Essay by Eric Worrall
Michael Mann: “It is pure villainy. A crime against the planet – arguably, the most profound of all crimes.”
White House ends funding for key US climate body: ‘No coming back from this’
Nasa cuts contract that convened USGCRP, which released assessments impacting environmental decision-making
Dharna Noor and Gabrielle CanonThu 10 Apr 2025 06.11 AEST
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The next assessment is due by 2027. But now, Nasa has ended its contract with the consulting firm ICF International, which convened the USGCRP and coordinated the federal agencies that contribute to the quadrennial report.
“There’s really no coming back from this, and it means we are all less informed about climate impacts, and won’t have the most up-to-date information on risks and threats,” said one federal staffer who was engaged in USGCRP activities, and who requested anonymity to avoid retribution. “USGCRP helped me to leverage resources from other agencies for use in my own work. But without these networks, I’m left without a support system and the latest science on climate change.”
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“Extreme weather disasters displaced millions of people and caused billions of dollars in damage in 2024 alone,” said Katharine Hayhoe, a Texas Tech University climate scientist who has served as lead author on three national climate assessments. “Given the accelerating pace and scale of climate impacts today, a sustained and more comprehensive national climate assessment process is so essential,” Hayhoe said. “We need it today, to build a better future tomorrow.”
…“It is pure villainy,” said Mann. “A crime against the planet – arguably, the most profound of all crimes.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/trump-national-climate-assessment-usgcrf
Obviously Mann describing something as an act of “pure villainy” is quite an endorsement.
I had a flip through the national assessments, and in my opinion they could have saved a bundle of money by asking ChatGPT to paraphrase the previous report and changing the dates.
The Fifth National Climate Assessment
How the United States Is Addressing Climate ChangeThe effects of human-caused climate change are already far-reaching and worsening across every region of the United States. Rapidly reducing greenhouse gas emissions can limit future warming and associated increases in many risks. Across the country, efforts to adapt to climate change and reduce emissions have expanded since 2018, and US emissions have fallen since peaking in 2007. However, without deeper cuts in global net greenhouse gas emissions and accelerated adaptation efforts, severe climate risks to the United States will continue to grow.
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Read more: https://nca2023.globalchange.gov
Fourth national assessment executive summary;
Highlights of the Findings of the U.S. Global Change Research Program Climate Science Special Report
The climate of the United States is strongly connected to the changing global climate. The statements below highlight past, current, and projected climate changes for the United States and the globe.
Global annually averaged surface air temperature has increased by about 1.8°F (1.0°C) over the last 115 years (1901–2016). This period is now the warmest in the history of modern civilization. The last few years have also seen record-breaking, climate-related weather extremes, and the last three years have been the warmest years on record for the globe. These trends are expected to continue over climate timescales.
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Read more: https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/executive-summary/
Was USGCRP spending or causing the expenditure of $4 billion dollars per year to produce that report?
I tried to discover the USGCRP budget. The page I found was a cross budget page. I captured a screenshot of the entire USGCRP page, because the USGCRP website might not be with us for long. Some of the links already no longer work.
I doubt the USGCRP was solely responsible for the full $4 billion in the cross budget. Some of the support expenditure might be activities which would be performed anyway, such as weather monitoring performed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
But when you add up all the cushy salaries, the flights to climate conferences some members likely accepted, and all the other paraphernalia of a large climate activity group, it seems likely DOGE just saved US taxpayers a whole pile of money. Not to mention all the carbon emissions which will be saved by cancelling those climate conference flights.
“Pure villainy” says the biggest villain of them all……
Why hasn’t Mann withdrawn MBH98?
Because he’s a denier.
His ego won’t let him.
Mann can’t admit that *he* is a liar.
If Mickey Mann and Kath Ho-hum are complaining then..
1… you are on the right track
2… diddums. !!
Yes, they are two of the biggest Climate Change Propagandists around.
Don’t believe a word either one of them says. They are Climate Change Scaremongers, plain and simple.
The projection is strong with this one.
Villain definitely.
