From Mike Mann’s Facebook page:
Cover of my new book w/ Tom Toles due out in September, “The #MadHouseEffect: How Climate Change Denial is Threatening our Planet, Destroying our Politics, and Driving us Crazy”
I’d say when it comes to being driven crazy, it’s too late for Dr. Mann, because Barack O’Bama says:
It’s the heat, not the humility, apparently. Mann’s book will likely be a howler, not because it will be funny, but because Mann’s so dead pan humorless, his attempt at being humorous will likely backfire just as badly as his attempts to conjure statistically significant warming trends from dead trees. He’ll need more than just “Mike’s Nature Trick” to pull that off. I’m sure he’ll take some potshots at all the usual players, including Mark Stein, and maybe yours truly.
Meanwhile, Mann already has the book on his curriculum vitae, even though it’s not actually published yet, and won’t be until September.
We live in interesting times.
Another Climate Alarmist Admits Real Motive Behind Warming Scare
The climate alarmists want the public to think they are trying to avoid a burnt world, but what they really want is something altogether different. (AP)
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Fraud: While the global warming alarmists have done a good job of spreading fright, they haven’t been so good at hiding their real motivation. Yet another one has slipped up and revealed the catalyst driving the climate scare.
We have been told now for almost three decades that man has to change his ways or his fossil-fuel emissions will scorch Earth with catastrophic warming. Scientists, politicians and activists have maintained the narrative that their concern is only about caring for our planet and its inhabitants. But this is simply not true. The narrative is a ruse. They are after something entirely different.
If they were honest, the climate alarmists would admit that they are not working feverishly to hold down global temperatures — they would acknowledge that they are instead consumed with the goal of holding down capitalism and establishing a global welfare state.
Have doubts? Then listen to the words of former United Nations climate official Ottmar Edenhofer:
“One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with the environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole,” said Edenhofer, who co-chaired the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change working group on Mitigation of Climate Change from 2008 to 2015.
So what is the goal of environmental policy?
“We redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy,” said Edenhofer.
For those who want to believe that maybe Edenhofer just misspoke and doesn’t really mean that, consider that a little more than five years ago he also said that “The next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of the world’s resources will be negotiated.”
Mad as they are, Edenhofer’s comments are nevertheless consistent with other alarmists who have spilled the movement’s dirty secret. Last year, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, made a similar statement:
“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution,”
She said in anticipation of last year’s Paris climate summit:
“This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history.”
Their plan is to allow Third World countries to emit as much carbon dioxide as they wish — because, as Edenhofer said:
“In order to get rich one has to burn coal, oil or gas” — while at the same time restricting emissions in advanced nations. This will, of course, choke economic growth in developed nations, but they deserve that fate as “they have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community,”.
The fanaticism runs so deep that one professor has even suggested that we need to plunge ourselves into a depression to fight global warming.
Perhaps Naomi Klein summed up best what the warming the fuss is all about in her book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate.
“What if global warming isn’t only a crisis?” Klein asks in a preview of a documentary inspired by her book. “What if it’s the best chance we’re ever going to get to build a better world?”
In her mind, the world has to “change, or be changed,” because an “economic system” — meaning free-market capitalism — has caused environmental “wreckage.”
This is how the global warming alarmist community thinks. It wants to frighten, intimidate and then assume command. It needs a “crisis” to take advantage of a hobgoblin to menace the people, so that they will beg for protection from the imaginary threat. The alarmists’ “better world” is one in which they rule a global welfare state. They’ve admitted this themselves.
Tony, intentionally or otherwise, closely parrots H. L. Mencken’s sage observation about politics …
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
Historical tribal pollution was a part of the very existence of such organizations. Hunter gatherer indigenous tribes would move their camp after the forage and potable water became too scarce to support the village. So they would pull up their stakes and move to fresh ground. So much for the idea of undeveloped groups being caretakers of the Earth, which is a myth often presented as truth by decedents of indigenous tribes.
