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h/t Dr. Willie Soon – Identity thief Peter Gleick, who impersonated a Heartland Director while serving as AGU Ethics Chairman, and whose swag of rather boring stolen Heartland emails somehow got spiced up with a a nasty forgery, has just been congratulated by Michael Mann for receiving his Carl Sagan Science Popularization Award.
Congratulations Peter---well deserved for sure. You honor Sagan's legacy with your tremendous science outreach efforts my friend. 🙂 https://t.co/ctckVxac5a
— Dr. Michael E. Mann (@MichaelEMann) September 2, 2018
From the Carl Sagan Award Website;
PRESS RELEASE August 31, 2018 WINNER OF CARL SAGAN PRIZE FOR SCIENCE POPULARIZATION ANNOUNCED
SAN FRANCISCO — Wonderfest, the 21-year-old Bay Area Beacon of Science, announced today that environmental scientist Dr. Peter H. Gleick has won the 2018 Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization.
The prize, funded by Aduro Biotech, is presented specifically to recognize and encourage researchers who “have contributed mightily to the public understanding and appreciation of science.” Past Sagan Prize winners include UC Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna, Stanford neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky, and SETI Institute astronomer Jill Tarter. The prize includes a $5000 cash award, and will be formally presented at a by-invitation event in San Francisco on November 9th, Carl Sagan’s birthday.
“Wonderfest was born in 1997, just a few months after the death of researcher and popularizer Carl Sagan,” notes the organization’s founding executive director, Tucker Hiatt. “Wonderfest’s work has been dedicated to Sagan’s memory ever since. Sagan would be proud to know that Peter Gleick, so renowned for his research and his outreach, has received Wonderfest’s Sagan Prize for 2018.”
Wonderfest is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to informal science education and popularization, particularly among adults in the San Francisco Bay Area. Several times every month, Wonderfest produces in-person science events — with accompanying online videos — in an effort to “enlarge the concept of scientific community.” Wonderfest also produces “Science Envoy” workshops to develop the science communication skills of Bay Area Ph.D. students.
Gleick is president emeritus and co-founder of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environ- ment, and Security in Oakland, California. The Pacific Institute, created in 1987, is a nonprofit research institution dedicated to creating and advancing solutions to the world’s most pressing water challenges.Gleick holds a B.S. degree in Engineering and Applied Science from Yale University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from UC Berkeley. Among his more than thirty honors and awards are membership in the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (the so- called “Genius” award).
Gleick has coauthored or edited 11 books, more than 70 journal articles, and more than 80 peer- reviewed reports, book chapters, and proceedings. A strong public communicator, he gives dozens of public lectures annually; writes op-eds and popular essays on climate, water, and environmental issues for major newspapers, social media outlets, and blogs; and is popular on Twitter for his science and policy commentary. Gleick is regularly called upon by state and federal government agencies for advice on climate change and water resources.
Gleick said: “I’m thrilled to be honored with the Sagan Prize. Carl Sagan’s early efforts to bring science challenges and solutions to the public and policy makers was an inspiration to me, and has encouraged a whole generation of scientists now willing to speak up on the critical challenges of our day.”
Additional information: https://wonderfest.org/sagan-prize http://www.pacinst.org
Contact:
http://www.gleick.com
Tucker Hiatt
Executive Director, Wonderfest Email: tucker@wonderfest.org Tel: 415-577-1126
Read more: http://wonderfest.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SaganPrize2018-release-peter-gleick.pdf
My question – what level of dishonesty and public humiliation do you have to achieve before the establishment climate science community decides your conduct is unacceptable?
LOL dont remember ever even looking at manns twitter feed but this is what I get
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nice LOL
Disgusting.
I can think of quite a few science popularizers that would get a Sagan award before Gleick (and Gleick shouldn’t be getting it, ever).
They have tarnished Sagan’s name with this.
The only way Gleick has popularized science is by inspiring some great posts at Watts Up With That, Climate Etc. and Lucia’s Blackboard.
One fraud congratulating another!
“what level of dishonesty and public humiliation do you have to achieve before the establishment climate science community decides your conduct is unacceptable?”
There is a movie name that answers the question : “Limitless”.
A Carl Sagan award might be just the thing.
Back in the mid-90’s, when Apple was developing its first PowerPC computers, the code names were those of scientific frauds such as Piltdown Man. And Carl Sagan. (One is not unlike the other, as it were.)
Sagan got wind of this mostly internal naming and had his lawyers demand that the name of ‘his’ computer be renamed. It was. To BHA.
Butt Head Astronomer.
Carl Sagan Prize for Science
PopularizationPropagandizationThere. Fixed it.
The term “self-masturbatory” comes to mind when I see these charlatans congratulating each other.