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
Monckton of Brenchley says:
November 1, 2012 at 11:15 am
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.
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And Mann must have known yet he’d let himself be introduced as one.
Parody starts/
I have a vague idea of a tentative grade B movie plot that includes this quasi-legal disclaimer => my tentative movie plot is not even remotely suggested by the antics of PSU Prof Mann, PSU’s previous incomplete investigation of Mann, Mann’s lawsuit against NRO and NRO’s recent exposure of Mann’s lack of integrity.
Suggested movie title: Academia Angst in America {subtitled: It isn’t blackmail if a university does it}
The plot contains:
– scandal ridden Pea State University (PeaSU) has a proposal for its previously investigated Professor Malevolent Mouse (MM) whose loose cannon litigations against any critic expose PeaSU to additional crippling scandals. PeaSU suggests Prof MM to seek other employment in return for PeaSU not initiating another investigation which will be by an outside independent task force instead of the last one that was an incomplete and biased internal investigation of MM.
– MM tells PeaSU to ‘stick your proposal where the sun doesn’t shine’
– in the remainder of the movie MM, because of his narcissistic actions, causes a ripple effect which takes down the professional positions of his former confederates in: PeaSU; the IPCCCP; University of Virgins in Virginia; Really Climatic blog; and the Fawning MSM Team.
– near the end of the movie MM is seen doing TV ads for male enhancement drugs out of his WWF provided mud hut
-The movie’s closing scene shows MM mumbling “if it is the last thing I do, I will have all those scum skeptics carbonized like Hans Solo was at the end of Star Wars Episode 5. I will hang their carbonized bodies on my wall like Jaba the Hut did with Hans’ carbonized body. MM smiles as the scene fades away to the end.
Parody ends/
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John
You don’t tug on Superman’s cape
You don’t spit into the wind
You don’t pull the mask of that ol’ Lone Ranger
And you don’t mess around with Rich Lowry.
“Had Dr Mann‘s conduct of his research been outside the range of accepted practices, it would have been impossible for him to receive so many awards and recognitions, which typically involve intense scrutiny from scientists who may or may not agree with his scientific conclusions”
This statement was in the PSU Final Investigation Report into Mann. Claiming to be a Nobel Laureate when you are not is strangely within “the range of accepted practices” which all those scientists who subjected Mann to “intense scrutiny” so diligently adhere to.
What would a psychiatrist make of a Mann who not only claims to be something he isn’t but who takes his lacklustre proxy and sticks on the end of it a grotesque instrumental erection to hide the decline and spends the next few years waving the monstrosity in our faces?
http://uk.askmen.com/sports/health_200/232_penis-fracture.html
Dr. Mann should’ve followed example of Dr. Caldeira who ( is it coincidence?) started career at Penn State and who keeps relatively low public profile with his geo-engineering fantasies and who attracts attention only of powerful people. Then he, as Dr. Caldeira, would dine with a computer mogul, vacation on a yacht of a rock star, and give interviews to “Freakonomics”. Instead, Dr. Mann got involved with Gavin, James, and Rajendra. Hmmm… Will Rodney and Henry continue insisting that this is “old normal”?
John Whitman says:
November 1, 2012 at 12:22 pm
I like it. Could we get Danny DiVito to play Professor Malevolent Mouse and Bernie Madoff to play the PeaSU President?
“What a piece of work is Mann, how nobel in reason” with apologies to Rado, Ragni and MacDermott of Hair and the Bard of Avon.
It seems that someone has thrown a spannier into the works.
The leadership at Penn must be extremely concerned about the indictment of Spanier and the prospect of many more months with the public spotlight back on the Sardusky affair (just as things were starting to quieten down).
Imagine how thrilled they must be with Dr Mann, his lawsuit, and the ridicule it has already attracted. I can’t imagine our Mike will be receiving too many invitations to the parties in the administration buildings.
They have a lot of doo doo to deal with!
RayG says:
It seems that someone has thrown a spannier into the works.
Brilliant!
You are hereby awarded a Nobel Prize in Punnery, you clever rascal.
I have decided to award myself the Nobel peace prize. What is the proper procedure for this? Should I sent out a press release first and then make my own certificate? Or is the usual method to just to list it on my resume and take an imperious and elitist attitude towards any peasants who challenge me about this claim? Could Mr Mann perhaps publish a paper on this topic?
Judith Curry opined that Mann’s lawsuit would not turn out well for him. It is too early to conclude if she was right, but it has certainly not started well for him!
Soulda / Coulda Doc Mann
http://www.nps.gov/chcu/index.htm
He coulda/shulda have taken the wife and kids on say a two week vacation.
Walked about, took a good look and photos of the rocks leaning, the sun infomation, the moon information, the cycles, the long gone old ones.
Then two and two =’s four.
