What will Supermandia dress up as this year?
Every time I look at this photo of Mike Mann’s most earnest defender, “AGW Prof” and operator of the Climate Science Defense Fund, Dr. Scott Mandia, I get a case of the giggles. Some of my commenters say it gives them other afflictions, and for those, I apologize in advance for foisting this image upon you again.
Dressing up for Halloween can be fun, and that’s the main idea. Dressing up to score political points and to demonstrate hero-worship, not so much.
The level of self parody here is off the scale, particularly when both he and Mann were both quite serious about it last year.
Funny thing though, I sent a tweet out ribbing SuperMandia, wondering what he’d dress up as this year. Big Bird? A biofuel powered plane? A green locomotive? No. Something more down to Earth, and again something that gives me a side splitting case of the giggles.
That’s Supermandia’s idea of a zinger on this most recent paleoclimatology paper. So if that’s the case, and he wants to parody small near arctic tree sampling regions used to represent global temperature, why wouldn’t he dress up as that famous Yamal tree, YAD06, the Most influential Tree in the World? I’d pay to see that.
Read the full story here: Yamal and Hide-the-Decline
SuperMandia dressed up as YAD06 would even beat Peter Gleick’s 1978 self parody of a human windmill and balloon animal.
Happy Halloween! (oh, and bazinga!)
I would dress up as nice black high BTU Illinois coal, but the last time I wore a catsuit – well it just caused too many traffic incidents.
It is not nice to make fun of people who are burdened with self inflicted noble cause pretensions. N’cest ce pas?
There is a straight forward alternate reality explanation of that costume pic of Mandia.
Every team like the CG1&2 ‘team’ cum NASA GISS team cum the Schmidt/Mann fan club needs a mascot.
Mandia’s the low academic on the alarming climate chain of command . . . it appears he got stuck with mascot. It looks like Scottie likes it.
John
Good to see sparks doing the usual warmista response and promote violence. Guess it just shows your intellectual deficiency.
Even back in 1978 Gleick’s costume foreshadowed his degeneration into a climate blowhard.
Look! In the sky!
Is that a Blue Tit or a Blue Footed Booby? No it’s a Yellow Bellied Sap Sucker!
Hardeeharhar!
Ornithology can be so rude!
[snip – over the top -mod]
Oh my!
Trouble with the trees again…..
I just can’t get over those boots in that pic,,,,,,,,,,,, What was he thinking?
They totally clash with the Mannkini !!!!! 🙂
He should have gone as a spruce bark beetle. Tiny, boring and indicative of poor managment.