Lately, we’ve watched a gang of 14 authors (including Mike Mann and Stephan Lewandowsky) gang up on a single scientist (Dr. Susan Crockford) over her published and peer-reviewed view on polar bear research and the failure of models on sea ice loss to predict the decline of the polar bear. The bears just aren’t cooperating, and apparently doing pretty well, but these 14 bullies decided they had to teach that woman a lesson by publishing a hit piece under the guise of peer review, which is now being advised as needing retraction for the egregious errors and falsehoods it contains.
In another arena, Dr. Judith Curry is getting beat up by Dr. Sarah Myhre, and Dr. Curry will have none of it.
Sarah Myhre I am calling you out. You are one of the biggest online climate bullies out there. In case you haven't noticed, I am a 'woman in science' https://t.co/OfytGikyMV https://t.co/vztgEqADUA
— Judith Curry (@curryja) December 7, 2017
This is due to this tweet from March 2017, and now a recent audio podcast clip:
Listen to this podcast: #MeToo: The Harassment of Women Scientists Online – and Off.
Here is the text that accompanies the podcast:
Jacquelyn Gill and paleoclimatologist Dr. Sarah Myhre talk about the deep misogyny facing women scientists in online communities, and often in their places of work and study. Jacquelyn and Sarah don’t hold back, delving into their own stories of harassment and sexism in science.
Find Sarah on twitter at: twitter.com/SarahEMyhre
Check out her website at: sarahmyhre.com/
Sarah’s article on The Stranger: https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/11/17/25572044/the-culture-of-harassing-and-demeaning-women-scientists
It seems Dr. Myhre favors slogging Dr. Curry because she has a different viewpoint on climate. It seems overtly disingenuous to me, no wonder Dr. Curry called her out as a bully. I wonder if Dr. Myhre has the same viewpoint on Dr. Crockford.
Dr. Myhre seems happy to tell her story about the struggle of women in science while at the same time disrespecting Dr. Judith Curry’s struggle:
YAAAASSSSS
I can't wait for this. I am gonna wipe the floor with my story – it's gonna be spotless in that theater when I am done. https://t.co/bsCmllmz3s
— Dr. Sarah E. Myhre (@SarahEMyhre) December 5, 2017
Hmmm, she’s got a “show” at this years AGU convention, seems less sciencey than emotional to me. Maybe a little less attitude and more empathy would go a long way.
What happens at the intersection of politics, life, & science? Hear from @SarahEMyhre as she tells her story for a FREE show w/ at #AGU17 on Thursday, 14 Dec. RSVP today! https://t.co/3jqKG4noF4 #scicomm #storytelling pic.twitter.com/FFCNLYvvuP
— Sharing Science (@AGU_SciComm) December 5, 2017
UPDATE: Paul Matthews of cliscep points out that the podcast co-author Dr. Jacquelyn Gill is openly hostile towards Dr. Susan Crockford’s plight on Twitter.
Matthews responds:
What an unpleasant, vicious, and unsensitive response.
You've also fabricated a quote. She does not say "the same as" rape. Stop it. It's quite clear from the title that she's making an analogy.— Paul Matthews (@etzpcm) December 7, 2017
Gosh. Such open-minded tolerance while preaching about the struggle of women in science on display.
UPDATE2: (h/t to John F. Hultquist in comments)
Professor Cliff Mass seems to have been the recipient of bullying from Dr. Myhre on the article she wrote for “The Stranger”, linked above and here on Nov. 17, and then updated it with long comment by Prof. Mass:
Cliff wrote:
““He stuck his finger in my face and threatened me: “If you don’t retract your public testimony, I will retract it for you.”
This is a total lie. I never said that and never stuck any fingers in anyone’s face. Sarah Myhre choose to defame me and call me names in her testimony. I had never heard of her before that. Several folks emailed me after her testimony telling me that she was “throwing me under the bus.” Her efforts to paint me as an extremist was both wrong and unnecessary, particularly as I not only am concerned about climate change, but was a major supporter of the carbon tax initiative. Now instead of calling her on her unprofessional name-calling in public, I asked her to have coffee with me. I asked her whether she could point out any technical errors in my published research, blogs, or public communication. She could not. Then she starting revving up on how I was aiding “deniers” by admitting uncertainty in climate projections and in interpreting current extreme events. She told me it was ok to exaggerate and deceive the public, to get them to do the right thing. Stunningly, she said she was willing to admit I was ok if I agreed to do an op-ed piece with her for the Seattle Times. I could not believe it. I believe Sarah Myhre is doing a substantial disservice to the effort to deal with climate change, reducing the chance of bipartisan action, and calling folks names she does not agree with.“
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Reading through the comments and learning a bit about Sarah Myhre, it occurs to me that this blog has raised by several notches the profile of a career underachiever. Would it not be better simply to offer Judy Curry some deserved support without declaring open season on a subject who is just trying to promote herself?
