Telegraph columnist Christopher Booker has taken note of the Shakun et al takedowns here here here here here here and here at WUWT, linking it in with Michael Mann’s earlier proxy publications.
(h/t to EU Referendum and REP) Mann as usual, was not amused by anything using his name (unless laudatory), and launched this Twitter tantrum (h/t to Tom Nelson):
Twitter / @MichaelEMann: @MichaelEMann @Telegraph ” …
@MichaelEMann @Telegraph “Patron Saint of Charlatans” Booker even starts out w/ tired smear against Ben Santer I debunk in intro of #HSCW
Twitter / @MichaelEMann: @ret_ward Would think that …
@ret_ward Would think that even they might be put off by the deficiency of intelligence & honesty reflected by Booker’s hit pieces/polemics
Twitter / @MichaelEMann: @MichaelEMann @Telegraph H …
@MichaelEMann @Telegraph How much lying/libel/deceit will Telegraph allow before “Patron Saint of Charlatans” Chris Booker canned? #HSCW
Twitter / @MichaelEMann: I guess “Patron Saint of C …
I guess “Patron Saint of Charlatans” Booker of @Telegraph disliked (tgr.ph/IFXN76) light shined on him by #HSCWbit.ly/sRasaq
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Meanwhile, Climate Depot reports that Mann may be asked to chair a school of something back at UVa. Word has it on the academic grapevine that his “sabbatical” at Penn State may be the beginning of a never ending story.
One wonders though, if this just isn’t an exit strategy that Mann has engineered himself. As we’ve seen though his many writings, he’s very good at self promotion.
Just think, in the not so distant future he will be studied and ridiculed as the creator of ‘Mann Made Global Warming.’
And yes he is an odious litle publicity seeker and is a model for all that is wrong in present day academia…..
Mann’s pointy head fits the dunce cap well…
Somebody has his panties in a wad….
“How much lying/libel/deceit will Telegraph allow…
Of course, there is a perfectly good remedy, Dr Mann. I think Christopher Booker knows his way around the libel courts in the UK. So, as they say in these parts, shut up or put up.
Betcha the number of people who saw the tweets here outnumber the people who read them on their phones, and *they* probably outnumber the people who’ve bought his books…
Booker’s comments are very reasonable, why is Mann attacking the author instead of presenting a POV? I guess he didn’t like this statement.
“In 1998, Nature published the first of the two iconic “hockey stick” graphs by an obscure young physicist, Michael Mann, which rewrote climate science by appearing to show that temperatures had suddenly shot up in the late 20th century to easily their highest level in history.”
re: @Monte ” How about a review of some REALLY bad science (you know the stuff produced by Soon and Baliunas etc).”
Can anyone point me to a reference that actually shows where Soon and Baliunas are wrong. Are they not Astronomers?
Dan Kurt
Whatever your opinion of Christopher Booker, if he can get Mann into a hissy fit like that, he can’t be all bad.
JohnWho says:
April 16, 2012 at 8:21 am
Uh, he’ll probably send in a proxy vote.
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The good news is that if he does vote by proxy, there’s a good chance it won’t be correct.
..I read that as Michael Mann’s earlier poxy publications. I wonder how Booker will respond.
TheBigYinJames says: April 16, 2012 at 8:18 am
Is it just me, or does the mere sight of Mann, Gleik etc these days annoy the heck out of you? Perhaps I’m just imagining the air of smugness.
It’s not just you.
Monty says:
April 16, 2012 at 8:12 am
So, these ‘takedowns’ of the Shakun et al paper are going to be submitted to peer-review are they? Or are they just a typical post on WUWT where someone like Pat Frank or Willis Eschenbach writes a critical review of a mainstream peer-reviewed paper which is automatically cheered to the rafters by a bunch of skeptics who don’t understand it? How about a review of some REALLY bad science (you know the stuff produced by Soon and Baliunas etc).
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Thanks for passing by Monty. If you would like to refute ANY of W Eschenbach’s many takedowns of Shakun et al paper then this is the perfect forum to do so. Otherwise piss off back to the echo chamber juvenile sandpits of the warmista blogs where your useless comments will be welcomed.
Booker & Dr North’s most exellent book “Scared to Death” was my first eye-opener . thoroughly recommended
His twits display the same nasty narcissism as his climategate emails. Perhaps he thinks they should be personal, privileged , and protected from FOI laws as well.
And yes, I know they are called ‘tweets’ but in this case you have to consider the source.
geoprof says:
April 16, 2012 at 8:05 am
It is disconcerting that an academician is allowed by the university system to function in such an immature, dysfunctional manner. The man has beclowned himself so many times. One would think the university would rather he keep his mouth shut.
