Penn State
Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric sciences and director of Penn State’s Earth System Science Center at Penn State, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, recognizing distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Membership in the NAS is one of the highest honors given to a scientist or engineer in the United States.
NAS is a private, nonprofit institution established in 1863 by a congressional charter signed by former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. It recognizes achievement in science by election to membership, and — with the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine — provides science, engineering, and health policy advice to the federal government and other organizations.
This year, the academy elected 120 members and 26 international members to its membership. Mann’s election brings Penn State’s representation to 16 members, and total membership in the academy to 2,403 active members and 501 international members.
Mann conducts research and publishes on his areas of interest in climate science, including climate change, sea level rise, human impact on climate change, climate modeling, and the carbon budget. He is an acknowledged leader in the climate change community. His work in the area of climate change science, especially the reconstruction of global temperatures over the past 1,000 years, has advanced the field.
Current areas of research include model/data comparisons aimed at understanding the long-term behavior of the climate system and its relationship with human climate forcing. Other areas of active research include climate simulation using theoretical models, development of statistical methods for climate signal detection, and investigations of the geophysical and ecological system responses to climate variability and the impacts of climate change on tropical storms and extreme weather events.
Mann has been recognized for his scientific work with the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in 2019. He received the Hans Oeschger Medal from the European Geosciences Union in 2012 and contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports that received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He is the author of more than 200 peer-reviewed and edited publications.
He is a fellow of the Geological Society of America, the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union.
Mann has received many awards for science communication. In 2018, he received the Climate Communication Prize from the American Geophysical Union and the Award for Public Engagement with Science from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2017, he received the Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication from Climate One. Mann was elected an AAAS fellow in 2015.
Mann communicates about the effects of climate change through a variety of media, including his books, which include “Dire Predictions: Understanding Climate Change,” “The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines,” and “The Madhouse Effect,” for which he teamed up with Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Tom Toles to explore public perception of climate change.
Mann also collaborated with author and illustrator Megan Herbert on a children’s book titled “The Tantrum that Saved the World.”
He completed his doctorate at Yale University in 1998.
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The system is rotten to the core.
One wonders if the timing of this ludicrous event has something to do with the recent death of Freeman Dyson.
When I was a pup, we were taught that science had previously gone astray with the example of data that ‘proved’ that men had bigger brains than women. It seemed to me that people thought “that kind of thing couldn’t happen now in our more enlightened age”. Well, yes it could.
I am disgusted but not at all surprised. BTW, because of adverse inference Mann has admitted that he is a fraud. That reflects badly on the NAS.
Well, you have to admit that his conception of science is original to himself and his Scientology practitioner cohorts.
Yep. The world got a little more stupid. RIP Freeman.
RIP Fred Singer – also a real scientist.
A few years ago, I terminated my subscription to Science magazine because they too, were caught up in the arms of global warming/climate change. The inmates are running the asylum more and more.
That is for sure. The Green River serial killer was almost just released from prison where he had been serving a 500+ year sentence for murdering and raping 49 women and girls. He actually had confessed to killing more than 70.
The vote by the Washington Supreme Court to release him failed by a single vote (4-5). Insane.
re: “The Green River serial killer was almost just released …”
And, its true: https://www.kulr8.com/q-check-did-the-green-river-killer-gary-ridgway-really-come-close-to-release/article_fa37d6f0-441d-59fa-93c8-3b850bc415b2.html
—Sentenced for murdering and raping 49 persons, and having confessed to killing more than 70—
Is this Gary Ridgway a human being???
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re: “Is this Gary Ridgway a human being???”
More like, a “manimal”; half man and half conscienceless, killing beast.
It’s a testament to the power of the almighty dollar.
I don’t think they want to bring up any comparisons of Mann’s writing with Dyson’s
When I edit research papers, I remove all uses of “proved” as a paper is meant to “show” some evidence and it is in the mind of the reader to decide if anything was “proven.” Lots of authors also use “obviously” which is judgemental and meant to sway the reader with their own opinion; I replace it with “clearly,” which more suggests that the reader check the evidence.
Anyone who will not reveal their data and methods has absolutely no right to be even nominated to the NAS. This lowers NAS to a hack organization, not to be trusted with science.
“Anyone who will not reveal their data and methods has absolutely no right to be even nominated to the NAS.”
Yes, thank you! The scientific method requires replication of results, and anyone who refuses to reveal their data and methods is NOT a legitimate scientist! Mikey has consistently refused to reveal his data and methods; he has been, and NEVER will be a real scientist! It doesn’t matter how many letters he has after his name or faux awards he receives.
