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
Gunga Din says:
November 1, 2012 at 9:18 am
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Maybe “tripped up” instead of “bound”?
Somehow I get the feeling that Mikey has taken one of these pages from the paper, whited out the asterisk, cut off the bottom paragraph, and pinned it up to his office door. Denial ain’t just a river….
While right and truth are on Steyn’s side, this doesn’t necessarily end well for him. Right and truth are not factors that enter into the equation of justice where progressive liberal judges are concerned.
Related: PA Attorney General preparing to indict former Penn State president Graham Spanier on perjury and obstruction of justice charges for lying to a Grand Jury on the Sandusky case. Link follows:
http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/01/14852918-former-penn-state-president-graham-spanier-faces-charges-tied-to-child-sex-abuse-scandal?lite
Spanier was president of Penn State in 2010 when Mann was cleared. This indictment tends to make NRO’s / Steyn’s / Simberg’s case for them. Cheers –
http://www.research.psu.edu/news/2010/michael-mann-decision
the prooblem is the answer to the question of “Who is going to laugh last?”
I despise Mann, and I appreciate that he is a target of ease and fun. But the lawsuit is for real, and the legal process is closer to the beginning than the end. However, this good fun does not mean much if Mann ends up laughing last. And the pervasive nature of AGW, infecting more and more of society I would not be so sanguine about this.
I think Penn State Alumni should now start to put pressure on University President Erickson to re-open the Mann investigation. Mann’s honesty is being called into question because of the Nobel Prize claim at the same time that the former university president (the very same President who oversaw PSU’s investigation of Mann) is being indicted for obstruction of justice. This has the potential to be a perfect PR storm for the University.
Serious questions persist about potential misstatements of fact in the Penn State Investigation of Mann. And, NRO will certainly put PSU’s investigation of Mann on public trial during the defamation suit. Penn State can not afford another scandal. How well will their investigation of Mann stand up to real scrutiny? Erickson must take action to get in front of this and to assure himself that the Mann investigation was conducted properly and was not another Spanier Special. The only way to do that this to re-open the investigation and to appoint a dis-interested, independent investigator
A current science news headline is most apt for Mann and Penn State. It reads “Causation Warps our Perception of Time.” Unfortunately, Mann attempted to warp time itself through the data manipulation trick in addition to our perception of it. That puts him in the class of illusionists alongside Houdini and many copycats that followed. Shall we try to handcuff trick next?
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Reed Coray,
I will add other possibilities:
4) The PSU student newspaper’s student staff are future journalists who know where there is smoke there is fire. The PSU Prof Mann is smokey, if nothing else.
5) There may be things that the student body knows ‘off the record’ about the quality of faculty to student relationships of some of its professors? The PSU student newspaper staff know that the NRO ad will lead to a lively student discussion for sure wrt PSU professors. We could see some other shoes dropping during that discussion . . . n’est ce pas? These student journalists might be pretty darn good if they are strategizing several steps ahead like that.
John
re: “Leo G says: October 31, 2012 at 11:43 pm A Nobel piece prize?”
Mann’s Nobel piece prize for a quantum leap increase, beyond the original Piltdown Man’s discovery, in size of economic transfers, social enhancements and political transformations, accrued or claimed by their creators from mere cloth,invective and garbage.
Any news of reactions to the ad, on or off campus?
markx says:October 31, 2012 at 6:02 pm
“Pretty cheap shot……
….but then again, if anyone was ever more deserving of a cheap shot…”
Bearing in mind there’s a hockey stick involved….a slap shot!
Mpaul, about Penn State investigating Mann:
The ivory towers of academia, do they really have the ability to look at serious problems like a Mann or a Sandusky? Simpy, no. They don’t have the gusto to do it properly, and they have too many reasons to ignore bad behavior of their employees, least of which is funding.
Penn State has proven, by it’s long, drawn out handling of Sandusky, that it lacks the ability to self correct. It had to be ever pressured and the problem is still being addressed. Now the ex-president is being sued. It too all this time.
Penn State has a lot of funding to lose if they look too closely. They can only do it if we drag them screaming and kicking. Steyn and NRO will win. When exaggerated science loses, real science wins. It’s going to be a long drawn out brawl.
Round one definitely goes to Steyn and NRO. Two knockdown.
The ex-Pres of Penn State is charged today with cover up.
Cover up cases move painfully slowly.
Hard way for an educator to learn.
The consequences of the tree ring circus are also ahead.
There is no Nobel Prize for economics.
The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics, but officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. It was established and endowed by Sweden’s central bank Sveriges Riksbank, in 1968 on the occasion of the bank’s 300th anniversary, in memory of Alfred Nobel. It is awarded by the Nobel Foundation but it is not a Nobel Prize.
