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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Alan Watt;
Barak Obama made a bunch of speeches on “hope and change” and got elected president and was nominated for the Peace Prize just a few weeks after taking office
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Actually the voting was BEFORE he took office, they only announced it afterward. Does that mean that everyone who voted for him shares in his Nobel Prize? Wow, you Americans got MILLIONS of Nobel Laureates! And if Mann voted for Obama he can say he won it twice!
Seeing as how Mann’s Nobel Prize has been snatched away, he probably should get a consolation prize of some sort such as the:
Hide The Decline Award
Golden Hockey Stick Award
Yamal Better Not Defame Me Award
Etc.
Hm, I left M.Mann a question at his fb-site. He deleted it. I asked him who should get “recognition” when the UN won the prize in 2001. Or when the EU won this year. To tricky, perhaps.
Perhaps a good compromise would be to give Mann an Ig Nobel, so that Mikey would have something substantial to show for all of his efforts. On the other hand, are people who have had humorectomies eligible for Igs?
I don’t grasp thrown under the bus in this case, but it is notable that IPCC played it straight, essentially repeating what the Nobel price organization said – the facts, with clear explanation of what is and is not a Nobel Prize.
Rather an amazing performance by Michael Mann, he is now trying to wriggle out of it with his Facebook statement (which falls in the “just a mis-understanding” category of excuse attempts).
And I’m ROFL at Andrew Weaver’s misleading statement.