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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Gee, 500.000 bucks a year for pushing Yamal? I have definitely missed my true profession.
If nothing else, Michael Mann is a financial genius: He is able to make money out of dead wood….
And hat tip to Anthony and all co-workers! Awesome website!
John West:
See? It’s a secret, that’s why there’s no proof, you must believe on faith.
Good catch, it must be secret or there would be evidence. Rather like his hockey stick. Secret Mann made global warming.
I agree with his three points: Where’s our share of all the money from these ‘secret’ billionaires? What are the granting agencies getting for all they cash they’re spending on Mann’s little projects? And, what’s with all the vulgar name-calling in this thread?
As for the last, site policy explicitly states, “No vulgarities of any kind.” I was also under the impression that ad hominem attacks are routinely snipped, even if, in the opinion of the Moderators, they are richly deserved.
/Mr Lynn
You didn’t read closely enough. The reason why Mann can’t show any evidence is that it’s “secret funding”. It’s all secret. That’s why there’s no evidence.
Are you will thinking lister “opensecret.org” for paiements Greenpeace of WWF ? Exemple : http://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=892AB94A-5843-4892-939A-02F44DC38CF9 Or :http://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=FEA8CE2A-FD61-4423-ADFE-0B48E08E15A4 and etc…http://www.opensecret.org database for paiements lobbies and dons, buddies and agro-industries, laboratory chemical, Météo arent paids for climate-change. Seing the liste researching. I am sorry I am French and my english is bad. Salute and peace for you and kissing of France (TOULOUSE IN SOUTH WEST AND PYRENEES )
Does anyone have a copy of Mann’s CV written prior to November 2012. It would be interesting to see if Mann included the false claim of having “won the Nobel Prize” when applying for these grants.
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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If CAGW didn’t exist the UN would have to invent it.
Oh that’s right.
They did.
To create CAGW is the IPCC’s reason for being, if I recall correctly.
cn
Right there is why, at bottom, the whole debate over ‘Global Warming’ is about politics, not science, and why all the empirical falsification and learned scientific argument in the world is not going dissuade the ideologues and stakeholders who have invested in the decades-long program to bring the West to its knees and institute a redistributionist new global order. Here’s a good summary:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2013/01/22/the-u-n-s-global-warming-war-on- capitalism-an-important-history-lesson-2/
/Mr Lynn
Someone tell James Delingpole and Guido Fawkes that Tim Yeo has competition !
Five weeks ago my guest post “Notes from Skull Island: why-skeptics-arent-well-funded-and-well-organized” appeared here. It was a facetious look at how different the skeptic scene would be if we actually were well-funded. Here’s the link, for those who missed it the first time:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/12/16/notes-from-skull-island-why-skeptics-arent-well-funded-and-well-organized/
Here’s my take on it:
If Global Warming Didn’t Exist, It Would Be Necessary to Invent It:
… To lift climatology out of its backwater status …
… To increase research funding for Academia …
… To justify the de facto political empowerment of a sector of the scientific / academic elite, setting a precedent for the subsequent empowerment of other sectors of that elite.*
… To refresh the raison d’être of the EPA & UN …
… To move environmentalism from the fringes to the center of social concern …
… To justify increased media coverage of environmental issues …
… To give enviro-groups a powerful fund-raising and consciousness-raising tool …
… and allow them access to the levers of national and international power …
… To give activist & green parties a vote-getting wedge issue …
… and a case-study justification for their habitual “hammer” (increased regulation and taxation) …
… To provide at-a-loss “engagé/enragé” types with a new stick with which to bash the beastly bourgeoise…
… To transfer wealth from the West to the South …
… To fund alternative energy developers and researchers …
(* See Pareto on “the circulation of the elites.”)
So why not “warm” to global warming, if you’re:
… a climatologist?
… a bigshot in a boffins’ brigade?
… a university administrator?
… an environmentalist?
… an environmental reporter?
… an official of an environmental organization?
… a UN official?
… a socialist?
… a natural-born “true believer”?
… a country in the global South?
… a worker or investor in an alternative energy company?
For such as those, what’s not to like about “climatism”? It’s all upside—a gravy train that’s glory-bound. It would be tempting to get aboard, wouldn’t it? (Especially after others did so, threatening to leave you on The Wrong Side.)
rogerknights:
At January 27, 2013 at 3:03 pm you ask
I oppose the global warming scare and I am “… a socialist”
Indeed, I am a left-wing socialist of the old-fashioned British kind.
I oppose the scare because I value science and its benefits, truth and post-Enlightenment thought. Everyone who values them opposes the scare whether or not they are on your list. However, many on your list would be sacked from their jobs if they acted on their opposition. And that is why so many overt opponents of the scare are retired.
Richard
I previously mentioned that my secret Institute deep in the bowels of Holyhead Mountain has adjusted the data. Mann is 2’8″ not 2’9″ even with his new ‘liftee’ cuban heels. He is still strutting about as if he owns the place. The little wanker.
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.
Oh phuleeze.