And yes, the NAS is now officially a hack organization, not to be trusted with science.
I would like to offer a correction to the article: “Membership in the NAS
iswas one of the highest honors …”.Apparently membership in the NAS has reached the infamous level of the Nobel Peace Prize…
Is that like putting Dracula in charge of the blood bank, creationists in charge of science, or, Vladimir Putin in the White House?
Michael Mann has shown himself to be a fraudster who is willing to put different data sets together, one with averages and another with real-time data to mislead the world into thinking that a 0.01% increase in CO2 over sixty years has been warming the planet by almost 1 oC per century apparently thinking that computer models control the global mean temperatures instead of the solar system. As President Trump said a while ago, they have not been able to get it right for 30 years.
The reality about CO2 is that the centrifugal force of the roughly 1,677 km/h equatorial speed of Earth’s rotation sends CO2 all the way up to the thermosphere from where all the way down through the mesosphere, the stratosphere, the troposphere to photosynthesis at the surface it has a cooling effect.
Does failing to recognize that amount to gross incompetence?
Like putting Jack the Ripper in charge of Scarlet Alliance, the coalition that fights for the dignity and safety of sex workers everywhere.
Like putting Michael Oreskes on a Gender Sensitization Committee.
Like putting Edward Scissorhands in charge of the balloons.
Like saying sure, Mr Gervais, you can do my eulogy.
Like letting Michael Mann into the National Academy of Sciences.
Oh, wait, done that joke already.
Like putting Winona Ryder in charge of store security.
Hope the Mann watches the Movie though. (Planet of the Humans ) –
that is before he makes his first speech:)
It’s april 30th not april 1st.
There’s an error in the copy. It was supposed to be National Academy of Scumbags…
+1000! I’m saving that, Jeff.
> It was supposed to be National Academy of Scumbags…
Oh, I suspect Mann got into Rob Honeycutt’s
pants pockeyman-purse *years* ago.The NAS will find itself with egg on their faces and reputation tarnished when Mann’s reality is revealed. When they find out what Mann is really about, they will regret this fatal decision.
The decision to confer the ‘honour’ does not enhance the prestige of Michael Mann as much as it tarnishes the reputation of the Academy.
To “Cynic”: I agree 100%…
I doubt that they’ve ever regretted electing Peter Gleick.
I actually hope that they elect Al Gore.
How could they keep him out?
He might have sued.
When the indictments come down I hope they target all infiltrated Science (FRAUDS) groups. It won’t be in this FIRST ROUND–hold on to you seats they are immanent.
The NAS corrupted itself with politics under Ralph Cicerone. With Marcia McNutt, it’s gotten only worse.
As to Michael Mann, he’s not done any science at all since his work with lanthanide ceramics while a Masters student at UC Berkeley. Given his career in not-science, it’s only fitting that he should be elected to a politicized national academy.
Mann must lay awake at 2 am, in wonderment over how he’s gotten away with so much. All the institutions willfully colluded in protecting him.
Incomprehensible!
Canman’s righteously disgusted post at CliScep opens with:
“Am I the only one who’s outraged?”
I dare say he’s in fine company.
How’s a Mann get into the NAS?
I also heard that the AAACA (American Association for the Advancement of Coprophagia in America) is giving Mann the coveted Walter Duranty Best Tasting Sphincter Award, after being nominated by Super Scott Mandia.
Mann continues to dazzle.
You should not be surprised. This is obviously the world in which we live. There is always a struggle between the rise and the fall, and there are times when the rise is dominant, and there are times when the fall has the momentum; just like atmospheric temperatures.
What used to be incomprehensible, is now the status quo.
I look forward to meeting you all at the re-education camps.
Is this a joke?
“His work in the area of climate change science, especially the reconstruction of global temperatures over the past 1,000 years, has advanced the field.”
“The field” in this case would be the Greenist-AntiIndustrial Complex. And that “temperature reconstruction” the highest level of fraud ever put forward in the name of science.
“NAS is a private, nonprofit institution …” that gets funding from the non-private taxpayer and contracts with the non-private federal government.
One might suspect that Mann wrote the press release himself.
No, had he written it himself he would have used adjectives such as “handsome, brilliant, charming”.
Unbelievable! Another award is now devalued and sacrificed at the altar of political correctness rather. I though the NAS encouraged critical thinking but I guess I was mistaken! I wonder what the other elected members of the NAS feel about this election.
“Mann has received many awards for science communication. “
Communication. Via his lawyers.