That’s complete bunk. The developed nations have controlled their pollution and, in relative and absolute terms, hardly pollute at all. The third world, on the other hand, pollutes like crazy.
The nations of the developed world are good stewards of the environment, they are not expropriators and defilers. Saying that the developed nations deserve to have their economies choked is pure eco-lunacy, pretty much equivalent to falsely yelling ‘fire’ in a crowded theater.
Oops. Damn nested design. I meant to add my comment to commieBob in support of his “bunk” comment.
Good point – and the world will get a good look at the difference between how first world economies manage their environment vs how third world economies do (or more accurately – do not) during the upcoming Olympics. If they hold them.
Anyone interessed in the used carrcasse
Christiana Figueres
read on.
johann,
If you’re familiar with the U.S. sci-fi comedy “Lost In Space”, you will see the resemblance:
http://moonbattery.com/graphics/Dr-Smith_Christiana-Figueres.jpg
A fine comment, Tony Rohl. The more Socialis/Communist a country is, the filthier its environment. But in their usual projection, the UN blames free market economies for their own faults.
Wannabe dictators like Edenhofer crave power over citizens of the U.S. and the West. They use the climate scare as a means to an end — an end to freedom, and an end to wealth for the common man. Edenhofer, Figures, and their ilk want to be the special ones, lording it over everyone else.
The sooner we boot the UN out of our country, the better for everyone. Who elected them, anyway?
Don’t sully Dr. Zachary Smith with the comparison.
The fact that they believe that there are people who deny climate should have been the first sign that their friends and/or family should have taken them in for a check-up.
Funny, Toles got me into this topic.
Let’s parse the administration’s comment (in italics, bold mine)
“Many people will experience adverse mental health outcomes and social impacts from
OK, sounding pretty serious so far. What’s driving this?
the threat of climate change,
the perceived direct experience of climate change,
and changes to one’s local environment,”
So…. threats and perception lead the way. Not ACTUAL problems, but the THREAT of problems and the PERCEPTION of problems. Then there are those nasty local changes. What could those be? Like new high rises going in across the street where the park used to be?. ‘Cuz I am betting that would be a far bigger local change for most communities than 0.02 degrees per year for a hundred years.
Sure climate is variable, but get this; climate has not maddened lately, but our perception of it sure has.
Now tell me, which is more variable, climate or human perceptions?
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Since climate by definition is what we expect, believing the future will be warmer is self-induced.
https://rclutz.wordpress.com/2015/10/26/what-is-climate-is-it-changing/
Whatever happened to: “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.”
kim on April 4, 2016 at 11:41 pm
Sure climate is variable, but get this; climate has not maddened lately, but our perception of it sure has.
Now tell me, which is more variable, climate or human perceptions?
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Hans –
> kim on April 4, 2016 at 11:41 pm
Sure climate
perception is still Your’s
but not Matrix’s?
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mod, my fault. to engaged in utter NG.
Respect. Hans
That has always been the case. Many disorders and phobias are not based on real life situations. For instance, the obsessive character assassination of the American President Obama by right wing pundits leads some potentially psychotic people to believe he really is a major threat to world peace. I saw patients in 1999 who were really scared that various weird religious cults had predicted the end of the world in 2000. We all know about common phobias which are eminently treatable. It’s not just confined to vulnerable lonely individuals. As far as I can see, if Donald Trump really believed that the US President was not born in the US, in spite of the reams of evidence that he was, he probably did have some sort of delusional system in place. That is, if he really did believe that and was not just trying to make mischief. Mental health issues are rarely based on reality.
I feel really scared that various religious cults are predicting the end of the world: this is the first time they have got government backing…
Gareth, says,,,” For instance, the obsessive character assassination of the American President Obama by right wing pundits leads some potentially psychotic people to believe he really is a major threat to world peace..”
