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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I watched a clip from the movie “Canadian Bacon” with John Candy just before reading this post. In the clip, a news anchor reports a rumor (originating from the White House) that Canada is secretly preparing to attack the U.S. In a serious tone, he then asks, “Do you want your children pledging allegiance to a maple leaf? Do you want to have Winter 11 months out of the year?”
After watching the movie clip, I began reading this post. When I came to the quotes by McKibben and Ehrlich, I laughed out loud. The quotes are so farcical they sounded like they came from the movie clip I just watched. They might as well be trying to convince us that those vicious, well-funded Canadians are about to attack and it’s critical we respond.
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.” …
I just watched for a few moments. He was talking about James Hansen’s temperature forecasts.
I am not certain be he still seemed to be displaying those graphs which conveniently stop showing comparative global temperatures in 2005. I thought these were exposed last time he talked
I thought that oxygen thief Appell had been terminated here … nobody needs to be assailed by his BS.
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)….
What a disgusting sycophant!
Calling Mann courageous besmirches the good names and deeds of the truly courageous and selfless men and women of our armed forces. This self serving snake oil salesman is nothing but a charlatan.
He must be petrified that the event has been given such wide coverage on WUWT.- a far wider coverage than the university could ever do. Surely the event will now be swamped with sceptics anxious to fire questions at the end: And surely someone will be able to take a quiet video so that we can all enjoy the lecture. How he must now wish the event was ‘Invitation Only’.
more quotes that probably did not make it into Mikey’s speech:
I find it interesting that this thread of comments has resulted in more snips then any thread I remember. What is it about Michael Mann that raises such ir?. The list of answers to that question are many.
I guess I’ll confirm the trend. Michael Mann is a [self snip].
“Mann tells the ‘hockey stick’ story, exposing the forces behind the denialist rhetoric”
So what did he say? Who are they? I’ve been trying to find this out for ages and there’s never anything substantive. Was there this time?
Mann’s talk, “The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars,”
so its little more than a book selling gig
‘Mann is a distinguished professor of meteorology a’
with perhaps some accidental comedy thrown in
Lets take a get a bet on what will happen , an audience packed with ‘true believers’ with a Q&A carefully controlled so he has to only deal with the softest of questions and people telling him how ‘wonderful’ he is .
One day Mann will find himself having to deal without a deck loaded in his favour and that will be bad day for Mann and good day for most of us, that day cannot come soon enough .
By the way how are his court cases getting on ?
Peter Miller says:
March 21, 2013 at 4:08 pm
Anthony, this has got to be one of your spoofs.
No one in the real world could possibly describe Mann in these terms.
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Not only true, but not the only one.
My daughter attended Yale Med School and, as a result, I get the Yale Alumni Magazine delivered to my address. Last months issue had Dr Mann on the front cover, with the title, “The most hated climate scientist in the US fights back”
Excerpts are “Michael Mann is taking a stand for science.” and a quote from Dr Mann regarding why he does not like to use the term ‘skeptic’ when referring to those that question his ‘science’. “Mann doesn’t like the word “skeptic” to describe Morano and others campaigning against him. He and other scientists point out that science encourages skepticism, asking pointed questions and looking for evidence again and again. “So much of climate denial comes from ideology,” Mann says, his voice hardening. “If you’re only voicing skepticism about science that goes against your ideology, then that’s not true skepticism.”
Dr Mann is presented as, “Michael Mann is the scientist whose research produced, in 1999, the iconic and alarming “hockey stick” graph of average annual temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere over the past thousand years. He is also the US scientist most affected by the 2009 “E-mailgate,” when climate contrarians hacked into a group of scientists’ e-mails, took them out of context, and made them a cause célèbre.”
Personally, I’ve always enjoyed the label of ‘contrarian’. I sent a comment to the magazine asking for the evidence that the ‘climategate emails’ had been obtained by ‘climate contrarians’ via ‘hacking’, and, since they seemed to know that ‘climate contrarians’ had conducted the hacking, who those individuals might be, but received no answer.
https://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/articles/3648
Having, uhm… “interesting” people give lectures on a college campus is certainly not new. Back in the 70’s, my own (pretty conservative for the time) Georgia Tech hosted Dr. Timothy Leary for a lecture. I attended just because of his notoriety. He babbled on about mind expansion into other dimensions – priceless.
Hopefully those App State folks will have similar thoughts about this presentation in coming years.
In the “Climate Wars”, he is Sarumann, with Orkian hordes doing his bidding (he hopes).
Bill Marsh says:
March 22, 2013 at 4:43 am
“If you’re only voicing skepticism about science that goes against your ideology, then that’s not true skepticism.”
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This implies that scepticism (one would prefer thay esteemed Nobel Prize time-sharers and University alumni periodicals could bloody well spell correctly…) is only allowed when you are challenging something you already believe (oops, that word again) in.
