Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Following on from his “last chance” warnings in 2015, another 2015 and 2020, Michael Mann wants us to understand that COP26 really is our last chance to address the climate crisis.
World’s climate scientists to issue stark warning over global heating threat
IPCC’s landmark report will be most comprehensive assessment yet as governments prepare for pivotal UN talks in November
Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent
Mon 9 Aug 2021 03.00 AESTThe fires, floods and extreme weather seen around the world in recent months are just a foretaste of what can be expected if global heating takes hold, scientists say, as the world’s leading authority on climate change prepares to warn of an imminent and dire risk to the global climate system.
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Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Pennsylvania State University, said this would be the last IPCC assessment that can make a real difference in policy terms, before we exceed 1.5C and the ambitions of the Paris agreement.
“Climate change is now causing amplified weather extremes of the sort we’ve been witnessing this summer – droughts, heatwaves, wildfires, floods, superstorms,” he said. “The impacts of climate change are no longer subtle. We see them playing out in real time in the form of these unprecedented extreme weather disasters.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/08/worlds-climate-scientists-to-issue-stark-warning-over-global-heating-threat
This is a followup to Michael Mann’s last chance warning in 2015;
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klimaretter.info: Professor Mann, a new climate agreement is to be concluded in Paris in December . Isn’t it already too late for that? Is it still physically possible to limit global warming to a maximum of two degrees Celsius?
Michael Mann: Yes, of course! Admittedly, Paris is probably the last chance to get the necessary emissions reductions off the ground – if we had started 15 years ago, the necessary change in the energy system could have been more gentle. The earth has warmed up by around one degree since the beginning of industrialization, another half a degree is already safe. So it is clear that there is little room for maneuver.
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Read more (German): http://www.klimaretter.info/forschung/hintergrund/19986-qparis-ist-die-wahrscheinlich-letzte-chanceq
Mann’s warning about the 2016 election;
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“This will be a make-or-break presidency as far as our ability to avert a climate change catastrophe,” says Michael Mann, meteorology professor and director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University, whose “hockey-stick” shaped graph warned of sharply rising emissions and temperatures.
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Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2015/08/14/the-2016-election-is-critical-for-stopping-climate-change
I wonder if Mann will get to issue the COP27 climate last chance warning? He seems to enjoy it.
He will be giving “last chance ” warnings for decades to come, the problem is that you can’t fix stupid and when you add liar, and fraud to the mix you have the Mikey Mann tradition.
Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Pennsylvania State University, hasn’t published any science at all since his work on lanthanide ceramics in the early 1990s.
Climate models are unverified, unvalidated, and physically useless.
The global air temperature record is so riddled with systematic measurement error as to be climatologically, well, useless.
Proxy paleo air-temperature reconstructions have no distinct physical meaning at all.
What else has he done?
Distinguished alright, but not for doing science.
He’s just like Fauci.
When was the last he actually practiced proper medicine?
Around this neck of the woods the “L” sign stands for LOSER. Did Mann take that picture so that he could look at it over and over again and get the real message?
Photoshop of course, as disclosed in the blurb above it
The unfortunate Mann, a serial litigant, just keeps on losing. Having now included every type and intensity of weather as harbingers of the last days, he is fast running out of shock and awe. But there’s always a last chance, always another rent-seeking wind turbine to save the world.
As a serial litigant, how can he afford his legal bills?
Where does the money come from?
Has he actually paid his legal bills? I was under the impression that most remain unpaid?
He owes a ton of money to Dr Tim Ball for his failed defamation suit. I doubt he’ll ever pay it. What a scumbag.
“Where does the money come from?”
Good question.
From those who can’t afford for him to lose.
“ I wonder if Mann will get to issue the COP27 climate last chance warning?”
Tradition matters
Like singing the national anthem before the mayhem starts
“Climate change is now causing amplified weather extremes of the sort we’ve been witnessing this summer” To my knowledge no where is there any solid evidence that there is new weather extremes much less that they are the result of man’s activities. These folks make the claim and count on their followers blindly accepting the premise.
