Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. once famously said:
If Michael Mann didn’t exist, the skeptics would have to invent him!
Today, Dr. Pielke had this to say about Mann’s recent views in light of recent political developments in Washington D.C.
The source of that Mann Tweet is here (assuming you can read it, Mann has about half of the Internet blocked). Then later, Mann backpedals, saying :
Of course, I was simply quoting and mocking the press secretary in what anyone with half a brain (maybe that’s the problem?) would easily recognize as satire/sarcasm. But I suppose as one of the Republican Party’s official antiscience purveyors, Roger feels a bit threatened here.
h/t to ctm
But, given his historical Twitter behavior in regards to Trump, Mann’s backpedaling seems to be only for self defense.
Yesterday, I also posted something about Dr. Mann’s prior viewpoints:
Yes, “award winning” science communications from Dr. Mann. The question is, what award should he earn?
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FWIW, you can see and read anyone’s twitter account simply by not signing in and going there if they have you blocked. I don’t even have twitter, just links to twitterers. I am unblockable! 🙂
Mann, obviously, is working on professional infamy
Trumps’ appointment of Happer is a very good step.
What’s Pielke’s objective in recording his desire to have Trump out of office?
After more than a hundred years of a great experiment in authoritarian government, in the early 1600s history began a renaissance in physics and a great reformation of murderous government.
What is now a popular uprising, that in the US has Trump as its executive, could become another great reformation.
With the cosmic ray hypothesis, physics is on another renaissance out of authoritarian government “science”.
And President Trump seems to be helping.
Who has been, in practice, an agent of a foreign entity (IPCC-UN)?
Now why would Roger Pielke Jr want Donald Trump out of the White House ….. when Trump has been the “best friend” that actual, factual science has had in the Oval Office in the past 20+ years?
Does anyone really think that the Bush’s, … Bill Clinton, … Obummer …. or Hillary, …. McCain, …. Romney, … was or would have been a “friend of/to science”?
Of those names, McCain and Romney are the worst. We all knew what the others were, they made no secret of it. But the other two were, and romney still is, just masquerading as Republicans, just waiting for chances to betray the Party faithful.
Until Trump won the nomination, I was ready to vote for a Democrat over a RINO. Knowing your enemy is better than suffering betrayal from within. I decided it would be better for a Democrat to destroy the country than a RINO. We would learn our lesson and eventually rebuild without the Party of destruction.
With Trump’s election I am more confident that the country will survive longer than I will.
Looking at the Wiki entry for M E Mann , one is amazed , and humbled, by his achievements and awards and the plaudits from fellow scientists.
Ever since Trump annoyed the Swedish establishments by some comments on their social policies, the world wide condemnation of his Paris Agreement withdrawal and the current total hysteria over climate change in the West I have been expecting the Swedes to retaliate by naming , Mann, Hansen and Schmidt as winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics. Only the rules of the Nobel award prevent them from adding a 4th name , that of their own precocious WunderKind , but perhaps the Norwegians can set that right.
One slight thing I do not understand though . Most scientists of Mann’s eminence, especially those who have (if I understand the Wiki profile correctly) created a new system of analysis have published a textbook. Like those of Goudy and Salby that I have , with mathematical analysis of propositions and questions where the reader can pit his/her wits and knowledge against that of the author. Yes , Mann has published books , but they seem to be of a polemical nature and it would surely be of great benefit to aspiring climatologists to produce a proper textbook. Perhaps he should copy the famous example of Feynman and turn his lecture notes into a book series.
Mann seems to dedicated to accomplishing professional infamy.
Pielke’s dislike of President Trump could be another example of academic fashion.
I don’t know why anybody pays attention to Mr. Mann. He should die in obscurity, the way most nutjobs do.
Trump overcame every disadvantage in modern Western society to win The Presidency: He’s an old successful rich white heterosexual alpha male.
Alpha Male sums it up.
We should award M. Mann an honorary degree in Advanced Statistical Fraud, and diservices to science in taking the art of statistical fraud to, up-till-then, unplumbed depths.
