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
Mann is a distinguished professor of meteorology and director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State.
“Distinguished”? Yeah, he managed to distinguish himself as a fraudster who excelled at manipulating proxy tree-ring data while keeping a straight face as he lectured his intellectual betters about ethics.
Mann is to skeptics as Sisyphus is to the rock.
John
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. – Ayn Rand
Mike Mann is the modern day snake oil salesman/faith healer, driving from town to town, conning the gullible citizens that want sooooooo desperately to believe in the purported potency of his green elixirs, nostrums, and ‘laying of the hands’ to cure the original sin (pollution, real or perceived) of humanity.
Hurry! Hurry! Step right up and see the overheated Planet! Hear the brilliant and courageous Climatologist tell you how YOU caused it all! Open your guilty hearts (and wallets!) to Save The Planet Now!
MtK
Let him have as much rope as he wants, he is working for our side now.
There once was a Mann named Mike,
Who modeled a temperature spike,
He peddled in fear,
For politicians to cheer
A massive carbon tax hike!
As much as I detest Mann, McKibben, and Eherlick there is one advantage they have. Mann was speaking before a room of young people that will now believe what he says and be motivated to act as advocates while we all sit on our collective butts in front of our computers typing snark. What are YOU (reader) doing to combat Mann in the public square? Are you speaking at colleges to counter their consensus lies? AGW is now being accepted in this years science standards for schools.
“So much of climate (denial) science comes from ideology,” Mann says, his voice hardening. “If you (’re) only voice(ing) (skepticism about) science that (goes against) supports your ideology, then that’s not true (skepticism) science.”
There, I fixed it for him.
Yes, as long as they have got the young, you won’t be able to defeat them. But I’m not sure the voices of science and reason can recapture the schools and colleges from the bottom up. The teachers are all just regurgitating the orthodox litany that they have been fed. It’s going to take a revolution at the highest levels of the scientific establishment and the academy. Mann’s support does not come just from his fellow ‘climate scientists’. Most of his peers accept the ‘conventional wisdom’ of AGW and the calumny spread by the Climatists that anyone who challenges them is a heretic and ‘anti-science’ kook. Those peers are the ones who have to be convinced. WUWT is certainly a start. But how many of them are here? We need a lot more like Professor Brown at Duke before the tide can turn, scientists willing to look at the empirical evidence and speak up.
/Mr Lynn
Did anybody watch?
I know I couldn’t cause I was getting my nails done.
Did no one watch and record it?
I can’t listen to Mikey more than 13 seconds and I kill the sound.
After 16 more seconds I have to exit the viewing.
I have not seen anything and no one is posting comments about watching.
cn
Live stream URL follows. 7PM EST tonight. (event has passed)
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I’ll count my lucky stars. Never missed a Mann presentation in my life. Didn’t shown up for any, but never missed then.
Chuck Nolan says:
March 22, 2013 at 5:40 pm
Did anybody watch?
I know I couldn’t cause I was getting my nails done.
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i was going to watch but had to take a dump.
Mr Lynn says:
March 22, 2013 at 5:32 pm
“Yes, as long as they have got the young, you won’t be able to defeat them. But I’m not sure the voices of science and reason can recapture the schools and colleges from the bottom up.”
We cannot. Departments of Climate Science will grow just as Departments of Feminism have grown. So, no help there.
The next iteration is that many Millennials are going to clamor that the government must make employers accept that a BA in Vaginal Politics does qualify one for most jobs. Our existing administration and its friends will support this initiative.
@Alvin, thats true, initially the lies do shape the belief of those children.
But reality and age have a way of correcting such misinformation.
The upcoming increase in poverty and shrinkage of opportunity that university grads are enjoying and will enjoy for some time, will correct the delusions of most of them.
And once they realize they have been used and abused, their resentment lingers.
Mikey Mann will be responsible for the minds he fills with mush. The fact that he doesn’t recognize his eventual plight is firm evidence he’s clueless in more ways than one.
And to Mikey (because everybody knows he sneaks peeks at these comments): Someday your name will be mud even though you currently believe the exact opposite. Enjoy your populatiryt now, because it won’t last forever. Indeed, future generations will recognize your notorious name among the most despicable of 20th Century liars and charlatans. (BTW, no Big Oil funds were used in formulating this opinion, sorry to disappoint you; I receive no such compensation other than the satisfaction of accurately describing you publicly.)
“… scientists, economists and engineers really understand the problem of global warming.”
Good thing that we’re bring the economists in to tackle the AGW issue. They’ll soon bring this unruly climate to heel.