Same democratic talking points. GWB did not move the deficit from 15 Billion to 1.6 trillion.
Obama wants to fundamentally change this country to a socialist society and abusing science in the name of AGW is a mere technicality.
I guess I would have to ask for some references, citations, evidence to back this up (rather than empty conjecture), as well as details on how the earlier requirements on financial mortgage institutions by government to make “no doc” (no documentation) loans which lead to the eventual financial meltdown when the under-pinnng legs (the mortgages) began to fail ….
What years was congress all-dem in these years again? When was the last budget passed again?
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When all this global warming nonsense is done and dusted, the word mann will most likely live on in infamy in the english language. I can envisage many uses for this new word in every day speech, I will leave it up to it’s eventual evolution as to the descriptive nature in common use.
That it will enter our lexicon I have no doubt.
Sort of like ‘gore’.
/Mr Lynn
Or like ‘mud(d)’, as in “His name was mud,” which reputedly derived from Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, who treated John Wilkes Booth.
/Mr Lynn
Here is the legal description of *TERRORISM.*
Notice there it says “if it would otherwise be a crime”?
That’s what scamming up false research,
to TERRORIZE people.
TERRORIZE people into not buying energy. Your competitor’s energy.
You’re competitor who won the election and whose win stung so bad,
TERRORIZING the WORLD became the balm.
That’s what scamming up false research to TERRORIZE people so they install your policies, is.
TERRORISM.
Spreading rumor, backed by the full power of the Federal Government’s Climate Research and Executive arms – economic, punitive,
rumor * threatening mass destruction * if they don’t get their policies installed. *
No?
It’s not?
Here’s the definition.
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I was gonna cut it down, and I will.
The "International Terrorism" subsections preceeding have elements regarding that, I'll paste in domestic terrorism's definition.
________________
18 USC § 2331 – Definitions
"…(5) the term “domestic terrorism” means activities that—
(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State;
(B) appear to be intended—
(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and
(C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.
______________
Do you think when people utterly disregard law
and begin altering records upon which disaster mitigation,
emergency preparedness,
food planting schedules,
ENERGY AVAILABILITY in winter to entire civilian populations,
ENERGY AVAILABILITY for EMERGENCY SERVICES,
are available through political or economic activity,
that constitutes danger to human life and property, not just specifically but en masse, nation-wide? Affecting a civilian population?
It's intimidation and it's coercion.
When people INTENTIONALLY raise energy prices to MAKE YOU UNABLE to RESPOND to local, regional, or overall endangerment to human life –
it's coercion.
Do you think what was done in the name of THE WORLD ENDING if Al Gore and political ilk didn't have their policies installed in spite of losing an election,
were done to INTIMIDATE, or COERCE a civilian population,
when his allied friends still involved in government, criminal political hacks, staged publicity stunts in which they'd cry out 'when are we gonna start jailing these" ( people who denied his claim of civilization suffering massive destructions) "for crimes against humanity?"
That is attempt to intimidate. If you act reasonable and have a poltical opinion the government employee doesn't like, he will disrupt your life through taking to mass media to achieve that intimidation. You can't get on tv and scream that about him, and keep YOUR job with the government.
Using derogatory labels without basis in truth, to discourage participation in political process, hire, or social standing is violation of Federal Civil Rights laws.
Does it appear Al Gore or
Michael Mann or
Kevin Trenberth or
Phil Jones
intended to influence,
by intimidation or coercion,
by telling people if they didn't do what they said, there would be mass destruction?
It was intimidation and coercion for them to discuss publicly, setting up legal funds to defend each other against impending lawsuits that could come as result of their claim of massive destruction.
Mann and fellow political activist government employees are seen plotting on public government work email servers,
to intimidate and coerce a reporter – hence population through manipulation of press, with their own systematically arranged, false press releases, in Climate Gate;
as Mann suggests they all stage separate government-bureau and private NGO responses, to a reporter's story on their fraud.
The reporter didn't know it was fraud. He just knew certain people agreed, there might not be massive destruction as Mann, Hansen, Trenberth, Jones, Gore claimed.
They wanted to shut him up, so they could influence government policy, and lead a civilian population in England and worldwide that, massive destruction seemed likely to occur if their political framework for governance wasn't put in place by that civilian population.
This is CRIME.
It always WAS
It always WILL be.
It would seem that with people like Mann taking so much taxpayer money to conduct their disinformation campaigns, we could probably balance the federal budget just by cutting off all funding for global warming “research.”
One of the maxims of W. Edwards Deming, one of the most influeantial thinkers in Quality Assurance: “A man that knows his limitations is one you can trust”.
Still waiting for my funding….
Are the “donations” to Mann’s cause increasing? It would appear so. That’s interesting.
I would have thought that, after Climategate, etc., they would have tapered off. Who are the men behind the curtain?
Darn. How come I never get a cut of the secret funding? You mean I can get paid for being a skeptic? Hmmm, I’m skeptical of that.
So are we really watching a remake of the old TV show “The Six Million Dollar Mann”?