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 wouldn’t pay for the first billable hour with his attorney. Pyrrhic victories are certainly nothing to brag about. But then critical analysis of facts has never been Mann’s long suit.
Reminds me of an old friend who told me he’d won $50 on a lottery scratcher. He’d spent $100 on the tickets. Technically he did win $50. In reality he lost $50.
Hyperbole knows no bounds…
My friends and I regularly play Pathfinder, an extension of sorts of D&D… one of us plays a Bard, and his favorite spell is Touch of Gracelessness. You need to look that up. Mann’s normal state. My friend calls it a Derp Field. 🙂
Mark
In any field of real science, there is no need for the equivalent of the ‘Climate Defence Fund’.
In the wacky world of ‘climate science’, where anything goes, the major benefactors of data manipulation and misuse feel the need to get others to pay for their crimes against the scientific method.
To be fair its clear Mann , or someone else for him, is shovelling a fair amount of cash to lawyers given how quick he is to run to the law when it comes to anyone his ego.
kevinschmidtojai , sorry if you wish pull the smoke and mirrors trick you much better off staying with the SS kiddies where that is normal pratice , or you could get some eduction on just why Mann’s stick is so very broken that these days even the IPCC find it ‘problematic’ .
Big size check, obviously he is trying to compensate for something.
Nice to see Kevin Schmidt joining in the conversation. Even if we don’t agree with everything he says I hope we can all be polite and civil in our responses.
Are we supposed to know who Kevin Schmidt is, and why should we care? His comments certainly speak volumes though.
I suspect he’s this Mr Schmidt, who also features regularly on an alarmist blog called EcoWatch http://cms.dsusd.k12.ca.us/education/staff/staff.php?sectionid=4981&url_redirect=1 . So long as he’s reasonably polite I think we should let him stick around; he might learn some facts about Climate, and also that WUWT users don’t abuse those with differing opinions (unlike SkS). As you say, we shouldn’t care who he is, but given his academic background perhaps he’s willing to learn.
Oh, great. Another ignorant climate lemming shoveling his personal propaganda beliefs into students’ heads. Schmidt belongs with Cook and his neo-Nazis; the originals did the same thing.
My electric bill is more than that, thanks to Mr. Mann.
Phony check to go along with phony science. How fitting.
@Bob MacLean, one should never confuse academic credentials with willingness to learn. In fact, with respect to Belief in CAGW, usually the opposite is true. And if he’s indoctrinating students with it, then all the more so.
Bruce Cobb – I was hoping he’d come back and confirm either way, but perhaps he just wanted to do a “hit & run” thread disruption and wasn’t happy that I (maybe) realised who he is. At least our tolerance means he won’t be able to go back to SkS bleating that he was banned by “those horrible people at WUWT”.
They made a dopey ceremonial/promotion check for $250.00? That’s a lampooning.
It only took 5 of us lowly & duped WUWT followers to toss Anthony 50 bucks each to reach that 250.00 with his last ask. No juvenile ceremony was needed.
Mann has lost his luster, draw, credibility and integrity.
These people are not even adults.
The Green Machine loves to give awards to each other.
That’s one small check for Mann, one giant leap for Mann’s ego.
Are they sure the check is good?
If I remember correctly it wasn’t even damages. It was a disbursement – the cost of preparing and copying the brief. It has more than a whiff of the old nobel prize misrepresentation about it.
Maybe this was asked and explained already, but if this check is the court ordered payment, why is it signed by Mann and paid to the Climate Science Legal Offense Fund?
The memo says it’s the court thing but is it?
Might it be something to blow the court thing out of proportion and make it appear that Mann and not the University were paid? Just another PR ploy?
Mann’s name will go down in history as a synonym for fraud. The check only represents cheap publicity for the liar and and narcissist that wrote it, but his name will live-on in infamy.
I used to think he was an ass, now I think he’s a complete ass. Who does this?
I’m looking forward to what Steyn will say about this.
Look at the banner behind the ‘check’, with the seal ‘Climate Science Legal Defense Fund’.
Note that the ‘Scales of Justice’ are tilted all the way to the Left.
Are they advertising what it appears they are advertising?
When the “balance” bar isn’t on the level……….
$250 his own legal team can’t spend on lunch this week. And it’s Christmas, the man simply has no heart (now added to the list alongside charisma and scruples).
Just when you thought Manns hubris and stupidty cannot get worse, it does.
A symbolic check from Mann to the climate defense fund for $250 when Mann is a huge beneficiary of that fund. Are they that clueless as to the stupidity? I guess so.
As another side note in the territory of “You can’t make this stuff up”, the scales of justice are tilted in the climate science defense fund logo. Yes that is what we all want in the world, tilted justice.