8th year in the suit against Steyn …
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/02/no-michael-mann-you-arent-going-to-ruin-this-filthy-organization/
NRO: We’ve said we’d use every tool and argument at our disposal to defeat Mann, and that’s what we’ve done. Mark Steyn posted the blog item in dispute in July of 2012. Mann sued in October of that year, and we filed our first motion to dismiss in December of 2012.
Since we all know what Prof. Mann is like we now know what the National Academy of Sciences is like.
LOL
One knows a person by the company they keep. If the NAS wants Mann as a member, it speaks volumes about their principles.
If (in a parallel universe) Mann had any shame, he’d decline the invitation on Grouch Marx grounds.
“Original research”. Yes – that seems about right. I’ve heard about a three-ring circus but until Mann came along I’d never heard of a tree-ring circus…
So many awards are now handed out willy nilly that they no longer represent any great achievement. It is like giving kids an award just for participating rather than achieving anything. It just dumbs down the whole of society and in my view society is getting dumber by the day. :((
You just made me realize that this may be the same generation of kids who first got those shiny gold-colored plastic participation trophies for being somewhat above useless. Now they’re all grown up (allegedly), so nothing really changed, although I struggle with the “somewhat above useless” in Mann’s case. He couldn’t even find the Medieval Warm period, or the Little Ice Age in his bogus results.
Makes me wonder: Did anybody resign in protest from this “NAS”?
If not, the “NAS” should be sued by the German, French, Russian … Academies for Unlawful Imitation and forced their name changed to something like: National Association of Sorts (as above suggested ‘Scumbags’ could offend the real ones, e.g. electors)
“Makes me wonder: Did anybody resign in protest from this “NAS”?”
The names of any who do should be posted here. If hardly any do, it indicts not just the leadership but the membership of the organization.
Clearly proof positive, if you ever needed it, there is no God.
Maybe, Michael Moore will commission a documentary film about the NAS? “The inconvenient! Strewth”
Most likely it was a proxy vote.
Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy:
a factitious disorder in which the patient seeks attention, sympathy and other secondary gain by the use of dendrochronology and Finnish mud to convince others that the Earth has a fever. In severe cases, the patient himself may surreptitiously poison the Earth to exaggerate the counterfeit symptoms, e.g. by flying to tropical climate conferences on a compulsive basis.
And all afflicted patients can be easily diagnosed, seen one seen Yamal … 🙂
leave the R out;-)
in betternews Lord May has died in UK
the man who pushed gmo murdered thousands of UNinfected animals against vet advice in FnM event
and who was a rabid warmist
one ex aussie we didnt want back and wont miss.
Poor spelling. Surplus ‘r’.
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
Not sloppy, intentionally deceptive.
“Especially the reconstruction of global temperatures over the past 1000yrs “
As defined by tree ringsI suppose
By one particular type of tree ring.
On a par with Obama getting Nobel Prize on assuming Presidency first time.
Mann should be ashamed of himself.It’s a very long gravy train.
Remember all the headlines: Obama Humbled [sic] by Honor, But Has He Earned Nobel Yet?
The “Yet?” was never omitted. It was an article of faith: it was only a matter of time before he would do something to deserve it.
It was probably the smart move by the Committee to give him a Nobel so early in his Presidency, since he’d never again be as innocent of war-making as he was on the day he assumed office.
Strangely, when Trump was awarded exactly the same medal for exactly the same reason—after all, he hadn’t invaded any foreign countries yet—the media suddenly started opining that Peace Prizes ought to stand for a bit more than that.
It’s funny how people discover principles they never knew they had right when their argument needs them most.
It seems that if you are ,like Mann,an advocate, by whatever means ,of the push to the far Left and eventually Socialism,you get given a huge margin for error for anything you do.
Even a BS “hockey stick”.
He got it, only because of his intentions and promises that never becaming true, in contrast.
Obama led the Crossfire Hurricane debacle! Maybe destroying the constitution in what is proving to be the biggest political scandal in US history will force the Nobel committee to finally reconsider their most ignominious gesture!
Of course, I don’t expect that will ever happen!
Have you seen the documents released 2 days ago, total written proof of the plan to setup General Flynn. They discussed if they should pursue the truth, or just try to set him up to get trapped in a lie. It’s hand written too, so it will be traceable to an individual, aka Strzok.
This comes on the same day that they padded a bunch more deaths into the historical data, I caught them. And yesterday I caught “Death Harvesting” I plot and model State curves of daily deaths, and 11 states just had bat shite crazy number that completely blew away their declining exponents, and did not look like any data seen for any State or Nation in this whole debacle.