“These folks make the claim and count on their followers blindly accepting the premise.”
That’s exactly what they do.
COP26 will be a climate circus that will provide a huge advantage to the skeptics. Game over.
Congratulations in advance to all my fellow deniers.
I wish! The climate scammers and the governments they serve haven’t cared at all about data, or truth or even just plain logic. The whole scary mess has a huge amount of momentum and a lot of support from the sensationalist media and there’s billions of dollars involved so it might never stop unless there’s a huge crisis, much bigger than Texas’ big freeze up.
““Climate change is now causing amplified weather extremes of the sort we’ve been witnessing this summer – droughts, heatwaves, wildfires, floods, superstorms,”. Besides the fact that the data shows none of this is true, this old trope is getting really tiresome.
The whole 1.5ºC limit “if we follow idiots like Mann and Gavin Schmidt” requires one to believe in magic.
Nick Stokes is now preaching the end result will be “six degrees of warming”, which of course predefined as catastrophic.
I’m still trying to figure out how getting temperatures back to what was seen during the Holocene Optimum for 5 to 10 thousand years, is supposed to be a bad thing.
I am tempted to go to this COP out meeting this year as it is reasonable local, just a few hundred miles up the road. I am thinking of baking a large fruit cake with 26 candles on it and a card with appropriate sentiments. Feel free to suggest the wording, I am always looking for ideas.
As a delivery boy with a cake I am sure I could get past the guards and gain entry.
Not sure how many will be attending this years gab fest, but the previous one managed to assemble tens of thousands of freeloaders. All on expenses paid attendance of course.
I guess it will need to be a big cake!
A nice decoration of skull and crossed hockey sticks might be appropriate?
I think you have to show your Greenpeace or UN pass to get in….
Eric, I think you are right. I don’t have a Greenpeace card but I do have a Greene King card from my local pub, maybe that would do? The other option is just to dress up as a clown and join the general gathering, incognito…..
Not to be too serious, but it’d be nice if skeptics could mount some counter demonstrations in Glasgow during COP26. We did so at previous shindigs, but that was pre-lockdown.There will be a heavy media presence and some will be bored enough by the main show they might pay attention to a side show.
“A nutcake for the nut cases.” Dress as a polar bear. The optics of the police trying to handcuff a polar bear would be awesome. 😀
Tell them Green King encourages consumption of Vegan products, that will see you through 🙂
When did they replace global warming with global “heating”?
Since global warming has lost it’s kick, they are test marketing new slogans.
Visible very slow increase in solar magnetic field activity.
This is nonsense. There is no theory that supports this proposal and there is no data that shows any weather activity outside of normal occurrence.
That makes it a “Chicken Little” proclamation and nothing more.
And the Guardian just laps up Mann’s workds. As a lifelong Guardian reader, they disappoint me so much. Objectivity and analysis go out the window so long as the speaker is giving the ‘truth’ you are looking for. To them, the scandal of the UK government’s Climate ambassador, Alok Sharma’s recent flying to 30 countries and exemption from Covid quarantines was just a Daily Mail smear tactic!! Sharma’s justification? Face-to-face meetings are invaluable. But apparently not if only to visit sick and dying relatives, or to attend weddings and funerals.
I predict a very snowy winter in the northern hemisphere this year. I am taking three factors into account.
First, galactic radiation is concentrated in the high and mid latitudes, according to the geomagnetic field.
Second, the oceans are warm enough that there will be enough water vapor to produce plenty of snow.
Third, there will already be La Niña in November, which will cause temperatures to drop in high latitudes.
In this situation, we can expect frequent stratospheric intrusions and snow fronts in the middle latitudes.
An excellent posting. I don’t know if it’s right or not, but it makes a clear and testable prediction. I shall watch with interest.
Me, too.
Mann has lifted that pose in the picture above from In The Court Of The Crimson King by… King Crimson
I have been following WUWT for many years now but have never posted.
It would be a considerable improvement if the replies did not descend into hurling abuse at each other almost every time.
My point today is that I see absolutely no evidence for CAGW and not much for AGW so I see no crisis.
