This just in. Here’s a potential bombshell for the Mann:
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Popcorn futures* continue their unprecedented climb:
UPDATE: Sunday 10/28 Mark Steyn writes an uproariously funny but at the same time stinging evisceration of Dr. Mann on his private website titled The fraudulent Nobel Laureate
This part says it all, I’d make it “Quote of the Week”, but then I don’t want to fragment this thread:
When a man sues for damage to his reputation and grossly inflates that reputation in the very court filings, that says something about his credibility.
He also links to this thoughtful essay by Dr. Roger Pielke Jr.
Mann’s embellishment has placed him in a situation where his claims are being countered by the Nobel organization itself.
*There are no popcorn futures markets, the graph is based on a corn future market graph, just for fun
Read Steyn’s latest here: The fraudulent Nobel Laureate
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Mark Steyn takes note of the airbrushing going on in Mike’s Nobel Trick:
A week ago, Michael Mann accused us of damaging his reputation – and seems to have made it a self-fulfilling prophecy. A week ago, he was a “Nobel prize recipient”. Now he’s not. Great work, Mike!
Dr. Judith Curry sends some advice in her week in review:
“JC message to Michael Mann: Mark Steyn is [a] formidable opponent. I suspect that this is not going to turn out well for you.”
Read more at JudithCurry.com
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FLASH: 10/26 7:30AM The Nobel committee responds to Mann’s “certificate”, says he can’t claim he won it (the Nobel prize itself).
See below. – ALSO National Review makes phone call to Nobel committee, audio and transcript below.
NOTE: This is a top sticky post for awhile since the interest is high. New stories appear below this one. UPDATE – legal complaint added, plus a new opinion piece by Chris Horner regarding claims of exoneration has been added – see below the “continue reading” line. UPDATE2: Steyn responds, see below.
UPDATE 3: Steyn responds even further, saying:
“Over the years, I’ve been sued and threatened with suits in various countries around the world but I’ve never before seen a plaintiff make such a transparently false assertion right up front in the biographical resumé.”
Details (and a photo to back up Steyn) below.
UPDATE4: CEI officially responds to the lawsuit, and Steyn mocks Mann even more with a priceless zinger, see below.
In related news, popcorn futures explode go nuclear.
More details to follow.
From Michael Mann’s Facebook page.
Lawsuit filed against The National Review and the Competitive Enterprise Institute 10/22/12
Today, the case of Dr. Michael E. Mann vs. The National Review and The Competitive Enterprise Institute was filed in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Dr. Mann, a Professor and Director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, has instituted this lawsuit against the two organizations, along with two of their authors, based upon their false and defamatory statements accusing him of academic fraud and comparing him to a convicted child molester, Jerry Sandusky. Dr. Mann is being represented by John B. Williams of the law firm of Cozen O’Connor in Washington, D.C. (http://www.cozen.com/attorney_detail.asp?d=1&atid=1406).
Dr. Mann is a climate scientist whose research has focused on global warming. In 2007, along with Vice President Al Gore and his colleagues of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for having “created an ever-broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming.”
Nevertheless, the defendants assert that global warming is a “hoax,” and have accused Dr. Mann of improperly manipulating the data to reach his conclusions.
In response to these types of accusations, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation and seven other organizations have conducted investigations into Dr. Mann’s work, finding any and all allegations of academic fraud to be baseless. Every investigation—and every replication of Mann’s work—has concluded that his research and conclusions were properly conducted and fairly presented.
Despite their knowledge of the results of these many investigations, the defendants have nevertheless accused Dr. Mann of academic fraud and have maliciously attacked his personal reputation with the knowingly false comparison to a child molester. The conduct of the defendants is outrageous, and Dr. Mann will be seeking judgment for both compensatory and punitive damages.
Journalists interested in further information regarding the filing of this lawsuit may contact Dr. Mann’s attorney at 202-912-4848, or jbwilliams@cozen.com.
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I’m sure Mark Steyn is thrilled with the prospect of now being able to do additional commentary on this side show. I can’t wait for depositions and discovery.
UPDATES:
Here is the legal complaint: http://legaltimes.typepad.com/files/michael-mann-complaint.pdf
Chris Horner has this opinion piece now which explains his opinion on why Dr. Michael Mann was never fully investigated and thus never exonerated.
Mark Steyn responds with: I’ll have more to say about this when I’ve stopped laughing.
Mark Steyn writes in a further update:
Actually, it’s worse than that. I’ve just read the official indictment or whatever you call it against NR, and he makes the claim that he has been “awarded the Nobel Peace Prize” in the complaint itself (page 2, paragraph 2).
Over the years, I’ve been sued and threatened with suits in various countries around the world but I’ve never before seen a plaintiff make such a transparently false assertion right up front in the biographical resumé.
And I’ve got the photo of Dr. Mann’s award (shown from his office window) to back up what Steyn says here.
Note it says “for contributing to” not awarded to.
Be careful, don’t choke on your popcorn while laughing.