Sometimes it is hot and dry.
Sometimes it is cold and wet.
Sometimes it is hot and wet.
Sometimes it is cold and dry.
Sometimes you have to make Mann fit in.
Sometimes Mann does none of the above.
Some times Mann looks the fool.
Brilliant one, NRO!
Now let’s see if I have this straight:
First Manny sues NRO for defamation and otherwise suggesting he is a pedaphooey or something because he read something you printed that had Sandusky’s name in it.
In his suit Manny states clearly and frequently about how he is a ‘Nobel Prize’ awardee or something and about how NRO has hurt him and his reputation.
NRO along with others discovers courtesy of the Nobel Prize Committee that they do not have any laureates with the name of Manny.
Then Manny Manniacal has to spend countless hours blocking pertinent questions and comments on twittery, facebook and who knows where else, (RC?).
Now NRO takes out a beautiful full page ad in the Penn State Newspaper ‘The Daily Collegian’ so that everyone knows Manny lad is scientist extradonaire and near scientist royaly… Fooled ya!
Now that Manniacal nut has got to walk places on campus, maybe eat lunch on campus. What I want to know is how Manniacal is going to block people when they snicker, giggle, break up laughing, fart, catcall, heckle or just point and belly laugh?
Then again, maybe I don’t but the Penn State police should…
The editorials and feedback from the students and the faculty will be worth following.
Betcha they support Mann unconditionally.
John O’Sullivan whacks Michael Mann:
http://johnosullivan.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/michael-mann-retracts-false-nobel-prize-claims-in-humiliating-climbdown/
It appears that Dr. Mann is continuing his tendency to be loose about facts. Obviously, his IPCC “training” has continued to be useful to him in his statements about facts. He appears to continue to misrepresent them. Perhaps he would enter a debate I have tried to arrange for over 4 years about the proof of the IPCC theory he espouses. I am not a rich man and offer $100,000 to the winner and $10,000 to the loser. One major rule; full, true and plain disclosure in all communications (similar to the rules which apply to officers of publicly listed corporations) with similar penalties (huge fines, long jail terms and prohibition from ever getting any public funds (research, contracts, pensions, etc) or holding ANY OFFICE EVEN partially funded by the public. I can get lots of skeptics to debate but no supporter of the IPCC theory. Perhaps Dr. Mann would accept? I would undertake to try to get other contributors so as to raise the prizes by 100 fold.
, to several times a Nobel award.
“Doug says:
October 31, 2012 at 8:27 pm
Brian Lemon, thanks for posting the digital hard copy. I looked at the online version, but no ads there. Love actually seeing it in print.”
Doug – see page 7 of the online version. It’s a full page.
They left Mother Theresa and Yasser Arafat off the list of Nobel Peace Prize laureates. Whatever this prize is for, it is clearly not science.
You can tell that the lord of powerless lord-dome is upon us when your belly shakes so hard from laughtger that you fell like an airplane loosing an engine.
The Minnesotans 4 Global Warming need to play their Original “Hide the Decline” song again…. I loved that song. Steyn should buy the rights to it and play it every day……..;-)
(Manne filed against them for playing it, so they had to change the lyrics and the video cartoon apparently)
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.
Agreed fully. However, the biggest punishment one can deal this crowd is to mock them mercilessly. Drives ’em nuts. As was once said, don’t pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel. Steyn has the intelligence, the wit, the guts, to smack Mann down. Not to mention that he has been down this road before with the Canadian government. Besides, NR warned Mann not to go here. Any public humiliation is on the Warmistas, and helps bring the matter to the public eye.
One problem I have, if I’m given a newspaper to read, I go from cover to cover.
Did the same here, and realized there are some people there with higher camaraderie than Dr Mann.
On page 12, there’s an article about The Penn State women’s ice hockey team:
“…The Penn State women’s ice hockey team adorned its sticks with yellow tape last weekend
to support cheerleader Paige Raque in her recovery efforts.
Raque, a 19-year old varsity cheerleader, fell 39 feet out of a window from the fifth floor of
Calder Commons on Oct. 13. She sustained severe head trauma and other injuries but has since
been taken off a ventilator.
Assistant coach Casey McCullion said she got the idea for the tape from the field hockey players,
who wore ribbon in their hair. “I felt like it was important for us to show our support as well,” McCullion said. “[To] just show the Raque family, as well as Paige, that we’re supporting her
and wishing her well as she goes through recovery…”
So how about it, Dr Mann: show some school spirit – put some yellow tape on your Hockey Stick in support of Paige.
The indictment of Spanier & co. over their long-term sexual abuse cover-up must be giving some BBC bigshots some flutters re their cover-up of Jimmy Savile’s long-term sexual abuse.
After this, even Chuck Norris will be wary of tangling with Rich Lowry.