If however the latest IPCC report were true ( I don’t believe it is) then the only rational thing to do would be to persuade (by fair means or foul) China and other major creators of CO2 to stop their growth. Not exactly likely!
All other steps are mindless and unbelievably destructive virtue signalling.
From the article: “The fires, floods and extreme weather seen around the world in recent months are just a foretaste of what can be expected if global heating takes hold, scientists say”
The key word being “if”.
From the article: “as the world’s leading authority on climate change prepares to warn of an imminent and dire risk to the global climate system.
…Michael Mann,”
That’s funny.
Mann is the leading Charlatan on climate change.
From the article: ““Climate change is now causing amplified weather extremes of the sort we’ve been witnessing this summer – droughts, heatwaves, wildfires, floods, superstorms,” he [Mann] said.”
We witness these kinds of weather events *every* year.
Every year the alarmists and Charlatans see CO2 in any unusual weather event. They are like the boy crying wolf all the time.
And of course, they completely ignore the fact that the weather has been more extreme in the past when CO2 was not a factor. The statistics are clear.
More lies from Michael Mann.
From the article: “The earth has warmed up by around one degree since the beginning of industrialization, another half a degree is already safe. So it is clear that there is little room for maneuver.”
Well, the Earth has cooled by around one-half a degree (C) since Michael Mann made this statement. So the Earth is farther away from the 1.5C phony crisis target than in 2015.
The Earth is headed in the right direction temperature-wise. Anyone paying attention should be encouraged that Mother Nature seems to be taking care of the temperatures, and overheating is not taking place, as the alarmists claim.
I have a suggestion for Mikey Mann, the Head Climate Twink:
Get your mouth sewn shut!
Has he ever heard of those superwarm periods back in the Long Ago? Maybe Professor Peabody** could give him a clue with a trip in the Wayback Machine to the epic Carboniferous epoch. You know, pack a nice picnic lunch or something and take along some bug repellent to fight off the 6 foot long centipedes. 🙂
**Yes, I did watch those cartoons and Crusader Rabbit, too, and a bunch of other stuff.
Mann would never have given his idiotic sycophants this bit of news coming out of where I have been on three separate occasions, New Zealand.
ANTARCTIC BLAST DELIVERS FREEZING LOWS, RARE SNOWS, AND POWER OUTAGES ACROSS NEW ZEALAND
AUGUST 9, 2021 CAP ALLON
Snow dumps up to a whopping 2m (6.6ft) have been reported.
However, for all the thrill of fresh powder, New Zealand’s Mountain Safety Council (MSC) has urged Kiwis not to rush to the slopes, warning that the first two days after a snow dump brings a major risk of avalanches.
“The 24-48hr period after a storm like this one is the most dangerous, and while the temptation is to rush out and get the fresh powder it’s really the time for patience and a cautious approach,” said MSC Chief Executive Mike Daisley.
https://electroverse.net/antarctic-blast-delivers-freezing-lows-rare-snows-and-power-outages-across-new-zealand/
Mann has nothing to say about this, does he? Rapidly deepening low brings heavy snowfall and strong winds to New Zealand
A rapidly deepening low is moving east across central New Zealand on Sunday, August 8, 2021, into early Monday. This low is bringing heavy snow to low levels and severe gale southerlies across the central and northern districts of the country. The heaviest snow is…
August 08, 2021
https://watchers.news/
Come along John, surely you know this bit of snow and weather in NZ is all induced by global warming.
Lots of snow everywhere is just proof positive we are boiling up. The resulting floods will be global warming too.
I may be wrong, but doesn’t Dr Mann’s expression indicate that he is a stranger to self-doubt?
JF
I’m pretty sure Mann is wrong.
According to my calculations, it’s COP186 which will be our absolute last chance to ‘Save The Planet’.
In the above article, attributed to Fiona Harvey:
“. . . as the world’s leading authority on climate change prepares to warn of an imminent and dire risk to the global climate system . . . Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Pennsylvania State University, said . . .”
Literally stopped reading right then and there. You know, trying to eliminate as much BS as I can from my life.