A bit OT, but in speaking the damage to the constitution, they are testing us and we are overall failing. I don’t really have time to create a semi-pro presentation on this, but I do have one anotated chart and all the under data if anyone want to puruse or use. If using please credit to Nukepro and hyperlink. Link is to Excel, with also 2 PNG annotated graphics embedded including the Wisconsin model (shame on you Gov Evers)
https://app.box.com/s/wy5t0jlidq3x0a5lrov7guyu6xq2rixb
A mann who introduces HIMSELF as “THE DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR” clearly cannot feel anything as human as shame or embarrassment.
If people like Obama and Mann had a conscience, they wouldn’t be unethical. Ergo …
Unprecedented!!
Mo-ha-ha-ha
Oh goodie, a Mann-bashing and NAS-bashing thread. I’ll have to come back in a few hours to read the additional entertaining comments.
Stay safe and healthy, all.
Bob
They bash themselves..
NAS seems to be deeply masochistic. !
Mann has always been one for self-flagellation.
But never self-abasement. In his eyes, he can do no wrong.
State pen?
Nothing new. Wasn’t Peter Gleik made director of the A.erican Geophysical Union after committing fraud in the Heartland Institute email theft?
American
He was elected to the NAS in 2006.
Sure, Dr Gleick made a mistake, which he deeply and sincerely regretted being caught for. But you have to bear in mind he was as much the victim of Heartland’s vendetta as they were. (For example, so obsessed was the think-tank by their hatred for America’s leading climate scientist, they actually satirized Gleick’s writing style in official internal memos.) Without excusing his actions for a moment, I would argue that they were heroic.
But it is Gleick’s courage in rebuilding, piece-by-piece, his shattered career and reputation that, more than anything else, earned him such tokens of our collective forgiveness as the Carl Sagan Prize for Excellence in Ethical Moralness.
Gleick used his acceptance speech to pay tribute to the bravery and other qualities he possessed, without which he would never have achieved full rehabilitation, and closed with a rousing quote he plagiarized from someone:
“No matter what the problem, forge on, forge on, forge ever ahead—for adversity is the forger of character!”
What an excellent example of satire; simply marvelous!
Had me going for a minute, Brad!😅
Thoroughly deserved.
I’m writing this in crayon because we are not allowed anything hot or sharp in here.
We have reached a tipping point.. Mann’s self-introduction will now take much longer to deliver than any “evidence” he presents at the next congressional hearing..
dammit!! messed up the link..
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4872822/user-clip-already
Thanks, there is my breakfast back again….
How and where is M. Mann related to science ?
And who are the dumbs voting for him ?
Hey if you can have Gleick in science ethics then it follows you can have Mann in the academy of science … and now you know why Climate Science is a joke that just keeps on giving.
A joke ? I know better gags to laugh about 😀
Does this mean that Dendrobfuscation is also a recognized scientific discipline now?
Anyone who can make a flat trend into a hockeystick is pretty exceptional.
Thingadonta
His accolades do include “achievements in original research.”
Wasn’t it Briffa’s original research?
On 6 March 1996, a Russian scientist, Stepan Shiyatov, contacted Dr Keith Briffa, CRU’s top tree-ring researcher. Shiyatov wanted money to take a helicopter to measure tree rings in timber hauled from the permafrost of the Yamal peninsula on the Arctic ocean’s shores.
Briffa was keen, and he published papers on what those tree rings showed. But by late last year, in the final emails, he is mired in allegations of fraud, and the Yamal data had become a virus infecting past climate reconstructions.
Mann was defeated by Professor Timothy Ball former Professor of Climatology at Winnipeg university in the Canadian High Court. as a climate physicist of 40 years experience I have no time for Mann. His theories have been debunked time after time. It is Professor Ball who should be getting the acolades.
Yes, Dr Tim Ball is deserving of much more than any inclusion in such a self-discredited organization. He lived, spoke, taught, analyzed, published with honour and integrity, never twisting the facts to suit a favoured opinion, never falsifying data, open, curious and without guile. He is everything Michael Mann has chosen not to be.
I just read Tim Ball’s book, “The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science” published in 2014. I had been vaguely aware of “Climategate” but not the full story as Ball tells in this book. He has many quotes from Mann and his colleagues from the stolen emails. I’ve been moving in the direction of becoming a climate skeptic- but that book clinches it.
Joseph Zorzin, you wrote, “I’ve been moving in the direction of becoming a climate skeptic- but that book clinches it.”
Welcome aboard the good ship climate skepticism.
Stay safe and healthy, all.
Bob