As reported this past weekend, we had a hilarious case of Mann overboard! Since then, it has become the #1 story on WordPress worldwide. It stems from a $10 calendar from COSTCO I sent Dr. Mann, Dr. Gavin Schmidt, Dr. Peter Gleick and Dana Nuccitelli of “Skeptical Science” as Christmas gifts. As I said then, a little good humor didn’t work on the humorless.
Not content to simply stay quiet or just admit he went overboard in his claims while the world laughs at his reactions, he goes further with this latest Tweet:
A few notes for Dr. Mann:
1. I never received $88K. The project it was for was to be funded in two stages, only the first stage has been funded. The second stage never materialized, mainly because I haven’t asked for it, I’m still working on getting phase 1 finished so I can show results. Note that the money didn’t come from Heartland per se, they only found a private donor for me.
See this (in comments for the original story via Roger Knights who explained it well):
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Here’s the background on the Anthony/Heartland deal, which has been posted in one form or another widely enough that warmists ought to know about it. Watts isn’t paid for his blogging. A Heartland document describes a request he made last year for funding for a different project:
“Anthony Watts proposes to create a new Web site devoted to accessing the new temperature data from NOAA’s web site and converting them into easy-to-understand graphs that can be easily found and understood by weathermen and the general interested public. Watts has deep expertise in Web site design generally and is well-known and highly regarded by weathermen and meteorologists everywhere. The new site will be promoted heavily at WattsUpwithThat.com. Heartland has agreed to help Anthony raise $88,000 for the project in 2011. The Anonymous Donor has already pledged $44,000. We’ll seek to raise the balance.”
Watts later reported on the progress of this project. Most of the money, apparently, will go to a contract programmer and for equipment and internet fees:
“Using the funds provided with the help of Heartland’s private donor, I hired a specialist programmer familiar with NOAA systems to trap and convert the NOAA sat feed data to look like any other hourly station (like ASOS hourly stations at airports etc) so that we’d be able to start the visualization and comparison process. This is just one phase of the project before it is ready for public consumption. When finished, there will be a website free and open to the public that will allow tracking and visualization of temperatures from the CRN right alongside that of the regular surface network”
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And the fabricated documents (which Dr. Mann apparently still thinks is factual) which lead to the sort of misinformation Dr. Mann uses, are here: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/02/global-warming-alarmists-resort-to-hoax.php
Some early output from the data visualization of the project are here:
and here:
Note that’s not a complete output, just two samples of many. The project is still not complete as any technical person who has done such projects knows, monkey wrenches and hurdles abound in the best made plans.
2. Dr. Mann, as a scholar of this debate, you should know by now that facts surrounding the Koch involvement with Heartland (stolen by his own admission and leaked by your buddy Dr. Peter Gleick) was $25K, and it was designated for a health care project.
See this via Megan McArdle at The Atlantic, emphasis mine:
But not a full understanding of those documents, because the memo made curious errors. Most notably, it claimed that the Koch foundation had given $200,000 in 2011, when the actual number was $25,000 ($200,000 is what Heartland’s fundraising document indicates they hoped to get in 2012)–and since that money was donated for Health Care News, Heartland’s health care newsletter, it’s hard to see why it would show up in the climate strategy document, rather than, say, a document about their health care strategy. Given other anomalies surrounding the document, it seemed to me very likely that whoever had phished the authenticated board package had been disappointed by the lack of sizeable contributions from Big Oil and the Kochs, and so had written the memo to make sure that the documents told a nice, neat story about corruption and secrecy, rather than a boring, equivocal story about an issue advocacy organization with a spot of budget trouble.
Dr. Mann, please do show how this Koch donation for health care somehow found its way to me or kindly shut your π hole.
3. As for the money from the calendar itself, it came from my personal credit/debit card as I previously demonstrated:
In essence, all WUWT readers funded it, because that debit card has a balance on it from previous calendar sales. It is used to pay COSTCO for producing and shipping the calendars, something that was obviously beyond Dr. Mann’s comprehension based on his initial reaction.