Also a fraud, grifter and parasite
Worked with ICF on several enviro nmental efforts years ago. If it required legwork and development, ICF filled in for EPA dunderheads. When I retired they approached me about working on contract. It seemed like a sham and I decloned. They are one of the biggest pigs at the environmental trough.
Decloning is a good thing?
Declowning is even better.
Don’t think it would be possible to de-clown Mickey Mann. !
“It is pure villainy,” said Mann.
That is what your hockey stick graph is Mikey boy. You should be the one to talk.
Mann, one of the guys who caused this CO2-caused Climate Change Hoax in the first place, is now complaining that the Trump administration isn’t paying attention to his lies about the climate.
The Trump administration is, in effect, calling Michael Mann a Liar. They are saying his climate change scaremongering isn’t scaring them, causing Mann to start whining.
Not to mention his defamation lawsuits. Pure villainy.
It’s definitely anti-cause, which always upsets Mikey.
When I see such a picture of Mickey Mann I ask myself the question: would I buy a used car of this man?
NO,No, and Hell no! There’s a line from Deliverance about a pretty mouth…
I wouldn’t buy a new car from him!
I wouldn’t even buy a used supermarket cart/trolley off him!
“There’s no coming back from this”
I hope that’s the case.
PRESERVING SIGNIFICANT ATMOSPHERIC DATA IS CRUCIAL
While I consider the misuse of scientific data to promote highly questionable climate scenarios to be fraud, I am equally concerned about the possible destruction of perfectly valid atmospheric data. For example, what might happen to NOAA’s Climate Reference Network? This network of 100+ stations in carefully selected locations is providing vitally important data that, so far at least, show no significant upward changes in temperature.
I am equally concerned about the future of NASA’s AERONET network that provided vitally important data in support of my 30-year climatology paper in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society that showed no change in total water vapor, the chief greenhouse gas, for 30 years. AERONET should be kept alive, and its data should remain fully available. The same applies to data collected by earth resource satellites. For example, I have validated AOD and total water vapor data collected by my homemade instruments by means of data collected over my site from Terra and Aqua.
In short, I certainly hope that the ongoing and highly questionable misuse of climate data will impact only those with a climate change agenda and not those of us who rely on properly collected data by well calibrated and properly located instruments. The destruction of such data paid for by our taxes should be considered a criminal offense.
Forrest M. Mims III
I agree raw observations and documentation should be preserved. Even the models should be protected in an archive.
But as Anthony documented with the surface stations project, the one thing they didn’t spend money on or at least substantially neglected was maintaining their data collection network.
Yes, all the data needs to be preserved, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
We want to examine all of it for climate change fraud. We want all the documents of the Climate Alarmists.
re Mr. Mims III ‘s headline statement:
“PRESERVING SIGNIFICANT ATMOSPHERIC DATA IS CRUCIAL”
Which no one would deny. ( Is the NASA-contracted USGCRP-NCA-NIF needed for that role? )
It’s also required by law, already, i.e. to preserve and protect the data generated under federally funded research programs? Or do you believe otherwise?
Or are you implying something about a diminished will to enforce the legal requirement to preserve and protect the data generated under federally funded research programs?
Or maybe your concern is restricted future access to the data?
Or is it about the cost of managing the networks mentioned?
What is it that you want the feds to continue funding, to facilitate your valued work, that could not be equally well supported by a non-Fed source?
Just asking, respectfully, — RLW
I think the greater danger is deep-state actors sabotage of important and useful activities to try and embarrass the current administration.
You can bet that’s going on.
Example: Vice President Vance paid a visit to Greenland a few weeks back, and after he left, the U.S. commander of American forces in Greenland wrote a critical report of the visit, which got her butt promptly fired from her position.
This woman must be very unfamiliar with military life. Perhaps she is a DEI hire. She should have known that she was going to get fired for insubordination, if she wrote the critical article. So, she either knew that was going to happen and went ahead and did it anyway. Or she is clueless about how things work in the military.
Publicly criticizing a superior officer will have repercussions every time.
