Live stream URL follows. 7PM EST tonight. (event has passed)
BOONE—Climate scientist Michael E. Mann will speak March 21 at Appalachian State University. His address is a collaboration of the 24th anniversary of Appalachian’s Morgan Lecture Series in the Sciences, and cosponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences and the University Forum Series.
Mann’s talk, “The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars,” begins at 7 p.m. in Plemmons Student Union’s Blue Ridge Ballroom. The talk is free and the public is invited. Parking is available in the campus parking decks after 5:30 p.m.
Mann is a distinguished professor of meteorology and director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State. He is the author of the books “Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming,” published in 2008, and “The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines,” published in 2012.
Mann is known for making climate science accessible to the layperson. Of Mann’s book “Dire Predictions,” environmentalist Bill McKibben said, “Here’s a powerful, straight-forward guide to how scientists, economists and engineers really understand the problem of global warming. It makes 20 years of research and consensus-building completely accessible to anyone who cares to know the truth – and to do something about it.”
Of “The Hockey Stick,” biologist Paul R. Ehrlich said, “The brilliant and courageous climatologist Michael Mann knows what it’s like to be viciously attacked by the well-funded deniers of scientific evidence and how critical it is to respond. In this gripping, personal, front-lines account of climate politics, Mann tells the ‘hockey stick’ story, exposing the forces behind the denialist rhetoric, refuting the charges of disinformation campaigns, and eloquently conveying the importance of both doing great science and communicating its societal implications to a wider public.”
The Morgan Lecture Series in the Sciences was created by an endowment from the G. William Morgan Family. Morgan was a 1934 graduate of Appalachian and a health physicist with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. The lecture series helps stimulate scientific understanding and research among the sciences by bringing significant researchers to the Appalachian campus.
Previous speakers include evolutionary biologist Stephen J. Gould, population ecologist Paul Ehrlich, former U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and oceanographer and underwater archaeologist Robert Ballard.
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Michael Mann is speaking at Appalachian State University this evening (7:00 EST) and it will be streamed live at this URL:
http://streaming.appstate.edu/streams/2013/03/mann
h/t to Kevin Shaw
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“… scientists, economists and engineers really understand the problem of global warming.”
Too bad for them that the globe itself doesn’t seem to have the same understanding, with no warming for over a decade now despite ever increasing CO2 concentrations.
It is a credit to WUWT that it reproduces objectively the news of this event featuring such an obnoxious, mendacious, misrepresentaitional CAGW fanatic.
Pass the sick-bag.
Well, if there is a replay let me know. I have a serious move teed up and will need some comedy later.
Appears to be in the illustrious line of previous speakers Ehrlich and Chu.
Anthony, this has got to be one of your spoofs.
No one in the real world could possibly describe Mann in these terms.
REPLY: Only too real http://www.news.appstate.edu/2013/02/26/michael-mann/
– Anthony
… It makes 20 years of research and consensus-building …
… not science then.
Really, I think the picture should have been censored.
A picture of the Tellytubbies would have been more palatable.
They forgot to mention his Nobel Peace Prize.
Volcanoes are now responsible for the current decline what BS when is this guy going to be fired? Oh now its solar as well!
Mann is pathetic. “Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines.”
He insults every veteran, every soldier that has taken to the front line to defend freedom.
Being his own imaginary super hero with a big hockey stick is the stuff of wet dreams, not reality.
Of “The Hockey Stick,” biologist Paul R. Ehrlich said, “The brilliant and courageous climatologist Michael Mann knows what it’s like to be viciously attacked by the well-funded deniers of scientific evidence and how critical it is to respond. In this gripping, personal, front-lines account of climate politics, Mann tells the ‘hockey stick’ story, exposing the forces behind the denialist rhetoric, refuting the charges of disinformation campaigns, and eloquently conveying the importance of both doing great science and communicating its societal implications to a wider public. Michael Mann is speaking at Appalachian State University this evening (7:00 EST)….
Balls! What florid effluent that man can spew! It sounds like a 1950s back cover summary of a
secondthird rate scifi novella or wannabe superhero. These guys need to be greeted at Appalachian State by a couple of buckets of well-flung rotten tomatoes, in the time honored Tom Sawyer/Huck Finn tradition of dissent.MtK
There was a popular “game” show back in the 1960s in which female contestants were trotted out on stage to tell their stories of woe – catastrophic illness, storm-damaged home, runaway child, injured puppy – and the studio audience all had a good cry. And then they voted the –
QUEEN FOR A DAY [cue applause]!!!
The lucky “winner” would then get a crown, roses, a fur shawl, and an assortment of household appliances, along with some kind of redress of the poor-dear’s stated problem.
Mikey is just the 21st century version, right down to the framed ersatz “Nobel Prize” participation plaque, the commensatory grant funds, and a teary, supportive audience of sycophants. Maybe he’ll get an Obama-phone.
I think this time he should hold out for the crown.
“The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines,” published in 2012.
I have this disturbing image in my head of Michael all dressed up in his WWII uniform galloping around his office on his broomstick horse as he tweets his latest dispatches to his adoring fans. A heavy burden indeed, Michael!
And Ehrlich is certainly impressed as he describes the great general on his steed charging into battle: “The brilliant and courageous climatologist Michael Mann knows what it’s like to be viciously attacked by the well-funded deniers of scientific evidence and how critical it is to respond. In this gripping, personal, front-lines account of climate politics, Mann tells the ‘hockey stick’ story, exposing the forces….” etc.
Courageous! Attacked! Forces! Responds! Front-lines account!
Seriously????? Coming from people that are more familiar with slap-fights, this is some pretty tough talk.
So now he has put up the Marcott hockey stick what an idiot!
Previous speakers are a woeful collection of eco-fascists and failed Cassandra’s. “Brilliant and courageous” Michael measures up to that proud standard.
biologist Paul R. Ehrlich said, “The brilliant and courageous climatologist Michael Mann
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Now there’s an endorsement you can take home……………..
Now he is pushing Marcott et al’s hockeyblade as ‘confirmation’, and even the upward Romm-extension of it into the future. And if he really means what he peddles, he really is beyond deluded … Just looking at Marcott’s blade, when it starts, shows that it does not do anything to close to what he claims.
‘It makes 20 years of research and consensus-building completely accessible to anyone who cares to know the truth – and to do something about it.”’
Really? Do you mean that if I read this book I will understand the techniques of “consensus-building” employed by Michael Mann. If this is true then Mann could charge hundreds of dollars for the book and still have a best seller. I think I will look at some other reviews.
Clearly, one of the techniques is to guarantee scientists that if they sign on to the consensus publicly then they will not be visited by McKibben.
“Worse than we thought” just doesn’t do it justice!
And he makes Sarah Palin’s misunderstanding of ‘Hide the Decline’ his centerpiece of the ‘defence’. As I often say: People usually use the best arguments they have (left) …
This Mann is a real piece of work LOL.
It’s a good job you don’t have to type with your tongue, Anthony, your cheek would be worn out by now.
[snip – let’s not go there – Anthony]
Surely this is Poe’s Law at work?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law