Heh, I saw this last night, and I made a screencap early on but decided not to comment about it. But since Tom Nelson has put it out there, I thought maybe I should bring attention to it now.
Dr. Michael Mann sure has interesting and entertaining Facebook friends, at least the ones that are allowed to comment.
Heh, Kelly Anspaugh, (PhD in Twentieth Century Literature and Literary Theory) climate expert, please tell us how you really feel.
Tom Nelson reminds us of this other gem from Dr. Mann’s Facebook page:
One person’s maggot is another’s friend I suppose.
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So, a deep knowledge of Medieval Literature qualifies you to make judgements on the subject of Catastrophic Global Warming?
Well given that Dante’s universe was ‘rigid, moralistic and mythological’ you can see why.
I find that a large proportion of CAGW believers have studied non science topics at school and university!
“denialist discourse”
Too funny.
I heard about the devil giving Mann the grand tour.
‘This here is a new circle where you can see some horrible people up to their eyelashes in sh1te, would you like to join them doctor ?’
‘er , no thanks’
‘This here is an older circle. These folks are up to their waists in sh!te. as you can see, they are drinking cool aid, eating chocolate cake , cashing grant cheques and smoking fat cigars’
‘Yes, this is good for me. I’ll spend the rest of eternity here’
so in he jumps and starts eating the cake.
Five minutes later, the devil gets his whip out and shouts, ‘ok you skunks. Christmas treat is over. Back on your heads’
I wonder if Mann is aware that according to Dante Hell really has frozen over?
“PhD in Twentieth Century Literature and Literary Theory”. Literary Theory! Is there a model for that? I guess Kelly’s CAGW science is supported by Dante’s Inferno where I understand it is quite hot. Word has it that that’s where Al Gore got his data on the millions of degrees in the earth’s interior. Indeed, it it wasn’t manmade, there would be no need for the Inferno. It is telling that the butchers, the bakers and the candlestick makers (chandlers?) didn’t blog and dispute Einstein’s theories, yet in climate science it is accepted and encouraged.
Please, someone with some higher ed science qualification post some comment on the link kindly supply by DirkH above! the lastest HADCRUT graphs showing no warming for 16 years would be a good start. there’s no point my doing it…
But what a self-serving and self-deluded man Dr Kanspaugh is. I agree with the university admin: he IS a danger to students.
So is any teacher who decides to undermine a colleague in a discipline of which he understands not the first thing; what arrogance. And thank goodness there is at least one teaching establishment not filling students’ heads with unscientific and discredited AGW nonsense.
Kelly, you seem to have a very limited circle of interest. Your Facebook page says:
Inspirational people: Timon of Athens.
And here’s what Facebook says about Timon: Timon of Athens was a citizen of Athens whose reputation for misanthropy grew to legendary status. According to Lucian, Timon was the wealthy son of Echecratides who lavished his money on flattering friends. When funds ran out, friends deserted and Timon was reduced to working in the fields. One day, he found a pot of gold and soon his fairweather friends were back. This time, he drove them away with dirt clods. Both Aristophanes and Plato Comicus mention Timon as an angry despiser of mankind who held Alcibiades in high regard because he correctly believed Alcibiades would someday harm Athens. In Lysistrata, the chorus of old women claim that although Timon hated men, he was friendly and courteous towards women.
Other: Michael E. Mann, Bill McKibben, Guardian Science, Climate Progress, The Guardian [and four others I don’t recognize].
Poor miserable wretch. You should read Helen Forrester who had the same problem as Timon – if not worse – but handled it very differently. Or, even better, read The Hiding Place.
When you’ve drunk from these much sweeter wells, come back and have a chat.
I’m such a tease. I sent Mr. Anspaugh this link
http://notrickszone.com/2012/12/18/good-news-consumption-of-affordable-coal-continues-to-eradicate-poverty-worldwide-with-no-impact-on-climate/
Since Dante’s poems are simply his functional interpretation of more fiction and he gained a mighty reputation by creating it is there some symbolism here I am just not seeing. Both Dante and Mann et al. are playing the same mythology game with theologies maybe it is more appropriate then I had at first thought. I do feel slighted to have been left off the list thought.
