UPDATE: uh oh
The National Review decided to offer congratulations to Dr. Mann, they write:
Honoring Michael Mann’s Nobel Prize
To mark Michael Mann’s Nobel Prize, we bought this full-page ad that ran in today’s Penn State student newspaper.
—Rich Lowry is the editor of National Review.
h/t to WUWT reader Frank K
UPDATE: Proof that it actually ran, here
h/t to Brian Lemon
_Jim says:
October 31, 2012 at 9:09 pm
Maybe Mann should have heeded that advice given early last century by H. L. Mencken:
“Never get into an argument with a man who buys his ink by the barrel.”
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Is it not bandwidth now ?
As we speak.
Thanks Jim for the info. Following your tip I checked it out, you are right. the Peace Prize is more of a reflection of Norway political sentiment than true accomplishments. The other prizes are awarded in Sweden based on verifiable accomplishments.
The NRO missed the chance to land a killing blow. It failed to mention that the Nobel committee, or the IPCC, had (according to a WUWT commenter on a recent Mann / Nobel thread) sent an e-mail a year ago to the 2000 recipients of the IPCC’s commendation telling them not to claim to be partial recipients of a Nobel prize. If he ignored that direction, it makes him look five times worse. Otherwise, his sin is venial.
Dear Michael Mann,
Can you say, “Blown up in my face”?
“National Review decided to offer congratulations to Dr. Mann”
Sure it is Halloween?
Because it sure seems like Christmas!
Well at least Mann might get to sell a few more copies of his book as a result of the publicity.
It’s more difficult for me to see how the climate-change business of Mann’s lawyers will draw any benefit from the whole affair. I thought they were taught to only sue the people who had the money.
To save on energy and the planet, the top of Mike’s head can now be used to cook popcorn.
Seriously (sarc on), he shouldn’t be assumed of committing intentional fraud. After all, he is only a highly educated DR and PhD, trained and experienced in the disciplines of logic and such, with practice in carefully choosing his words in only 150 scientific publications. (sarc kept on)
This should be called – Rich’s NRO trick to highlight the decline (of Mann’s credibility)
A Nobel piece prize?
Pamela Gray says:
October 31, 2012 at 6:04 pm
“Claiming a Nobel Prize where none has been given is fraud. Not a laughing matter. It lends credence to the charge of fraud often spoken by many skeptics and ridiculed as being paranoid by AGWers.”
Exactly. Dangling immunity from even criticism has been the undoing of many a fraud.
So has the the mistake of finally launching that fatal lawsuit that sends someone slapping them back to the showers to act antisocial and sullen, and angry people discovered the world isn’t going to end, and that they’re a criminal, nothing more, after all.
For Whom Nobel tolls,
Not to Mann it rolls.
Great work, NRO … I particularly liked:
And now I can’t get a certain tune out of my head! If Mann were ever to be honest with himself, this oldie-but-goodie from The Platters would be his theme song:
http://youtu.be/Pzkszgjkj6Q
Another Mannifestation of Mannipulated data?
re: SasjaL @ur momisugly October 31, 2012 at 7:27 pm
Stortinget is the Norwegian parliament, not the government. Otherwise you are correct that the Nobel committee members are politically appointed. It is a parking spot for useless former politicians.
GlynnMhor says:
October 31, 2012 at 6:08 pm
“Apparently the last-mentioned Rigoberta Menchu was accused of stretching the truth a bit in her dictated autobiography “… to meet the publicity needs of the guerrilla movement…””
Well, all the Nobel Peace Price laureates do that, don’t they – “composite girlfriend”, “Mike’s Nature Trick to hide the decline”…
Saw an interview with Mann on Al Jazeera (of all places). He was all full of the ~’if we don’t get something done it’s the end of the world as we know it’ kind of stuff. VERY committed to the whole end of the world baked in the cake notion and dripping green… (A lot of that on Halloween 😉
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/10/20121021181018376635.html
Don’t know why an Arab news outlet is so committed to the US going “green” and all, but who knows. They also ‘lean very left’ which seems odd for a culture dominated by religion and political strong men… Oh Well.
But at least we know that Mann can still get bookings… even if out of the country…
“Lean very left” means “I hate America.” It’s what the Third World and the U.S. Academic left have in common.
Here is another version
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/NoBellCert.htm
Mike A says: October 31, 2012 at 9:23 pm
Awarding the peace prize to the IPCC was illegal too- the terms of Nobel’s will clearly state the person who…..
Not organisation; person.
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No, the will does not explicitly state “person”. The normal interpretation of the wording (in Swedish: “…och en del åt den, som har verkat mest eller bäst för folkens förbrödrande och afskaffande eller minskning af stående arméer samt bildande och spridande af fredskongresser.”) is for a person but may well be taken to mean group of persons (as seen with the prizes in economics, physics, medicine) and thus, organizations.
The inapproriateness of awarding to the IPCC has rather to do with the explicit statements that they should have done the best or most work for uniting the brotherhood of man, abolishing or reducing standing armies and/or organizing and spreading of peace congresses.
It is time to give the Mann a break. From a October 12, 2007, post on a respected US government web site (and found via 10-28-12 post on Mann’s facebook page)
Don’t get me wrong, I think this reflects on the ability of the IPCC leaders to understand the facts and perhaps their willingness to misunderstand them when it helps the cause. But, perhaps there is a bit too much piling on.
Ouch!
I’m wondering, where are his friends and colleagues in his time of need?
Surely someone can pop up out of the woodwork and claim Dr Mann had forgotten to take his meds that day?
“what the European Union is to the Europian Union is Michael Mann to Penn State”
Sice I’m from the EU and don’t know anyone here, who thinks the EU deserved this price, I like this epic phrase most…..
It seems lately that Nobel Prizes (all kinds) have been awarded simply for the sake of it, almost as if a minimum number must be awarded annually.
Lemme see, why not award one to the moron that invented “gangnam style”, whatever that is and why it’s so necessarily trendy right now?
In Mann’s case, if there were a Nobel Prize for receipt of negative nouns, I think “scoundrel” would top the list of “nice” and degenerate from there.
I bet he did not even use those logs he is posing with to elaborate the infamous hockey stick graph.
“@markx – Re Rigoberta Menchú: While their is some doubt about elements of her story, it seems generally accepted that she was deserving of a Nobel Peace Prize….”
I really didn’t have any time or inclination to research this statement in depth, but I noticed that there was a Wiki reference given. It reads just like the usual biased wiki entries for AGW. Some comments are made about her making incorrect statements in order to paint her political opposition black, and immediately these statements are justified as being ‘ok in the circumstances’.
You can usually tell when a wiki entry is written by a ‘true believer’. This one obviously is. So, if your justification for saying ‘it seems generally accepted that she was deserving…’ is based on the wiki entry, I would say that was a very weak basis to make that assertion… .
I’d like to see Anyone do better than that!