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 rakes in $millions in payola grants. But what does he have to show for it?
I am still waiting to see his work product on the $1.8 million grant to study mosquito vectors. If the granting agency had wanted real answers abpout the spread of malaria, they would have made the grant to a biologist, or an epidemiologist. Instead, the loot went to Mann. It was always just payola.
Heartland does a hell of a lot on their relatively small annual budget. That is why I contribute.
Look at what they do, all on voluntary contributions:
https://heartland.org
http://news.heartland.org/climate-change-weekly
Message to Michael Mann….you were defeated by funding of around £500. It came out of the back pocket of a guy called Steve McIntyre who went into a store and bought a laptop. The rest as they say is history…..
I’m unable to get angry about this.
I used to enjoy reading The Independent, from the day it was launched. Now it just seems like a very old pet who’s time is near, barking at some creature that isn’t there.
I really hope Mann’s wrong, and it’s not a conspiracy funded by the Koch guys. Because if it is, and it turns out all you jerks are getting paid and nobody let me in on the secret but instead allowed me to be a skeptic minion for free, I’m going to be royally pissed at all of you.
I mean it. ALL of you. :/
A hurricane is far less expensive.
It is ironic to see the press hyperventilating over an undergraduate football player who falsely claimed that he had a girlfriend who died while completely ignoring Mann’s bizarre claim (a full professor, mind you) that he won a Nobel Prize when he didn’t. At what point will the press wake up and realize that this guy has zero credibility.
“I am still waiting to see his work product on the $1.8 million grant to study mosquito vectors. If the granting agency had wanted real answers abpout the spread of malaria, they would have made the grant to a biologist, or an epidemiologist.”
Who was the granting agency? If he has failed to produce a study, that could potentially get the granting agency in trouble with the IRS (assuming it’s a US non-profit), especially if they are carefully NOT looking for a work product for the reason that you hypothesize.
Well Monique, if you are able to uncover any info on that grant, please post it here. I have found nothing.
Jim D Eagle says:
January 26, 2013 at 2:24 pm
Mann’s vita runs to 38 pages. My, my, he has been busy.
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Yeah, well – recycling crap is all the rage these days – and getting paid more than once for the same piece of crap is bonus!
Amongst the Ex Officio members of the Pennsylvania State University Board of Trustees is Thomas W Corbett, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Gov. Corbett has given large grants and tax breaks to energy companies.
Since May 2012 he has given:
$30 million to Delta Airlines, for taking over ConocoPhillips’ Philadelphia refinery
$25 million to Sunoco and the Carlyle Group, for overhauling and expanding Sunoco’s Philadelphia refinery.
$15 million to chemical producer Braskem, which is purchasing Sunoco’s idled Marcus Hook location, and turning it into a natural gas-processer.
Gov. Corbett has proposed giving a long-term $1.7 billion state tax break to Shell Oil for a planned Marcellus Shale gas petrochemical refinery in southwestern Pennsylvania. The aim of the tax credit is to ensure that natural gas produced in Pennsylvania is used at the Shell cracker plant rather than bringing gas to the plant from other states.
Shell signed a land-option agreement in March 2012 to build a $4 billion “cracker” plant in Beaver County to convert ethane, a by-product of natural gas production, into ethylene to make a range of plastic products.
The cracker plant itself would need about 500 staff. But in addition Gov. Corbett and the American Chemical Council predict at least 10,000 new jobs from the off-shoot operations that would spring up alongside the ethane cracker and the increased economic activity in the area..
“If we used our imaginations and chose to partner with this industry, the wet gas harvested in Pennsylvania will be processed in Pennsylvania,” Corbett said. “The downstream jobs will be created here, and not in some other state or some other country.”
“What this does — it talks about whoever is governor after me, two or five governors after me,having an economy that is growing based on manufacturing that does not exist right now,” he said. “So they will have money for education, for social services.”
Shell has to decide by June this year whether or not to build a western Pennsylvania ethane cracker.
The governor also lashed out at drilling opponents, calling them “unreasoning.” After all the predictions of disaster and the fearful warnings of people with no understanding of the industry, Pennsylvania is reaping a bounty.”
Who would disapprove of this industrial activity and the immense economic benefits and jobs it would create in Pennsylvania? Many of the jobs at the plant, in the associated industries and other businesses created by the energy boom would go to Penn State graduates.
Mann must surely disagree with such industrial activity and would therefore deny the people of Pennsylvania and the students at his university a potential golden opportunity. Perhaps he should talk to the Governor of Pennsylvania and the Board of Trustees and If he wishes to stand by his righteous principles he should take his letter of resignation with him.
http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2012/09/20/corbett-kicks-off-philadelphia-drilling-conference/
First: I want to know what it takes to get on the “Big Oil” payouts. I’ve never got one. It is a bummer. I would like some cash. Now would be a good time for them to send me some.
