Friday Funny: Hilarious Mann email, IPCC icon 'pretty cool'

Leo G says:
August 24, 2012 at 6:27 pm
“The iconic Sir John Houghton, patron saint of the Hockey Stick. His short briefing paper on global warming, climate change, and sustainability is worth a read. The latest version is probably still the 2009 one. It shows his obsession with eliminating the disparities of wealth between nations and his recognition that action on climate change was a means of achieving that goal.
Part of his argument in the essay:-
“Perhaps the most condemning of world statistics is that the rich are getting richer while the poor get poorer – the flow of wealth in the world is from the poor to the rich…”
“The moral imperative for the rich countries is inescapable…”
“Sustainability will never be achieved without a great deal more sharing.”
“… emissions should first be allocated to everybody in the world equally per capita, then transfer of allocations being allowed through trading between nations.”
How long was he co-chair of the IPCC? 14 years wasn’t it?”
The watermellon syndrome, if they are green on the outside they are usually red on the inside.

@george Smith – SIr Peter Gluckman (Chief Science Advisor) is a pediatrician —
Born in Auckland, he attended Auckland Grammar School before studying paediatrics and endocrinology at the University of Otago gaining a MBChB in 1971. This was followed by MMedSc in 1976 and a DSc in 1987 from the University of Auckland.
He is the Professor of Paediatric and Perinatal Biology and was the Director of the National Research Centre for Growth and Development at the University of Auckland. He was formerly Head of the Department of Paediatrics and Dean of the university’s Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences as well as the founding Director of the Liggins Institute.
In 2007 he was appointed Programme Director for Growth, Development and Metabolism at the Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences. He also holds honorary chairs at National University of Singapore and the University of Southampton. From the dreaded Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gluckman
And perhaps if you check into the background of the Prime Mincer [local joke] you might find him not such a nice guy. I personally have little time for derivatives money traders (http://www.indymedia.org.nz/article/76097/john-keys-finance-credentials).

“””””…..Annette Huang says:
August 25, 2012 at 12:13 pm
@george Smith – SIr Peter Gluckman (Chief Science Advisor) is a pediatrician –
Born in Auckland, he attended Auckland Grammar School before studying paediatrics and endocrinology at the University of Otago gaining a MBChB in 1971. This was followed by MMedSc in 1976 and a DSc in 1987 from the University of Auckland…..”””””
Thanks for that research Annette. One of my high school graduating class chums got a DSc from UofA. That’s the only science doctorate, that I would want. Well I’m sure That Sir Peter dresses better than I do. AGS kids always looked spivvier than Otahuhu Technical High School kids, and I was among the lesser clad of those. But I still got my name on the wall.
Another of my class mates recently retired a Professor of Pediatrics, and Behavioral Psychology from the U of Miami; as did his wife. They may be the world experts on the learning processes of retarded children.
So Sir Peter could very well be deserving of his knighthood I think NZ is a leader in that field, and also Maternity issues; The Plunket Society and all that.
I think they are better at that, than climate.