From the “I’m sorry sir, you’ll have to check that ego with baggage, you can’t carry it on” department comes this ironic missive from Michael Mann. Gate agents have quite a bit of leeway, and it’s just shocking they’d treat a fake Nobel Laureate this way.
h/t to Tom Nelson. Mann should be more retrospective, climate forecasts aren’t guaranteed either. Maybe he is just miffed that his jet-setting buddy Leo didn’t send his private jet for him.
Sure everybody has their gripes with airlines, I recently had one with Delta. But I don’t fly fossil fueled airplanes hypocritically:
“What is our future? That depends on us,” he said. “If we could stop burning fossil fuels today we could reduce climate sensitivity by 2.5 degrees Celsius (roughly four degrees Fahrenheit). “
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It’s not too late for individuals to do their part, Mann said. By making simple modifications — using energy efficient light bulbs, driving a fuel efficient vehicle (or better yet, using publictransportation), recycling, insulating, composting and powering down electrical devices every night can go a long way on curtailing reliance on fossil fuels and reducing the earth’s carbon footprint.
“We frame the issue as a scientific problem or an economic problem, but to me it’s a problem of ethics,” Mann said. “We have to make sure we make decisions today that determine the future of the planet for our children and our grandchildren.”
Source: http://www.ccp.edu/about-us/news/news/michael-mann-talks-climate-change-and-solutions-college-forum
Will Mann ever “do his part”? Doubtful, he doesn’t even have solar power on his home.
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“If we could stop burning fossil fuels today we could reduce climate sensitivity by 2.5 degrees Celsius ”
Climate sensitivity? I thought that was the alteration in temperature wrt alteration in Carbon Dioxide?
Off point here, but interesting post on real climate science; claims no warming for 58 years based on NOAA radiosonde data.
http://realclimatescience.com/2016/03/noaa-radiosonde-data-shows-no-warming-for-58-years/
The puppy can write computer code. He just does not seem to care whether it is consistent with history, as in how the Norse were farming in Greenland when his model has it colder than the last twenty years then.
Used to fly a lot. Middle seats are in coach.
OTH, stopped flying United when entire family showed up at Ohare depature gate for Colorado ski vacation, issued tickets in hand, baggage loaded, to find our ticketed seats had been given away by United computer glitch. Good thing had lots of miles, clout, and both United and American ops numbers for Ohare. Upshot was 4 first class upgrades on same flight.
And something tells me that the gate attendants were VERY apologetic to you too! 🙂
That munchkin should have been stuffed in the overhead bin. He’s is an enormous embarrassment to my alma mater, PSU.
Uhh,,,that’s “He IS an enormous…”
Oh Mann. My respect-o-meter for the king of scientific fraud just when down a notch. And I didn’t even think that was possible.
Well I suggest that next time Mann goes to Paris for a hot air convention we loan him a canoe, a paddle, and a box of saltine crackers. For drinking water he can desalinate seawater using his prodigious ego.
McKibben arrested…again.
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/07/bill-mckibben-among-50-arrested-upstate-new-york-over-fracking-project
Ha! Bill is back to the roots of American “progressivism”: the physical obstruction of others who do not obey their demands.
The signature move of the 60’s left was the sit-down which was rapidly followed by 50+ years of obstruction through the use and abuse of the legal system. But golden oldies never die and “progressives” love to fall back to doing what they do best, obstructing those who are just trying to get some work done.
Off Topic
Let me see if I got that right – DiCaprio and Gore were flying a redeye in 1st class and he picked Gore’s brain the entire flight? Best I can figure, DiCaprio doesn’t know how to ask a question because you should be able to “pick Gore’s brain” and get all useful information out of it in less time than it would have taken to taxi to takeoff. Then again. maybe even that was too much information for Leo to handle.
From reading little Mikey Mann’s Twitter feed, I see that he Chinook denier. And he blows off two Canadian global warming true believers as trolls in doing so. Mikey, friendship is good, but when your Hollywonk friend is flat out wrong you really have to tell him.
According to the www, Leonardo DiCaprio is 5 ft 11.5 in tall. He seems somewhat hunched over in the picture. How tall is the Mann? If the picture is any sort of a gauge, it must be less than the US average (for males) of 5 ft 9.5 in.
Napoleon complex?
At six feet tall, his eyes at 5′ 6″, and he is slouching a few inches … that makes Mann 5′ 4″ (do the Napoleon Complex attributes inversely increase with respect to the difference between the average height?)
Most people fib about their height ,,, a 5′ 10″ decaprio increases mann’s emotional instability.
And as long as we are picking physical attributes … why is mann always so shinny?
DonM,
IIRC the Mythbusters actually proved that you could polish sh*t.
I dunno … maybe not a true polish, but if you wet down a dry ol’ turd it mightnt has a certain sheen.
Real classy, not.
In case no one has said it before, Congratulations of Oscar Winner Michael Mann! (on account of having spoken with an actual Oscar Award Winner)
“As one highly-paid professional faker to another, Leo, I’m glad we had this opportunity to talk. Maybe I can give you some tips.”
“…but to me it’s a problem of ethics,” Mann said. WHAT?! – I nearly fell over.
On United, bare bones economy does not provide a guaranteed seat number, only a confirmed seat “somewhere.” Had he paid a little bit more, he could have had a specific seat.
So. We now have evidence of Mann’s poor reading comprehension. Pathetic (given what he touts himself to be, I mean — poor reading comprehension, per se, is not “pathetic;” for others, it is merely a challenge to overcome.)
A middle seat for Mikey really is bad news–just not bad news for Mikey. it means two people have to share an arm rest with him.
I an understand Michael’s anguish.
The aisle seat has a much lower carbon footprint than the middle seat.
A little insight into the Mann’s self importance.
No wonder he won’t won’t release his emails!
Wait until it’s his turn in the barrel. Sooner than MM expects, with luck, perhaps in a DC court.
His Twitter account is gone.
No still there and as ugly as ever
https://twitter.com/MichaelEMann
Taking all the stuff about “he should have walked/used a donkey/etc” as said, this is the sort of thing that annoys me too. So in this case he gets a bit of sympathy from me. It happens occasionally when they have to substitute a different plane with a different number of seats, and when it does, United are pretty good at trying to keep the same sorts of seats, but based upon the price paid for the ticket and the “seniority” of the passenger (what level you have in their frequent flyer scheme).
Middle seats suck. No question about it.
To add an old southern insult.
“Bless his little heart.”
Hey, what’s that I hear? The world’s smallest violin playing for Mr Mann.
Funny how celebs start landing amazing roles and winning Oscars when they start pushing globalist agendas.