While dodging the issue of his own ten thousand dollar speaking fees this past week, Mike Mann thinks its all a big hugely funded conspiracy (like those WUWT calendar sales). From a hilarious interview at The Independent:
A climate scientist who says he has been subjected to a vitriolic hate campaign has denounced the way that American billionaires have been able to secretly finance the climate-sceptic organisations that have attacked him.
Professor Michael Mann of Pennsylvania University, who has been targeted by climate-change sceptics for his work on global temperature records, said it was wrong for wealthy individuals such as the oil billionaire Charles Koch to surreptitiously finance the “counter-movement” that denounces the science of global warming.
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It was only when he was researching a book that he became aware Koch was assisting some of the organisations that he says have been attacking him and his colleagues for so many years, Professor Mann said. He said the sceptic organisations had “single-handedly sought to poison the public discourse over human-caused climate change. In the process they have potentially mortgaged the futures of our children and grandchildren. You couldn’t invent villains like this if you tried.”
On the subject of the Koch Brothers and funding of sceptic organizations, Dr. Mann might recall that his criminal acquaintance, Dr. Peter Gleick’s document theft was helpful it putting that issue to rest once and for all. From Junkscience.com
As this page shows, the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation only gave $25,000 to Heartland in 2011 (about 0.5% of Heartland’s budget) for a health care project. Heartland only hoped to get $200,000 from the Foundation in 2012 — again for its health care project. But Dr. Mann would never talk about such adverse results.
Nor does Dr. Mann like to talk about the millions he has received in grants at Penn State.
From the American Spectator:
Inarguably the next-largest culprit is Michael Mann, Mr. Nature Trick, who is not to be confused with the Nature Boy or the other “Heat“-making Mann. He has had his grants available for public viewing for a while, so I’m surprised I’ve not seen those spread around the ‘Net. They are right there listed in his curriculum vitae. (now deleted -AW)
2009-2013 Quantifying the influence of environmental temperature on transmission of vector-borne diseases, NSF-EF [Principal Investigator: M. Thomas; Co-Investigators: R.G. Crane, M.E. Mann, A. Read, T. Scott (Penn State Univ.)] $1,884,991
2009-2012 Toward Improved Projections of the Climate Response to Anthropogenic Forcing: Combining Paleoclimate Proxy and Instrumental Observations with an Earth System Model, NSF-ATM [Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann; Co-Investigators: K. Keller (Penn State Univ.), A. Timmermann (Univ. of Hawaii)] $541,184
2008-2011 A Framework for Probabilistic Projections of Energy-Relevant Streamflow Indices, DOE [Principal Investigator: T. Wagener; Co-Investigators: M. Mann, R. Crane, K. Freeman (Penn State Univ.)] $330,000
2008-2009 AMS Industry/Government Graduate Fellowship (Anthony Sabbatelli), American Meteorological Society [Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann (Penn State Univ.)] $23,000
2006-2009 Climate Change Collective Learning and Observatory Network in Ghana, USAID [Principal Investigator: P. Tschakert; Co-Investigators: M.E. Mann, W. Easterling (Penn State Univ.)] $759,928
2006-2009 Analysis and testing of proxy-based climate reconstructions, NSF-ATM [Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann (Penn State Univ.)] $459,000
2006-2009 Constraining the Tropical Pacific’s Role in Low-Frequency Climate Change of the Last Millennium, NOAA-Climate Change Data & Detection (CCDD) Program [Principal Investigators: K. Cobb (Georgia Tech Univ.), N. Graham (Hydro. Res. Center), M.E. Mann (Penn State Univ.), Hoerling (NOAA Clim. Dyn. Center), Alexander (NOAA Clim. Dyn. Center)] PSU award (M.E. Mann): $68,065
2006-2007 Acquisition of high-performance computing cluster for the Penn State Earth System Science Center (ESSC), NSF-EAR [Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann, Co-Investigators: R. Alley, M. Arthur, J. Evans, D. Pollard (Penn State Univ.)] $100,000
2003-2006 Decadal Variability in the Tropical Indo-Pacific: Integrating Paleo & Coupled Model Results, NOAA-Climate Change Data & Detection (CCDD) Program [Principal Investigators: M.E. Mann (U.Va), J. Cole (U. Arizona), V. Mehta (CRCES)] U.Va award (M.E. Mann): $102,000
2002-2005 Reconstruction and Analysis of Patterns of Climate Variability Over the Last One to Two Millennia, NOAA-Climate Change Data & Detection (CCDD) Program [Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann, Co-Investigators: S. Rutherford, R.S. Bradley, M.K. Hughes] $315,000
2002-2005 Remote Observations of Ice Sheet Surface Temperature: Toward Multi-Proxy Reconstruction of Antarctic Climate Variability, NSF-Office of Polar Programs, Antarctic Oceans and Climate System [Principal Investigators: M.E. Mann (U. Va), E. Steig (U. Wash.), D. Weinbrenner (U. Wash)] U.Va award (M.E. Mann): $133,000
