Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Michael Mann, inventor of the climate Hockey Stick, is dismayed that despite the best efforts of Democrat candidates to promote climate issues, nobody seems to be interested.
Climate change may be a burning issue – but election campaign tells another story
As Alaskans choose their Democratic nominee after a winter wiped out by high temperatures, among Republicans the climate question has been near invisible
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It is an absence that has been felt in presidential primaries and caucuses across the US, including states that have been ravaged by drought or sea level rise. In a desperate attempt to reverse the lack of environmental focus, a group of Florida mayors begged CNN to quiz Republicans about sea level rise at a debate held in Miami.
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“I suppose the American media has to shoulder some of the blame,” said Michael Mann, a leading climate scientist. “Both Democratic candidates, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, consistently emphasise climate change as being one of our greatest challenges.
“They mention it in nearly every speech they give. So the candidates themselves seem to be doing their part. Yet when American journalists have had an opportunity to question the candidates, in the various debates that have been held for example, the topic is rarely mentioned.”
Several factors are tamping down debate over climate change and other environmental issues such as land use, pollution and mining. One is a lack of disagreement between candidates within the parties; another is the feeling that despite record numbers of Americans believing climate change is human-caused and a looming problem, it will not drive voters to the polls in a panic.
“For most Americans, climate change is not a crisis,” said Bill Schneider, a veteran political analyst who has covered every presidential election since 1976. “Terrorist attacks and Isis are closer to crises.
What is the most newsworthy? Yet more vague repeated warnings about “imminent” climate problems which never manifest, or news that a worker at a Belgian nuclear plant may have just been murdered by terrorists, as part of their plan to detonate a dirty bomb in a vulnerable Western city?
Schneider is right, that most people think terrorism is a higher priority than climate change.
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People do not get alarmed when they are told something catastrophic is going to happen and then nothing happens. People are getting to the point that they believe nothing that the hear from the MSM. This happened in the old USSR with Pravda and Izvestia.
Reality is a bitch when you are trying to spread propaganda.
Alas and alack; Climate Change, aka weather just isn’t what it used to be in those heady days of perhaps a decade ago, and especially after Gore’s cherry picker stunt showing how “scary high” CO2 had gone. Unfortunately for Mann and his ilk, those days are gone forever. The climate furor is fading, because it never had any foundation to it.
Research by Florida State U showed there were many settlements of the Calusa Indians along the southwest coast of Florida that moved in accordance with changes in the coastline do to sea level changes. It showed that the coastline varied considerably over time well before the industrial age. Sorry I do not have the link.
I see that ME Mann has managed to fill his top shelf with many of the remaindered copies of his book. Sweet.
See: Pete of Perth March 27, 2016 at 5:10 am “Lots of unsold hockey sticks on the shelf I see.”
You are 3 hours late!
Why are we failing to stop global warming you ask. Because every article you read and scientific paper published fails to address the real cause of global warming.
You can cut back on fossil fuel consumption all you want but it will have the effect it currently does. Year after year of continued global warming increases, melting glaciers, and sea level rise. You can continue with this failed practices much like the politicians that propose carbon plans then invest in these companies that sell them so they get rich. But you want to know the cause of global warming that the politicians and scientific community are afraid to tell you. It is this over population of the earth. The earth was not meant to have 7 billion people it simply cannot sustain that many people. It can only sustain less than 1 billion. The harvesting of crops to feed this many people is destroying the earth and the emissions from their vehicles and vehicles needed to sustain them, the power they need for their daily lives it is creating global warming on scale we have never seen before. It is killing the earth. The following is a step plan to stop global warming.
1. Immediate elimination of 5 trillion of the population. I would start with the climate change deniers and the mentally and physically challenged. Then anyone over 50. Then people of lower IQ’s. We should follow nature’s survival of the fittest. Any country that refused to submit to this criteria would be met with a nuclear attack and their entire population eliminated.
2. I realize step 1 would cause a temporary increase in global warming from the incineration of these bodies but it would be needed to prevent disease and the benefits would outweigh the costs.
