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.
You don’t expect Mann to really sign the sticks, do you. This is climate science we are talking about. At very best it will be a computer simulation and at worst a poor forgery by Gleick.
Why does Mann require a legal defense fund? Does it cost money to simply obey valid FOIA requests?
D Marshall says:
April 4, 2012 at 5:33 pm
At least he has a sense of humor…
Judging by his blog entries — he doesn’t. He’s also — to put it politely — a prevaricator. …Watts tells his readers “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.” referring to his false claim that National Academy of Sciences member Dr. Peter Gleick posted a 1 star review of Donna Laframboise’s book without reading it My emphasis
http://profmandia.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/anthony-watts-minions-attack-mike-mann-and-make-mockery-of-amazon-review-process/
Oh come on, Dr Michael Mann isn’t really going to actually sign a hockey stick! Obviously he’ll just get Gleick to forge his signature.
I’ve decided to leave you all with a brief summary of key points in my Radiated Energy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
1. An analysis (Appendix Q.1) of the gradient of the gradient of temperature trends since the year 1900 shows a declining rate of increase, going down from 0.06 to 0.05 C degree per decade. Linked papers support the observation of natural 1000 and 60 year cycles. In particular, the current long-term rate of increase is totally in keeping with the known rise since the Little Ice Age, and a maximum can be expected within 50 to 200 years at the most. There is absolutely no anthropogenic influence demonstrated.
2. A new hypothesis is put forward which explains the resonant scattering mechanism leading to the observed slowing of radiative cooling of the surface by the cooler atmosphere. This mechanism is found to depend, not only upon the intensity of the backradiation, but also upon the density of frequencies involved and the number of spectral lines. The conclusion is that CO2 has far less effect per molecule than water vapour molecules. Furthermore, all that can be affected is about 20% to 25% of all surface cooling, namely that component of radiation which does not go straight to space through the atmospheric window.
3. In Appendix Q.3 consideration of the Earth’s stabilising effect provides proof that other cooling effects (mostly evaporative cooling and diffusion followed by convection) will accelerate to compensate, so that there is no overall effect on the rate of surface cooling, and thus no effect due to carbon dioxide, even that already present in preindustrial times.
4. Various issues which may be thought to counter the argument are discussed in the Appendix and discounted one by one.
I wonder why the CSLDF doesn’t offer bristle cone seeds. They are the infant version of hockey sticks as bristle cone pines are known to produce hockey sticks. 😉
If Michael Mann will sign the hockey sticks afterwards, they may charge more than $10 also for these seeds!
Perhaps it’ll patent number: 5263711, the hockey stick with an adjustable blade:
http://www.google.com/patents/US5263711?printsec=drawing#v=onepage&q&f=false
In 25 years from now, when the world looks back at today’s global warming nonsense, they will ask: “How could so many people be so stupid?”
An investment in a hockey stick signed by Mann might just make a handsome return – someone is bound to become a collector of global warming memorabilia.
Assuming this isnt a late april Fool I’ll offer a donation towards buying a signed Hockey stick to be held by Anthony. I think we at WUW could have a lot of fun with it and create publicity far beyond its monetary value.
tonyb
D o u g C o t t o n says:
April 5, 2012 at 2:18 am
Is that a promise? Go on, please please please promise to leave!
If I had $300 then I’d have a Mann signed Hockey Stick, have it broken and then get Ross McKitrick and Steve McIntyre to sign the bits.
Now THAT would be a great scientific momento…
although in the furture how much would that hockey stick be worth?
OMG, AGW is now really into the religion stage, with the offering of relics and all.
I wonder when they start canonizing the first climate-saint.
I have a feeling these clowns affiliated with major universities are not paying their own legal fees.
I just want one game of ice hockey with the Hockey Team. I wouldn’t be looking to score, but would definately get on the score sheet.
Mann’s legal defense fund?????
I thought what he was doing was fighting to keep his data from being released under FOIA? How the heck does that qualify as “legal defense”?
D o u g C o t t o n says:
April 5, 2012 at 2:18 am
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Wasn’t Doug Cotton banned? (Or did I just dream it…)
On Mandia’s Blog we have this: Support Climate Scientists & Look Cool Doing So!
It’s a busy day on Mandia’s Blog. A full 7 comments in 24 hours. That’s more than 13 letters per hour.
The ever-arrogant Michael Mann is fortunate he’s being protected by the leadership of the University of Virginia and Pennyslvania State University. Without their intervention and bogus internal investigations, he’d probably be facing fraud charges and scrambling to avoid jail time.
Like many of his AGW alarmist peers, Mann’s “science” is driven by the tireless pursuit of the next multi-million dollar taxpayer-funded research grant. The AGW movement and its flimsily constructed foundation of junk science always has been driven by the lust for money and power. “Mann the scientist” was corrupted long ago.
A little tailoring on those hooker boots, a luxuriant moustache, some time to grow the hair into a braid and Mandia could be a dead ringer for Sean Connery’s Zed from Zardoz.
Link is definitely SFW, but you might want to use the Brain Brillo after.
Signed by proxy or by the Mann himself?
magnetic north pole shift hockey stick
http://destination-yisrael.biblesearchers.com/.a/6a0120a610bec4970c0147e1dc551e970b-pi
I’d rather have this hockey stick 🙂
It speaks more to truth.
http://junksciencecom.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/cropped-jsministick3.jpg
It seems to me that the defense fund has been around for a good while now but not much money coming in, so they figured they would get more money offering up these booby prizes.
“If I had $300 then I’d have a Mann signed Hockey Stick, have it broken and then get Ross McKitrick and Steve McIntyre to sign the bits.”
Why break it? Just ask Ross and Steve to sign a limited set then have an auction, perhaps on WUWT, to support Timothy Ball’s legal costs.
I suspect that each one sold could make a healthy profit. Scott and Mike might not be too happy if that happened but you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs!