This statement was issued today from the IPCC, which appears to be inspired by the recent claims of Dr. Michael Mann in the lawsuit against NRO that we discussed here and here. The colored bold text in the paragraph below is my emphasis, otherwise it is presented as it was released. A source link to the original press release follows.
Reviewing what has transpired for Dr. Mann recently, this quote comes to mind:
A mann’s GOT to know his limitations – Harry Calahan, Magnum Force
– Anthony
2012/12/ST
IPCC STATEMENT
Statement about the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
The IPCC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for its work on climate change, together with former US Vice-‐President Al Gore.
In its citation, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said that the IPCC and Mr Gore shared the prize “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-‐made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change”. In its announcement the Norwegian Nobel Committee stated that through the scientific reports it had issued over the past two decades, the IPCC had created an ever-‐broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming, and that thousands of scientists and officials from over one hundred countries had collaborated to achieve greater certainty as to the scale of the warming.
The prize was awarded at the end of the year that saw the IPCC bring out its Fourth Assessment Report (AR4).
The prize was awarded to the IPCC as an organization, and not to any individual associated with the IPCC. Thus it is incorrect to refer to any IPCC official, or scientist who worked on IPCC reports, as a Nobel laureate or Nobel Prize winner. It would be correct to describe a scientist who was involved with AR4 or earlier IPCC reports in this way: “X contributed to the reports of the IPCC, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.”
The IPCC leadership agreed to present personalized certificates “for contributing to the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 to the IPCC” to scientists that had contributed substantially to the preparation of IPCC reports. Such certificates, which feature a copy of the Nobel Peace Prize diploma, were sent to coordinating lead authors, lead authors, review editors, Bureau members, staff of the technical support units and staff of the secretariat from the IPCC’s inception in 1988 until the award of the prize in 2007. The IPCC has not sent such certificates to contributing authors, expert reviewers and focal points.
For more information contact:
IPCC Press Office, Email: ipcc-‐media@wmo.int
Source: http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/nobel/Nobel_statement_final.pdf
h/t to Chris Horner
UPDATE: Dr. Mann posted on his Facebook page today this scan of a letter from the IPCC dated October 30th:
The press release from the IPCC was authored on October 29th according to the document properties in the PDF file. There is no hint in Dr. Mann’s Facebook page statement today of any apology or walkback for Dr. Mann claiming to have been “awarded the Nobel Peace Prize” and that on the NRO lawsuit complaint itself NRO was accused of the hitherto unknown crime of “defamation of a Nobel prize recipient.”
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Pamela Gray says:
November 2, 2012 at 5:35 pm
Does that mean that my BS, MS, and MA degrees are “shared” by those who contributed towards it? What about the honors stuff, like the Phi Beta Kappa? Logically, that should be “shared” by all my professors. Not to mention my parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc. Just trying to follow the new post-normal rules here.
In the famous words of our current president:
“You didn’t do that on your own. Somebody else made that happen.”
If one gets bestowed with the Nobel Peace Prize, it is acknowledged one has in some way contributed to PEACE. Nothing could be further than the truth or contributed to ‘PEACE’, it has caused more problems to the world than before, with millions being spent on green energy that Gore for one has financially benefited by. But when people like Obama only in office a few weeks, wasn’t it?, the prize seems to have become extremely easy to acquire and politics is involved. If the NP was awarded for something specific, like Science, medicine, Literature, etc., fair enough. I think Mann is now regretting being a man seen as exaggerating the truth and being self serving at least. Go peel a grape and admit your mistakes, Mike.
Here are the attorneys struggling to portray their client as an unassuming scientist whose Nobel Prize involuntarily thrusts him into the limelight. Because in a defamation suit, the distinction between a humble citizen and an attention-grabbing self-promoter is huge.
Oh, the irony.
I wonder if applying for government research grants using fake credentials is a problem?
Actually it appears after some searching that i may have done Dr Mann a disservice and that his achievements go far beyond such a simple feat as winning the Nobel peace prize.*
Here he is after the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic.
http://i.imgur.com/1EADk.jpg
and here upon returning from a successful walk on the moon with his fellow astronauts on Apollo 11
http://i.imgur.com/j70u9.jpg
and here, pictured with Sherpa Tensing Norgay after their successful conquest of Everest
http://i.imgur.com/jMjG2.jpg
egg squarely on my face eh?
/parody
*photoshops were poorly created by me, just now.
Apparently Michael Mann has some reading comprehension trouble. And he sued Mark Steyn? Good luck with that buddy.
When I read the comments from Mann’s supporters after his latest Facebook entry, I increasingly get the impression that the guy is running his own little religious cult with CAGW being the religion of course. Mann, like David Koresh (who was supposed to be Christ, remember?), certainly has the giant ego to start his own cult and attract gullible followers. The downside to this for his followers as well as the MSM and the politicians who believe in him is the shock and disbelief they will experience one day if and when Mann is finally exposed to the world as a fraud. But I guess that is how we as individuals grow and learn to become less susceptible to fraud–or at least some of us anyway.
If Mann’s ego ever gets so big that his head explodes someday, the only downside to that will be the mess that somebody will have to clean up. How that would be compared to the way the Waco disaster ended makes for interesting speculation, but Mann no doubt is a walking one-man scientific disaster in the eyes of many already.
We should always keep in mind that the “real” Nobel committee is in SWEDEN. We have to ask how the NORWEGIAN Nobel committee got the okay to award the Peace Prize. Did they just take it upon themselves? The Norwegians, as I understand it, are a group from the Norwegian parliament. I suspect that they might be of leftist leanings, but I don’t have any proof.
IanM
zootcadillac,
Fine job! Kudos.
It warms the cockles of my heart to know that Dr. Mann “couldn’t be prouder of our contribution and the recognition that the IPCC received for its work.” I wonder how proud he is of advertising himself as a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Nice shops zoot. Here’s one I created earlier.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of greenhouse gases,
I will fear no carbon: for Thou art with me
Thy rod and thy hockey stick they comfort me
http://postimage.org/image/ag7m4brw7/
“How does Mann even deal with his ego-driven ‘morning wood’ that must surely be stimulated by dreaming of himself all night long?”
As the great Woody Allen has argued: “Don’t knock masturbation. It’s sex with someone I love”
D Böehm says:
November 2, 2012 at 8:47 pm
zootcadillac,
Fine job! Kudos.
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Seconded!
Maybe one of Mann turning into Gollum because he hung onto The Ring to long?
MrE says:
November 2, 2012 at 6:47 pm
Like John West above, I see that Dr Andrew Weaver likes to be ambiguous with who won the prize also.
When he speaks at Universities they often call him a Nobel Laureate and news media calls him that. He might say it’s not his fault they make the mistake but he should make them correct that.
From one of his book covers from Amazon:
“Dr. Andrew J. Weaver, Canada’s top climate scientist, is professor and Research Chair in climate modeling and analysis at the University of Victoria. He was a lead author in the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.”
I see he is going to run for the Green party in British Columbia. I do give him credit for running. If these highly political scientists act like politicians then they should put up and run for office. (but I would never vote for him)
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Not meaning to insult some of my British ancestors, but anyone notice that Andrew Weaver seems to have a bit of a British accent like so many of the Socialist activists that have immigrated to North America to become union heads, teachers and others with an strong left wing bent? Did they leave before or after the Thatcher version of conservatism? So many of them seem bent like Andrew Weaver. Maybe it is genetic. Or caused by CAGW. Could be room for a big government financed social study here. Sorry – I sometimes get tired of ex-pst left wingers that left there country of origin trying to screw up ours. (or maybe it is an affected accent from his studies in Cambridge and Australia and he got bent from association given his original degree was from the University of Victoria – a paragon of west coast British transplants.)
All marvelous stuff.
The whole episode indicates Mann’s main driving force is fame. It seems he is not so much wanting to ‘save the world’ as wanting to go down in history as ‘the saviour’. IN this manager he is completely blinded to logical thought processes. Truly the story is becoming very ‘religious’.
Equally marvelous are the cries of ‘harbinger of doom’ regarding the storm Sandy. Any individuals with an ounce of common sense are surely thinking “Hey, that ain’t right, storms like this have happened before and will happen again”.
zootcadillac, brilliant.
All marvelous stuff.
The whole episode indicates Mann’s main driving force is fame. It seems he is not so much wanting to ‘save the world’ as wanting to go down in history as ‘the saviour’. In this manner he is completely blinded to logical thought processes. Truly the story is becoming very ‘religious’.
Equally marvelous are the cries of ‘harbinger of doom’ regarding the storm Sandy. Any individuals with an ounce of common sense are surely thinking “Hey, that ain’t right, storms like this have happened before and will happen again”.
(Aaaargh! typos corrected)
From a post at Climate Audit:
“Independent: As someone who has spent a major portion of his professional career researching climate change and advocating for societal change, what does winning a share of the Nobel Peace Prize mean for you personally?
Running: There was of course a fair bit of buzz that Al Gore might get it. We were really just rooting for Al Gore to get it. That’s why we were all completely stunned Friday when the news started coming up that Al Gore and the IPCC committee had won the prize.
It didn’t sink in for us as individual authors until around 9 a.m. when I got an e-mail from the IPCC head office in Geneva, Switzerland saying, and I quote, “This makes each of you a Nobel laureate.” And that’s when I started going, “Whoa. Wait a minute here.”
Indy: What did it feel like to read those words from the IPCC office?
Running: Well, because this is a shared prize among 600 of us, I’ve kind of continued to oscillate back and forth between a thought that this is all almost kind of a funny game on the one hand, and on the other hand thinking quite profoundly that this is… I read in the last day or two that the Nobel Peace Prize is considered the biggest prize on earth about anything. You start thinking about that and start thinking even one six-hundredth of the biggest prize on earth is just…well, you’re left really speechless. It’s hard to have that sink in.”
http://climateaudit.org/2012/11/01/olympic-mann-2/#comments
(tlitb1 at 5.57 on Nov. 2)
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Mann’s delusions of grandeur know no bounds. Firstly, it transpires that the IPCC never notified him, or anyone else, that they are now ‘Nobel laureates’. Secondly, there were a lot more than 600 people who would be under the umbrella of the award. Thirdly, in the quote above, Mann refers to ‘the IPCC Committee’ (of which he claims to be a member) as winning the prize. This is simply false.
His lawyers are going to have a lot to put up with in the forthcoming case. But, Mark Steyn is going to have a lot of fun.
Apologies, the quotes above were made by Runner, not Mann – Mann merely referred approvingly to them.
Note to self: read more carefully before posting.
@David Ross. Nice one David and totally relevant.
And I know I made a cheap shot: Won’t happen again, tonight.
It was funny roasting Mann over this for maybe 5 minutes.
But 5 minutes are over. Can we move on now?
What I’m wondering is what the conversation between Mann and his lawyers looks like right now. One of the first things you learn when you are involved in litigation where issues central to the case become public is to STFU and let the lawyers deal with it. Not only has Mann more than likely p*ssed them off royally by trying to spin his way out of this instead of letting them handle it, he’s now also made them known to the public, and more importantly, the judiciary, as “that law firm that tried to pass one of their clients off as a Nobel Laureate”.
They can’t be happy right now. As a prestigious law firm, this is the kind of detail they are expected to get right. They can either claim they took his word for it, which means they failed to do their due diligence, or they can claim that they did their due diligence and misunderstood the technicality. Either way, I’m thinking they are no longer a “prestigious” law firm.
Did anyone snap a pic of the ninja driving that bus. Bahahahaha, so far Mann’s conquest to regain his “lost honor” is getting more hilarious by the minute. Which is right where I’d hoped it would go. Let’s hope the revelry shall continue…
Let me mention that you may be overplaying the subtle differences between winning and being a part of an organization etc. Moreover, this label has been used for various people who had been associated with the IPCC.
For example, here no one else than the BBC calls no one else than Richard Lindzen a “Nobel winner”:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p009yfwl/One_Planet_Climate_change_pot_plants_and_small_frogs/
News Flash: Dreadnaught Bismarck-Mann has been torpedoed by Swordfish planes launched form HMS Arc Royal (Force H).
Earlier, HMS Prince of Whales had engaged Bismarck-Mann suffered heavy damage though gave significant damage to Bismarrk-Mann in the engagement.
Other Royal Navy ships Norfolk, Dorsetshire and Rodney have engaged with exchange of heavy artillery and torpedo striking Bismarck-Mann.
RAF Scout Aircraft report sighting Bismarck-Mann low in the water and listing to port with fires on the midships and aft.
Two torpedoes from Rodney struck Bismarck-Mann with great effect. Dorsetshire also rounding Bismarck-Mann has fired torpedoes and Bismarck-Mann’s deck is awash.
A second wave of Swordfish planes from Arc Royal armed with contact bombs and torpedos are now in sight and closing in on Bismarck-Mann for the final kill.
This looks to the the finale for the Dreadnaught Bismarck-Mann who terrorized the peoples of the nations of the Free World.
Good Joy Royal Navy. God Save the King.