From the “maybe he’ll use that money to finally get around to settling his Mann vs. Steyn lawsuit” department. I guess if you are a “loud mouthed climate activist” that equates to good science today, at least that’s how I read this press release from AAAS.
Mann receives AAAS Award for public engagement with science
Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center, Penn State, will receive the 2018 American Association for the Advancement of Science Public Engagement with Science Award during the annual meeting in Austin, Texas, from Feb. 15 to 19.
CREDIT Patrick Mansell, Penn State
Mann receives his award for “tireless efforts to communicate the science of climate change to the media, public and policymakers.”
In the past year, Mann had 500 media interviews and appearances, and directly reached public audiences via social media. His op-eds and commentaries were published in dozens of outlets, including The Washington Post, The Guardian and Le Monde.
He has used a variety of media to communicate about the effects of climate change, including the 2017 publication of his third book, “The Madhouse Effect.” For this effort, he teamed up with Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Tom Toles to explore public perception of climate change. He also was a featured speaker during the 2017 March for Science in Washington, and has testified before Congress.
Mann also collaborated with author and illustrator Megan Herbert on a children’s book titled “The Tantrum that Saved the World” is currently in press.
In addition to outreach efforts, Mann continues to conduct and publish research. His areas of interest are in climate science, including climate change, sea level rise, human impact on climate change, climate modeling, and the carbon budget. He is the author of more than 200 peer-reviewed and edited publications.
In 2017, Mann was recognized with the Schneider Award from ClimateOne and the National Association of Geoscience Teachers’ James H. Shea Award. He was also inducted into the Green Industry Hall of Fame. He was elected a AAAS fellow in 2015.
He completed his doctorate. at Yale University in 1998.
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The AAAS Award for Public Engagement with Science, established in 1987, recognizes scientists and engineers who make outstanding contributions to the “popularization of science.” The award conveys a monetary prize of $5,000, a commemorative plaque, and complimentary registration and travel to the AAAS Annual Meeting.
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Piltdown MANN
There is some irony here in that he is receiving an award for communicating the “science” of climate change for a period in which the public concern for climate change has reached an all time low.
*SHUDDER* ick.
So they admit that Mann is an Activist rather than a Scientist…. That doesn’t bode well for his defense against Mark Steyn’s counter lawsuit.
I suspect the award was made to boost his image and profile so appeals to authority could be attempted in his court case. I guess he’ll fly in a carbon free plane to collect the award.
Carbon-free plane? You think he might go in a glider?
“communicate” in climate hype talk is “propaganda”.
He could use the money to study meteorology…
Did the AAAS had out awards for phrenology?
We do need to hand it to him though: his tireless efforts at spreading climate propaganda and lies, while simultaneously stoking his already dino-sized ego and self-promotion has been remarkable. If anyone deserves the Climate Liar Supreme Award, it’s him.
This is from the Climategate emails {source http://www.lavoisier.com.au/articles/greenhouse-science/climate-change/climategate-emails.pdf}
December 4, 2007: email 1196872660 from Michael Mann to Phil Jones
By the way, I am still looking into nominating you for an American Geophysical Union award; I’ve been told that the Ewing medal wouldn’t be the right one. Let me know if you have any particular options you’d like me to investigate…
Reply from Phil Jones
As for the American Geophysical Union—just getting one of their Fellowships would be fine.
May 16, 2009: email 1242749575 from Michael Mann to Phil Jones
On a completely unrelated note, I was wondering if you, perhaps in tandem with of the other usual suspects, might be interested in returning the favor (of being awarded a Fellowship of the American Geophysical Union)
this year ?
I’ve looked over the current list of American Geophysical Union Fellows, and it seems to me that there are quite a few who have gotten in (e.g. Kurt Cuffey, Amy Clement, and many others) who aren’t as far along as me in their careers, so I think I ought to be a strong candidate.
Anyway, I don’t want to pressure you in any way, but if you think you’d be willing to help organize, I would naturally be much obliged. Perhaps you could convince Ray or Malcolm to take the lead? The deadline looks as if it is again July 1 this year.
So, basically, it appears that Michael Mann nominates himself for awards.
[Italics added to clarify what the writer quoted from Mann and Jones. .mod]
Why are awards so important to these people? Not much humility, lots of conceit.
Why? Because they have weak, insecure egos.
