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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“The brilliant and courageous climatologist Michael Mann knows what it’s like to be viciously attacked by the well-funded deniers of scientific evidence.” My check must be in the mail.
“Over the last 10,000 years it has been warmer than today 65% of the time. Our current climate does not in any way show an anomaly in temperature development. That’s an important result.”
http://notrickszone.com/2012/05/24/multiple-glacier-studies-show-wide-holocene-climate-variations-in-asia-and-europe/
Prof. Dr. Patzelt
http://www.oeaw.ac.at/kfq/patzelt.html
For those who like me understand German,
http://youtu.be/glplSyZM7uE
In person I’ve heard Gould, Ballard, and Mann speak. Gould talked about how early scientists “mismeasured” man to confirm their racial biases. Ballard talked about how technology was opening up the deep sea to exploration and understanding of human seafaring. Mann recited a tale of how humans were stressing the planet. Gould and Ballard inspired their audiences by showing how we could use science and technology to learn and make life better. Mann smugly scolded those whom he considered enemies of the environment. Now, this self-serving narrative of his battles reminds me of Alger Hiss’s long efforts to clear his name by lecturing adoring college kids about how he had been innocent of espionage charges in the 1930s. Sycophants lapped it up, but the knowledgable saw it for what it was — a total lack of any humility.
For a reality check see Hockey Stick Studies at ClimateAudit.org
e.g. the detailed presentation: How do we “know” that 1998 was the warmest year of the millennium?
Stephen McIntyre, Presentation at Ohio State University May 16, 2008
For trillion dollar policy decisions, we need the 2000 page engineering studies to verify, validate and quantify these issues! Lets hear it for the engineers.
Especial kudos to Steve McIntyre for his incredible perseverance.
I just tuned in for about 30 seconds. Dr. Mann was busy spouting the standard Alarmist line decrying “the denialists’ campaign,” but he is optimistic because there is substantial agreement “on both sides of the aisle” that “climate change is real.” So the question is “what policies do we need to put in place to deal with the problem?”
I tuned out. All together now, let’s chant: “Climate change is REAL! Climate change is REAL! Climate change is REAL!” as if this litany had meaning. As of course it does. It means (all together now), “We will believe! The world is warming! Catastrophe is coming! We must tax carbon! We must let the UN run the world! Don’t listen to the evil denialists! They are heretics! We are the true Scientists! The denialists are false scientists! They are heretics! They deny the Hockey Stick! They should be burned at the stake! Gaia will burn them when she heats up! Call the Inquisitor!”
Of course, Dr. Mann will not raise his voice. He will leave that to the McKibbens of the faith.
/Mr Lynn
[Self snip]
The only useful presentation on “The Hockey Stick and Climate Wars, Dispatches from the Front Lines” that Micky Mann could provide….would be a demonstration on how to convert this pulp to spit wads….his closest lifetime contact to warfare.
Hey, at least I’m getting snipped with the greats like Tisdale!
Must be snip night.
Does anyone listen to Mann more than once?
Peter in Ohio at 4:34 pm
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LOL
No matter what his expertise in climatology might be, he has no training, experience, or authority when talking about “what to do about it”.
What? “Climate Wars?” I thought that the debate was over and the science was settled. I thought there was a consensus. What need has there been for war? Is he making an admission about this?
And who exactly is paying for this tour? Mann was at U Vic early this month… travel expenses, accommodation etc…
Mann has given a very smooth and artful presentation. Sigh.
It sounded like the speech of an old soldier just fading away. This guy will not pose any threats in the future me thinks. basically they have lost. Especially by putting up the unadultared Marcott stick very dumb since that paper will be withdrawn.
Well, you will be happy to know that it snowed last night in Boone and is in the mid-20’s (F) there now. I hope he took a warm jacket. Oh, the local ski slopes are still making snow and will be able to ski through Easter the way things are going.
From Mann’s talk: “Even more important than RealClimate.org, I tweet” (and Mann then gave his Twitter tag/address/whatever).
Boone, NC temperature 8:00pm 24 F Low tonight 17F
Unbelievable, Total ‘inversion’ of reality. I ‘sort of’ feel sorry for the guy – but less so when I realize that when climate and weather (y’know, the Big Picture) make mincemeat of his ‘predictions’, he’ll skate, saying, “it was factors we couldn’t have anticipated, and CO2/Fossil Fuels still bad”, etc etc.
I caught only the tail end – questions – when he pointed out what a tragedy it was that, gone are the days when we’d simply Trust In Big Media, and that now folks can get all sorts of “misinformation” online.
Right. This, in the age of LIBOR, Enron, MFGlobal, and too many, far too many examples to list, the ‘false flags’ (those proved, that is, usually after all participants are dead and gone), the stellar corruptions, the cult of personality and pap delivered to the lowest common denominator.
This, is what he mourns.
Right.
Is it just me or is Mr Mann really starting to look like Lenin?
Gee I wonder how question time will be handled?
Anthony you would be a rich man if you got a $1 every time you got accused of being a well funded denialist.
And the obligatory finger-pointing at Big Corporations (who are all Oil/Coal) influencing reportage in the MSM, as if his grants, fees and funding don’t flow equally and more ultimately from those very sources.
In the Jewish Tradition, it’s asked “Who is Wise?” and answered – “He who learns from every man”, so in the that spirit I guess what we can learn from Micheal M is,
‘don’t be a mendacious hypocrite’. (or, giving much undue ‘benefit of doubt’ and positing he actually believes what he says – ‘don’t be insane’)
They study political science in that School of Arts and Science. So Mann is playing politics telling his virtual “truth” that fits his agena.
@ur momisugly jbird –
“What? “Climate Wars?” I thought that the debate was over and the science was settled. I thought there was a consensus. What need has there been for war? Is he making an admission about this?”
Wow! Yes, I missed this completely! Right in one’s face!
the presentation includes post-2005 data ? Popcorn sales depend on it.