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The Kochs, Scaifes & others have used their billions to construct a vast “Potemkin Village” (in the words of science historian Naomi Oreskes) of denialism, by funding groups like “Americans For Prosperity”, the “Heartland Institute”, the “Competitive Enterprise Institute” and a whole cadre of other front groups, organizations, and hired guns implicated in the campaign to discredit climate science and climate scientists. I should know since, as I describe in my book The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars, I found myself at the center of that campaign more than a decade ago because of my scientific work establishing the unprecedented nature of recent global warming.
Source: Huffington Post
Billions? Where? I gotta get me some of that. Meh, it’s the same conspiracy theory polka Mann and Oreskes have been doing for years, disguised as a book promotion. Mann doesn’t even have the mental cognizance to separate his imagined #Kochmachine funding from a free Christmas Calendar sent as a gift, printed at COSTCO, using my own credit card.
As far as I can tell, Mann has never actually done any real work like real people do, he’s always been the recipient of some grant, or been attached to some part of the public teat. So it really isn’t any surprise to me that he can’t fathom that somebody might use their own money to send a free calendar, no, in his world that sort of stuff is what you use other people’s money for.
Bishop Hill posits that Mann’s latest entertaining rant is a lot like Green Lizards from Alpha Centauri:
You wonder whether more level-headed upholders of the global consensus are at all embarrassed by this sort of thing. The “big oil conspiracy” theory of global warming scepticism seems to thrive among people like Mann, seemingly requiring absolutely no evidence to sustain it. The left-wing media seems to lap it up without question. But is the tale of sceptics feeding off Exxon’s millions any more credible than green lizards from Alpha Centauri taking over Michael Mann’s brain?
If it is a Green Lizard invasion, I’ll bet their home planet looks a lot like the DPRK from Space, energy for me, but not for thee:
As Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. once quipped:
If Michael Mann did not exist, the skeptics would have to invent him.
Keep ’em coming Mike! With your help, we are winning the Climate Wars.
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I’ve had fun with Michael “Piltdown” Mann.
I’m going to have more fun with “Mannure.”
LOL – does anyone take Mann seriously these days?
Good ol’ Mann, a legend in his own mind.
Lets hear it for North Korea, fighting C-AGW since 1950!, showcase for the rest of the world.
Just waiting for the other shoe to drop… he usually releases one of his “poor, poor pitiful me” screeds a few days before the next PR shift. Or maybe he’s trying to distract attention from the possible magma heating of the WAIS.
Either way, it’s his usual formulaic crap, the self-aggrandising little pillock. In my humble opinion, of course ;).
“… a whole cadre of other front groups, organizations, and hired guns implicated in the campaign to discredit climate science and climate scientists …”
Ah, yes, if only Mann could actually prove that to be true. His notion about this is arguably traceable to AGW alarmist book author Ross Gelbspan, who declared on several occasions that the Western Fuels Association had created a front group to follow up with WFA’s stated goal of “launching a direct attack on mainstream science.” Problem is, as I detailed in a post at my blog, Western Fuels never stated any such thing. Please see, “Why Say Sinister Plans are in a Coal Association’s Annual Report… when they aren’t?” http://gelbspanfiles.com/?p=491
“in the words of science historian Naomi Oreskes”
Science historian???? I think my opinion would be more as a fabulator. But little Michael Mann would know truth from fantasy.
Kijong-dong “The official position of the North Korean government is that the village contains a 200-family collective farm, serviced by a childcare center, kindergarten, primary and secondary schools, and a hospital.”
Hubba hubba, free healthcare, state education, state childcare for babies, and a farm for sustainable jobs!
The idea that the Koch brother have nothing better to do with their billions than build a vast nexus of organisations to refute climate change, presumably in order to make themselves richer, doesn’t stand up to scrutiny, since spending money on this scale is likely to have the opposite effect.
Maybe Mann has missed the fact that it isn’t these organisations that are refuting climate change so much as mother nature herself. Oh, that’s gotta hurt.
Another mardy scientist because his work is not believed anymore. Shame.
Such a wee little Mann – and in it so far over his wee little head!
“Michael Mann is Distinguished Professor of Meteorology at Pennsylvania State University” and yet Canada has said “meteorologists are not climate experts” and should not make public comments about it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2646897/Canada-bans-government-meteorologists-talking-climate-change.html
Dr. Mann does not appreciate the whole influence of the Big Oil. They enlisted the help of Mother Nature and made her disrespect even the best climate models.
Since the original Potemkin Villages are a myth, are they secretly admitting to their own deception (playing the role of Von Helbig promulgating rumors) or are they merely ignorant of the truth and too lazy to research whether their perceptions of reality actually match reality?
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2479/did-potemkin-villages-really-exist
The Carry On gag “Infamy! Infamy! They’ve all got it in for me!” has been voted the funniest film one-liner.
Kenneth Williams uttered the words as Julius Caesar in 1964 romp Carry On Cleo.
It was named the best one-liner in a poll of 1,000 comedians, industry figures and film fans by Sky Movies Comedy.
Bob McCabe, author of The Rough Guide To Comedy, said: “It’s great to see two British movies in the top three and well-established classics with great lasting power.
The rest of the top Top 10 was made up of:
He’s not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy.
Terry Jones as Brian’s mother – Life Of Brian (1979)
Surely you can’t be serious?” I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley.
Leslie Nielsen as Dr Rumack – Airplane! (1980)
Daily Telegraph April 4th, 2007
I make that three out of three to MM.
So, the keeper of the numbers…is a loon
Who’da thunk it
Michael Mann is a secret denier who has successfully infiltrated the alarmist camp to discredit them with his ridiculous utterances.
Because it’s citizen live in poverty, North Korean can sell you carbon credits, so you can live your rich opulent western lifestyle. Worth reading for the academic gobbledegook.
North Korea: an unlikely champion in the fight against climate change
Pyongyang is cooperating with global strategy on climate change, writes Dr Benjamin Habib. The question is, why?
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/20/north-korea-unlikely-champion-fight-against-climate-change
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php
Heavy Hitters: Top All-Time Donors, 1989-2014
The Koch brothers are down at no. 59, Strong and Steyer have shielded their efforts so well that they don’t even appear. WWF, Greenpeace, Sierra Club, NRDC, etc. completely dwarf any efforts to spread a realistic climate message and overwhelming all of that is the $billions of free propaganda from news flunkies, TV shows and movies, and all the other celebutard generated nonsense that makes forwarding an argument on the “scientific” basis of this BS nearly impossible.
I can’t wait for Mark Steyn to comment on this latest rant by the reluctant public figure. Somehow I feel the good(?) professor is a “Marked Mann.”
You can laugh at the absurdity of Mann but the stories they tell are used to justify real action. Its the big lie thing. Just stick to it. See the President of the United States….
Notice that his only ‘source’ is his own book. What do the shrinks call that? A self fulfilling delusional obsession?
Because of the likes of Mann and Oreskes, Science is truly History…….
Okay, I’ve seen enough. The guy is an idiot and so is his employer for taking him on board.
Mann is just mimicking Oreskes’ vile name calling and hate of all critics of her climate dogma posed as science.
Oreskes comes off in public as having quirky emotional and subjective rants against her imagined climate skeptic ‘enemies’.
Mann is foolishly trying to repackage Oreskes’ old and silly stuff. He needs a professional mentor to help him see Oreskes based inconvincibleness is useless on the skeptical public.
John