When something is this ridiculous, all you can do is point and laugh. Michael Mann lends his image for political purposes in campaign video for called “Crusades Against Science 101″ with Professor Michael Mann”. Here’s the laughable imagery:
The imagery is dishonest. I challenge Dr. Mann to find any home in Norfolk that looks like that due to sea level rise. Just one will do. And no, a photoshop tricked-out house like your buds at NCDC used won’t qualify.
Dr. Mann seems to have no problem lending his image for political purposes, as this frame from the video shows:
The video footnote says:
Dr. Michael Mann is a world-renowned climate scientist and former University of Virginia professor. This animated interview recounts the grievances Prof. Mann faced at the hand of gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli, and details the threats to all Virginians caused by climate change.
“Vote climate in this election, Virginia’s future depends on it.”
Anything for “the cause” I suppose. Dr. Mann once referred to me as a “denier for dollars” (he imagines huge budgets at my disposal, but reality differs), I suppose it is only fair to return the favor by pointing out his involvement as a political science shill for VA gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe.
Here is the video:
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Re: Reed Coray (9:45pm, 10/9/13) – lol.
Like these fellas? #(:))
“Whoa! Tide’s coming in — time to move all our furniture up to the second story!”
(A real data – – faked data comparison from Michael Mann’s Munchkin Science Land)
“I wonder if the real owners of that house have grounds to sue Mikey… .” (Gunga Din at 11:18am)
I think they do! Look (below) at all the WORK they put into building it. Where’s the top story, now? Oh, they used that in the “Hurricane” Sandy schtick last year.
(Mikey Mann is the guy in the middle in the blue suit (the one with his mouth open — he’s saying, “turn on the water” and, well, you can see in the above post what happened…..))
Sorry for the obnoxious failed link. If you want to see the build, go to youtube.com and use “Toy Story 3 Barbie house” for a search term. Sigh.
I lived in Norfolk, VA from 1943 to mid-1946 in the Larchmont neighborhood. There was a man-made lagoon along the shore of the James river formed by a concrete seawall about 200 yards form our home.
I had an opportunity to revisit the area few years ago. Nothing had changed other than the large elm trees on parking strips had all died and were gone. I went down to the lagoon an noted that the tide level marks on the seawall were about the same as in the 1940s.
I submit that my anecdotal observations refute Mann’s hypothesis.
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He reminds me of that scene from Lord of the Rings just after Elrond lets Pippin and Merry join the quest. Pippin says, “Great! Where are we going?”
65% of tide gauges have shown no sea level rise at all
http://pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il/~msdfels/wpapers/Tide%20gauge%20location.pdf
This should be exhibit A in how to lie with statistics: use a parameter that sounds like the one you want, but isn’t.
Mann is too well educated to be making an error of this kind accidentally, so I conclude he is lying deliberately and with malice aforethought.
Go Mickey, you the man. Thank you for your untiring efforts on our sceptical behalf.
am i the only one that wished the IPCC rigidly adhered to the hockey stick image ? their demise would be so much quicker if they had.
pippenfool,you need to take a lie down in a dark room ,then go read the 5th assessment,particularly the physical science section,then come back and tell us about hockey sticks.LMFAO
Gunga Din! LAUGH-OUT-LOUD.
Pippin: Great! — Where are we going?
And I do hope that little Pippen also has a heart like Pippin’s. If he or she has, there is hope that Pippen will find the truth.
Surely no one is stupid enough to think that this is an actually a picture of a house in Norfolk, rather than a graphic?
“World renowned”. Yep. But not what he thinks it’s for.
I see that at least one other poster has referenced the study below, but incase anyone missed it, here it is again.
More than half the apparent sea level rise in the Virginia area is due to subsidence. The actual seal level rise is less in that area that the global average claimed by IPCC. http://web.vims.edu/GreyLit/VIMS/sramsoe425.pdf (81 page report). Looks like Mann is on the path to another Nobel prize. He really is a disgrace.
Just FYI, Downdraft, (the basic point of your post was great):
Mann has never been the recipient of a Nobel Prize. If he ever gets one, it would be his first.
A suggestion to Pippin: calm down a bit before responding. Your posts are bordering on incoherent, and not necessarily on the correct side of it.
@Oakwood What happened to that Richard Parker alias you had to create after the Geological Society of London politely asked you to stop using your professional qualifications anonymously?