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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“how scientists, economists and engineers really understand the problem of global warming”? If they thought we understood it, then why won’t they allow anyone but “climate scientists” examine the data and analysis and propose improvements?
Climate modeling is probably the most stagnant field of science. No major improvements, discoveries, or changes in 20 years — that has got to be a record.
I agree with Bob Tisdale:
[Self snip]
Peter Miller
Note that Paul Ehrlich seems to believe in eugenics and suggested in his 70’s book that a huge chunk of ice could fall off Antarctica causing a tsunami of unimagined proportions and Bill McKibben is, well, just the usual single minded big bad Bill.
Jesus wept.
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That look is a narcissistic trait.
That endoresement from Ehrlich is a bit like a ringing endoresemt from Lysenko on a new paper on agricultural gentics!
Gore, McKibben, Mann, Hansen, Ehrlich, Flannery etc – they’re all proven wrong over and over – zero credibility left. Actually, Hansen has one thing right – co-oincidentally he got the current climate trend modelled correctly in the 1988 models – unfortunately, he nailed it with the zero emissions scenario – whoops!
“Climate Wars” sounds like a TV series on the A&E channel.
I never cease to be amazed at the Mann’s effrontery,
Now, now, give him a chance to explain….
“Space is COLD, and makes PHOTONs cold too. These cold PHOTONs have been found inside the ‘LHC’ in CERN, that’s the ‘Lucrative Hose of Cash’ for all you laypeople.
These cold PHOTONs or FROSTY-TONS, really chill stuff quick. The Sun is the source of the FROSTY-TONS, and has been in a busy phase for the last 16 years, called the ‘Doubtful Momentum’, this has a direct link on the Worlds climate.
If the Sun wasn’t so busy, the CO2 made by man, no-no-no not ME, other Man’s, would have evaporated all the polar-bears in the Himalaya’s by now.
Lucky for us the Sun showers the earth in Cold rays constantly, or things would be getting very Ursine in the Hindu kush.
See, that’s how science works.”
[snip . . OT . . mod]
Of course he looks smug. Consider that:
1. He got caught using an algorithm that produces a hockey stick graph regardless of the data.
2. He used the Tiljander data though he was advised that it was upside down, and then tried to claim it was OK because he put it in a footnote.
3. He got caught along with Phil Jones substituting instrumental data for proxy data, wound up admitting that the proxy data doesn’t match the instrumental data for over a third of the instrumental record, but insists that the 1000 years prior to that are probably OK.
4. The only major work prior to Marcott that corroborated his was Briffa’s, and that turned out to be based on just 12 trees from Siberia, with one of them weighted to be 50% of the data, no hockey stick in the other 11 at all, and the 1 with the hockey stick failed to match local temperature records. Plus, Briffa himself has now published a new reconstruction that debunks his original one.
5. All of which left Mann with only a single corroborating study, which is Marcott’s. Turns out that Marcott’s thesis doesn’t match Marcott’s publication, and the publication version only corroborates Mann because it take positive anomalies from the past and moves them forward in time, plus lops negative anomalies off when they become inconvenient.
If I had a career like that and could still collect $10K per day plus expenses for repeating the same bull over and over again, I’d look pretty damn smug too.
geologyjim says:
“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]!!!…”
That show extended back to the early 1950s as well. I watched my mother on “Queen for Day” hosted by Jack Bailey in 1951 or 1952 in Los Angeles. She had a sob story trying to get funds for her in-laws so that they could come to my dad’s graduation. (She only won a consolation prize – a carton of Old Gold cigarettes!)
“The brilliant and courageous climatologist Michael Mann knows what it’s like to be viciously attacked by the well-funded deniers of scientific evidence”
First of all, hyperbole is always hilarious and never scientific.
Secondly, who are these “well-funded deniers”? I’d love to join that crowd and start cashing some checks! It would be nice if these idiots had real fact-checkers scrutinizing them.
“Words are only as good as their definitions. Faulty definitions will inherently lead to faulty understandings and vice versa. This is especially true when a word and its definition are contentious.
There is no word in any language which has been the subject of as much conflict, both in the realm of ideas and in the physical world as the word “god”. In that sense it is a dangerous topic to address, but it’s also an important topic for the same reason.”
http://stormcloudsgathering.com/a-scientific-description-of-god
Aw, come on WUWT Mods. There is nothing that David Appell could say that was OT. His hyperbole and non-sequitir would just finish out the evening just right. Any thread with our crazy uncle Mikey should be an open thread.
davidmhoffer says:
March 21, 2013 at 6:38 pm
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!
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LOL. What happened to the 70’s? Was he sick that decade? 😀
Noted- old hat- when’s the MSM going to catch on?
noaaprogrammer says:
March 21, 2013 at 9:48 pm
geologyjim says:
“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]!!!…”
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My Nanny was a big fan of “Queen for a Day”- there was also one called “The Millionaire”, I believe, in which someone fictionally was given a million $bucks each week-it was a big deal because a $million now was like $!03.56 then, or something.
Track where Mann makes his talks – U Vic; Penn State, Appalachian State, UVA, … and be sure not to send your children there as the administration is not capable of …
McKibben says; “… 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.”
A consensus that needs a 20 year political effort to “build” is not a consensus.
Of course, even after 20 years of “building” the consensus remains fiction built on rigged opinion polls
Mann yesterday tweeted (or should it be ‘twat’) a link to this alarmist article:
fb.me/2iJpROh6k
But its such drivel, it reads as satire. He realy seems to have no sense of reality.
So Mann is reduced to hawking his crap to Hillbillies…..
I recall also that Jack Bailey would occasionally host “King for a Day”.
Aww.. c’mon! Look at all the nice things they said about him. He must be all they’re cracked up to be 😉