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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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Those lights off the east coast of Korea are the fishing fleet. How sad that a bunch of boats are brighter than the entire
concentration campcountry of North Korea.Vince Causey says:
June 10, 2014 at 9:24 am
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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.
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Yes, it is a known fact that Mother Nature is in the pay of big oil and sits on the board at the Heartland Institute as proven during the Gleik Heist.
/sarc
You can’t trust anyone.
Mann hasn’t had an accident yet. These Koch brothers don’t know how to run a business.
F##king commies everywhere!
“Okay, I’ve seen enough. The guy is an idiot and so is his employer for taking him on board.”
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Oh, puhleeze stop. It hurts too much. Just a couple of years ago my beloved alma mater, Penn State, was the greatest at both football AND meteorology. Now look at us. No wait, don’t look at us.
I guess we still have Accu-Wx. Aghaaaaaaaaaa !!!
@Mary Brown – I sympathize with you. I have no association with PSU, but have always respected Joe Paterno. I still do. He is a casualty of the situation, as are so many Alumni of that institution.
Where’s Josh????
I want a T-shirt cartoon with a depiction of Mother Nature with a scoreboard behind her and a pile of scientists she’s so far defeated-Mann, Cook, Trenberth etc and hash marks next to Mother nature’s score and big old ZERO’s next to theirs.
“Mother Nature vs Team Consensus” as the caption.
Maybe have her sitting in a beach chair, sipping a cold drink, very relaxed, and them all piled up with those dizzy spirals coming up from their heads. Or even better…a LINE of opponents waiting to have at her with a pile of past scientists being in the pile…like Hansen and the Global cooling guys from the 70′s. Put their names on jerseys so we’ll know who they are. Mann can be wearing nothing but a loin cloth and carrying a hockey stick. Trenberth can be wearning a suba suit and tank. Cook can be carrying a bag of “widgets” as his weapon of choice (make him out like a Pokemon trainer!) and maybe have Dana on a leash beside him. Lewandowsky can be on the sidelines yelling propaganda instructions to his teammates with a megaphone as their coach! ( Or maybe stuff like…”Mike! You’re stick is upside down!” “John, use the Hiroshima bombs one first!” “Dana, remember…BE the message…BE the message”) Dress the IPCC up as cheerleaders.
Maybe have the audience/spectators leaving in droves or asleep in the emptying stands.
Oh..Cook’s jersey number should be 97.
And put the Koch brothers in a private box eating popcorn with one of them saying “And they think she works for US!” laughing their asses off.
“LOL – does anyone take Mann seriously these days?”
Some still take Ehrlich seriously; that’s sad. The US govt. takes Holdren seriously; that’s scary.
It’s OK. According to the next post, there should be a psychologist coming along to see him any moment. 😉
With Gavin Schmidt taking over at NASA while Mann barks at the moon and chases mail trucks, just how much more wonderfuckle can things get in the rubber room of science?
Michael Mann and Paul Krugman in WUWT the same week. Oh, please be still my convulsing stomach.
Wow. I guess Mr Mann never heard the old saying, “If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.”
This just in:
Green lizards from Alpha Centauri are protesting the implied association with Mann.
Does that include the BEST climate project? Haaaa haaa.
Very interesting indeed. It really is worse than we thought.
On that thread I said:
There is a lot more and not just to Penn State. Oil money is EVERYWHERE!!!!
SORRY mods. Delete this if you need to but I think it needs showing right here.
And EVERY SINGLE TIME I have asked for evidence for this massive funding of sceptics I hear crickets. Why? Chirp, chirp. You CANNOT produce evidence of something that does not exist. Of course some institutes get some funding but it is not massive. It is not even well funded. It is tiny, if it is MASSIVE then show me. Where is the mass?
Mann is living in a dreamworld of his own making. I think he needs urgent psychological help, ASAP. He is living in a fantasy world and it’s worse than we thought. Doe he not have a brain? Can he not see the ads on the right side of WUWT? Sheeeesh!
Mann has specifically named Watts as a shill, so I think Watts has grounds for a libel suit–or at least for a cease and desist letter, plus a retraction demand. A published retraction would dramatically diminish the frequency of the “oil-funded” claim about the contrarian blogosphere, and Watts in particular. And it would dramatically diminish Mann’s credibility. So I hope Anthony gives it serious thought.
About a month ago I commented thusly, here:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/05/10/open-thread-weekend-20/#comment-1633276
That last sentence plainly implies that Watts was “[an]other cash recipient” like Carter, who was therefore also being paid on an ongoing basis to “regularly and publicly counter the alarmist [anthropogenic global warming] message.” I.e., that he was being paid for his blogging.
This was wrong in two ways. The Heartland document stated (IIRC) that he was getting a one-time fee, not for expressing opinions countering the alarmist message, but to provide a user-friendly front-end for a government-run website containing data about its high-quality weather station network.)
So (if I am right about what the Heartland documents said about Watt’s project), the quotes from the WATODAY website were knowingly false and malicious.
The Sourcewatch site tried to distance itself from making this libelous claim by citing WATODAY as its source. But it included no qualifying phrase like “According to WATODAY.” It simply made a bald assertion. And it went beyond WATODAY, which didn’t explicitly claim that Watts was being continually paid for blogging.
But Sourcewatch should know better by now, and so should Mann (who similarly hides behind his citation of Sourcewatch), since Watts’s rebuttals have been posted on his site, as I cited above (there are probably more, which a little Googling would turn up), which site alarmists like them monitor. So I suspect that they are on thin ice, legally.
OTOH, I suspect that they could defend themselves by saying that Watts hadn’t contacted them directly with a lawyer’s letter presenting evidence to the contrary. That should probably be Anthony’s next step: or at least see a lawyer.
If there are any legal beagles reading this, please weigh in with your opinions.
For a list of 20-plus things that would be happening (but aren’t) if climate contrarians were actually well-organized and well-funded, see my WUWT guest-thread, “Notes from Skull Island” at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/12/16/notes-from-skull-island-why-skeptics-arent-well-funded-and-well-organized/
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[Link is marked as a private wordpress site. 8<( .mad]
Big Oil has paid off the Sun.
Must be true.
I read it on the internet.
But we’re losing the climate as politics war, and badly. We should all have notices by now that the science reality does not matter. It is the political “truth” that matters. The solution is to change who owns that “truth”.
Birthers, Truthers and Kochers
Soooo, Mann is accusing some Capitalist Running-Dog Billionaires of spending their vast fortunes in CAGW denialism, and most potent form of denialism is pointing to the fact that the global temperature hasn’t shifted upwards in almost 18 years. Therefore these Evil people must be deliberately keeping the temperature from rising just to spite the models. They must be stopped from doing so!!
Oh, wait, hang on…
Greenpeace are vocal on the Koch bros fueling climate change denial debate. So – what’s wrong in the way they want to spend their money. It’s not as if oil is going to disappear from our daily lives soon. Just Google Greenpeace and Koch bros. This Mann generated abuse to protect his arse is getting to the point that his science is becoming a hidden argument and he is trying to demonize those that not only prove his science is wrong but those who are prepared to take him on have hidden agendas like supporting coal and oil, rather than physics. If he thinks that is fair comment, well it will fall on deaf ears.
The Huffington Post is funded by a multi billionaire. But that’s clean money of course.
Not long ago the Guardian reported on environmental groups investing BIG money in fossil fuel companies. More money than is required to gain a seat on the AGM I vaguely recall.