4. As Tom Nelson pointed out, similar questions could be asked of you:
Twitter / MichaelEMann: #WUWT minions out to defend …
#WUWT minions out to defend #Watts against having spent any of his 88K from #Heartland (i.e. #Koch et al) on calendar. So how did he spend?
Hey Michael: How did you spend the income from your climate hoax books?
And…
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MAC says:
December 22, 2012 at 7:01 pm
Flashy? Widely distributed? LOL.
Mann: “We know Anthony Watts received $44K/yr from Koch-funded #Heartland Institute….
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WOW a one time grant for a surface station study for a mind boggling $44,000!
So how does that stack up to Mikey’s Moola?
Grants = Michael Mann brought at least $4,166,168 to Penn State
Rank and file “..atmospheric, earth, marine, and space sciences teachers, postsecondary” earn considerably more than the average university teacher ( @ $70.61 per hour)…. [normal] university lecturers and professors earn an average of $49.88 an hour From Salaries for all US Scientists by field – A Full Professor in Science $129,818
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5. Since turnabout is fair play, one could ask the question of Dr. Mann if any of the grant money he’s brought to Penn State went to Christmas gifts this year, or perhaps expenses for his “Flashy, widely distributed” book, or other expenses?
The disparity of funding between Dr. Mann’s endeavors and my project for CRN data visualization is laughable, yet Dr. Mann is worried about $15.84 spent on producing and shipping a calendar gift to him, something people regularly give away, just as I did. His fixation on this seems almost like a line from The Caine Mutiny.
6. Dr. Mann and others who continually insist that climate skeptics such as myself are recipients of huge “big oil/big coal” funds as Dr. Mann is often fond of saying:
“There has been, for years now, a very well-organized and frankly well-funded effort to confuse the public about climate change.”
He (and others that think this) should really take a moment to read this essay: Notes From Skull Island – why climate skeptics aren’t ‘well funded and well organized’
Within his multi-million dollar funded cocoon of academia, it must be impossible for Dr. Mann to understand that many climate skeptics are motivated by individual patriotism and concern for their country and the future of science, rather than the almighty dollar. In my conversations at AGU with Steve McIntyre, we both compared notes about how much better off we’d be financially if we didn’t have this climate issue diverting us. Steve has finally moved on to spending more time with his mining consulting business, and I’m likely to spend more time on my own business in 2013. We both have to work for a living, we don’t have tenure that allows us to take sabbaticals.
I sympathize with Dr. Mann’s plight, since by his reaction he obviously doesn’t understand COSTCO, likely never having shopped there. We all find it humorous. But, alas, Dr. Mann spins entertaining tales from his ignorance, much like the fabled (and false) claim that a U.S. president didn’t know what a grocery scanner was. It makes for a good story for people who want to believe you, but in the end, just like Dr. Mann’s hockey stick graph, when you examine the details, things aren’t as they seem.
7. In any event, now that Dr. Mann is on factual notice (since we know by his actions he monitors WUWT), any further emanations from him on this subject should now be factually based, otherwise they’ll just be purposely mendacious.
8. Right now, given the reactions, I think Dr. Mann and others in his climate clique are suffering from a “rat-hole problem”. Please note that is not a derogatory term. The meaning of “rat-hole problem” will become clear in the next posting (on Christmas day) and I think we should find a way to help him and others.
9. As before, I wish Dr. Mann, and the other recipients of the Josh/WUWT 2013 Calendar a very merry Christmas, and best wishes for the coming new year. I hope he’ll take a moment of respite from the “climate wars” to enjoy this most joyous of holidays.
(Posting and moderation will be light/nonexistent for a while, comments may go unpublished for an extended period of time during this holiday. )
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One of us needs to do a posting on the funding of the alarmists/warmists as compared to the skeptic community. Stating sources and recipients for both sides. Documentation of this would be a good thing.
Mann, the poster boy for [snip], which ideology seem to dictate that the person live on the grants from others all the while trying to force your grants into his purse as well.