3. We would still be overpopulated but we would deal with the rest over time. Child birth would be limited to 1 child per couple and then would be sterilized. This would in theory cut the population by two thirds every generation but in practice it wouldn’t due to massively lower pollution levels and the health benifits that would lead to a far longer life span and this life span would increase with each generation.
4. Vehicles would be limited to one per family/household. All employment would be limited to 10 miles of home and all vehicles would be electric.
5. Meat would be eliminated from the diet people can live on a total vegan diet. Animals would be eliminated one year after the initial human purge due to their high methane output which is a very potent cause of global warming. This would also give the world time to convert to a all vegan diet.
6. The UN would become the world government and would tax the people at 100 percent. It would then evenly distribute this money to all the people of the world minus it’s operating costs.
7. Through these tax dollars it would pay for everyone to have off grid solar.
I hope you forgot the “/sarc” tag.
(There are nuts out there think one or more of your points are a good idea.)
“Immediate elimination of 5 trillion of the population.”
Clearly this communication comes from the future, so I think we should wait until we get to one trillion before taking any of these drastic measures. When’s that supposed to happen, next month or so?
Bun So – I see no mention of eliminating yourself as a start. Why would anyone follow someone who will not partake of their own poison. Stop contaminating this world and this blog. There is a special place in hell waiting for you. Bye. GK
I smell the outline of a photo shopped book with its cover facing the camera.
C’mon Mann, did you forget Paris? A deal was struck to save the world!
The media doesn’t cover/emphasize climate change enough…really? Well here’s your chance to make a difference! Become a journalist. Quit that dead-end climate scientist job.
Then again, I guess over a decade of Real Climate has been a failure as a media mouthpiece.
Is Mikey Mann related to Alfred Hitchcock? They look a lot alike and both wrote scary fiction.
I thought Hitchcock just made scary movies.
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After looking at Mann’s mugshot , I have determined absolutely that, I would never buy a used car from him.
MM appears to have some (as yet) unsold copies of his previous book available. They are visible on the top shelf behind his right ear. Not forgetting the prominently placed copy behind his left ear. Perhaps he distributes these to the needy.
That’s one thing that (even as a ‘warmist’) annoys me about Mann. He never misses an opportunity to promote himself and his work.
Not saying that it undermines his work; but it’s just a bit too much for my humble suburbanite UK tastes.
He gives a copy to everyone who leaves his office. Each day he retrieves said copies from the garbage can outside his office and recycles them back to the shelf. Very efficient. GK
If it weren’t for the public’s general “Interest in Climate Change” then sites like WUWT wouldn’t exist.
“If it weren’t for the political hyping of “Climate Change” then sites like WUWT would be talking about something else.”
(Fixed it for you.)
PS The “public’s general interest in Climate Change” is waning.
Why else would Mickey be building up to another tantrum?
“Winter wiped out by high temperatures.”
That sounds like weather, not climate change.
These people are unbelievable. Really.
Perhaps if AGW climate scientist/advocates did less headline-grabbing, the public at large would view the problem with greater credibility.
“…and other environmental issues such as land use, pollution and mining.”
Mining? This shows how disconnected from reality these guys are. Humans and their forebears have been utilizing rock and metal materials since before the last several ice maxima. Our survival depends on metals and minerals. Mike’s shelf is held up by metal brackets, the wood has been sawn, planed, sanded and painted with metals and mineral materials and tools. His suit woven by looms made of metals and the textile raw materials harvested, shorn, spun….His teeth filled/capped with metals and mineral materials and products from oil and gas. His office heated with gas/oil/electricity from plants made of metals and minerals. The window he looks out of, the streets and walls and autos…..potash, phosphate minerals and nitrogen from natural gas processes fertilize the fields where his food is grown … salt in his food he directly eats…How about everything we eat wear or use has minerals and metals in its makeup. Let’s not forget the rare earths misused in windmill dynamos had to come from the earth. Printing and making his worthless books and coloring the cover came from materials and machines – the paper is filled with fine calcium carbonate. Let’s not forget! Let’s not forget that without minerals and metals we would go extinct in days. And this guy is today’s scientist? Shame on all of these troughers.