UPDATE4:
CEI has released it’s official statement on the lawsuit on their website here: http://cei.org/news-releases/climate-scientist-sues-cei
The say:
One of our attorneys, Bruce D. Brown of Baker Hostetler, expertly laid out the legal arguments against Mann’s defamation claim. In short, Dr. Mann is a public figure, and under libel law he would need to meet an exceedingly high standard to prevail. Given the support that Simberg’s criticisms rest on, that standard simply can’t be met. As for Simberg’s Sandusky metaphor, it was purely that—a metaphor.
They are also inviting readers to comment on the CEI Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/CompetitiveEnterpriseInstitute/posts/428205930566869
Meanwhile, Mark Steyn whips out an example of his rapier wit over Mann’s “Nobel Prize” claims (see photo above) writing:
On the one hand, Michael Mann’s own web page:
He shared the Nobel Peace Prize with other IPCC authors in 2007.
On the other, the Nobel committee:
Only persons named explicitly in the citation may claim to share a Nobel Prize.
So we’re being sued for loss of reputation by a fake Nobel laureate. Hilarious.
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FLASH The Nobel committee responds to Mann’s “certificate” From Tom Richard at Climate Change Dispatch and at The Examiner
I contacted the The Norwegian Nobel Institute to find out if Mann was indeed a Nobel Laureate, winner, etc…
…snip…
Geir Lundestad, Director, Professor, or The Norwegian Nobel Institute emailed me back with the following:
1) Michael Mann has never been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
2) He did not receive any personal certificate. He has taken the diploma awarded in 2007 to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (and to Al Gore) and made his own text underneath this authentic-looking diploma.
3) The text underneath the diploma is entirely his own. We issued only the diploma to the IPCC as such. No individuals on the IPCC side received anything in 2007.
(NOTE: on point 3, another example here (PDF) suggests that the IPCC added that text, not Mann – Anthony)
Lundestad goes on to say that, “Unfortunately we often experience that members of organizations that have indeed been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize issue various forms of personal diplomas to indicate that they personally have received the Nobel Peace Prize. They have not.”
Full story at Climate Change Dispatch and at The Examiner
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ALSO: From NRO’s “The Corner” a call to the Nobel committee by Charles C. W. Cooke:
TRANSCRIPT
Cooke: Hello there, do you speak English?
Nobel Committee: Yes, can I help you?
Cooke: I’m a writer. I’m wondering if I could ask you about previous winners of the Nobel Peace Prize?
Nobel Committee: Oh, could you speak a little bit louder. It’s difficult for me to hear.
Cooke: Sorry. I’m trying to look for some information about previous winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Nobel Committee: Which one?
Cooke: I was wondering, has Dr. Michael Mann ever won the Nobel Peace Prize?
Nobel Committee: No, no. He has never won the Nobel prize.
Cooke: He’s never won it?
Nobel Committee: No.
Cooke: Oh, it says on his-
Nobel Committee: The organization won it. It’s not a personal prize to people belonging to an organization.
Cooke: Okay. So if I were to write that he’d won it, that would be incorrect?
Nobel Committee: That is incorrect, yes. Is it you that sent me an email today? I got an e-mail from our Stockholm office regarding Michael Mann.
Cooke: Oh. No, I didn’t send you an e-mail.
Nobel Committee: Oh. So what’s your name?
Cooke: My name is Charles Cooke.
Nobel Committee: And you work for?
Cooke: I write for National Review.
Nobel Committee: Okay, because I’ve got something from Boston and NY Mental Examiner that asked about the same thing.
Cooke: Oh, okay. Well maybe this is a big question. Okay, but he hasn’t won it. That is the answer.
Nobel Committee: No, he has not won it at all.
Cooke: Okay. Perfect. Thank you very much.
Nobel Committee: Thank you. You’re welcome. Bye bye.
Tim says:
October 26, 2012 at 2:15 pm
Gunga,
my point exactly, no science, no fact on here, just gossip and pathetic insults
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And your comments?
@Phil. says: October 26, 2012 at 11:22 am
Phil – you can stop now -)
Tim says:
October 26, 2012 at 2:15 pm
Gunga,
my point exactly, no science, no fact on here, just gossip and pathetic insults
That implies that you feel there is no science or fact on WUWT – correct? In which case why don’t you just go away (polite version!) – as clearly you have nothing to learn or add? Why are you even reading these posts? You must have some kind of masochistic tendencies – go see Mann and ask if he will beat you with his hockey stick!
Tim says: October 26, 2012 at 1:36 pm
Just look at you …….. Astonishing amount of bullshit, gossip, self-congratulation, sheer nastiness, wriggling & writhing. No wonder you aren’t taken seriously.
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Addressing his mirror image?
Hope the secretarial staff – especially the ones that produced that document – were awarded one too ! Their assistance is also invaluable in an enterprise which does little more than produce documents !
Small matter but I’ve been blocked by Mann on twitter ( as expected), without actually ever engaging with him. #priceless.
While I think most readers here recognize what you are trying to point out regarding character flaws exhibited by Dr. Mann, I think it is an extremely bad analogy to relate the Nobel Peace prize in any way to the Congressional Medal of Honor.