You can tell that from the way the react to any criticism.
Have things evolved (or devolved?) to the point that every area of discourse about every area of human endeavor is conducted in a way that pits reason against faith? Or has that been a part of the human condition beginning with the awakening of cognizance?
For his contribution to increased albedo when he puts sunblock on his head?
I suppose the hockey stick graph is also one of Mann’s accomplishments? The AAAS doesn’t seem to be living up to its name.
Michael Mann wins the Joseph Goebbels Public Enlightenment and Propaganda award, in the Science Fiction category!
It would be a ‘social justice’ coup if the air conditioning at the awards ceremony was turned down to 50 degrees F.
Turn the air conditioning off – let them eat their own dog food locally.
“tireless efforts to communicate the science of climate change to the media, public and policymakers.”
…Irregardless of how tired the public is of his drivel.
He must deserve some sort of award considering the amount of cognitive dissonance he must face in the realization that few people of import believes a word he says. Go, Mann, go! You are now comedic entertainment for thinking people all over the world.
Mann is the reason I became skeptical. Most statistically literate professionals have the same reaction when they see his “work”. In fact I recall many years again a room full of engineers howling with laughter at a description of some of the paelo practices.
I read this interesting article on the subject. It’s called “Gas lighting”.
You say it often and strongly with confidence, then its becomes reality.
https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/63749/how-the-establishment-propaganda-machine-gaslights-us-into.html
Regards
Aberrant Self Promotion is a clinically recognized pathology that has become common in the work place.
“Clinicians see ASP as a heady mixture of subclinical narcissism, impulsivity and anti-social personality disorder. It’s about the selfish, callous and remorseless exploitation of other people while at the same time demanding respect and admiration. Those who show the characteristics of the syndrome are said to be exploitative, dominating and grandiose, superficial and manipulative, and consider themselves entitled”.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-0-230-36976-4_3
Mann O Mann, who does that remind you of????
He beat out Bill Nye??
….and Al Gore and Paul Krugman. They are equally qualified.
That made me laugh, wally. 🙂
Blocking people that disagree with you on Twitter is a great way to show you engage with the public …
Michael Mann, in 2010 during a BBC interview, on the hockey stick graph:
“I always thought it was somewhat misplaced to make it a central icon of the climate change debate”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/climatechange/7849441/Michael-Mann-says-hockey-stick-should-not-have-become-climate-change-icon.html
I don’t think so. He was more than thrilled by it. He still is. And it still gets him grants and prizes.
What’s not to like?
Conforming with, supporting the consensus has benefits.
Obligatory posting of Hide the Decline.
A Classic about a spastic colon!
(It seems AAASS gives awards for such colons.)
I don’t care for mr Mann’s ‘science’. If he were a medical practitioner I would call him a quack. Any ‘scientist’ who becomes an activist ceases to be a scientist.
Mann’s papers involving paleo-so-called-temperature reconstruction have no scientific content.
Any paper he’s published on climate modeling is physically meaningless.
I think every paper Mann has published, purporting to be science, has involved one or the other of those two subjects. That being true, then Mann has published no science at all; but is a demonstrated master of modern pseudoscience.
No doubt we shall be hearing soon from Michael Mann along the lines “…. “it is quite another to attempt to discredit consistently validated scientific research through the professional and personal defamation of a recipient of a trade body’s PR award (free travel to conference, 5,000 bucks and all the food you can eat).
Nah, I think I prefer Mann’s original statement to the libel court when he claimed to have won the Nobel prize. Just has more of a ring to it and leaving off the “Peace” bit implies he might have got it for actual science. After all surely no proper scientist would be interested in a political award handed out by a bunch of retired Norwegian lefties – would they?
I note that the AAAS’s mission statement says that it seeks to “promote and defend the integrity of science”, so it is presumably OK with abolishing the medieval warming period in the interests of hard political activism. What next? – halving the speed of sound – well it would force all those jet planes to cruise slower unless of course the passengers were flying on urgent climate conference business when, of course, they could buy offset sonic certificates.
Sadly the Nobel plaques continue to fall off the wall. As I reported in another post, Stott of the Met yesterday amended his cv to remove his own fake reference to being a “co-recipient” of a Nobel prize.
You just can’t make this stuff up.
As I’ve said before – we are very sorry for this……