I had to laugh when I saw this post from climate blog regular caerbannog666 re-tweeted by Dr. Michael Mann:
That iron lung comment piqued my interest, and I wondered who is this guy? A well known climate blog regular, he’s been bloviating all over the climate blogs for years. After finding him though about a minute’s worth of Googling public information, I wish I could unsee what I found. Meet Caesar Augustus Rossi Carvalho (Caerbannog)
Caesar Augustus Rossi Carvalho (Caerbannog) on Myspace
http://www.myspace.com/caerbannog666/photos
http://www.myspace.com/caerbannog666/photos/17286555
http://www.myspace.com/caerbannog666/photos/4486705#{%22ImageId%22%3A4486705}
UPDATE: In retrospect, it should be noted that people are free to dress up any way they want, whether it be in the dark style above, or as a superhero like Professor Scott Mandia (aka SuperMandia), leader of Michael Mann’s legal defense fund to keep those public emails from falling into the hands on an inquiring public.
I just find it humorous that Dr. Mann’s supporters are so, er, emotive.
UPDATE: 7/16/2012 Caebannog writes at his UT San Diego Forum:
Note: I will neither confirm nor deny that I am this individual.
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Comparison FAIL! Salk freely shared his research data and methodology.
There really can’t be an analogy from that period, because there was NOBODY using PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC THEORIES to kill thousands of people. Mao was doing the same thing Mann does, but Mao wasn’t doing it in the name of science; he was just “transparently” brutal.
Salk was privately funded, and he was doing applied science, not theory. He was applying known facts about vaccination to perfect a new vaccine. It worked. He SAVED thousands of lives.
Even though as a rule I don’t make fun of the mentally ill, I’m one of the skeptics/deniers who believe the CAGW promoters and their followers should be ridiculed every chance we get!
1. Jonas Salk saved millions of lives and spared countless others from a lifetime of disability. There are perhaps a few people whose names might be mentioned in the same breath, but none have cropped up in this (or most) WUWT threads.
2. Could you please stop posting that picture of Scott Mandia? Each time, just as I have bleached my brain, there it is again. Goths, shmoths, I don’t mind them. But, if I was writing a really creepy script, that would be my starting point …
Eellluug. Gag. Barf.
I agree with pokerguy.
mat says:
July 13, 2012 at 7:37 am
Oh god another Goth fallen for the Crow syndrome that’s the one where you think you are a mad avenging angle ……
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Acute, obtuse, or reflex?
[ sorry, but it is Fridya …]
That Mann personally chooses these two people to advocate for his beliefs illustrates a breakdown in his thought process and a significant social dysfunction.
That Mann sees himself as an embattled Jonas Salk merely illustrates another of his bizarre persecution delusions.
Has anyone considered whether he may in fact suffer from Schizophrenia? He does exhibit some text book symptoms. Perhaps instead of mocking Mann we should be advocating that he seek professional help.
It’s a bit sad that such a unique individual would agree with 97% of scientists. I’m pretty sure they would not reciprocate.
Well, the independent report by former FBI Director Louis Freeh into Penn State University’s Jerry Sandusky scandal is out, and it’s damning. From the President of the university downward, it’s a searing indictment showing how far the top management was willing to go when money and prestige were on the line.
And lots of the evidence was in “private” emails on the university’s email system, showing the robustness of PSU’s archiving of such.
Mann better get in his chuckles while he can. Because Penn State really does not want the appearance of covering up anything else right now, nor should they be too keen on withholding emails from a FOI request. (“Sorry, those emails were deleted. Oh, our system can’t permanently delete them? Well, Mann reviewed them and says there’s no evidence of wrongdoing and the administration agrees this must be the case, so you can’t have them. Why shouldn’t you be able to trust us?”)
Cmon who you hang out with doesnt matter. Look at Pres Obama and his associates from high school on, and he is president! What a great country. eh?
Somehow the words of Rocky Balboa in Rocky 1 come to mind
“if you hang out with coconuts you become a coconut”
Me, I didnt have alot of friends. In fact I used to have to tie pork chops around my neck to get dogs to play with me. Probably explains why I cant figure out the hockey stick given everything else out there that runs contrary
This is Anthony’s website. If he wants to maintain a Friday Funny post, then that’s his prerogative. Certainly, you can’t claim that the Friday Funny is somehow causing a shortage of hard science posts. Personally, I think the Friday Funny provides a good dynamic mixed in with the dozens of posts that are provided every week.
…”NOBODY using PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC THEORIES to kill thousands of people….” About Salk’s time weren’t there medicine men, touring the frontier West and selling their snake oil remedies to unsuspecting rubes? Is that not a correct analogy with Mann’s operation?
If Mann had an illegitimate child, he would look just like caerbonnog. He might even be wearing (BS)waders, like Scott Mandia, for all we know.
I agree with jayhd. Make fun of them at every opportunity!
I found the original post amusing enough, nothing nasty in it. Curious as to his “real” name. You have Caesar Augustus (Latin) Rossi (Italian) Carvalho (Portugese) and the online name of Caerbannog is Welsh.
It doesn’t sound like a real name to me.
Sean, I could not agree more. He really is suffering from delusions of grandeur and sees himself as a world savior fighting a worthy cause against an army of evil “deniers”, – of evidence presumably. But his own studies (once dissected by scientists) show that it’s all in his head, or worse, that he knowingly made it up. He can’t seem to understand that it is not possible to detect an AGW signal among all the noise, which is why even the IPCC can’t point to anything definitive, other than saying “the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate”. Meaning, we can’t really point to anything of statistical significance, but we’re still believers (i.e. it pays the electric bill).
Mann went a step further and created techniques that would filter hockey sticks from ANY random dataset, and became a hero for creating the “evidence” that was so desperately needed. Until Steve McIntyre found out. And he’s been playing the victim ever since, not very convincingly.
His work is as compelling as cold fusion and piltdown man.
Must be off to see the latest “Twighlight” flick.
What the hell is this juvenile nonsense? What happened to attacking your opponent’s arguments? Take this post down. Seriously.
Also, CaerBannog is a reference to Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Gotta love the caped crusader and his matching hip boots!!!!!!!
LMAO!!
Umm, this photo says about a million words. Clearly, Caerbannog is a far left wing nut, and these are the types of people supporting magical CAGW. In fact, Heartland ought to put up a billboard of this clown with a caption saying “he believes in global warming, do you?’
and I’ve seen the “oh don’t make fun of him because he’s a goth”. No. Specifically make fun of him for being a big loser goth. Do you know what people become goths? I do. Idiots who cannot get attention any other way.
Remember ACORN? Follow the money of paid protesters.
So MM is using twitter to hawk a few copies of his book?
What does that pay per hour?
Oh right, He’s probably doing it at work.
@ur momisugly Paul Westhaver
“Imagine Richard Feynman, showing up at the space shuttle congressional hearings dressed up in an alien costume. His sober words and famous O-Ring in Ice water demo would never have been noticed.”
Better yet imagine Feynman dressed up as a Superhero … It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Feyn Man!