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The O assassinated the head of a foreign state, his Secretary of state bragged about this killing, there was zero follow up and thousands in that region died, and tens of thousands fled to Europe. The entire ME is in shambles, due primarily to actions the US president had taken, which, as far as can be told, have every time supported Islamic extremist, be it a failed attempt to support the MB in Egypt, support of Al Qaeda affiliates in Syria, allowing Iraq, which was improving rapidly under the Bush administration, to fall into complete chaos, and freeing the Iranian regime to pursue their dark interests. He ignores the real threat of Islamic terrorism. (On average about Three Paris attacks a month for years now), He IS bringing in hundreds of thousands of Islamists or potential Islamists every year, a large number of which who will never assimilate into any modern western society. He has driven the US into far greater debt then any predecessor, and greatly weakened the US, creating a global power vacuum. The man is a threat to world peace.
I have no idea where the O was born. For two decades his own publicist claimed he was foreign born, which is considerably longer than Trump has considered the possibility. Wherever he was born he is fundamentally transforming this nation in the opposite direction of what the US stands for, from a republic of individual rights and liberty, to a statist institution with ever greater Government control of all assets.
He, like most of his ilk, ever needs a crisis to more fully implement their ideology. So the O has chosen CAGW as a tool in this. “Such is the nature of the Tyrant, when he first appears he is a protector” (Plato) There really is nothing new under the Sun.
Gareth Phillips,
Then I must be delusional. Because I’m still waiting to see a *genuine* birth certificate that was not computer generated. Can you give me a link to one?
As far as character assassination of the current president, that isn’t possible. One must possess character for it to be assassinated, no?
You don’t need a birth certificate to be born.
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And apparently, you don’t need one to be President, either.
An undocumented birth would explain a lot. Poisonally, I’m of the interpretation that he’s ineligible from his father’s Commonwealth Citizenship.
It is archaic to believe that ‘natural bornedness’ however defined is adequate guarantee of allegiance.
This whole matter was always a question of allegiance, and that question has been satisfactorily answered.
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Hmmm. Who are the ones threatening us with climate change, and perceiving climate change where there is none? It sure isn’t the skeptics.
Yesterday I happened to look at the high/low for the day here in Frederick MD, and saw that the high was 85 in 1965 and the low was 23 in 1963. A sixty-two degree difference in just two years — but back then that was just weather.
I keep saying it, but people don’t take me seriously: Obama is not some left wing genius, he is a nitwit, a ill-educated fool. Beyond stupid, and a toy in the hands of his inner circle.
Pat, no argument here. Push on.
Pat,
And I recall that his first job was with a known CIA front company. Interesting.
Um, like Reagan. And Bush Jr.
emsnews,
And who would be your HE-RO?
Jimmuh Carter? Woodrow Wilson? Richard Nixon?
Jimmy Carter was a dear friend of my father who is now deceased.
I definitely agree with this statement:
Since taking an interest in the subject of AGW many years ago I have had one heart attack (only minor, fortunately), my blood pressure has increased daily and my head sometimes feels it going to explode with indignation upon reading the BS produced by the alarmists and my local (once beautiful) environment has been destroyed by armies of useless windmills. So, yes, the very real threat of climate change (advocates) IS very damaging.
There is a musician named Mark Stein, a CNN analyst named Marc Stein, and a witty and prolific commentator on our times named Mark Steyn. Since the latter is responsible for two wonderful books on the climate, one specifically aimed at Mann made perceived global warming I assume you were referring to him.
Is it just me or does the book cover look like one of ‘those’ blow up dolls?
I always thought Mr Mann looked like a cheap blow up doll
You’d have to be badly disturbed indeed to want to use that blowup doll as a means of tension relief!
Maybe he WANTS to be a blowup doll (more dates that way) and that’s why he looks like one?
The internet has ruined your mind forever.
I thought it looked like an old, tacky comic book. We should send a gift basket of thanks to his marketing team! Ugly little man, ugly little book.
If we’re going to send Mr. Mann a gift, I suggest this one:
As the climate is always changing (except wherever M. Mann is), where are all the climate change created mentally ill persons.
