From the “I’m going to need a barf bag” department. Dr. Michael Mann comes up with his own degree program.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Climate science is a field devoted to the study of Earth’s climate in the past, present and future. Understanding the Earth’s future climate is vital, and in response Penn State has established a new dual-title doctoral program in climate science.
“In the past, climate science was often viewed as this niche field, but it’s starting to become integrated with everything else because climate impacts are pervasive,” said Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric science and program coordinator. “Climate change is affecting our food and water supplies, coastal management and national security, and every other facet of our built and natural environment.”
Expertise in climate science is relevant across many disciplines, and Mann said this program was developed to meet the increasing demand for climate information.
“Having a degree in climate science is germane to so many fields now; it’s important in private industry or in fields focused on risk management like insurance and reinsurance,” said Mann. “Having a background in climate science is a real plus, and it will make our graduates more attractive for jobs in industry, as well as positions in academia, government and nongovernmental organizations.”
Administered by the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences’ Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, a particular focus of the program is on understanding the impact of human activities on climate and understanding and predicting natural climate variation.
The program will provide a rich curriculum in climate dynamics and observations, numerical and statistical methods, the physical climate system, biogeochemistry, and human dimensions of climate change to ensure that all students have a broad and deep understanding of the science and its application to society.
“Not only will graduates have expanded employment opportunities, they will be the new generation of leaders trained to help society prepare for and adapt to the Earth’s changing climate,” said David Stensrud, head and professor of meteorology and atmospheric science.
There are more than 40 faculty from five colleges associated with the climate science program.
“We’ve had an increasingly strong presence in the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science and elsewhere around Penn State in climate science. We literally have hundreds of researchers across the University working on various aspects of climate science,” said Mann.
Students electing this degree program will earn a doctorate with a dual-title in the participating program and in climate science. The graduate program in meteorology and atmospheric sciences currently offers the program but additional graduate programs are expected to offer the dual-title program in the future.
“This new program addresses what is arguably the greatest challenge we face today — the challenge of mitigating and adapting to climate change,” said Mann.
For more information about the program visit http://www.met.psu.edu/academics/graduate-studies/climate-science-dual-title-phd-program and https://bulletins.psu.edu/graduate/programs/majors/climate-science/.
When did Michael Mann get out of the state penn?
Why doesn’t he just be honest about it? Call it, “How to live off the taxpayers’ dime while producing nothing worthwhile”. A degree in “Nothing”. But it pays for the rent. (and the lawsuits)
Disclaimer: I have a government job. I “live off the taxpayers’ dime”. (Well, actually the rate payers’ dime.) I help provide safe drinking water to about a million people. They need it everyday. They needed it yesterday. They’ll need it tomorrow. “Dimes” well spent.
What has Mann provided? What will this “degree program” provide?
More dime-hungry leeches.
Actually, if you go the program link and look at the “Additional Information … courses required … Climate Science Dual-Title Handbook”, ther’s a pretty good line-up of courses. 45 years back when I was in grad school, I took a bunch of similar classes in Physics/Astrophysics, such as Fluid Dynamics, Radiative Transfer, Partial Diff-Eq, etc. ad naus., before going into climate science where I took softer sciences, like meteorology, field geology, and glaciology. (I say “softer” somewhat tongue in cheek, since those “softer” courses were a lot more fun and interesting!).
Decades later I taught some of those same classes in Atmospheric Sciences at Colorado, along with classes on Meteorological and Climate Observations (and analysis) and Sun and Climate. However, during my (non-) tenure teaching, those classes became more “sanitized”. Before I retired, I had certain bits of information removed from my class website, I was not allowed to present information (like, for example, decreasing hurricane frequencies) that were “disinformation” designed to get students to question the “science of global warming”, and finally I was pulled from teaching climate classes in which I taught PDO, solar effects, and such along with GHG theory (and had the gall to present actual data). Then I retired, on time and on budget.
So I strongly suspect the class load at State Penn is also sanitized. It would be interesting to see the actual syllabi for some of them, but even those class descriptions can hide the unsavory details.
Cheers.
Richard Keen
Professor Emeritus: Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
University of Colorado
“A particular focus is understanding the effects of human activities (anthropogenic impacts) and natural forcing on climate.” A particular focus should be on understanding the process, differences, if any, will emerge, or so I was taught.
I have been lazy and a little scared to check degree requirements (courses) where these politically correct environmental “science” programs have either started or changed from long standing curricula. (like introductory biology to biodiversity). OK, there is more, but first it requires real chemistry.
This is also interesting “Administered by the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences’ Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science…” I guess meteorology and atmospheric science are different as are mineral sciences from geology and earth sciences. I am confused. My degree names aren’t long enough. My course titles weren’t either, but the courses were. Sounds like we have censorship.
Roger, from the 101 Dalmatians, says “melody first … then lyrics” … its his rule. I know nothing about music theory, and I think there is no absolute right/wrong way to put music to lyrics (maybe a better way …).
But, I do know for sure that there is a wrong way to approach scientific theory.
Mann’s degree program, requiring a conclusion first, followed by the evidence search/coordination/justification/compilation to support of the conclusion is the wrong way.
A parody of a parody.
(Bea Arthur) as Dole Office Clerk : Occupation?
(Mel Brooks) Mannicus: Stand-up global warming prognosticator.
Dole Office Clerk: What?
Mannicus: Stand-up global warming prognosticator. I coalesce the data of human co2 production into a viable and logical comprehension.
Dole Office Clerk: Oh, a bullshit artist!
This will all end in tears.
