Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Professor Michael Mann, inventor of the climate Hockey Stick, has just shamelessly shifted the dreaded climate tipping point to 2020.
The Single Shining Hope to Stop Climate Change
Michael E. Mann Apr 09, 2017
Mann is a professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University and co-author of The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy.
Science is under attack at the very moment when we need it most. President Donald Trump’s March 28 executive order went much further than simply throwing a lifeline to fossil fuels, as industry-funded congressional climate change–deniers have done in the past. It intentionally blinded the federal government to the impacts of climate change by abolishing an interagency group that measured the cost of carbon to public health and the environment. Now, the government won’t have a coordinated way to account for damages from climate change when assessing the costs and benefits of a particular policy.
With that in mind, Trump should read the landmark “2020” report now published by Mission 2020, a group of experts convened by the former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The report establishes a timeline for how we can ensure a safe and stable climate. We don’t have much time — 2020 is a clear turning point.
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Read more: http://time.com/4731632/climate-change-2020-trump/
Until recently Mann claimed 2016/17 was a climate tipping point.
Welcome to the Madhouse: Scientist says Trump could destroy the world
FEBRUARY 10, 20175:01PM
A WORLD-leading scientist has warned Donald Trump may signal the end of the world — and Australia could be first to face the catastrophic consequences.
Michael Mann claims Mr Trump’s relationship to “post-truth” politics and “alternative facts” is much more than just embarrassing for the US and has the potential to destroy civilisation.
Sitting in an office at the University of Sydney Business School ahead of his sold-out talk this week, the Penn State professor says one only has to look at the city’s record January temperatures for proof of how dangerous the President’s attitude is.
“He’s building a wall between himself and the evidence of climate change,” Professor Mann told news.com.au. “He waffles, it’s hard to pin down, he says one thing to one audience then another thing to another audience.
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All these years scientists and the climate community have been trying to identify key climate cycles – sunspots, Milankovitch cycles, ocean cycles, we all missed the obvious.
Climate is clearly driven by US Presidential Election cycles.
This chap is a raving egomaniac. Not one correct prediction in 30 years but he is still adamant. Totally bonkers.
Pity the Penn St. students and alums. Well no, they have a lot of the same ego problems.
Yes they do, even the recent child molestation charges against a prominent football coach didn’t shut them up. What is wrong with PA?
Their past president went the green-way that no one should envy.
Let alone follow.
Yes Mr Mann …. have heard it all before …….. during the 1970’s!
“Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”
• Peter Gunter, professor, North Texas State University
“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist
“We have about five more years at the outside to do something.”
• Kenneth Watt, ecologist (1970)
Many years back I was talking to well drillers. One of them believed that they could benefit from “witching” the well … he was sure it would help.
A second said that witching was probably a waste of time. I pressed him because I wanted to be a “witching” believer; his response was, “Well, if you just look at all of the places the other driller witches water, you will see that it is always right next to a place where they can park the rig … it is never somewhere he can’t get to.
Those that vehemently want to see social changes, as associated with their predictions (and maybe profit from them), will never push the “tipping point” out past their assumed life span. Micheal Mann (born 1965), encumbered with poor genetic material & poor eating habits will not push his tipping point out past 2030. So, we can expect a future revision to 2027, but after that Mann’s own mortality will begin to be the dominant parameter in his work/predictions and he will fade away into his own fantasies.
As long as he has hordes of tiny minded disciples following him around like some far eastern mystic then we will have to endure his fiction. His writing belongs in The Onion.
A few years ago I listened to a great Teaching Company audio course:
Science Wars: What Scientists Know and How They Know It,
taught by Steven L. Goldman of Lehigh University.
http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/science-wars-what-scientists-know-and-how-they-know-it.html
I highly recommend it to help understand what science is and what limitations it has.
My own review of it is here:
http://russj.livejournal.com/58581.html