I feel that the Medal of Honor is so much a greater award, and that they who receive it so much more deserving of accolades than little doctor M, that it is like comparing it to… well, in my opinion nothing compares with the Medal of Honor except the equivalent medals of SOME other nations such as Great Brittain or France.
Tim says:
October 26, 2012 at 2:15 pm
[…] no fact on here […]
So it’s not a FACT, confirmed by the organisation that hands them out, that Mr Mann isn’t entitled to call himself a Nobel Laureate?
And it isn’t a FACT that he not only has been anyway, but is now defending his position with no sign of simply saying “oops, I misunderstood, better get that off my resume sharpish!”?
Those may not be facts in the Climate Science interpretation of the word but I’m pretty sure 9with at least 95% confidence) that they are in the correct one 😉
Kev-in-Uk
lol (that’s what it’s worth)
This thread is getting to long for my PC to keep up with but I’ll leave it with this:
(I know. I’ve put this up before. But I think I did a pretty job on it. Hope you like, Tim.)
Stopping by Yamal on a Snowy Evening
By Michael Mann
What tree this is, I think I know.
It grew in Yamal some time ago.
Yamal 06 I’m placing here
In hopes a hockey stick will grow.
But McIntyre did think it queer
No tree, the stick did disappear!
Desparate measures I did take
To make that stick reappear.
There were some corings from a lake.
And other data I could bake.
I’ll tweek my model more until
Another hockey stick I’ll make!
I changed a line into a hill!
I can’t say how I was thrilled!
Then Climategate. I’m feeling ill.
Then Climategate. I’m feeling ill.
Seems The “Nobel” group have “declined” to give poor little MM his prize.
Bruised ego,
how embarrassment !!!!!
Another “decline” the will try to hide.
Another “decline” he will try to hide. darn, I wish we had a 5 minute “edit” feature.
I think Mann deserves some more respect here! After all, what would the IPCC TAR or Gore’s Movie have been without the hockey stick?
/sarc
glad you’re all enjoying your jolly ……. carry on!
To put Mann’s hubris in perspective, here is a list of organizations that have won the Nobel Peace Prize.
International Peace Bureau
International Committee of the Red Cross
Nansen International Office For Refugees
International Committee of the Red Cross
Friends Service Council
American Friends Service Committee
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
International Committee of the Red Cross
League of Red Cross societies
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF)
International Labour Organization
Amnesty International
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
International Campaign to Ban Landmines;
Médecins Sans Frontières
United Nations
International Atomic Energy Agency;
Grameen Bank
European Union
According to Mann’s rationale all the people who contributed to these organizations can claim to be Nobel Laureates.
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Considering that the Nobel Peace Prize committee justified their 2009 award to Obama, in part, with the words:
…and that those “great climatic challenges” got zero coverage in the recent Presidential debates, do you think they might ask for it back?
Tim says:
October 26, 2012 at 3:46 pm
“The time for honouring yourselves will soon be at an end”- Maximus
A former work colleague had one of those certificates. I can’t remember whether his name was on it; but he certainly didn’t have a Mann-sized ego, and never claimed to have shared the Nobel Peace Prize.
Stanley summed it up well for me: “They are becoming increasingly desperate Anthony. Keep up the good work. We are winning the war. No mention of climate change at any of the presidential debate, and nothing more than a passing mention for the entire campaign. Climate change is no longer on the radar of rational, educated people.”
We have been warming up for several thousand years, with an occasional cooling period.
No doubt humanity, and especially China, have added pollution and maybe even some slight temperature change.
But, computing that change would be one really difficult equation.
ghost.
Is this how the jury will respond to Mann’s “Nobel?”
@tim. I’ve given your comments an honest reply. Your response and not even to me appears to be ‘lol’
Where I’m from that’s considered incredibly crass. But that might just be me .
@F. Ross. I think you may have grasped the wrong end of a shitty stick there.
Please don’t fight that argument. I’ve been there & done that so to speak.
I have some medals. Want to see them? No of course not. Allow us servicemen to accept our accolades ( which I have in a box right here if Dr. Mann is confused ) without making an issue of it.
as I say to others. Stop being offended for people who don’t need you to be..
Gunga Din says:
October 26, 2012 at 2:41 pm
Well it certainly won’t be titled ‘Lord of the Rings’ – although maybe ‘Lord of the Ringpiece’ (sorry folks couldn’t resist)
Tim says:
glad you’re all enjoying your jolly ……. carry on!
Waiting for MM, Trenberth et all to remove their FAKE Nobel awards of their resumes and web pages ;-))
Tim says:
October 26, 2012 at 3:46 pm
glad you’re all enjoying your jolly ……. carry on!
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Don’t feel bad, Tim. Using the power of my new found papacy I hereby bestow upon the title of Bishop (certs in the mail).
Sincerely,
Grammy Award Nominated, Triple Olympic Gold Medalist, Pope Reg III PHD, CPA, MP, Esq, Lord of the Lower Realms, Member of the Better Business Bureau.
Timmy is a hatethiest. Best thing one can do- if they were a Mod on this site- is block him.
All of this fact checking is a total waste of time. The important thing to remember is that 97% of a subset of a hand selected set of Dr Mann’s friends think that he won the Nobel Peace prize.