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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Mann’s epitaph.
I commend my life to you; i lived it as a fraud and a lie.
Millions believed my science and the world was a poorer place for it.
$25,000 from the Koch Foundation to Heartland in 2011 versus the hundreds of thousands (presumably for 2011 alone) that Dr. Mann’s work received. But it’s the (almost laughable) funding of skeptics that we’re supposed to be alarmed about? Once again, an AGW proponent expects us to ignore the actual facts and data.
Bigger picture, how many more zeros (and commas!) does the figure for AGW funding have than the funding to skeptic research? And you don’t think you’re going to get the “right” answer (i.e., the one you want to hear) if you’re willing to pay for it???
In Mann’s opinion the Koch brothers are villains because they fund Heartland (and BEST).
What does that make the Rockefeller foundation which funds 350.org, for instance?
For YOUR Information Dr. Mann: http://fairquestions.typepad.com/rethink_campaigns/
“Since 1999, the Hewlett foundation and the Packard foundation have granted $90 million to environmental organizations in Canada. The top recipient, by far, was Tides Canada which received a total of $28 million.
As depicted in the diagram below, about 90 percent of the funds granted by the Hewlett and the Packard foundations were for projects to tackle the Canadian energy industry and to create a huge park right smack on the strategic, north coast of British Columbia – Canada’s gateway to Asia. The thing is, this park isn’t called the Hewlett-Packard park. Instead, its called the Great Bear Rainforest and its now used by the U.S.-funded Dogwood Initiative as a pretext for seeking a federal ban on oil tanker traffic. No oil tankers means no oil exports to Asia – and that the U.S. gets to keep its monopoly on Canadian oil exports.”
I guess there are US billionaires and US billionaires… Are these ones funding Penn State too?
As opposed to:
A case of fossil fuel money for me but not for thee.
Some of the $$$ in an academic researcher’s budget go to the institution to pay for things such as heat, lights, building upkeep, security, and everything else a university has to pay for. There are many different sorts of things a budget writer has to consider and lots of widely varying rates. You can get the sense of this from the pages provided by Harvard for their investigators (or those actually doing the number crunching). Go to the following link and (with some scroll down) read several pages.
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/research/faq.htm#fringe
Using easy numbers, say a person’s salary is $100,000 and the indirect rate is 70%. The proposed budget will then include $70,000 to cover the costs of things as mentioned above. There are also “fringe benefits” as described in the first table where the link takes you. These charges will be for things such as medical and dental, other insurance, retirement programs and all the taxes and fees that have to be paid by the university before the investigators get checks in the mail. As mentioned in the FAQ text, all these rates are “negotiated with the Department of Health and Human Services” and so the taxpayers are also paying for the folks at both entities doing the negotiating. This is one of the parasitic leakages that contribute to the negativity of government taking and “investing” your money.
In news just in, Michael Mann has severely criticized the Stanford’s Global Climate and Energy Project for have being partly funded by the big oil company called Exxon.
@Denier666:
No, you can’t get a grant. To get a grant you need a bad spell of wether.
If Mann keeps this up I may have to change my moniker to the World’s 2nd Greatest Comedy Conspiracy Theorist
/sarc
Wonder why he hasn’t had a go at the hurricane & matrix doctoring of of his unbelievably smug tree ring picture? Because he didn’t cut them perhaps? I understand that the people he got the data from were not too pleased with what he did with them.
Follow the money and the sex offenders
Reading Mann’s funding sources, it occurs to me that it might be time for an IRS audit to make sure all that money is being properly spent on science and not, for example, on frivolous lawsuits designed to intimidate anyone who might call attention to the veracity of his dubious scientific output.
Not while Obama is President. Not a chance.
theduke
picture: Can you spot the difference between a hurricane eye and an ass h*le???
And the lawsuit is going, where?
His public figure is easily enough shown through such diatribes as these. It is too bad that an Exxon or a Koch can’t/won’t sue him or Gore for defamation or libel. Mann (and Gore) says explicitly that coal, oil and gas industry pays skeptics to tell lies and misinform, organizes forums and MSM reporting to discredit the IPCC narrative and stop eco-green legislation. He (and Gore) claim that business entities (run by specific men and women) and specific rich people perpetrate both fraud and conspiracies to pervert the course of justice in America. If Mann said that identifiable religious groups were behind the skeptical movement, he would be inditable for hate crimes. But when you target businesses and rich, white folk, it is just his “opinion”.
For shame.
Mann overboard? He would be on my boat! LOL
The amounts really start to climb from 2006 onwards.
It’s the MikeE Mann argument effectiveness/credibility index. The credibility of each side of the argument can be assigned a financial worth in his imagination.
He knows how many millions his side is worth because he knows how much has been invested through the grants he has had access to. He seems to know intuitively that the “denier” side argument is compelling enough to be worthy of having had “billions” invested in it.
His real fear is that there hasn’t been any major financial investment in “the opposing” argument. “Knowing” that the deniers have been massively funded feeds his cognitive dissonance.
There is plenty of grant-worthy useful science done under the climate research heading that would be better done by people other than the current clique advocating their own style of political change.
The louder he shouts the more intellectually challenged he feels.
Does this include his royalties from M4GW?
That picture he’s holding – is that a picture of his career and/or credibility going down the loo?
John F. Hultquist says: January 26, 2013 at 10:22 am
Do the same percentages apply to Heartland?
Gary Pate said:
“This a**clown is stealing our tax dollars. Liars, Thieves & Whores, all of them.”
In all my time as a working girl, I was never so vilely insulted. I demand an immediate apology.
John West says:
January 26, 2013 at 8:09 am
Mann: “American billionaires have been able to secretly finance the climate-sceptic organisations”
See? It’s a secret, that’s why there’s no proof, you must believe on faith.
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Absence of evidence of the conspiracy is the proof of the conspiracy.
Hmmmm,so if any billionaire, say Rupert Murdoch, thinks 2 + 2 = 4 that means it doesn’t?
Anthony,
You are obviously quite busy, but is there any way you’d be interested in starting some sort of effort devoted exclusively to pressuring Mann to put up evidence for these claims? They’re annoying, but more importantly these types of insidious lies can affect those who pay less attention to the ins and outs of the climate change debate. Nothing major, maybe just a short, public letter signed by the relevant groups and scientists demanding that Mann present his evidence that billionaires are bankrolling the movement. He’s busy filing baseless lawsuits for defamation, yet throws malicious crap like this around constantly. It could be called “Mann Up.”
Somewhere there is a list compiled of the funding for AGW NGO’s. Does anyone happen to know where?