Today I visited the poster sessions again, where I’m not allowed to take photos. I also visited the commercial exhibition, where I am allowed photography. I was surprised to find that Mann’s penchant for hype even permeates that part of AGU 2014. It makes me wonder if they spent more on that big board display than the amount of the award…
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$250 ???
That’s exactly what I thought. He is making a big deal about giving $250 ???? Wow, and he wears platform shoes too?
and maternity clothes…admittedly an odd combination.
Wow – He’s really, REALLY serious this time.. 🙂
The graphics & printing cost for that oversize check-poster is at least $100, probably closer to $150 in San Fran.
Having started my career as a banker, I was always amused by the seeming correlation between what people chose to put in the upper left corner of their checks and pompous assism.
How do I get a grant to research the validity of my hypothesis?
Tell ’em it’s a possible effect of climate change!
The fake cheque probably cost $50, heh.
Nope, damage paid by ATI to Mann in that lawsuit, as far as I remember correctly.
Anyone know the % of his grant money that represents? About .0001%?
What is the point of showing that MM contributed to the fund? Is it a slam to highlight how cheap he is or an attempt to shame others into contributing? You have to wonder about any movement that feels the need to proactively lawyer up. They obviously know they are on shaky ground.
Ahh, but I now know how shaky. In fact Merry Christmas Anthony. Did you know Michael Mann describes Stephen Lewandowsky and John Cook as “communication researchers” in reports he is involved in he doesn’t think anyone will see?
It’s no secret I have been targeting mental models and manipulating perception as what is really the aim of the K-12 curriculum going forward globally. Guess who signed his name on to the report as an advisor on the communication strategy on creating mental models for adults grounded in narrative instead of science?
Fits right in with the World Bank’s declaration last week that shaping those perceptions and mental models was its primary policy too.
It may not be a White Christmas but it is certainly a confessional one.
It may be influential but it ain’t penitential. Gesundheit!
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So he contributes $250 and collects how much?
$250 for damages? Did he trip over a tree stump in Yamal?
My bad – I see he wrote the cheque to go towards the damaged tree stump.
Mistake
Wouldn’t be the first time he’s been stumped…
Hey, at least that is more than Joe Biden gave annually to charity, with the gall to say American’s paying taxes is the patriotic thing to do.
Given that he received hundreds of thousands of dollars in “stimulus money”, it’s the least he could do.
As the display shows, I believe $250 was the amount of damages awarded against the American Tradition Institute in the University of Virginia v ATI case.
He was awarded $250 in ‘damages’?
That’s the kind of award people get when they lose the case on all but a technicality!
I meant ‘win the case on all but a technicality’.
It was a symbolic victory for him. He is showing off because hardly anyone else cared, cares, or will care… except on places like this one.
And, yes, $250 is nothing to this crowd. A tiny dribble of their spit is worth far more in grant money. This too is being flaunted here.
I wonder what the actual cost of the case was and who paid for the lawyers.
Say what you will, Mann is laughing all the way to the bank.
Carrying a cheque like that I’m surprised he wasn’t laughed AT all the way FROM the bank……
Now start the world court case against him for policy science fraud and crimes against science humanity.
…just demonstrates how incestuous their happy little club is.
He’s donating $250 to his favorite charity.
Himself?
Ha ha. BTW Phe, Phi and Phum say hi.
UVa’s a really great brand to be associated with these days. But then again, there’s Penn State…
And not too far off, the state pen…
Careful. That is the kind of comment that got Mann all fired up and threatening to sue. Personally, I think it is an excellent play on words, and one that should be widely disseminated. After all, anyone who engages in frau—ent activity should be concerned about ending up in the pen.
Woops! Close one there. I almost wrote something that could be interpreted as mean and generally spiteful of the Mann. Of course it was not intended that way. I wouldn’t want to get sued or anything. 🙂
Ahhh, but there’s what appears to be a band that can be adjusted down to a one-man-band (one-Mann-banned?) in Hamburg, Germany. Who the actual Frau Du Lent is, I’m not sure. Perhaps his booking agent?
Pen? Jean-Marie le Pen?
From the site:
http://www.frau-dulent.de/1.html
“Willkommen auf der Startseite von Frau Dulent – der Entertainmentmusik- und Coverband.
Einsichtig. Zweideutig. Dreifaltig. Vierdimensional!
Kennst Du nicht? lernst Du kennen!”
Meanwhile, back on the US side of the pond, Ancestry.com assures us that there are
folks of the Du Lent clan, Man(n) and Frau, in the grand state of Lousiana.
Spot on Anthony, $2-300 for the banner.
http://www.signartetc.com/39-Retractable-banner-stand-display-and-case-p/rb3978.htm
Maybe he used the Nobel Prize Winner discount. Oh, wait…
That check has a huge carbon footprint. Shouldn’t we tax him on that?
Carbon footprints wasted on frivolous activities are only a problem when done by others. These guys have no intention of cutting back, or reducing their lifestyle to that of the third-world nations they want to oppress.
The defense they so dearly need is some evidence that Anthropogenic CO2 alters the GASTA.
Up or down. Let the chips fall where they may.
Did they have the check certified?
After all, this is the same guy who claimed a Nobel prize he didn’t have, listed a graph on his CV that he later said he had nothing to do with, said he wanted to get rid of the MWP. produced a graph based mostly on a single tree that did just that, came up with the “trick” to “hide the decline”….
They took a check from this guy? They should have demanded cash 😉
If that thing bounced, it would really hurt.
So the AGU pays 10 million dollars annual to fund the “Climate Legal Defense Fund (CLDF)” from membership fees, then gives Michael E. Mann 1 million dollars for “defense”, he invests in Facebook for 12 months, then gets 100 thousand dollars by selling short, still has the 1 million dollars in AGU membership fees, pockets 99 thousand 750 dollars, then gives 250 dollars to the CLDF, which he will get back again when the CLDF forks over another 1 million dollars in AGU membership fees for 2014 to him as AGU gives the CLDF another 10 million dollars.
Is this the point when Daffy puts the mouse in the nematic tube to Bugs Bunny’s room to disturb the elephant in the room who had earlier push out the tiger?
😀 ha ha
Mann didn’t get a dime. The $250 went to the University, to offset the cost of the appeal. There were no damages whatever.
$250? So that’s the going rate for lying now? Cheap!
They got the decimal point wrong when ordering the oversize check.
It was actually $2.50
Just printing a check that size would probably have cost in the order of the amount that was filled out.
There was a Curriculum Vitae commercial exhibit?
There is no bank name, routing information, nor account number on the “check.” Ipso facto, it AIN’T A CHECK!
Right, no Drawee Bank. Legally it doesn’t need the routing #, but it won’t be processed very fast. Without a drawee bank I believe it reverts to an unsecured promissory note.
Sounds like their homogenized, cooked data…
I’ve seen these “checks” in Reno or Vegas when a jackpot winner has his/her promotional picture taken. In other words…it’s a prop.
So that begs the question. ..did he give them a real one?