Read agrimarc, above, thanks for that report on Spanier. This is huge.
The very guy who oversaw Sandusky getting off and Mann getting off…..Graham Spanier, Ex-president of the school …
is now the vortex that will suck Mann back into the hot seat! Mann. Mann is toast in the world’s slowest toaster.
Say the word “Spanier” to Mann’s face and watch him flinch. He thought he was off the hook since his buddy quit. Oh oh.
Some people simply feel they are above the rules. Sandusky and Mann have been doing their funny-business, insulated beneath mountains of money that they attract and that muddles the thinking at Penn State.
As a Nobel Laureate myself (for I, too, share the IPCC/ManBearPig four-boxtops “peace” prize for my distinguished, important, astounding, ground-breaking, world-beating, intergalactically-significant contribution to eradicating one of the numerous errors in the Fourth Assessment Report), I do congratulate my fellow-prizewinner Mickey Mouse from Penn & Jerry U.
My Nobel Peace Prize badge, showing the head of old Alf himself, was made by Prof. David Douglass of Rochester University, using gold recovered from a physics experiment 35 years previously and awarded to me in a handsome presentation box when I gave a seminar on climate sensitivity to his Physics faculty a few years back.
Funny that the climate-extremist blogs have been silent about Mickey’s ambitious claim to be a Nobel Prizewinner, when they huffingtoned and puffingtoned so much about my own claim to the same effect, even though Mickey’s claim was serious and mine was a joke.
Could there be some sort of a double standard here? I think we should be told. Meanwhile, I wear my Prize Pin with pride.
BREAKING: Penn State faculty member and ex-President Graham Spanier is criminally charged:
Pennsylvania’s Attorney General announces charges against Penn State professor and ex-President Graham Spanier
Ex-Penn State president charged in Sandusky case
Kevin Johnson and Doug Stanglin
USA TODAY
1:51PM EDT November 1. 2012 – Former Penn State president Graham Spanier and two other former administrators were charged Thursday with perjury, obstruction of justice, and endangering children in connection with their handling of the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal.
Prosecutors said all three officials knew of complaints involving Sandusky, an assistant football coach, showering with boys in 1998 and 2001 and failed to take action to stop it.
“This is about three powerful and influential men, three men who used their positions at Penn State to cover-up and conceal the activities of (Sandusky),” said Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly in announcing the charges….
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….Penn State spokesman David La Torre said Thursday that Spanier, who continued to serve as a tenured professor after he was fired as president in November, “will be placed on leave, effective immediately.”
Thanks for the great laugh! My immediate reaction: “Oh f**k me, remind me never to cross the National Review!”
Well played.
Reed Coray says:
November 1, 2012 at 9:25 am
What say you?…..
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The motives of NRO are clear.
The motives of the paper are less obvious but I will suggest that human nature prevails.
The paper editor wanted the notoriety…. for his next personal career objective…. and is willing to say or do anything to get noticed….kids…. trying to make a splash.
Normally notoriety seekers do so under the guise of legitimate issues and false virtue…in this case…”The Truth”.
If the paper is interested in the truth, they would put one of their student reporters in the Mann’s office. HAR HAR… like a left wing student paper would actually want to challenge one of their priests…
More likely the paper is a whore… taking money…under the guise of principle but really in opposition to their lefty principles for cash.
Now that we know the paper is a whore, when can buy that whore for short money for all sorts of purposes. Lets start a collection. Let’s see if we can raise some cash to pay off a student to write an article about their Mann-God, criticizing his claim to be a Nobel Laureate.
Human nature will prevail….they will take the money and sell their principles.
Rich Lowry, a genius, at NRO knew the paper would step up and prostitute themselves. You can always count on a green leftest to have no character. eg Peter Gleick,
Next step is to send him one of these:
http://www.crayola.com/for-educators/lesson-plans/lesson-plan/nobel-prize-medallion.aspx
While technically not official, it’s still damn impressive. Nothing says BMOC like a replica Medallion.
Congratulations, Mike. Great photo, too! I see you are wearing your mock turtle-neck!
Your mock turtle-neck goes very nicely with your buddy Spanier and his mock investigations!
I have heard Nobel Prizes are “a surprising thing to wake up to in the morning.”
Monckton of Brenchley says:
November 1, 2012 at 11:15 am
“[…amusing stuff omitted…]
Meanwhile, I wear my Prize Pin with pride.”
And it’s odds on you don’t point out your Prize Pin when initiating legal actions, eh?
Watch out – he might demanned a retraction to hide the decline of his reputation
Mann the Lifeboats!