Blocked! Really flattered—must have said something useful. 🤓
In a just society, we would drop Michael Mann off at the Sentinel islands so that he could fully appreciate people living in the state of nature he wants the rest of us to return to.
A thin , skin , massive ego and limited ability is always a toxic mix for a person . Mann is the case study for this problem .
I do in no way wish him harm , rather I want him to live long enough to see his life’s work held up as the junk it is and for his ideas to be used an example of ‘how not to do science ‘ For given his ‘toxic mix’ he will not be able to help himself from become ‘town drunk ‘ endlessly BSing about past glories , while his audience go from amusement, to announce to total disinterest .
I think he sees his life’s work being held up as junk now and is concerned that it may have adverse legal consequences.
Michael Mann Used Well Known Deceitful Statistics to Create the Hockey Stick
https://co2islife.wordpress.com/2018/06/24/michael-mann-used-well-known-deceitful-statistics-to-create-the-hockey-stick/
Michael Mann’s Hockey Stick Rules out CO2 as Cause of Global Warming
https://co2islife.wordpress.com/2018/06/19/michael-manns-hockey-stick-rules-out-co2-as-cause-of-global-warming/
The Winning Strategy to Defeating Climate Sophist Michael Mann
https://co2islife.wordpress.com/2018/06/17/the-winning-strategy-to-defeating-climate-sophist-michael-mann/
Countering the Michael Mann Straw Man Arguments
https://co2islife.wordpress.com/2018/06/16/countering-the-michael-mann-straw-man-arguments/
Forensic Science; Why Michael Mann Chose Only the Past 1000 Years to Reconstruct
https://co2islife.wordpress.com/2018/06/15/forensic-science-why-michael-mann-chose-only-the-past-1000-years-to-reconstruct/
Really smart people can do some really stupid things because of their ideology.
“The question is, what award should he earn?
The right to pay the winner’s lawyer’s fees. Probably several million dollars.
Well President Donald Trump has been completely vindicated and exonerated of all charges of collusion and obstruction. There was no evidence. None. Mueller’s report is clear and Attorney General William Barr has closed the case.
So Mann looks even more uninformed and stupider.
“So Mann looks even more uninformed and stupider.” Not possible.
“What award should he win?”
A kick up the arse seems appropriate. Isn’t that what happens to clowns?
Mann states:
“Of course, I was simply quoting and mocking the press secretary in what anyone with half a brain (maybe that’s the problem?) would easily recognize as satire/sarcasm.”
But when satire/sarcasm comes the other way, he launches a libel lawsuit against the author. Perhaps his forthcoming problem in that respect is due to him having less than half a brain?
I can see Mann’s whiny voice as he is led away in chains … “But, but I did it for the cause ….”
To continue my theme:
If Mann’s libel suit against Steyn and others ever comes to trial, his counsel will now have some difficulty in arguing that mocking someone with satire and sarcasm is libellous and therefore merits years of lawyers’ time and fees to redress the situation.
I hope that Steyn and his co-defendants spot this.
Last week BBC news invited Mr. Mann to promote his alarmist poppycock in a live interview. He claimed that the level of CO2 had “nearly doubled” from a pre-industrial figure of 280 ppm to 410 ppm currently and that it was a matter of “simple physics-the more CO2 you add, the hotter it gets”
I wasn’t going to allow him to get away with that, so I emailed him and pointed out that;
an increase of 130 ppm was not even close to “double”;
that his message might be more easily understood if he rephrased it with: “In the last two centuries the nature of the atmosphere has changed by thirteen thousandths of one percent”; and
all gasses, CO2 included, dissipate heat. Physics don’t get much simpler than that.
As yet, he has not had the courtesy to reply. Well, I got an automatic reply saying my email had been received, but it was from a different email address and was a new message with “automatic reply” typed in the subject line so I’m pretty sure he read it. I wonder why he doesn’t want to engage with me and defend his theories?
I cannot see how this verbal behavior on Mann’s part could be redeeming in the eyes of any university he is affiliated with. Worse, if this infantile voice is the acceptable science voice of universities everywhere, God help us.
“ The question is, what award should he earn?” A visit from the Secret Service!