2002-2003 Paleoclimatic Reconstructions of the Arctic Oscillation, NOAA-Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research (CIFAR) Program [Principal Investigators: Rosanne D’Arrigo, Ed Cook (Lamont/Columbia); Co-Investigator: M.E. Mann] U.Va subcontract (M.E. Mann): $14,400
2002-2003 Global Multidecadal-to-Century-Scale Oscillations During the Last 1000 years, NOAA-Climate Change Data & Detection (CCDD) Program [Principal Investigator: Malcolm Hughes (Univ. of Arizona); Co-Investigators: M.E. Mann; J. Park (Yale University)] U.Va subcontract (M.E. Mann): $20,775
2001-2003 Resolving the Scale-wise Sensitivities in the Dynamical Coupling Between Climate and the Biosphere, University of Virginia-Fund for Excellence in Science and Technology (FEST) [Principal Investigator: J.D. Albertson; Co-Investigators: H. Epstein, M.E. Mann] U.Va internal award: $214,700
2001-2002 Advancing predictive models of marine sediment transport, Office of Naval Research [Principal Investigator: P. Wiberg (U.Va), Co-Investigator: M.E. Mann] $20,775
1999-2002 Multiproxy Climate Reconstruction: Extension in Space and Time, and Model/Data Intercomparison, NOAA-Earth Systems History [Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann (U.Va), Co-Investigators: R.S. Bradley, M.K. Hughes] $381,647
1998-2000 Validation of Decadal-to-Multi-century climate predictions, DOE [Principal Investigator: R.S. Bradley (U. Mass); Co-Investigators: H.F. Diaz, M.E. Mann]
1998-2000 The changing seasons? Detecting and understanding climatic change, NSF-Hydrological Science [Principal Investigator U. Lall (U. Utah); Co-investigators: M.E. Mann, B. Rajagopalan, M. Cane] $266,235K
1996-1999 Patterns of Organized Climatic Variability: Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Globally
Distributed Climate Proxy Records and Long-term Model Integrations, NSF-Earth Systems History [Principal Investigator: R.S. Bradley (U. Mass); Co-Investigators: M.E. Mann, M.K. Hughes] $270,000
1996-1998 Investigation of Patterns of Organized Large-Scale Climatic Variability During the Last
Millennium, DOE, Alexander Hollaender Postdoctoral Fellowship [M.E. Mann] $78,000
For those keeping score, that’s almost $6 million total for various predictions, models and reconstructions over the last 13 years by Mann and his playmates.
As for the “villains”, I’m reminded of this famous quote from Dr. Roger Pielke Jr.:
If Michael Mann did not exist, the skeptics would have to invent him.
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I see why Obama would rather talk about some nebulous climate problem that only bigger government can “solve” than out of control spending that raises our national debt by $1 trillion every 9 months.
I posted this at ‘The Independent’ several hours ago and it seems to be lost in moderation 😉
Though, judging from the usual junk wheeled out in defense of the indefensible, I would be drawn into a slanging match about ‘97% of science Academies agree that the world warmed at the end of the 20th C and Muller was a sceptic’ so I should be thankful not to be dragged into that stinking morass:
eeEEeevil fossil fuel(drug) companies(dealers) need to ‘secretly finance the climate-sceptic organisations’ to continue to sell their inventories to the (addicted)masses because… no-one re-ee-ee-ally wants the stuff or they might not use every available drop or because wind-power and solar will wipe out their established industries … or such like fantastical constructs. Yet denialists are the ones who believe in conspiracies? How does that work?
Mann oh Mann what a petty and deceitful fool he is. And there are so many others just like him.
Never mind what topic it is. I just don’t get it.
How can it be that so many lofty icons in academia have become so thoroughly absorbed by a pattern of purposeful mendacity?
They’ve created an entire villainous arena that is producing a steady and widening stream of self interested, conflicted, truth evading, manipulative public policies that are devouring massive resources while producing far more detriment than benefit. They are burning through the resources needed for real progress.
The concocted green and sustainability malaise permeates down through every state, county and municipal bureaucracy. When I watch our local bureaucrats give their power point presentations it’s almost like a sci-fi B movie with bad actors. Yet the politicians sit there nodding their heads as if it all makes sense.
It’s all very bizarre. These people have lost every ability to recognize crap. They believe everything and take pride in being on board the “we need to do this” train. They’re so matter of fact about it that they are grateful for the presentation.
Eeeek!
We should put just as much stock in Mann’s “climate science” as in his funding accuasations–all fiction! (He’s trying to divert attention away from his own specious arguments, no doubt.)
Mann ‘o Mann, what this wacky CAGW world is coming to.