Free nobel and pink ‘caring’ rubber wristband with every diploma
Don’t forget the trick light bulb that glows when touched to the top of their graduation caps, and the official certificate of deputized authority in climate studies.
Just think of the career opportunities that lay ahead!
I already tried Degree Antipersicution for Mann. It counteracts how hockey can smell so offensive. Still the whole thing reeks of stinky emails. 🙂
OMG … mitigating and adapting to climate change? Get back to me when when the Hollywood Eco-leftist Elites abandon their beachfront Malibu homes … as a personal “mitigation” to climate change. Get back to me when the market price of those homes craters. Thus far … the “mitigation” for these homes is that they’re … too damn expensive for anyone to purchase.
Mann’s degree program should be renamed … Eco-Swampist Bureaucrat. He’s preparing students to get a job embedded-in, and feeding-at the taxpayer trough. Embedded-in our bureaucratic institutions writing and enforcing totalitarian regulatory BANS on … everything. Per his description … EVERYTHING … is impacted by climate change … which is an “existential” threat … therefore the Eco-bureaucrat is morally justified in regulating anything and everything you do.
These people are sick, sick, puppies who should all be put to sleep … it’s the only HUMANE thing to do.
Mann’s dual degree program: Fake Science and Hockey Stick Fabrication
Uncritical Thinking Skills 101
Cherrypicking 101
Making Statistics Compliant 201
Don’t forget a 300 level course on proxy stitching and paleo-smoothing.
Well, I guess that’s one way to get around the patriarchal emphasis on math in the sciences.
Less muck spreading, more Mann-spreading
so…when the shtf and the mails and lack or dodgy data are made known…whats this scam going to be worth?
It’s the First of the Month.
On such days, Yours Truly is to be found on the side of a very narrow country lane on all fours and with his arse sticking up in the air while pulling a small plastic bag out of a hole in the ground. On this occasion, a middle-aged dog-walking woman happened upon the event and paused to ask if I was OK.
Plastic bag, secret hidey hole, remote location, maize plantations all around – is this a drugs bust?
She *was* actually concerned for her self.
“Yes yes yes I’m fine thanks, am just retrieving my ‘little weather station'”
Her face was a picture – it had everything.
“Its my semi-professional hobby” I sez. “Climate & weather & stuff. Comes from being a farmer”
She seemed happier but was obviously puzzled about the sort of weather that goes on 18 inches under the ground.
I says “See where you are now, on the lane with a tall & dense hedge either side. It is early-ish morning and here on the lane we are out of the sun, sheltered from the (gentle) breeze and is cool & damp from the previous night’s dew.
Imagine now that you are in the middle of the adjoining (barley) stubble field.
The ‘weather’ there will be different from where we are currently standing, on the lane?
(The look on her now was as if I’d just announced that birds can fly – beyond obvious and this guy is patently nuts)
“The plants did it” I ventured – “weather under the hedge is different from weather in the stubble field” (Despite equal amounts of CO2 in the air – I thought of saying but didn’t)
Acknowledgement.
She was patently a gardener of some sort and totally understood how plants respond to temperature, especially of the soil they’re growing in. Cold-frames, greenhouses, outdoor planting times, air-frost vs ground-frost etc etc
*Hence* why I was pulling a temperature data-logger (thank you Lascar Electronics) out of a hole in the ground. In the morning. On the First of the Month. Every month.
“Farmers are ‘changing the weather’ and it is *absolutely nothing* to worry about”
Inside 90 seconds I’d gone from drug fuelled crazy to someone she’d bring home to meet her mother. She was happy and we have a convert.
Are you listening Mr Mann, with your (new) science course?
I *DID NOT*, repeat did not, continue on with ‘They are trashing the dirt and that *is* something to worry about’
One step at a time eh
What student would want to be part of a course where they know from the outset that no dissenting views will be tolerated? Mann will run this like his twitter account
I personally think that Earth Sciences PHD’s from Penn State, Uof V, Maryland and Virginia should be declared invalid until new doctorate thesis and course work to allow them to have a balanced scientific view. These are not only Universities that should be considered for this but just my short list of some of the most serious offenders issuing what may be considered fake BS, MS and PHSs in the applied sciences.
I dont agree with him – never have, never will. But one has to admit he definitely must believe in what he says, and for that I have a grudging admiration. But only that, as he is a believer rather than a scientist first and for that he deserves every bit of the criticism he gets.
Great, Nobel prizes all round and jobs at Starbucks for brain-washed debt-ladened dim bulbs. When will the youth of the western world wake up to the gigantic academic scam?
Mann suggests his fake climate science course will produce graduates attractive to recruiters in the insurance and reinsurance business. He wishes! I covered the insurance and reinsurance businesses for 20 years as a journalist. Risk takers love useful idiots who talk up risk. Higher premiums all round. Only a very stupid underwriter would write business based on forecasts designed to promote political and social objectives. Climate models that are never accurate would get short shrift. Of course in public they would shower the idiot with praise. But in private anyone with a Mann degree would be told to stick it in the bin. When real money is involved they would be required to write business based on proper evidence.
The engineering department at my university had a required seminar called “How to Lie With Statistics”, which showed all of the statistical techniques that honest people with integrity should NOT use. Mikey Mann uses many of them…
Name one that Mann uses, and show me where he uses it.
If you’re gonna lie, why not be certified?
This is scary as increasingly it is hard to get staff that have been educated rather than brainwashed. This is going to add to the problem.
i always hear that a university education teaches critical thinking skills, the ability to think for oneself .if that is the case why do so many with links to climate science all have the same opinion on the debate around mmgw ?
it leads me to believe there is more indoctrination than informing happening in the branches of science linked to climate science.