If there is more to this kerfuffle (as ristvan calls it) then let me know. Otherwise I can do without reading about a minor character in the climate wars. I can also do without the ad nauseum discussion of Susan Crockford’s maltreatment at the hands of consensus mavens. That story needs to be told and Anthony has done a great job telling it. But I think we’re ready to move on.
I disagree, scraft.
They need to be exposed since they are wrong and stupid. Keep it hot by continuing to mock their immature ugliness,post published science papers that doesn’t support their hateful propaganda and bullying.
Here are two more published papers that doesn’t support Myhre and her ilk’s position:
2 New Papers: 92% Of Polar Bear Subpopulations Stable, Increasing…Inuit Observe ‘Too Many Polar Bears Now’
“Most of the world’s polar bears live in Canada. Hunters and elders from northern Canada’s native communities have been immersed in studying polar bear ecology for centuries.
In two new peer-reviewed papers published in the journals Ecology and Evolution and Polar Record, scientists record the observations and experiences of Canada’s polar bear “experts” — the community members who live side-by-side with these “sea bears” (Ursus maritimus).
According to scientists, no study has indicated that there is reason to presume that the perspectives of community observers are either suspect or incorrect. In fact, there have been multiple occasions when traditional ecological knowledge gleaned from local populations accurately identified polar bear subpopulation trends before new scientific studies could be conducted to corroborate them (York et al., 2016).
The overwhelming conclusion from years of accumulated conversations with native populations about polar bears is that there is almost no connection between the long-term observations of polar bear ecology and the more recent claims that polar bears as a species are in grave danger due to climate change and thinning sea ice.”
http://notrickszone.com/2017/12/07/2-new-papers-92-of-polar-bear-subpopulations-stable-increasing-inuit-observe-too-many-polar-bears-now/#sthash.UFbtMnoE.LEmWZCKz.dpbs
“They need to be exposed since they are wrong and stupid. Keep it hot by continuing to mock their immature ugliness,post published science papers that doesn’t support their hateful propaganda and bullying.”
Indeed. They employ Alinsky rules and the only way to deal with that is to use them in reverse. That’s why Josh’s cartoons are so helpful (and funny) and I would guess that South Park’s ‘Man-Bear-Pig’ has added to big Al’s credibility problems.
In this case just quoting her, as Climateman did in a comment below, works.
I think Judith and Susan have every right to and should respond with cold hard facts. The bullies will then have to publish even more outrageous trash to get attention and become even bigger targets for ridicule. Some of their supporters here should try to attend that AGU meeting, recorders in hand.
“Wipe the floor with my story”???
Is she truly that poorly read? Does she indeed not understand what wiping the floor with some(thing) means?
Is is she telling us just how worthless and empty her story is (now that she is KlimaPo)?
Dr. Myhre is a “research associate” in chemical oceanography at the University of Washington. A Research Associate is a small step up from test tube scrubber. Perhaps her vitriol arises from personal disappointment.
she’s doing mee.too as a fashion statement.
but anybody who’s hot, leaks a sex tape.
That normally means she is on “soft money”. She feeds at the grant trough and feels threatened by any criticism of climate change disaster.
Just so I’m up to date and stuff, there’s a consensus right?
Here is her direct quote. You judge for yourself her mental state.
Feminist rage has burned through my days and nights this last week, leaving me exhausted and anger-hangover every morning. Harvey Weinstein, Louis CK, Roy Moore, Al Franken–take them all down. I have fiery images in my mind’s eye of the careers of powerful men toppling like Saddam’s statue. BURN THEM ALL DOWN. I rage silently in my lipstick and heels, dressing as powerfully and sexually I can–as if to say, “try it on me motherfuckers”. I rage-walk from the bus to day care to work to the grocery store and I stare down every man on the street, silently shaming him with my eyes. It is a game I play through these rage-soaked days.
Well somebody’s temperature has been rising!
Wow. Seems to have other issues besides the climate.