To paraphrase Delingpole, Mann is plagued by imaginary Koch persecution.
Small man syndrome writ large.
It’s the same old story. People who exist upon the largesse of the State find it inconceivable that anyone opposing them isn’t also funded. So rather than accept that they’re not they create evil billionaire masterminds directing things from their criminal lair.
So let me see if I have this right: the love of money can tempt humans to act without principle. Where there is a lot of money available, the temptation is higher. So if we follow the money, we should find people with questionable motives and credibility.
Remind me, please, where the big money is in this AGW / climate catastrophe debate?
@KevinM 8:16 am Wonder if they ever compare notes.
Why compare notes when you are singing the same tune?
[snip . . c’mon, you know how it works here, and we all prefer content to emotion. Really. . . mod]
Send Mr Mann to North Korea, where government grants are all that exist in the world.
Pres. Obama has an agenda to clobber the Repubs in the mid terms. You cannot blame him, as it has been warfare from the Repubs ever since G Bush left Obama with two wars, massive bank failures, massive deficit, ballooning debt and high unemployment.
The inaugural speech was a call to arms, that’s all. I seriously doubt any so called climate change initiatives will happen. After all, cheap natural gas has killed wind power, solar, biomass, etc.
Mann’s only recourse against the CG1 & CG2 revelation of the sordid depth of his personal and scientific dishonesty is this,
Cliche yet apt: when you point your finger at someone, three more point back at you.
Villains indeed.
we’ve been ‘Manned’ LOL
For $10,000, we could get him a speaking engagement with someone who could help him out with these … (fill in the blanks) It might take a team of … however.
” Dan Collins says:
January 26, 2013 at 7:48 am
I propose a unit of measure for quantifying non-existence, called the Mann.”
There is a practical application. Following the trend to name physical units after scientists, like “Hertz” for example, astronomers could adopt the “Mann” : a unit of magnitude for the quantum of size and flux of a black hole at the center of a galaxy. A black hole could be described as having magnitude of so many Manns (or just “Mann”) The origin of the derivation of the name would amuse school children for decades, and assure his rightful place in history. The rationale for the name choice shouldn’t require elucidation….
What an amazing coincidence, that I have just been citing/quoting from TAS on a vastly different subject – http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/americas-ruling-class-and-the/print
I am skeptical about Mann and his CAGW alarmist ilk, the Warmistas, yet I give money to oil companies(in exchange for Gasoline.) Not vice-versa.
I am stuck bewteen two posts , on one hand the idea of Mann letting his mouth run off over Koch and finding himself in court up against those with no shortage of funds would be delightful. On the other hand if it was to happen ,no matter the facts or result of the case, Mann and his followers would regarded it as confirming his ‘martyr’ status and that they were trying to shut him up . Something that it would actual take the crops of engineers to do.
Has I have said before what really marks Mann out is his attitude not to AGW sceptics, but to his own side should they ‘dare ‘ not offer their total and unquestioning support . And that is why , when he falls , we will surprised to find who lines up to kick him on the way down . A event that can not happen soon enough.
Ed_B says:
January 26, 2013 at 9:34 am
Pres. Obama has an agenda to clobber the Repubs in the mid terms. You cannot blame him, as it has been warfare from the Repubs ever since G Bush left Obama with two wars, massive bank failures, massive deficit, ballooning debt and high unemployment.”
Other than this bit of political flotsom has no real relevance to the topic, you need to go back to Slick Willie for the bank debacle, and arguably, the two wars were the only economic activity that kept the US economy in motion. For massive deficit, just read Mann’s CV again, for ballooning debt and high unemployment, look inward, not at government.
Mann’s only recourse against the CG1 & CG2 revelation of the sordid depth of his personal and scientific dishonesty is this,
Mann is – the pathetic spectacle of the fawning AGU leadership to the contrary not withstanding – now irrelevant to the growing open honesty in climate science.
Are there any bet takers that, if he keeps on acting like he is, he will make the list of history’s top ten abettors of scientific malfeasance.
John
The somewhat famous photograph of Michael Mann (above) is titled: michael_mann_hurricane_matrix.jpg
A reference to a work of fiction, within a work of fiction illustrating a work of fiction.
Are we sure that Mann is not an invention of writers at ‘The Onion’?? Skeptics would not dare to invent a villain like Michael Mann, an alleged ‘climate scientist’ whose reckless ‘research’ and smears against critics are a shameful exhibition of how far standards have fallen.
Is Mr. Mann also denouncing the research performed by CRU (with which he is/was closely related)? CRU, of course, has been heavily funded by the US DOE, Shell, and BP. Can’t get much bigger oil than that.
Mann is as much an oil shill as anyone he accuses of same, probably more so.
I hate the idea that those who are skeptical of the data, analysis, and hype need Michael Mann like Coke needs Pepsi.