Second: I’m noticing a lot more name calling in the comments for this post. I think it is unbecoming of our side to participate in name calling. Name calling does not inform those whose beliefs we’d like to change in any substantive way. If you are going to do it at all, it is helpful to list evidence that supports the conclusion the epithet you wish to confer describes.
Third: I’d really like to see what the various government agencies got for their money. That would help in determining if he is in fact fraudulent. Perhaps this could be a fun part of the National Review’s discovery process. Proof of a lack of work product would also help discredit the agencies which continue to fund him. Someone with a name signs off on those grants.
John Whitman says:
January 26, 2013 at 12:56 pm
“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”
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@ur momisugly John Whitman
AMAZING coincidence! That same billionaire is not funding me! What are the odds??!?!
Take the green pill and enter the Manntrix. See the hidden conspiracies funding the well oiled denial machine. /sarc
Please don’t vilify the Koch brothers. Nova was the first science program I fell in love with!
Correction: The first science program I fell in love with was “The Nature of Things” hosted by David Suzuki.
Quick;
post more fawning friendliness on the Manns pages, we need him more than he needs critics, every word the mann speaks, produces more sceptics.
Where could sanity find a spokesman willing to demand of the public absolute belief or damnation?
This whole saga of Climatology, has taught me I lack imagination, when it comes to the folly of mann.
Jeff Mitchell says:
January 26, 2013 at 6:20 pm
Sign up as an abject idiot shilling Manniacal “climate science”. Join the Warmista’s cause. Apply for Greenpeace and WWF membership. Join the IPCC, even if it’s as a janitor then get your insane falsehoods added to the next Assessment Review. If you scream long and loud enough, you just might see grants and paychecks coming your way. Big Oil has big cash.
Note: I see you don’t like the name calling and I agree, but “idiot” is defined as “someone who acts in a self-defeating or significantly counterproductive way.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot
I’d say Mann is a prime example of the definition. And he’s becoming a better example with each passing day.
Looking at the sources of Mann’s funding, methinks he’s been bought and paid for by Big Gov.
-theduke
Michael Mann’s CV past and current funding proposals can be found at:
http://www.meteo.psu.edu/holocene/public_html/Mann/about/cv.php
“American billionaires have been able to secretly finance the climate-sceptic organisations”
Perhaps it is time to consider paying a dividend, secretly, to all of us faithful bloggers, Anthony. When sending my cheque, please advise me whether I should declare it for tax purposes, possibly endangering the secret, or whether I must keep very strictly mum. The trouble is, if it is anything over $5 my mates down the pub will readily divine that I have new found wealth.
Jack:
At January 26, 2013 at 11:22 pm you say
I wonder if I am alone in thinking it is interesting that Penn State University thinks it useful
(a) to list on its blog the large funding Mann brings to the university as part of his c.v.
and
(b) to hinder FOIA requests for information about Mann’s work
and
(c) to have ‘whitewashed’ an enquiry into Mann’s alleged malpractice.
Richard
I ventured to the Independent climate page…still in shock.
Their attitude and those of their readers is unbelievable….we the sceptics have stifled debate…we the sceptics have huge financial backing…we the sceptics don’t care about the planet.
Stories already proved incorrect such as the Antarctic ice sheet melting still displayed, you could’nt make it up.
Mann looked on as a victim….no mention that Steve McItyre destroyed his theory on his laptop.
Religious idiots pontificating, you name it….so I decided against trying to post any sort of a comment, it would be wasted on them.
Whatever happens they will never change….they have no idea that the science has fallen apart, no idea that warming stopped 16 years ago, no idea that Antartica has increased in size, no idea about Holocene’s and previous high temperatures…..and certainly no idea of the tremendous damage that so called green policies have done to the environment.
Dear Reader
I am looking for co-researchers to assist me, firstly to obtain a grant from the NSF and secondly, to assist me in my research.
“To investigate global temperatures of and chemical composition of posterior emitted gases by Homosapiens”
In order to correlate the research samples will be taken from different ethnic groups. Please note war zones and poor areas will not be visited. Countries fortunate to be selected for this important research will require suitable five star accommodation.
It has taken me hours to find such an important topic of research and I would very much appreciate large donations to The Stacey Foundation, an organisation I am pleased to say is expert at pi**ing away tax payers money. If you can’t be bothered to donate I cannot be held responsible for the damage to your children grandchildren and most importantly of all those cuddly rebarbative Polar Bears.
Please note boring farts should not apply as this may effect the sampling.
Time and tide wait for no mann.
The problem is that individuals like Mann (and even entire pro-CAGW organisations) will keep repeating the myth of sceptical financing by big, bad corporations as long as the main stream media will keep happily (and entirely uncritically) reporting such misinformation as fact (whilst simultaneously failing in their basic journalistic duty to investigate such claims). It’s a sorry state of affairs that the msm repeatedly abrogates it’s responsibility to the truth in this way. And it’s such a simple thing for any broadcaster, when faced with such assertions by warmists, to turn the question back on their interviewee and ask of them how much funding (and from where) do those promoting CAGW receive each year..?