The only thing ravaged in the earth has a fever global warming con game is the truth .
Despite serious effort on the part of the media to pump the scary global warming tires
even they are to embarrassed to preach the gospel at the risk of showing they were duped .
The public isn’t buying it so huff and puff warmies your 15 minutes of ego inflation is over .
The disappearing hockey stick has arrived .
Ha ha on Mann.
I would nominate for Tay the “Valley Girl” AI for Secretary of Dept. Of State. “Oh Tay Can U Thsee.”
Ha ha 😉
Mr. Mann has been a contributor to the skepticism surrounding Climate Change. His lawsuits, his refusal to share data, his proven lies and suspected lies, his opaque methods and his blatant arrogance has caused people who are pro science and willing to believe to become leery of supporting that which they believe is being manipulated for financial and political gain.
A truly pure scientific endeavor would do the studies accept the criticisms, found solutions, changed their data and models and done everything in their power to compromise on that which is not certain at this time in an obvious and open effort to arrive at the truth.
This has certainly not been the cases with the Climate Change proponents and their scientific counterparts. And event he laymen can see that and thus suspicious of ANY results.
Congratulations Mr. Mann. You and others have single handedly caused science to be held in contempt and suspicion and your continued whining and moaning about the results just show how out of touch you really are. And seem unwilling to face the possibility that you yourselves are the problem and not the solution.
I am a Penn Stater, earth sciences, engineering, Mann is my biggest embarrassment. Amazing how universities wil whore for Money!
I have friends (married couple) who are both PhD in Chemistry postgrads from PS in the 70’s who share your dismay. They have been instrumental in GMO development and corn-to-ethanol research. They find his tactics to be more scientology than legitimate research.
Joe Bastardi is from there and we know what he thinks.
Does anyone know the reference for this statement?
Yes, I realize there’s a chance this was fabricated. Just hoping to see it with my own eyes if it exists.
Your quote may have been based upon the opinions of folks dumb enough to answer a call from an unrecognised caller.
I think it’s from this poll: http://www.gallup.com/poll/190010/concern-global-warming-eight-year-high.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_content=heading&utm_campaign=syndication
They conclude with this;
So, people’s attitudes about “climate change” seem to have more to do with weather, (and weather hype) and how they vote than anything else.
Still reckon you put a funny hat on him and Elmar Fudd would have a twin .
Michael Mann bemoans lack of interest in Michael Mann.
Good one!
Pennsylvania is a long way from the nearest beach, and it shows. Interest in climate change has peaked, primarily because nothing interesting in climate is going on to report. They are now down into looking for signals in noise to try to fetch up some warming.
Like all hysteria, climate change hysteria has a life cycle. It began with Al Gore’s video The Inconvenient Truth and would not have gained traction were it not for the advent of the video as a popular medium. I estimated it would peak in late 2013. I believe this is correct and we are now seeing the ebb of the hysteria, I now believe the end will come in early to mid 2017. I agree the US presidential election may effect that date. But only in a minor way. It will be replaced by some new hysteria, and eventually someone will get lucky and go hysterical about something which will turn out to be real. I have no idea what. Essentially, once society gets enough to live comfortability, its handlers invent a crisis to exert control in the way that human sacrifices were used by ancient tribes. Hanson is beginning to worry,
Yes
What he and a lot of other protagonists really bemoan is the lack of a carbon tax amounting to more gold than the mythical city of El Dorado. You really can’t get any higher level of WH policy talking effort on climate change scare tactics or even attacking skeptics from the podium than what we have experienced to date, so it is the money that defines the difference here.
Roses are red,
violets are blue.
Nobody cares so
why should you?
Michael E. Mann (Professor at Penn State) created a mythology wherein he was a suffering hero against evil fossil fuel use. The mythology failed to infest the normal rational part of the public or broader science community.
The myth is dead. That puts Mann’s creation in a mythological dust bin.
John