UPa would have great difficulty ‘disappearing’ the Mann child. He brings too much pre$tige. Only when they realise that the scorn heaped on them for “aiding the charade” (and hiding Mann’s decline) has become an occluding stink, perhaps. No convenient error 404’s like the Norgaard ‘treatment’. Or at least not for now. I would hope they tire of that beady-eyed smirk after a while. Silly me turning blue like that.
Meanwhile, as Mann has yet another bad Twitter day…
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_timeseries.png
The arctic sea ice is just NOT cooperating this year…
Don’t these people realize what fools they make of themselves with Twitter?
I cant belive Michael Mann even took the time to comment about this joke of an article
Mann and criticism: bristle, moan, whine.
Aloha: RGbatduke-
“What I think is happening is that the shoe is finally dropping. I hadn’t seen the Mauna Loa transmittivity data before today, but it is very, very worrisome. A 1% negative trend over only 30 years! Goodness gracious, and here we are worrying about carbon dioxide, which at most and according to its most ardent supporters is responsible for at most 100% of Mann’s hockey stick. I’m certain that somebody is quietly realizing that this 1% is enough to completely cancel all of this warming, and that is before looking at the extra 2% negative change in mean insolation due to the 7% increase in albedo over the last 15 years……”.
Please DO write a post detailing these items ! Many thanks.
Mr.Mann repeatedly calls Mr. Booker the “Patron Saint of Charlatans”. In the future, if you go to a psychology textbook to look up “projection”, you will likely find Mr Mann cited as a perfect exemplar. Perhaps sharing the page with Keith Olberman for his ” Worst Person in the World” awards.
I say, DONT attack the man Mann attack his work when it is deficient wrong or fraudelent . Any reference to the man’s perceived character does not help. After all a lot of people probably think I got a lousy character haha, but still respect my publications (which were not fraudelent). Otherwise we are falling into same warmist’s tactics which are obviously slowly collapsing LOL
Perhaps the reason the Chinese continue pumping out 1 coal plant after another is they know there is no hockey stick
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/12/07/in-china-there-are-no-hockey-sticks/
In the meantime the Germans ran their war machine on coal to oil, we are sitting on a camelot of energy to power an economic comeback ( that would lead to more money for future grants to conjur up some other threat, but at least it would be there) and Dr. Mann wonders why in the face of one metric after another showing co2’s relationship to temp is coincidental, why this happens.
Of course in the world of leftists, the solution to a problem is not to confront the problem, but destroy anyone bringing the problem up. Amazingly Eisenhower warned about what could happen with the scientific community, and while they are fond of quoting his warnings about the industrial complex, they dont seem to understand the same warning was issued about them
Frank K. says:
April 16, 2012 at 9:20 am
Meanwhile, as Mann has yet another bad Twitter day…
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_timeseries.png
The arctic sea ice is just NOT cooperating this year…
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It is well-known that Arctic sea ice is high at the moment. Don’t expect it to stay that way for long.
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
“Researchers do not expect the late maximum ice extent to strongly influence summer melt. The ice that grew late this winter is quite thin, and will melt rapidly as the sun rises higher in the sky and the air and water get warmer.”
Check back in September.
John
“How much lying/libel/deceit will Telegraph allow…” — M Mann. Ironic, as lying and deceit, as exemplified in the Hockey Stick, is the central modus operandi of Mann, and the others of The Chicken Little Brigade. Here’s my earlier comment in Real Science:
In 1993 the leftist Senator Tim Wirth said they should ride the agw issue even if the theory is wrong. Earlier, in ’89, Steven Schneider said that they should offer (make up) scary scenarios, saying that there should be a “balance” between telling the truth (ineffective) and lying (effective). Watson of greenpeace echoed this, saying “It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.”
These type of statements suggesting that the scare mongers should lie and fabricate were certainly gaining esteem, and by the time Al Gore was running for president (and the H. Stick was fabricated) a critical mass must have been reached. Truth no longer mattered, and was in fact something to be frowned upon.
These intelligent elites thought of themselves as soldiers that were trying to save the world, or at least trying to further the laudable causes of de-industrialization and leftist global politics. The Chicken Little Brigade. They were the chosen, and the “little people” (the public) were too dumb or too ideologically impure to respect. Manipulating and deceiving the little people became the key to implementing their radical agenda, and that is what they became experts in (deception).
And in fact, they had many of us duped good, for a long time. The problem for them, though, is that now, with the CGate emails and Hide the Decline etc, their deceptive intent, and ideological motives, is clear as day. ALL their predictions of disaster, and ALL their models, have failed.
The wheels have fallen off their deception mobile. Yet these guys seem unfazed, moving apace like mindless automatons they roll out fresh baloney daily it seems, and new, but obviously false predictions of doom. A joke.