Mikey gave one of his talks last year at an SOS (Sustainable Operations Summit) Conference at Cornell. I imagine this one was pretty much a carbon copy:
[vimeo http://www
w=400&h=300]
I haven’t watched all of it, but it’s pretty much the standard boilerplate Alarmist nonsense. The science, he says, is straightforward, and has been known for 2 centuries. The problem, according to him, is those pesky, Big Oil-funded, tobacco-science, climate de*iers (that’s us). We’re the fly in his climate ointment he’s so desperately peddling. Buzzzzzzz….
Guys you missing the BIG picture about Macrott…
http://tamino.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/global-temperature-change-the-big-picture/#more-6456
According to Tamino, the future is scary… LOL
The wheelchair graph…
Voicing exclusive skepticism of ‘science” that is contrary to your particular ideaolgy is bad (even though a skeptic isn’t actually trying to govern people like warmists are, and why would a person be up in arms if their ox isn’t being gored) However, advocacy and “consensus building” on the basis of ‘science’ that suits your ideaolgy is apparently OK at least according to Mikey mann.
TomRude says:
March 23, 2013 at 9:07 am
“Guys you missing the BIG picture about Macrott…
http://tamino.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/global-temperature-change-the-big-picture/#more-6456
”
Shakun has disappeared the Younger Dryas? These guys are getting better and better…
Bruce Cobb says:
March 23, 2013 at 5:16 am
“We’re the fly in his climate ointment he’s so desperately peddling. Buzzzzzzz….”
Fun thing is, at least one smaller continent (not the people; the continent itself) seems to be a skeptic as well:
http://notrickszone.com/2013/03/22/berlin-freezes-in-100-year-winter-record-snow-blankets-germany-bitter-cold-grips-europe/
Anthony, I’ve noticed that you inadvertently lend some undue credence to the CO2 driven climate change theory:
Oilprice.com: With all of this in mind, what should we be doing to address global warming? What SHOULDN’T we be doing?
Anthony Watts: I think on the issue of energy-related CO2 right now, energy conservation and energy efficiency efforts will bring the most gains.
Granted, you then proceed to give the caveats that the catastrophic climate change isn’t happening, but surely even if we destroyed all industry and sent humanity back to the stone age we would only save a degree or so per century, thus reducing our emissions by even a large percentage would be barely discernible in the climate trend. The trend shows no discernible human influence despite the rising CO2 output which shows definite negative feedbacks (ERBE satellite data shows OLR goes up with surface warming and low level cloud cover albedo effect, no mid tropospheric hotspot etc)
Surely saying that CO2 has a negligible rather than partial effect would be more accurate. And being a lukewarmist implies more causality attribution to CO2 than it warrants.
I really hope you don’t end up being controlled opposition gradually twisting the focus of the article towards the alarmist religion :). (I don’t think you are of course and appreciate everything you’ve done for scientific truth, but in the current political climate it pays to be vigilant)
Perhaps you could clarify the role you believe CO2 plays in terms of percentage of warming resulting from CO2 and the percentage of man made warming from CO2 and the evidence for the figures, just to help us lay people debate the point with warmists.
“Mann is known for making climate science accessible to the layperson.” Hmmm. Too bad he isn’t known for making his own data available to researchers trying to duplicate his bogus results. Just ask McIntyre and McKittrick about that, lol.
Hahaha – Because of a lot of O/T comments, Anthony closed out discussion on “…Would a real scientist act this way?” so I am going try an end run on Anthony and to post my brief NOT O/T comment for that here:
He kind of gives the term “idiot savant” a new meaning, doesn’t he?
Steve Garcia
p.s. Not to mention the old “Some village somewhere is missing its (social) idiot.” While Mann is not a real idiot ion the scientific sense, his social idiocy serves him ill, at best. Does that make him antisocial?
Bullies on school playgrounds – antisocial? In the long term is this not idiocy?
Hard-headed people who can’t accept that other people might reasonably disagree with them – antisocial? In the long term is this not idiocy?
Seriously, I don’t think anybody “on this side of the aisle” would really apply such a label to, say, Phil Jones, or Keith Briffa – we see some civility in them, and in other circumstances might even totter down to a neighborhood pub and shoot the breeze with them. In time, perhaps even hale fellows well met.
James Hansen? With his stridency might make some people think twice. NOT the sort to bend the elbow with.
But Mann – WOW! learn some civility, dude! What? “It’s Not Paranoia If They Really Are Out to Get You” – that applies to you? Oh, pulleeez!. . .
“Mann is a distinguished professor of meteorology and director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State.”
Maybe “distinguished” is the wrong word to use here…
So this moderator simply deletes comments that challenge or disagree with his position? I’m sure he wouldn’t really enjoy it if this happened to his backers…