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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What are the chances Mann’s Lawyers offer up this Award in lieu of actual calculations or data in his lawsuit against Mark Steyn? Nice to know the NAS is on Mann’s legal team. They certainly cannot be on his “science” team.
Michael Mann? Michael Mann? The creator of Miami Vice and the director of The Last of the Mohicans? Why is he being honoured by the NAS.?
Oh. Never mind.
Its an Onion article right?
The Good Ol’ Boys club.
I’m sure Lysenko got lots of Soviet awards and medals.
A suitable title should no doubt go with the appointment …
Snow Denier Extraordinaire.
That’s a bit disappointing.
“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.”
And yet he says that “We are now in a geological epoch called the Anthropocene wherein humans have taken over from geological forces and humans are now the primary force that is reshaping the planet”.
This is of course pure nonsense and a good scientist like Mann surely knows that it is nonsense. Perhaps he really is a good scientist underneath it all but has to say stuff like this as part of the climate team that has to say stuff like that. I have some evidence that the late great Stephen Schneider was also like that – a man who knew what the truth was but also knew what he had to say as part of the climate mafia.
Two links below.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/02/24/the-mann/
https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/03/30/the-humans-must-save-the-planet/
I’m sorry but a “good scientist” is committed to the truth even if it means admitting to being mistaken in the past. Mann and Schneider have forsaken the truth for fame and fortune. They are/were not good scientists.
Can’t really argue with you on that point, sir. I was just trying to give Mann the man the benefit of the doubt against Mann the climate man.
We live in a time when it seems all of the institutions are in a competitive Race to the Bottom as far as trust. Or, alternatively, a Race to Fascism.
SJWs infiltrate trusted organizations and subvert them. Pretty soon, you’re left with no trusted organizations, just SJW-run zombies.
This has been happening since at least the early 90s, because I saw it happen with university clubs at the time. You’d start with a club of perfectly normal people doing perfectly normal stuff, then SJWs would take over the committee and suddenly it was a club of weirdos doing SJW stuff.
China!!!
“Current areas of research include … development of statistical methods for climate signal detection …” Right. How would you conceivably do that? I offer this illustration. This is hourly data at a gridpoint in my area, for all of 2019. The data is from the ERA5 reanalysis, by the ECMWF. The plot is of the “vertical integral of total energy” in the entire column of the atmosphere. It includes all latent heat, sensible heat, kinetic energy, potential energy due to altitude, stored energy due to atmospheric pressure, etc. Notice the rapid large changes. The data is reported in J/m^2, so I have converted it to Watt-hours on the vertical scale. So tell me, Dr. Mann, where would one look to detect the signal of the yet-to-be-realized 3.7 W/m^2 (or Watt-hours per hour per m^2 – same thing) warming effect of a doubling of carbon dioxide? How would one determine in which direction this energy would end up? Upwards to space or down into the oceans and land? Any such attempt at statistical attribution is pure fiction. The energetic effect is invisible to us. As one can readily tell on the plot, 3.7 W-hours per hour per m^2 is vanishingly thin. Sure, the greenhouse effect is real and can be measured, but it is a static concept. The atmosphere is not static. Take a look.
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“development of statistical methods for climate signal detection”
Why would one need to develop new methods for climate signal detection? According to all the trolls that signal is clear and obvious. It doesn’t need detection.
Maybe the academy has a wing for the study of Bristlecone pines and they felt the Mike was the best person to highlight that underserved community?
In my best Gomer Pyle voice(sarcastically):
Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!
Thanks, Just Jenn. I had an image of Jim Nabors saying that, while I voiced it, and it made me smile.
Stay safe and healthy, all.
Bob
It was for thick crust pizza delivery.
Good job, science types! after all your ‘rona virus success at FDA and CDC, it’s time to get out there and REALLY polish up your credibility.
Well, there goes the neighborhood….
How many fame seeking scientists are so self-deluded that they have come to believe their own BS?
Perhaps it is because they are blinded by all the $$$$$$$$$$ signs?
Keep your hair on boys, there are three more anthropocentric mutations around
http://www.vukcevic.co.uk/AGWs.htm
I wonder why they didn’t yet elected AOC and Greta since they are at least as pseudo-scientists and actual clowns as Mann is.
This is John Costella’s edited and annotated account of the Climategate emails.
http://www.lavoisier.com.au/articles/greenhouse-science/climate-change/climategate-emails.pdf
Go to P.104 and you will see Michael Mann inviting Phil Jones to choose an award which Mann will then arrange for him. Now turn to P.146 and you will see Mann calling in the favour and requesting Jones to organise the nomination and support for an award to Mann. By this 2-step process, Mann has effectively bestowed an award on himself.
If there were an index that could combine the shockingly low standard of science in a paper with the detrimental effect that paper had on public policy then Mann’s hockey stick would probably rank as the worst paper in the history of science. He has had plenty of opportunity to revise his papers to remove inappropriate proxies (strip bark bristlecone pine cores) or use them the right way up (Tiljander series), to correct the gross error in the PCA analysis and to carry out recognised tests of statistical significance. But he hasn’t done so and continues to stand by this dross. I am slack-jawed that any worthy scientific body would induct him as a Fellow.
Do not forget Neil Ferguson’s ridiculous fearmonger pseudo-science.
I can’t believe those bozos are even actual scientists.
They behave as a bunch of corrupted mediocre henchmen, not as scientists.
The puppeteers are those who reward those clowns and/or justify devastating policies on their junk science.
David
It is known as quid pro quo.
The NAS spent their last penny of credibility on this one.
MM is pure Activist. Science is optional.
“Original research”?
That’s a new name for it.
“… continuing achievements in original research….”
1) Original research = fail
2) First achievement = fraudulently redefine research outcome
3) next achievement = redefine research goal as “communication”
4) next achievement = getting rewarded for the said fraud
5) next (continued) achievement = redefining the fraud as communication
6) next = coordinating with other “communication” fraudsters.
When MM claims there is ‘human-induced’ emissions warming, he’s wrong, as CO2 doesn’t ‘warm’.
There is no man-made warming now nor will there ever be, as the sun rules the climate absolutely.
The NAS is purely political, so expect more MM-communicated agitprop this election year.
Every person in the world must know people are not at fault for climate change.
Feynman, I recall, refused membership in NAS, saying that he didn’t see the value of membership in a society whose main function was to decide who is august enough to be a member.
Yes, the NAS does tend to be a mutual masturbation and hemorrhoid admiration society doesn’t it? Well, they now have one more of the latter to admire.
Kevin,
When Feynman resigned from the NAS, he wrote this letter:
“Dear Prof. Handler:
My request for resignation from the National Academy of Sciences is based entirely on personal psychological quirks. It represents in no way any implied or explicit criticism of the Academy, other than those characteristics that flow from the fact that most of the membership consider their installation as a significant honor.
Sincerely yours,
Richard P. Feynman
https://fs.blog/2015/12/deviations-from-the-beaten-track/
Feynman also said this:
One of the activities of the members was to select new members. This he considered “a form of self-praise…How can we say only the best must be allowed in to join those who are already in, without loudly proclaiming to our inner selves that we who are in must be very good indeed” (10 August 1961).
I’m reminded of a joke by Groucho Marx that he wouldn’t want to belong to any organization that would have him as a member. Perhaps future nominations should decline on the basis that they wouldn’t want to belong to any society that would have the likes of Mann as a member.
This election of Mann is right up there with Adolf Hitler being Time magazine’s man of the year.