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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So what is the current story with Michael Mann? Is he a respected scientist? Or merely respected within a shrinking circle? Is he generally the laughingstock he is at places like WUWT? Or not?
Ha! Another $10,000 snake oil presentation……………
Capitalism hypocrite to say the least.
Keep an eye on the money ! 🙂
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I keep waiting for the check to arrive.
Will someone PLEASE tell them to hurry up with it.
Oh wait…..well funded? I forgot, I am not pro AGW as the scientific evidence is lacking at this time. Maybe next year?
Did he use any seven year old charts?
Why, when you have a message that will save the world, would you hide behind FOID laws to conceal it ?
sarc/
[snip. persona non grata.]
Paul Erlich in the 60’s; We’re all gonna die! In ten years!
Paul Erlich in the 80’s; We’re all gonna die! In ten years!
Paul Erlich in the 90’s; We’re all gonna die! In ten years!
Paul Erlich in the 2000’s; We’re all gonna die! In ten years!
Paul Erlich in the 2010’s; Allow me to introduce Michael Mann who, like me, has been criticized for his predictions.
Michael Mann; We’re all gonna die!
Paul Erlich (whispers); you forgot part….
Michael Mann; In ten years!
Any word of his court case against Steyn?
Will he continue to promote Marcott’s remarkable paper, which confirmed his hockey stick by replacing cold modern temperatures with warm medieval temperatures ?
Bill McKibben said, “Here’s a powerful, straight-forward guide to how scientists, economists and engineers really understand the problem of global warming.”
Hey, leave the engineers out of this, who the H—L asked McKibben to speak for the engineers ?
Did you ever wonder what the heck happens after they launch a whole bunch of tiny mirrors into space to reflect the sunlight away ? What if they get the “predictions” wrong and we freeze to death ? Are they then going to “geo-engineer” a system to pick them up back up ?
This engineer really understands that mankind has yet to develop a detailed understanding of how the climate works and any predictions to the contrary are BS.
Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.
Paul R. Ehrlich said, “The brilliant and courageous climatologist Michael Mann…………..” What a stunning endorsement from someone who has been wrong 99% of the time over a time span of decades…… If everything I designed failed year after year for 40 or 50 years (yes, I’ve had a few clunkers along with many successes) I think I might consider a different occupation…..
Cheers, Kevin (An engineer, in case you wondered)
davidmhoffer: Two thumbs up, in ten years!
Yeah a warm and cosy reception at Appalachian State University. no hard questions from these students or facility. A brace of see no evil, yes men for Mann and his doomsday cult!
Oh what a night – Lol
Even if we have 30 years of a dramatic drop in global temperatures , they will still be pedaling the same stuff. A new generation of climatologists will have to be the ones to reluctantly inform the world of the mistakes made by these guys. Psychologically they are incapable of ever facing their own errors and are destined to go down with the ship,still oblivious to reality.
He’s worse than I thought. At least he left off his Noble Prize.
As the Conservative commentator, Dennis Prager says: “The more graduate education you have, the more insular you are from differing opinions..” Should we say in this case, ‘differing analyses’?
Cha Ching!!!!
Mikey adds another $10k to his bank account
“population ecologist”…..bwahahahahahahaha…….maybe shaman, snake-oil salesman, doomsday prophet……..
Every picture of Mann has a smug and ever so slightly disdainful expression, as though to say “Who farted? It wasn’t me”. The expression is that of one who believes his own legend. A legend founded on blame and supported by brown-nosing. Eventually, the only expression one can exude after all of that, is disdain. Reality becomes an enemy, and one is always on guard against it, and the look of disdain comes from “why do I need to acknowledge reality?”….
It seems that ever since Obummer unleashed his stealth climate policy, Mann and others are emboldened and ramping up their shaky rhetoric. And it is hard not to assume a disdainful look of my own!
I wonder if he will be successful in repulsing the art students as well?
May the mann keep on speaking, as Al Gore is to weather, the mann is to support for the cause.
They both make it run cold.
Quotes unlikely to make the presentation,
“I never liked it that the 2001 IPCC report pictured Mann’s without showing alternates. […] It now seems clear from looking at all the different analyses that Mann is an outlier” – Curtis Covey, Research Scientist, Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
“I’m sure you agree–the Mann/Jones GRL paper was truly pathetic and should never have been published. I don’t want to be associated with that 2000 year ‘reconstruction’.” – Ray Bradley, Contributing Author, IPCC (2001)
It appears impossible to underestimate Michael Mann’s brazen arrogance. It does seem he made one mistake, though. When he wrote MBH98/99, he probably thought that no one would discern his lie, because, a) no one except Gavin Schmidt is as smart as he, and; b) his skill at obscurantism is fully nonpareil. He didn’t anticipate Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick. What we’ve discovered since then, though, is that it didn’t matter whether he was caught in his lie, or not.
Despite the completely transparent exposure of his fakery, he has been continually lionized on campuses and in the press, in the US and in Europe, by scientists and by intellectuals, and of course by
eNGOscynical opportunists andMcKibnutcases. He has received honors and promotions, and has been supported by every single major scientific organization of any standing, virtually everywhere. Where not, there is discrete silence.Since the MBH’s we’ve had Yamal, upside-down Tiljander, contaminated Korttajarvi, all knowing abuses, all fully exposed, all roundly ignored. The take-home lesson seems to be that when a useful lie is offered in support of an ardently desired end, and ethics collides with means, there is a rush of highly educated and well-placed people to bestow honors and awards.
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I wonder if the App Staters know how much impact they’re having on the environment from the CO2 that’s released from their legendary keg parties?
http://collegiatestandard.com/features/top-party-schools-in-north-carolina/%EF%BB%BF
geologyjim
Queen for a day. Holy crap did you give me a moment there. The look on my poor mom’s face while she watched Queen for a day… “I coulda been a contenda!”
Why aren’t you dead yet ye old gaffer?
Just to keep it OnT, Mike looks like he won the prize!
The author of that florid announcement must be the same fiction writer who wrote the Mann piece in the latest Yale Alumni Magazine. No wonder I stopped donating to them.
Sorry I missed it. Any idea where can we get replay?
It may be one for the history books soon, on how science can be so easily abused with the manipulation of “consensus”.