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But the situation is more delicate for those who gained their notoriety, made their reputations, and received their government funding on the old “sky is falling” model. For them acknowledging new facts means admitting the major possibility they were wrong. This includes conceding policy prescriptions based on their work may be draconian, counterproductive, and in the end vastly harmful to poorest of the world’s population. The ethanol disaster is but one example of “consensus” science taking food off the table for no discernible reason. These admissions would be a tough pill to swallow but ones a true scientist would embrace.
Watchdog.org reports:
Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe and three top GreenTech advisers met with the key White House aide responsible for helping bankrupt solar-panel maker Solyndra win federal loans and high-profile presidential support, a Watchdog investigation has revealed.
What they discussed in the Oct. 12, 2010, meeting with Obama “green energy” aide Greg Nelson is a mystery – the White House visitors log offers no details. But the confab came seven months after a stock transfer made McAuliffe a GreenTech majority owner and company chairman.
h/t to Junkscience.com
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Forget the Solyndra connection–it pales in comparison to the movie “Fast Terry” recently put out by Citizens United http://fastterry.com/
Mikey is going to run out of lawyers if this type of calling out continues.
But he can’t sue everyone and time is not on his side.
What an article by the Daily Caller! That was a great read. Now I should get the popcorn and wait for the reaction. It’s gonna be loud from M.M. It always is. What’s the betting he’ll sue?
Cuccinelli is getting hammered on VA TV ads for helping nat. gas companies rape landowners. As a new resident to the commonwealth, I do not look forward to November.
…but, why would anyone call Mann a charlatan?
(end sarc)
Ouch. I wonder how he will weather this storm? No doubt he has a model tucked away somewhere to explain it all to his followers. Mann made economic disaster anyone?
Green business is fast becomming a loophole for drug cartels and crime syndicates to gain high level political influence, and launder dirty money.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22017112
We haven’t seen the last of green links to organised crime.
lol the author is a lawyer too… he must not have much belief mann is going to win his case against steyn.
MattN said:
Yes, it’s because billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer who heavily funds anti-Keystone XL groups is now heavily funding Democrat Terry McAuliffe against Cuccinelli.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/tom-steyer-terry-mcauliffe-virginia-governor-race-95174.html#ixzz2bKTDlBvO
Can someone please set out the ‘progress’ of Piltdown Mann’s various efforts at litigation.
Apparently Mann is trying to hide the decline in support for McAuliffe…
Someone please send Cucinelli some info about Mann’s past indiscretions (claiming to be a Nobel laureate, hockey stick etc.) to use as ammo in h campaign.
Was the lawsuit at UVA the one where Mann hid behind a former big tobacco defense attorney?
arthur4563 says:
August 7, 2013 at 4:47 pm
Cuccinelli probably knows a lot about Mann from his efforts to get his UVA emails.
Lol, David Appell is over in the comments arguing that we should be in the midst of the Little Ice Age! Does he not realize the “consensus” says we left the Little Ice Age long before anthropogenic GHG emissions were of significance?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/mcauliffe-cuccinelli-race-drips-with-venom/2013/08/06/e7dadc78-fae5-11e2-9bde-7ddaa186b751_story.html
Democrat ads call Cuccinelli’s Mann e-mail suit a “witch hunt”.
Actually, the best part of this is “Paul H. Jossey, Lawyer”
The guy is calling Mann out, daring him to sue. Hahah.
kcrucible says:
August 7, 2013 at 4:59 pm
Actually, the best part of this is “Paul H. Jossey, Lawyer”
The guy is calling Mann out, daring him to sue. Hahah.
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More likely this is Paul H. Jossey’s calling card for getting on the Steyn/CEI team. Did you see he specializes in First Amendment and Environmental Policy? His twitterings say that he just got his District of Columbia license last month. This article is just flying his colors.
Going to be interesting…
A testable hypothesis: AGU Fellow Michael E. Mann is to charlatanism as his fellow AGU honored associate Peter H. Gleick is to fraud?
But I am being unfair to Glieck by the implication that his activities are even close to being as questionable as Mann’s.
John
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlatan
“A charlatan (also called swindler or mountebank) is a person practicing quackery or some similar confidence trick in order to obtain money, fame or other advantages via some form of pretense or deception.”
Hide the decline?
Funny, I have been thinking, just to myself, that the term, “Charlatan” may just apply to many climate – alarmist pseudo-scientists. While skeptics have of late resorted to referring to the true believers of Man-Made-Themageddon on Earth as a kind of religion impenetrable by observable facts and logic; perhaps alarmist-scientists are simply clever, quite clever charlatans, mountebanks, and con-artists. Cynical phoneys only in it for the money.
If that ends up being the case, how funny would that be! They were quite clever; making fools of everyone and stuffing their pockets with public moneys!
That pop you heard was Mann’s ego going off again , so we can ‘look forward ‘ to another court case . Perhaps this time he will go to far to back out or bail out , if we are lucky.
The “Fast Terry” half hour is sad, sad. There was a time when the likes of McAuliffe would be sent out of town on a rail, tarred and feathered. Now, he will, likely, be Virginia’s next governor. He has zero qualifications, except, money, illegal (?) and partnership with Hillary Clinton’s fat brother, Tony, in the “investment business.”
I like much of Cuccinelli’s work, on Obamacare, against EPA silliness, his fight for sunlight on the Michael Mann UVA mess. But, I cannot abide his feeling that he has the right to force all women at all times to birth because of *his* religious beliefs. When the Virginia Board of Health said, in effect, that the new regulations imposed upon abortion clinics (for the sake of women’s health…. wink, wink) should not apply to existing clinics, Cuccinelli threatened them: *If* somebody got “hurt” in a clinic (wink, wink) I don’t think the Va Atty General would defend you. ……GRIN…….. they caved.
I suppose I should be grateful Cuccinelli doesn’t believe cows are sacred.
I’m voting Libertarian: Robert Sarvis.
It will probably elect McAuliffe. If so, Virginians are too stupid to know what’s good for them. No harm; no foul. …..Lady in Red
The Antarctic sea ice is the highest in recorded history. The warmists need to start planning for a way out. It appears the planet is starting to cool, in response to the solar cycle 24 change which will disprove their hypothesis.
Scientists make tentative statements and acknowledge anomalies when observations indicate there are fundamental problems with their hypothesis/hypotheses. Advocates on the other hand work independent of science and logic. Advocates call those who point out logical and observational anomalies ‘deniers’.
It is difficult to imagine how the climate wars will adjust to global cooling. It appears there will appropriately be job losses, particularly if there is a change in government.
http://joannenova.com.au/
http://jonova.s3.amazonaws.com/graphs/antarctic/antarctic-cea-ice-aug-4-2013.gif
You remember that saying “‘Tis better to say nothing and be thought an idiot, than say something and everyone knows you are an idiot..” something like that.
Ummm….Mikey, don’t look now, but Virginia is ranked Number 12 in coal production according to the National Mining Association, politicians shouldn’t bite the hand that feeds them etc.
http://www.nma.org/pdf/c_production_state_rank.pdf