“Sorry, you don’t believe in AGW so you’re not allowed to question my hockey-stick generator”
*head explodes*
So angry…so sad!
I’m sorry -did you say it will be livestreamed at 7:00 tonight? Dang! It so happens I have a root canal scheduled then. Oh well.
Might be snowing in Boone, NC at that time. Hope so.
Where’s algore?
Another of many Mann PR events for his self-serving myth of Mann as wrongly persecuted mythic hero. Yawn.
He is giving mythology a bad name. He needs professional help from the PR firms specializing in monomyth based PR.
In August 2011 it was reported that Mann was on sabbatical from Penn State Univ.
Question => Is he still on sabbatical? If not then when did his sabbatical end?
Would appreciate if someone can provide that info.
John
“He Defrauded Me With Science”
What’s all the the big commotion
It snowed just yesterday
And the rising of the ocean
Is just dramatic overplay
They’re defrauding me with science
Defrauding me with science!
And ignoring simple history
When he’s flying his Learjet
Defrauding me with science – Science
They say he’s leaving a footprint
Science
Science
But it’s all a big promotion
When it snowed just yesterday
And I can see no rising of the ocean
On the weak and old they prey
But they defrauded me with science
They defrauded me with science!
And disregarded simple meteorology
When Gore is flying ever nearer
Defrauding me with science-science
Science
I can see Al Jazeera
Defrauding me with science-science
Science
I thought he had such devotion
But now it seems he’s mocking me
He sold out the Arctic Ocean
To pump and dump Current Tv
He defrauded me with science
He defrauded me with science!
And got off on a technicality
Good God Al Gore-
You’re pitiful
I don’t believe it
There he goes again
He’s hidden his dossier
And I must get a FOIA
To see his inner secrets
And his little pet tricks
It’s simple harmonic motion
So when it snowed just yesterday
And the rising of the ocean
A cycle repeated every day
Mmm but he defrauded me with science
He defrauded me with science!
And failed in philanthropy
He defrauded me – with science
He defrauded me with
“Michael Mann knows what it’s like to be viciously attacked by the well-funded deniers of scientific evidence…” “The Hockey Stick,” biologist Paul R. Ehrlich said.”
For God’s sake. WHAT SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE??
Computer models surely are not evidence. Hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, floods, blizzards.
None of these is evidence of AGW from CO2. None of them.
We only have evidence of weather.
I hate liars.
It’s getting to the point where If I ever meet someone who calls themselves a “Climate Scientist”,
I will simply scoff then walk away. Wait, scoff, slug him in the face, then walk away.
And I’m a peaceful guy.
Interesting how research is constantly updating and questionning the theory surrounding the Origin of the Universe and everyone applauds. But let anyone dare question the “theory of man-made climate change” and you are being likened to war criminals. My head hurts. I recently questionned a prominent columnist on his constant references to climate change and asked him what “science” he based his beliefs on before I made any comments. I was greeted with…..silence. I thought so. Thanks Anthony for all the hard work.
” They attempted to control thought and to suppress personal opinion. They tried to dictate personal conduct. They habitually distorted and disregarded and violated the truth. All this was crudely opposite of their claims of “democracy” and “the scientific approach.”
– Elia Kazan talking about his brief membership in the Communist Party of America ”
Is it just me or does anyone else see some parallels here? They really milk the victim routine for Dr. Mann and anyone else who is asked to defend their supposedly scientific opinion.
Hockey sticks and Pooh sticks.
Meanwhile in the real world, where the hockey stick is still a reality only it has been inverted and is pointing down, the annual Pooh-sticks championship in Oxford, England, has been postponed this week due to cold and snowy weather.
This type of wrong headed thinking routinely gets top billing when funded by tax payers. And no amount of well-reasoned and unimpeachable protagonism can fight against it. Belief trumps data. Always has. Always will. Truth based on facts is often slaughtered. Way more often than spin is. If you seek to put the facts out there, you had better be able to stand the heat because it is heat hotter than hell. If you can’t stand the heat, you must be willing to swallow vomit. Those are the only two choices we have. And by the way, silence tastes like vomit. I have put my government job on the line in honor of facts more than once. You must be willing to lose not only your paycheck, but your computer, respect, reputation, and finally lose in the court of opinion. And you may not ever see a return of those things before you pass from this Earth. I know.
Our history books are filled with such stories of the plight of humankind in search of truth. It is by and large an ugly history. We, here and now, are not a privileged class that will be able to escape such horrible consequences. If past history is any measure, truth is won through the number of wounded scars we carry, not the number of headline victories we accumulate.
Pamela Gray says:
March 22, 2013 at 10:24 am
“If past history is any measure, truth is won through the number of wounded scars we carry, not the number of headline victories we accumulate.”
In the olden days, which I experienced in person, you picked up plenty of scars for not telling the truth. And the scars you got in the principal’s office, you never reported to your father or another round of scars was added. Having evolved into a more enlightened folk, it is now the other way around.