Idiot wind
Blowing through the flowers on your tomb
Blowing through the curtains in your room
Idiot wind
Blowing every time you move your teeth
You’re an idiot, babe
It’s a wonder that you still know how to breathe
I don’t know… the extremity of Dr. Myhre’s angst is starting to tug at my heart-strings, as this is apparently the newer virtue to be signaled by a deeply offended porcupine in the absence of all those old fashioned ones. And one can readily commiserate when all those dusty participation trophies no longer suffice for an assuredly entitled queen bee in high heels whose throne room draws little but flies.
Chin up, there are clear features here of a fitting candidate to vie with Hillary for the nomination to be First Woman in 2020. Oh the horror! And sorry again Bernie but you’re an X chromosome short for this grueling contest.
She’s probably just miffed because, for some reason, no one wanted to offer her his seat on the bus.
Good grief…I wouldn’t want to meet her if that’s how she feels.
Annie, I met many just like her in college. They go into absolute screaming fits when you laugh at them. After that, they leave you strictly alone.
That’s bizzare – SM is a “palaeoclimatologist” and a CAGW alarmist?
That makes as much sense as being a palaeontologist and a 6-day creationist.
Her brain has been decimated by the steady discomfort of cognitive dissonance. This is also a form of Orwell’s DoubleThink.
She simultaneously believes that past abrupt climate change was completely natural, while any current or projected Abrupt Climate Change can only have an Anthropogenic attribution.
Australian readers will probably be familiar with the term but for others please just google “Tim Blair Frightbat”.
This helps: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/12/polar_bears_all_over_the_place_now_native_alaskans_say.html
“…and paleoclimatologist Dr. Sarah Myhre talk about the deep misogyny facing women scientists in online communities…”
Maybe it’s just her.
Whole lotta crazy floating around these days…
The photo. I only need to look at her face to see that she is not a good person. There’s something in it. Maybe the way she smiles? It’s like that’s not something that that face is used to doing very often.
I just chuckle at how they like to mention their interest in “sharing” the science; they both blocked me on Twitter after short conversations.
Her PhD is in Climate Change. Enough said.
She says “I rage silently in my lipstick and heels, dressing as powerfully and sexually I can”
no wonder she rages, she can’t even get the dressing up right.
“It is a game I play through these rage-soaked days.”
Sounds like she needs anger management in a secure unit.
One of the desirable properties of a person is the appearance of having been brought up properly. Good manners, as when using knife and fork. Consideration, as in deferring to elders. Lack of expletives in conversation. Showing concern for others with problems. Such properties do not have to be listed. A person has it or has not. Doors open to those that have it. Employers like it.
Based on limited reading here, one might conclude that Judith has it and Sarah does not.
Improvement is possible. Geoff.
The Seattle Magazine article on her is at http://seattlemag.com/news-and-features/most-influential-seattleites-2017-citizen-scientist-sarah-myhre
It’s all contained in the image above. Here’s the full text, I hope the magazine doesn’t mind:
The Climate Central interview (with at least three other young scientists) is at http://www.climatecentral.org/news/young-climate-scientists-interviews-20799
I don’t see the Huntington Post reference. The only link Google gave me was to https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-scientists-donald-trump_us_58819ab2e4b096b4a2310631 which includes “(h/t Sarah E Myhre PhD)” but does include a video with Katherine Hayhoe, Peter Gleick, Sarah Myhre, Kim Cobb, Stephen Lewandowsky, Richard Alley, and John Abraham. Taped at last year’s fall AGU meeting. 6m34s I won’t get back.
Dr Myhre’s alarm – to go by the video interview Ric LINKS to at HuffPo – appears rooted in the “tipping point” claim that ACO2 is destabilizing the climate system. Will anyone here support this old chestnut for histrionic alarm?
I recall re-reading from Roger Pielke, Jr’s blog, after the first reactions to the NCR report on Mann’s Hockey Stick in July 2006. What struck me were the comments by certain German climate scientists: that measured global warming rate appeared large after 1998, and that they couldn’t think of anything other than EGH effects to explain it – ergo, Mann was right!
Such simplistic thinking got “climate science” into this damned mess, and SM’s is Hell-bent on keeping it there!
Sarah Myhre: “I am one of 2017’s Most Influential People in Seattle.Proud advocate for science and human rights.”
A common strategy of social-climbing scientists. If you can’t cut it in science, try politics. Be a climate activist!
The last words on the last page of Myhre’s CV reads: “University of California at Davis, Graduate Group in Ecology DIVERSITY Committee, Member”.
What the Hell does solving scientific problems have to do with “Ecology Diversity”?
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/509c628ee4b0b5d93ca27462/t/565d12b1e4b02e26d38a7816/1448940209615/SE+Myhre%2C+CV.pdf