A new area of study for Lew, perhaps.
Climate becomes more volatile at entrance and exit from interglacials.
Real increased variability, instead of this sort of propaganda supporting anthropogenic catastrophism, is a sign of the end of the Holocene.
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It is four degrees F this morning on my little mountain in upstate NY. Record cold.
Folks,
I checked his CV, but please bear in mind, I’m no fan of Michael Mann. Two points.
1). His book is listed as “In Press.” That’s permitted as SOP in academe
2. Despite his lawsuit concerning potential libel, he seems to be still receiving and awards which appears to make his case harder to prove (but then, I’m not a lawyer).
George Devries Klein, PhD, PG, FGSA.
I already did – but not in the way Mann thinks. Kids afraid to drink water because of the fear-mongering alarmist propaganda: From 2009: http://archive.boston.com/news/science/articles/2009/02/09/climate_change_takes_a_mental_toll/?page=full
“Last year, an anxious, depressed 17-year-old boy was admitted to the psychiatric unit at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. He was refusing to drink water. Worried about drought related to climate change, the young man was convinced that if he drank, millions of people would die. The Australian doctors wrote the case up as the first known instance of ‘climate change delusion.'”
Oy – “It”
Frankly, it’s the alarmists that are causing the problem – and they’re doing it on purpose. Obama is one of the worst offenders. “the planet will boil over….” Really.
Mann knows there are an awful large number of gullibles who will buy the book. You can’t legislate against people being stupid.
SO it’s a religious book then… move over bible 😛
“Climate change denial is threatening our planet”
“Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don’t want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or fascist dictorship, or a parliament or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peace makers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
Same as climate change, tell the l people there is a threat to them, and then denounce those skeptical and exposing the world to an imaginary danger.
The average person sees no personal gain, those pushing it see vast riches,
‘Climate Change’ certainly seems to drive people crazy. Mike Mann and Tom Toles are good examples of this. However ‘Climate Change’ does not seem to be adverse affect on the Earth or even the Weather.
You cannot argue with the statement that : “Media and popular culture representations of climate change influence stress responses and mental health and well-being,”
Thing is, it amounts to child abuse when they put this nonsense in schools.
If I remember correctly, using fear and terror to push a political agenda is the definition of terrorism
When a “scientist” uses the word denier as a defense of their research.. are they a scientist?
I had the misfortune of reading the comments on one of Mann’s facebook posts and it seemed every comment disagreeing was deleted as there are just reams of posts calling someone denier, denialist and so on but no comments they could have been replying to.
Basically all the Mann page comments are “denier” blah blah. It’s like a religious group. Anyone that disagrees is somehow connected to hell apparently, in Mann’s mind.
The guy is so creepy, he makes my skin crawl. A perfect example of a hack, a hack thrust into the spotlight.
It is not a secret, those who want to push unpopular agendas use the most immoral and sycophantic people to front these changes, like M.E.M
Jo Nova had this if on feb 2014.
http://joannenova.com.au/2014/02/climate-change-is-making-us-mental-fear-of-storms-undoing-evolution/
with a H/t to marc morano.
This looks like plagiarism ?
“undoing evolution”. Darwin is probably having a good laugh at that.
Only if he wasn’t right . . or wrong ; )
If I had been the subject of Mark Steyn’s book A Disgrace To The Profession I think I would go into hiding, not publish a child’s book. I hope people are reading Mark S.
Mann’s new book will give Steyn more grist for his mill.
Surely this is an autobiography ? Thats what I thought when I first saw the cover.
Mann denies climate history, is threatening our planet, destroying politics and driving us crazy.
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“Cover of my new book w/ Tom Toles …”.
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Mark Steyn calls Mann’s most famous discovery ‘cartoon climatology’ and lo and behold Mann obliges.
During the last warming period – 1940s and 50s, scientists were telling the public about the new tracts of land opening up for harvest like in Iceland and Russia.
Now these morons are preaching death.