Above: Actual photo from Dr. Mann’s Facebook page courtesy Mark Steyn writing in: “The Mann I love”
LOL, gotta love the caveat “almost” anything. Redditers are welcome to ask Dr. Mann questions in this online forum today:
Science AMA Series: I’m Michael E. Mann, Distinguished Professor of Meteorology at Penn State, Ask Me Almost Anything! (self.science)
submitted 1 hour ago by MichaelEMann Distinguished Professor of Meteorology Penn State
I’m Michael E. Mann. I’m Distinguished Professor of Meteorology at Penn State University, with joint appointments in the Department of Geosciences and the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI). I am also director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center (ESSC). I received my undergraduate degrees in Physics and Applied Math from the University of California at Berkeley, an M.S. degree in Physics from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in Geology & Geophysics from Yale University. My research involves the use of theoretical models and observational data to better understand Earth’s climate system. I am author of more than 160 peer-reviewed and edited publications, and I have written two books including Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming, co-authored with my colleague Lee Kump, and more recently, “The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines”, recently released in paperback with a foreword by Bill Nye “The Science Guy” (www.thehockeystick.net).
“The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars” describes my experiences in the center of the climate change debate, as a result of a graph, known as the “Hockey Stick” that my co-authors and I published a decade and a half ago. The Hockey Stick was a simple, easy-to-understand graph my colleagues and I constructed that depicts changes in Earth’s temperature back to 1000 AD. It was featured in the high-profile “Summary for Policy Makers” of the 2001 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and it quickly became an icon in the climate change debate. It also become a central object of attack by those looking to discredit the case for concern over human-caused climate change. In many cases, the attacks have been directed at me personally, in the form of threats and intimidation efforts carried out by individuals, front groups, and politicians tied to fossil fuel interests. I use my personal story as a vehicle for exploring broader issues regarding the role of skepticism in science, the uneasy relationship between science and politics, and the dangers that arise when special economic interests and those who do their bidding attempt to skew the discourse over policy-relevant areas of science.
I look forward to answering your question about climate science, climate change, and the politics surrounding it today at 2 PM EST. Ask me almost anything!
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Go here to ask “almost anything”: http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1yj3o7/science_ama_series_im_michael_e_mann/
h/t to WUWT reader “devijvers”
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This guy’s ego is incredible.
As a purveyor of dodgy pseudo-science, he genuinely believes he has some value.
If I could buy Mann for what he is really worth and sell him for what he thinks he is worth, then I would make a small fortune.
RaiderDingo asks:
>Does this article refute Steve McIntyre?
Nothing ‘refutes’ Steve McIntyre. More to your intended point, nothing produced so far refutes Steve’s deconstruction of the silly paper that underlies the CO2-warming cult, the paper with the hockey stick chart fabricated by M Mann.
It is unlikely in the extreme that anything will in future be produced that will revive that dead, bent stick. It has been falsified because it made falsifiable claims. The CAGW movement, which does not really make falsifiable claims, has loose and poorly defined goals to do with ‘decarbonising’ the economy. It promotes carbon intensive investments in carbon-reducing technologies that are invariably more expensive and inconvenient that anything already in use. Many simply don’t work and just crash and burn, economically speaking, though windmills in particular are well-known to both burn and crash quite spectacularly from dizzying heights.
If anyone wanted to ‘refute Steve McIntyre’ they would get off to a good start by becoming a brilliant scientist with a broad understanding of statistical methods and when to use them. Having a fantastic, high quality blog would help.
Just read Mark Steyn’s response to Mann’s suit. Quite fun, although tedious going back and forth between the Mann complaint and Steyn’s answers. It appears that things like this Facebook thing only bolster Steyn’s defense.
Mann is now the Ward Churchill of climate science and Penn higher ed. in general.
[snip – garbage from the slayers – Anthony]
hockey sticks should stay in the winter olympics
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Starting at 7:10, Nye says the trade winds stop, then the sun beats down, and the fishees die? Result: El Niño? Jesus. Has the stupidity of Americans come to this?
They seem to be deleting posts which go to far in questioning him.
The most recent post was written by someone by a name in the realm of typerwriterous, and he had written something to the effect of
“with the hockey stick now being largely discredited, and seeing how there has not been any rise in temperatures for +17 years, has the fit to CO2 been reevaluated”
(that is as best I remember it before it was chopped from the site)
Maybe someone even has it in them to make a log of the comments and see which ones disappear into the ‘hey this is settled science’ abyss?
[snip – garbage from the slayers – Anthony]
Where?
[snip – garbage from the slayers – Anthony]
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I have a question for the dodgy doctor:
You have a .Bachelor’s degree in Physics and Applied Mathematics.
You have a Master’s degree in Physics.
You have a Ph.D in Geology and Geophysics.
How the heck did you get to become a “Distinguished” Professor of Meteorology?
There seems to be a serious disconnect here, how do you get to become – unless it is an honorary title – a Professor of Meteorology, when you appear to have no qualifications in meteorology?
[snip – garbage from the slayers – Anthony]
— Ask him if atmospheric GHG loading increased or decreased net entropy production in the Earth system.
A Distinguished Professor of Meteorology should know the answer to such elementary questions.
I’ve noticed that Mann isn’t answering questions. It seems that a few Reddit trolls are answering all the qeustions for him in typical trollish fashion.
[snip – garbage from the slayers – Anthony]
Mann gave a talk at St Mary’s college of MD while my daughter was there. She asked him to sign my miniature hockey stick from the Chicago ICCC in 2010. (It has a label on the handle saying “Mann-made warming.”)
He declined, so I guess that’s one of the questions he won’t answer. It was a bit cheeky of her….
I think this is breaking news.
Michael Mann’s case against Dr Tim Ball has failed. Now he in turn is going to be sued by Mark Steyn amongst others.
From Wikipedia:
Megalomania is a psychopathological disorder characterized by delusional fantasies of power, relevance, or omnipotence. “Megalomania is characterized by an inflated sense of self-esteem and overestimation by persons of their powers and beliefs.”[1]
Does this remind you of anyone in particular?
Screw the Mann!
As a meteorologist, it’s interesting that a guy with no degree in meteorology is teaching meteorology.
Also, if you want to know how big someone’s ego is, count how many times he uses the word “I.” It’s directly proportional. 😉
I would love to ask … “Dr. Mann – I’m trying to write software that will create a hockey stick shape from a white noise input. Can you show me how this is done?”
The Reddit mods will not tolerate anyone who they judge to be intolerant and judgmental. So I don’t expect any hard questions to get through. They’ve made up their minds, the debate is over before it ever happened, and banning the questioning of scientific hypothesis is the only way to preserve a free and open community. The purpose of this is to promote Mann’s book and, as the moderator points out, “[t]he Science AMA Series invites guests to /r/science, and is not a promotion. We fully expect all commenters to treat our guests with courtesy, and require that all commenters behave respectfully.” In other words, don’t say anything objectionable to Mann because we’re trying to help promote him.