If you have been following the climate debate for any length of time, you’ve probably noticed that a select few individuals seems to be the major drivers behind alarm, and alarming news stories. Some of that was on display when we witnessed the behind the scenes workings thanks to Climategate, but this is far more out in the open, and aided by the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
Yesterday, Shub Niggurath noticed something related to AGU’s “climate awards”. He wrote on Twitter:
You see something funny here?
@theAGU prize committee and prize recipients are a small handful of people who know each other, giving awards to each other:
So who will get the nod this year? Why it’s the great blocker communicator Dr. Michael Mann, as told by this PSU Press release.
The award comes with a $25,000 prize. Can you imagine the howling if a skeptic got that much money for “communicating climate”? Can you imagine the hateful things Dr. Mann would say on Twitter?
Note that three of the people who have received awards (Schmidt, Rahmstorf, and Mann) all work together on the realclimate.org blog. But, oops, then there’s this:
Source: https://honors.agu.org/medals-awards/climate-communication-prize/
Maybe we need another climategate style email dump.
What a small circle of “friends” they have to choose from. I wonder who on that list will get the nod next?
Pretty soon, they are going to run out of “qualified” candidates. That’s when they’ll start bottom feeding for people like John Cook, Stephan Lewandowsky, and the worst bottom feeder of them all “Sou/Hotwhopper” aka Miriam O’Brien.
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“The Council of the Royal Society is a collection of men who elect each other to office and then dine together at the expense of this society to praise each other over wine and give each other medals.”
Charles Babbage
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Babbage.html
Please!?
I just ate dinner…
I saw this coming, so this is why I resigned from being and AGU-member publically, long ago. And also, of course AGU’s political, and un-necessary climate statement made by the selct few on the top, on behalf of all their members.
So, you gave up instead of fighting from within. Good job!
Awards seem to be an important part of any green/climate program. I recently visited a web site run by a group working towards “energy sovereignty” (whatever that is) for their town by 2022. I spoke to them a year ago asking what their plan was to achieve their goals in that timescale and the response I got back infered I was just being negative. I revisited to see whats happening and on the news page there is an award being handed out to a community member, and awards being collected by the program leaders but nothing about what’s actually happening. As they say, its about the journey (and the awards) rather than the destination.
http://totallyrenewableyack.org.au/watts-happening/news/
If they aren’t organising prizes for themselves, Foundations do it for them. A good example is the annual Asahi Glass Foundation Blue Planet Award, of 50 million yen, almost half a million dollars. That ain’t peanuts. http://www.blueplanetprize.org/en/projects/projects.html
Last year it was Schellnhuber, climate adviser to the Pope. Previous winners include economist Jeffrey Sachs, also a climate adviser to the Pope, James Hansen, Susan Solomon, Amory Lovins, Robert Watson, Thomas Lovejoy, Nicholas Stern, Jane Lubchenco, Gro Harlem Brundtland, (Agenda 21), Maurice Strong, Bert Bolin, Wally Broecker, Syakuro Manabe, Charles Keeling, Dan Sperling, James Lovelock and many more of the same persuasion.
http://notrickszone.com/2012/10/03/stefan-rahmstorf-fos-again-prophecy-of-gulf-stream-tipping-refuted-again-by-new-comprehensive-european-study/
“In 1999 Stefan Rahmstorf was awarded the one-million dollar “prize of the century” by the American James S McDonnel Foundation for his work on calculating climate change through changes in the Golf Stream. Rahmstorf had postulated that already a really small warming of global temperatures leads to an altered flow or even a tipping of the ‘Gulf Stream climate machine’.”
“Golf Stream”
Wow. Really?
[It is a large water hazard off of the east coast of North American. .mod]
That is your tax money being given to this clown.
The need to circle the wagons seen in this approach, is one of defence .
But defence from what, is the question . And in this case its seems defence from views that those inside find a challenge. And we find ourselves once again asking why is critical review given its central role in normal scientific practice , so very unwelcome in climate ‘science ‘ and question even more perplexing given the claims of ‘settled science ‘ which should easily equip the area to deal with such a challenge.
Like Hollywood giving themselves awards for movies and shows no one watches.
There is often a negative correlation between viewership and awards “earned”.
MarkW,
Not unlike the inverse correlation between the quality of a movie and the amount of pre-release advertising on TV. If they know it is going to be a stinker, they invest more money in promoting it.
The perfect storm of groupthink, noble cause corruption, confirmation bias, and good old fashioned socialism.
What/! The Pope didn’t get a ” Climate Communications” prize?
He made more noise than these other “useful dullards” that did win
God will not be pleased.
Perhaps He should freeze them,
but good.
This is truly comical. The sniveling weasel himself is one of the worst communicators in the climate fakery field. Remember when college professors and academics were distinguished and erudite? Mann looks like the restroom attendant in a freshman “animal house” dorm
It is noticeable that certain MSM purposely put the most clumsy lies on the net to provoke quoting.
I’ve given up citing a particular news magazine because this “revolver press” / yellow pages / lives on advertising aka “clicks”.
same as it ever was.