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After being told by the IPCC in no uncertain terms that he can’t make claims like “Nobel Prize Winner”, now with enough cash, he could at least make the claim of Nobel Prize owner.
It seems that one is for sale. From IO9:
How much would you pay for a Nobel Prize medal?
Nobody has tried to sell a Nobel medal in 70 years, so the final price will establish a new and interesting precedent as far as these things go.
Full story here: http://io9.com/5986996/how-much-would-you-pay-for-a-nobel-prize-medal
ABC News reports on the motivations behind the sale.
Of course after the ribbing he must have taken after this full page ad appeared in the PSU student newspaper, he may no longer be interested.
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I have correctly predicted that Michael Mann will bring peace to the earth by raising the alarm about global warming, which he has correctly predicted will continue due to manmade greenhouse gases.
I wonder how much Crick would have paid for Manns certificate
250 grand? Spend a fraction of that on Cracker Jacks, and he’s bound to get four five Nobel Peace Prizes.
We should not forget there are two types of Nobel prize, the one for real scientific achievement and the other one for ‘peace’, traditionally awarded to all sorts of dubious individuals.
I think we should wait until someone wants to put up a Nobel Peace Prize for sale before we organise a whip round on behalf of Michael. The one on offer is for real scientific achievement and there is little doubt Michael would never be so brash as to claim he ever had anything to do with anything like that.
Winning the Nobel Peace Prize is kind of like winning today’s Iranian prize for human rights, or the old Soviet Union’s peace prize – it has become so demeaned as to have absolutely no value whatsoever. Doubtless his Goreness would disagree, but that just goes to prove my point.
What!?
The high shticker buys the Nobel Prize, not to mention a genuine one awarded to a real scientist for real science. Fully documented science that is a true boon to civilization.
I sure hope not!? After all, what would happen to the prize if he buys it? Most likely it would get rubbed in the face of everyone Manniacal could get to stand long enough or even tweet him.
Then, then; the poor award would get taped to the glass window of his cell.
Say it isn’t so…!?
Please?
/sarc
Too bad Crick’s last name wasn’t Cricket. It would be perfect.
Well it is a bit too late to give it to the lady scientist who actually did the X-ray crystallography, that led to the discovery of the DNA structure. She unfortunately died too soon to be recognised for her part in unravelling DNA.
Well if I had that medal, I would melt it down for the gold content. There’s a lot of medals running around with asterisks after them.
George, thanks for that tip. Would you believe that I’d never heard of Rosalind Franklin until you prompted me to look that up? I honestly do not recall her being mentioned in any of my texts books in college or high school.
(And there’s a reason I keep coming back to WUWT… and reading the comments.)
He can buy it when he wins his case against Mark Steyn!!
Maybe Al Gore will buy it for him with all that Arab oil money. The only problem is Al Gore won’t want get that close to something associated with real science.
>>We should not forget there are two types of Nobel prize, the one for real scientific achievement and the other one for ‘peace’, traditionally awarded to all sorts of dubious individuals.<<
Sorry. If they are going to put the name "Nobel" on the price, and lend it their prestige, then I am unwilling to make any distinction between the "peace" prize and any other. Whether you are a scientist or not, whether you have done something momentous or not, you should turn down the prize as a matter of principle, IMHO. If enough people turn it down, they'll get the message.
After some thought, I really hope a reputable museum ponies up the cash for this, and displays it alongside some of the work that merited the award. Perhaps it could find a place in or near this:
http://www.genome.gov/Smithsonian/
I’m willing to chip in and buy this medal for Mann, providing he promises to quit climate porn. The man is going to go blind otherwise.
I think skeptics should buy it and gift it to Dr. Mann. ;^)
Actually it is SO much cheaper just to go ahead and buy a copy of PrintMaster or a program like that, design and print your OWN award – maybe call it the Noball Prize, as an example, and just have some notary emboss it with their stamp and not point out the difference to people when you “say this is my Nobel certificate.”
If M. Mann were to buy this then he would be correct in stating “I have a Nobel Medal”. Not the same as having been awarded the Nobel Prize but obfuscation is the order of the day with many in this area.
Tom J says:
February 26, 2013 at 12:15 pm
Happy Gilmore?
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If Mann was smarter, but no less shifty, he would emulate economists and use some of his grant money to endow a “Prize in Climate Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel”, then just wait a few years for the lazy media and populace to refer to it incorrectly as a true Nobel prize.
I’m still amused by the fact that they won the Nobel Peace Prize and not the one in physics or any other actual science.
Hey … the IPCC is part of the U.N.. I belong to a member nation of the U.N., so I should have an equal claim on that prize. So should you.
Let’s have everyone claim to be a Nobel Peace Prize winner. We can make the asterix small enough that most people won’t see it.
There seems to be some confusion about the Nobel prize that Michael Mann won.
It was the Nobel Piece Prize.
Reminds me of;
“Tom Lehrer: I’ve said that political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Prize.”
If I buy it, does that mean I can say “I have a Nobel Prize”.
“I’m still amused by the fact that they won the Nobel Peace Prize and not the one in physics”
Yes, and remember that the Peace Prize is chosen by the parliament in Oslo Norway, not the Nobel Committee in Sweden. The questionable choices for the peace prize including Obama and Arafat, have come about more from political considerations rather than any evidence that the recipients have enhanced world peace.
On the other hand, should Mann get a Piltdown Man award for lifetime achievement in time series prestidigitation?
John