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.
…
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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Those Koch Brothers must be mighty rich and powerful, they even control the global temperature.
There’ll soon be a time where the little fraudster will be “out-manned” ….
Ill Tempered Klavier says:
January 26, 2013 at 11:31 am
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.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
You got it right, sister!
Whores are honest and trade something of value for the money. They also do not hold entire nations for ransom and trash economies.
Dan Collins, Unit of non- existence, the Mann. More like Manniscule
In contrast, I apparently do it for free:
http://judithcurry.com/2013/01/20/berkeley-earth-update/#comment-288548
And the name of the secret US billionaire funding my dangerous skepticism is . . . .
Well, you will need to tune into the next Maniacal Mann PR episode where he exposes John Whitman’s billionaire benefactor. I cannot wait to find out who it is that has not been making clandestine payments for my skepticism.
John
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h6BJJe9JV_A
Exactly…
johnnythelowery says:
January 26, 2013 at 11:06 am
picture: Can you spot the difference between a hurricane eye and an ass h*le???
Easy. A hurricane has only one eye.
As an Englishman, I always had trouble with the pronunciation of ‘Koch’: is it ‘Cock’ or ‘Coke’ – as in Coke-head.
Then I gave up and realised that Mann is really just a Dick-head (allegedly).
(Sorry mods…)
Do any of us know or can anyone tell us what is the source of Univ Penn State’s riches?
“Mann overboard”
If that is a life ring he is holding, the hole is too small for his head to go through.
Might be big enough for his brain, though.
@John F. Hultquist says:
January 26, 2013 at 10:22 am
Re following through on your discussion of Harvard’s indirect cost rate for sponsored research., Penn State’s is 49%. http://www.research.psu.edu/osp/documents/rates/FA-Current
The Independent reports,
“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.”
He is obviously has knowledge of these ‘secret billionaires’ who are funding the sceptics, so why doesn’t he come clean and blow the information he has to the press so that we are all made aware of those wealthy funders of the eceptics. I’m sure none of us would be at all upset by his disclosures.
Had a look at the Independent article. It seems to be full of the Koch’s funding the Donors Trust(?), who supposedly fund sceptics. How come their “audit trail” doesn’t actually identify any “deniers”?
Brulle: “By becoming anonymous, they remove a political target. They can plausibly claim that they are not giving to these organisations, and there is no way to prove otherwise.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/exclusive-billionaires-secretly-fund-attacks-on-climate-science-8466312.html
why did the much more widely read Daily Mail think it a good idea to report the Independent’s unsubstantiated claims?
25 Jan: UK Daily Mail: Meghan Keneally: Revealed: Secretive funding organisation ‘providing millions to climate change counter-movement on behalf of fossil fuel industry’
The Donors Trust and the Donors Capital Fund, both based in Alexandria, Virginia, have been funding the climate counter-movement which seeks to cast doubt on the climate change while keeping its wealthy backers anonymous, The Independent has said…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2268070/Billionaire-Charles-Koch-secretive-fund-casts-doubt-climate-change.html
Matthew W says:
“Absence of evidence of the conspiracy is the proof of the conspiracy.”
Absolutely! (LOL, and they call us conspiracy nuts.)
I say we form a “Concerned Citizens Group” and raise the $10K to have him speak. We’ll advise that there will be a discussion panel afterward with local members from the Union of Concerned Scientists and that we’d like him to help them take questions from the audience.
Of course we will have to provide what we promised, but I think Kenji would be OK with this? Other concerned citizens on the panel might be Willis, rgbatduke, perhaps Monckton, Morano, richardscourtney…
from the About Sunstein at the link: “Sunstein is also a member of the Bloomberg Government Advisory Board”:
24 Jan: Bloomberg: Cass Sunstein: U.S. Should Act Unilaterally on Climate Change
Those who make the Sophisticated Objection acknowledge that climate change is a serious problem, and that the world’s nations should be doing something about it. They contend, however, that unilateral action by any country, including the U.S., will impose significant costs without producing significant benefits. The underlying problem is that the risk of climate change is a product of two things: the existing “stock” of past greenhouse-gas emissions and the continuing “flow” of such emissions…
If the world is to make serious progress in combating climate change, we will have to innovate to develop energy sources that are clean and less expensive. Regulation will likely spur such innovation…
In 2009, a technical working group of the U.S. government, building on established scientific models, came up with economic values for “the social cost of carbon,” meaning the cost of a ton of carbon dioxide emissions. In calculating the benefits and costs of regulations designed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, many federal agencies have been using the working group’s central number, which is $22.80 in 2013 dollars…
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-23/u-s-should-act-unilaterally-on-climate-change.html
26 Jan: Stuff New Zealand: Industry eager for biofuels ‘hard metrics’
Forest crown research institute Scion is set to launch its Woodscape report on the viability of generating biofuels from trees, a move that could throw a much needed financial lifeline to the sector…
However, the introduction of cheap international credits into ETS saw the price of New Zealand carbon units plummet from $25 a tonne when the scheme was launched in 2008 to $2.50 a tonne. It was at $22 a tonne about a year ago…
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/8225644/Industry-eager-for-biofuels-hard-metrics
On the Warmist side of course there is Soros, Gldsmith, Branson, Google etc etc…
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1069/follow_the_money_the_morality_of_green_funding?
Mann’s vita runs to 38 pages. My, my, he has been busy.
Could you list the source of each grant?
After all, it doesn’t matter how much, or what for, but who you got the grant from that makes it evil.
He’s starting to sound hysterical – good. I suspect that, in the end, his legacy won’t be anything to brag about.
Another gem from The Guardian:
Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, said the latest evidence shows that models have underestimated the speed of sea level rise
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/MO.htm
I know how the Ivory tower grant stuff works. Grant committees vote on each other’s proposals, then let them through for consideration of whatever grant they are seeking. Worse, many of these same professionals sit on those grant boards. It is a “palm passing” exercise with octopus like tentacles reaching clear across the globe. Getting grants of the size I see in Mann’s vitea looks very much like what you would get if you were a card-carrying member of the octopus association called Climate Science Grants. No you won’t find this association listed. There are no rules or bylaws. There are no official meeting minutes. But make no mistake, it is a well-oiled machine that has tentacles all the way to our pockets.
Skeptik says:
January 26, 2013 at 11:28 am
John F. Hultquist says: January 26, 2013 at 10:22 am
“Do the same percentages apply to Heartland?”
The only way the question makes sense is for me to assume Heartland might fund a project at an institution where these rates have been negotiated and accepted. So, my understanding (as it used to be) is that the rates would be the same. If the institution accepted less from a non-government source, then the government could claim the institution negotiated in bad faith and, thus, demand the excess be returned from past funding and all new contracts be entered into at the lower rate.
Going the other way, if Heartland is getting money from a funding source that is likely very open ended. For example, you could just send them $500 for purposes as they best see fit. You might send them a donation for “just a health care study” or maybe you dislike Connecticut and ask them not to spend any money there. If they agree, fine. If they don’t agree you can take your money someplace else. You could ask them, but, they still have to pay all their bills and will have to get money from someone to do so.