Mann should be given the dummy’s guide to “when in a hole, stop digging” for Christmas next year.
Ed Zuiderwijk says:
December 25, 2012 at 12:46 am
“…Mike Mann must have thought: beware Greeks bringing gifts. Nobody ever sents him a prezzie so there must be an alterior motive, obviously. But then again, I’m not Freud so what do I know?…”
Well, sometimes a calendar is just a calendar.
To some, apparently, it’s seen as a reminder that their days are numbered, and that each passing day is an opportunity lost to “spread the word”.
If we really want to get to him, send him a birthday card on December 28, wishing him a happy 47’th birthday, with many happy returns.
Hope he has the happiest birthday anyone has seen in the past millennium.
You would think that during this precious season, people would stop and think before they open their mouths or apply fingers to keyboards. I for one am grateful for all points of view. My own has been immensely improved by the offerings of others not of my own persuasion. To them I owe a Santa Claus bag full of gratitude. That would include Mr. Mann.
It goes without saying that Anthony and his moderators have the true spirit of Christmas in their hearts.
What LearDog said at 12:17 pm
Imagine the funds for legal representation that would materialize in the “fling funds” jar should Dr. Mann ever push things a tad too far.
There’s a happy Christmas thought!
Merry Christmas to all from the Minions at Local 734 of the International Federation of Minions and Henchmen ;o)
Mann has no shame and will stoop to any tactic that serves his purpose. Truth is irrelevant to him. However ignoring it destroys his reputation and his case beyond his little circle of sycophants.
Michael Mann, drama queen
a comparison of how The Team talks about other scientists who prove inconvenient:
Here Gavin Schmidt is talking about Svensmark, but for a moment I imagined he must be talking about Michael Mann! It is Mann who most needs to “get over his Gallileo complex.” Is anyone more of a drama queen than Michael Mann?
article on CLOUD experiment and cosmic rays
[h/t Tom Nelson]
For comparison, here is Michael Mann, drama queen:
some Climategate flashbacks
Michael Mann, drama queen:
Here is how the bloviating blowhard Michael Mann operates when he does not want to allow even slightly independent scientific perspectives to function:
Michael Mann working to keep critical scientists out of key PAGES workshop
von Storch and Zorita were “inconvenient” to his agenda, and he had to try to keep them away from key bodies such as PAGES. He yielded to Briffa’s entreaty since Zorita had already been invited, but gosh what a blowhard….
Mann knows that if you repeat the lie often enough, people will eventually come to believe it.. The bigger the lie, the more likely this will happen. All you have to do is look at the media today to know that this works – just as Joseph Goebbels said it would…
James Allison says:
December 25, 2012 at 12:36 pm
“I would sincerely like to know why you like him and respect his opinion.”
Well, it was Christmas and I was in a good mood, to be honest I don’t really like and respect him as much as you might think, In fact I think I was being too kind by saying that I did.
I’m a minion? I don’t wanna be a minion. I want my own minions! Can you put a Carl Sagan’s ‘billions’ prununciation on ‘minions’? Minions and Minions!
I don’t know if the Koch foundation would consider statements that it is funding “climate denial” sites to be libelous, but if they do, perhaps their lawyers should be asking questions of Dr. Mann.
Appologies if this is previously pointed out. Mann’s rat hole is below the bus under which the politicians need to [metaphorically] throw him. For the missleading hockey stick graph. He absolutely should not be provided with access to another bolt hole
Isn’t it amazing that anyone feels the need to place a scientist, a scientist currently suing to uphold his reputation no less, on notice that he must stick to facts.
I am a graduate in Earth Sciences, so have some basis for judging the science. However if I was not then I would look at honesty. The alarmist arguments and propaganda is based so much on dishonesty and even downright lies that it is impossible to believe anything they say.
Remember, according to Dr Mann, the temperatures are the warmest they’ve been in a minion years.
Mycroft? Sherlock’s dimmer older brother? What would your advice lead to in operational terms? Nothing. Non-violently smile sweetly and take it up the hind orifice? Is that your preference? Others may differ.