Whoa! Just read how Super Hero Anspaugh, Climate expert extraordinaire, stood up to deny a denialist scientist at his university. And got the sack. Exquisite.
Mann and Anspaugh make a beautiful couple. I wish them every happiness in their future relationship :-). Boy, has he got a HIGH opinion of himself.
Kelly Anspaugh, not only out of his depth with respect to science, but a PhD in Twentieth Century Literature and Literary Theory (whatever that is) invoking Dante is at least as ridiculous…Doctors of 20th Century Literature don’t believe in heaven or hell; but, after reading Dr. Anspaugh’s history, I can see how he can understand and believe in being up to one’s chin in sh*te.
Thank you DirkH for the link!
Willis Eschenbach says:
December 18, 2012 at 12:41 pm
Dang, Anthony, you and Moncton and Singer get your own special circle of hell, and I don’t even get a T-shirt? Is there no justice in this world?
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No justice , Willis. You will have to figure out some way to piss off Anspaugh if you wish to get promoted.
I should add that in one of my blog essays” The Confessional or I Am An AGW Atheist! I qualified myself didn’t I? http://retreadresources.com/blog/?p=854
Anspaugh explains his side of the conflict with science proffessor at Ohio-Lima
http://thesoapboxrantings.blogspot.com/2012/07/dr-kelly-c-anspaugh-fired-for-standing.html
”PhD in Twentieth Century Literature and Literary Theory”
From the University of Wisconsin-Madison, no less. A school that consistently ranks in the top ten of party schools.
Kelly Anspaugh, (PhD in Twentieth Century Literature and Literary Theory) …
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Quoting Roger Kimball ‘… they don’t do truth in the fashionable predicts of the academy today … they do “theory” … theory as practiced in the academy today is primarily an instrument of politics, not inquiry …”.
Modern deconstructionist theory abhors truth, is nihilistic and anti-enlightenment.
Pseudo Scientists Yell Climate Hate Overtly !
Good question. I once asked that of the commenters on the Guardian a few years back and was promptly banned. This is after I accepted that the Earth has been warming since the Little Ice Age, that Co2 is a greenhouse gas and that global mean temperatures had flatlined. Funny that.
Funny! Just look at all the projectionist words in Mann’s mere few sentences:
trolls
marching
flood
infestation
larvae
mindless
parrot
pollutes
exposes
intellectual bankruptcy
denial
zealotry
I mean, you can’t make this stuff up…
Even though I will never make Mann’s *sh1te* list, I’m his worst nightmare with my 8 kids and their growing carbon footprints.
Take THAT, Mr. Mann. And may each of my kids have as many carbon-generating kids and may their kids have the same, ad infinitum.
(Ho, Ho, Ho–This really makes my Holidays Happy!)
Dante’s Inferno…or as it’s otherwise known ‘The Medieval Warm period’!
DirkH
“Looks like he was an English teacher who wanted to correct the science teacher’s position about Global Warming:”
I researched the two and I found that Ackerman’s “overall quality” rating was 4.8 compared to Anspaugh at 3.5.
http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=180053
Forgetting Mann, a strange creature of his own dark closet ….
Notice the tweet: “… overshadowing the real debate.”
That would be the capitalist, western society of non-green, non-eco-preservationist values. Including population numbers, not just consumption per capta.
Yes, “that” would be the real debate. A worthy one, but not the one the IPCC and Mann have claimed is the “problem”.
And they say we are conspiracy theorists!
From the comments about his dismissal:
“…This denialist rhetoric is infuriating to say the least. They are using the same tactics (and often the same PR companies) as tobacco companies did in days of yore. There is no debate, but the denialists have expertly created the perception of a debate. Which gives the politicians the perfect excuse to dodge making politically unpopular decisions.
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kanspaughAugust 2, 2012 10:01 PM
Exactly. In my case political considerations came into play as well, but they were more local. The Dean and Associate Dean did not care if I was right about AGW and the climate teacher wrong, all they cared about was protecting a loyal crony from being exposed as a crackpot. As for the rest of the faculty, they were more concerned about staying on the good side of the administration than they were about protecting the quality of science education the students were receiving. The result was my termination, not for a lack of devotion to duty, but for an excess thereof. Sickening…”
Beetle larvae usually consume dead matter.