Judith Curry is featuring a report by Emil Røyrvik of Norwegian organization SINTEF, which has taken a semi critical look at the “climate wars”. Dr. Curry highlighted this passage:
In open societies where both scientists and the general public are equipped with critical skills and the tools of inquiry, not least enabled by the information revolution provided through the Internet, the ethos of science as open, questioning, critical and anti-dogmatic should and can be defended also by the public at large. Efforts to make people bow uncritically to the authority of a dogmatic representation of Science, seems largely to produce ridicule, opposition and inaction, and ultimately undermines the legitimacy and role of both science and politics in open democracies.
Bishop Hill points out The silence of the Manns in the same report.
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I commented at Bishop Hill, regarding “The Silence Of Manns,”
Michael Mann’s behavior has been rude from the start. His refusals to share data with people who were interested, and his constant accusations that anyone who differed with him was a “lackey of Big Oil,” were obvious even before Climategate. All Climategate did was reaffirm that his character was as bad as it appeared.
The fact his science was suspect has long been known. What is amazing is that his torpedoed ship is taking so long to sink.
Little wonder he is silent about the large hole in the side of his science. He is quite aware he would have sunk long ago, were it not for the fact he is propped up on all sides.
Michael Mann is actually starting to bore me. His recent attempt to resurrect his hockey stick was mildly interesting, as would be the attempt to re-float both pieces of the Titanic. However the fact he has sunk very low is plain to see. Watching the sunken sink even lower is not all that inspiring.
What I’m more interested in is: Who backed him? He is actually a small potato, a minor character in a fraud so huge that future historians are likely to call it an “atrocity.”
Caleb,
Good post. Mann is a parody of himself, always accusing others of being in the pay of Big Oil.
Me, I’m still waiting for my first Big Oil royalty check.