 degrees and back again in synchronisation with the passing waves of electromagnetic radiation. The molecules in water do have the space to do this, and when they flip there is frictional heat generated by collisions of the molecules. In ice there is not sufficient room to move and flip like this.
There is no violation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics simply because electrical energy was added to the system.
But the fact that the ice was not melted demonstrates the phenomenon of “resonant scattering” in which radiation is not reflected, not transmitted and not absorbed with conversion to thermal energy. See Section 5 of my publication here.
* Try this home experiment:
Obtain two identical small microwave bowls which do not get warm in the microwave oven. Ensure that they both fit in the oven together. Obtain a small ice cube tray and fill it with filtered or distilled water. Pour that water into one of the bowls. Then refill the tray with similar water and place the ice cube tray in your freezer and both the bowls in your frig overnight. Next day, empty the ice cubes into the bowl without water, then place both bowls in the microwave oven and operate for about 60 to 80 seconds depending on the volume of water – try to bring the water nearly to the boil. Observe that the ice has not been affected – you might even try comparing its temperature with other ice in the freezer. To do this, pack the ice samples in a tall insulated mug and insert a meat thermometer with a metal spike.
Why wasn’t the energy in the radiation shared equally between the water and the ice? If you pour the hot water into the bowl with the ice it will easily melt the ice within a couple of minutes, so this demonstrates that sufficient energy did enter the water.
Looks like a kiddy-fiddler to me.
One can only wonder what portion of the donations are retained for “administrative costs”….
Ron Dean says:
April 4, 2012 at 5:46 pm
“$75 gets all three of the t-shirts and our true gratitude.”
Uhmm, does that mean that donations less than that amount garner their false gratitude?
No, but they’ll form a consensus that you still have some money left, so they’ll target you for a direct mailing…
Here’s a little red Hockey Stick Mann can sign…
http://arctic-roos.org/observations/satellite-data/sea-ice/observation_images/ssmi1_ice_ext.png
zoom in if you need glasses.
Even the most stubborn mule loaded with silver, would gladly climb any mountain pass.
I have an idea for a powerful and aggressive visual image: a pair of upraised hands decisively snapping a hockey stick (with its blade upturned at the right). It is based on the well-known (to warmists) logo of the War Resisters League, in which the hands are snapping a rifle.
It’s a clear, clever “grabber.” It’s a way for people on our side to identify themselves and give a Bronx cheer to the climate consensus. It would be a great conversation-starter.
I donate this idea free to WUWT and Josh, who could split the revenue. I think WUWT could sell a million of ‘em, metaphorically speaking. (It would work for lapel pins, coffee cups, book covers, web-site medallions, and T-shirts too.)
A preliminary but unsatisfactory-to-me version of this image, drawn at my request by S. Weasel, can be seen on my page on Photobucket at http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y254/RogerKni/Misc/87a659ba.png (I hope the MODS will post it here as an image—I don’t have posting privileges.)
It needs the following changes, which I hope Josh will make:
1. The legend around the perimeter should be larger and changed to “Gore Resisters’ League.” (This quip ought irritate any warmists who see it.)
2. The hands should be redrawn so they don’t exactly copy the hands in the WRL’s logo.
3. There wrists should be shackled to each other, indicating our defiance despite our suppressed and marginalized status.
An alternative legend might be, “Get the puck outta here!”
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Here’s another idea: Photoshop Patchy into a red-and-black Devil’s costume, add a pitchfork and an evil grin, and top it off with the caption, “Things will get warmer for you, ha-ha-ha!”
someone has realised that it is only a matter of time before their mischief is exposed and without any kind of accelerating global warming, there is not a hope in hell they will ever have a job again outside of day time TV… I used to be someone a few people heard of.
So, Mann is raking it in while he still can.
I suppose it proves he is more intelligent and has more foresight than I ever gave him credit. If only he had also been a scientist.
“$150 gets you all three of the t-shirts and a copy of Climate Change: Picturing the Science signed by Joshua Wolfe (www.picturingclimatechange.com)”
I don’t understand why is this (old) book is not also signed by Gavin Schmidt? Did he refuse? Since the fund is for Mann, why isn’t his book included? Is he too stingy? They’re all supposed to be in this together…….
I’d love to see the uptake figures.
Time to start the museum of Global Warming
To be genuine & serious, someone ought to buy one of these hockey sticks and donate it to a (serious) museum. We laugh about global warming now, but in a few years it will be next to impossible to find anything about it as the revisionists cleanse their webs, courses, government PR of the utter absurdity it now contains and pretend it never happened.
In fact, didn’t Anthony mention that his own museum? had destroyed its own global warming exhibit. This is just what is going to happen.
Those who were so keen to promote perhaps the single biggest mass “episode” and possibly the most expensive “fad” … will just as rigorously try to hide their own shame… and in doing so destroy any relict of it.
But the reality is that it is already part of history and how are we going to explain to future generations about this episode unless we save something of it to show to them?
Josh,
Nice!
And pretending a date later than April 1, just brilliant!
We need your humour to remain sane!
BTW, if I were to invest say $100 in those awesome T Shirts, are there any options on choice?
I thought Mann was a real scientist, but this makes him look like a bit part in some sad, sham scout gang show, far from Broadway. Pathetic. Utterly pathetic.
What does the ‘C’ stand for? There’s one word that springs to mind.