Did the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia preserve all the source data as they collected it? That’s the raw data they refused to allow anyone else access to in order to check their work. Ie, do science to it. https://www.teeshirtpalace.com/products/biscuit-science-i-will-do-science-to-it-t-shirt_bsi6476085-at?color=black&size=L
BTW, I’m the guy who suggested to A. Senna Diaz he should put that panel from his Dresden Codak webcomic on shirts. He didn’t think it would sell well… Sold well enough that Adam Savage wore it in an episode of Mythbusters.
Yeah, what about Phil Jones’ data? The data he used to bastardize the instrument-era temperature record?
Phil refused to share his data with others. He said he thought if he did that, someone might be critical of him.
So we don’t know exactly what method Phil Jones used to bastardized the instrument-era portion of the Hockey Stick Chart. Jones either had to change the land temperature data, or he had to add in bogus sea surface temperature data in order to make the past appear cooler than the present. His bastardizations erased the warm periods of the 1880’s and the 1930’s, which were just as warm as it is today, and that’s what he wanted to hide with his bastardization of the temperature record.
The only available temperature data Jones had was the regional, written, historic temperature data, all of which shows it was just as warm in the recent past as it is today.
So in order to change this benign temperature profile into a CO2-caused, “hotter and hotter and hotter” temperature profile, Jones either had to change the original data, or he used bogus sea surface temperatures to change the original data.
The original data was changed. The original data shows we have nothing to fear from CO2 because even though there is much more CO2 in the air today, it is no warmer than in the past when there was less CO2 in the air, so therefore, CO2 has had no visible effect on the Earth’s temperatures.
That’s what Phil Jones and his co-conspirators wanted to hide. So they created a fake temperature profile, the Hockey Stick, “hotter and hotter and hotter” profile that climbed as CO2 levels climbed, and used this to scare the world into fearing CO2 and causing the fearful to do some very stupid, expensive, soul-destroying things in a effort to control CO2.
Where’s your data, Phil? We want to look at it and see how you created this BIG LIE. Run, run, run, Phil. You can’t hide the fact that the original, written temperature records don’t look anything like a Hockey Stick chart. The only real data we have debunks your bogus, bastardized, instrument-era Hockey Stick chart temperature profile BIG LIE.
It’s a “crime against the planet”, Phil.
“— “The data doesn’t matter. We’re not basing our recommendations on the data. We’re basing them on the climate models.” – Professor Chris Folland, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research.
Oops!
In the string “Is the NASA-contracted USGCRP-NCA-NIF needed for that role?”, please replace “NIF” by “ICF“.
[Reversed the mnemonic National Ignition Facility with Inertial Confinement Fusion]
Full name is consulting firm ICF International, which is a useful reminder that (as someone recently posted in this same context):
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Defunding is only the first step; expect max resistance from the beast.
Gotta raze it to the ground.
Then go deeper — uproot it, salt the foul earth from which it sprung …
… treat it as you’d kill a vampire*, lest it arise zombie-like and devour your children.
Let ‘The Climate’ never be spoken of again!
Let no schoolchild ever be exposed to it:
there is no planetary ‘The Cli#’; only ‘the Climes’ (plural), as of yore, to be learned.
Plus this — just to show magnanimity in victory — promise not to prosecute them for egregious fraud, provided they depart in silence.
Otherwise, sic the legal system / lawfare on them all, just as they would do to anyone who resisted.
— Q.E.D.
[But please add to this as the spirit moves y’all]
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*Traditional ways to kill a vampire.
… Shoot with a silver bullet (not just any silver bullet, it has to be a silver bullet that a crucifix was melted down to create…
“This period is now the warmest in the history of modern civilization. “
What a load of tosh !!
Near all the last 10,000 years, from the MWP backwards, have been warmer than now.
It is likely that in many parts of the NH, the 1930s,40s were at least as warm as now.
What does “the history of modern civilization” even mean? The last 50 years? Whoop de effing do. Do these morons want it to be colder than the LIA?
I think they think modern civilization began when AlGore invented the internet.
It’s pure villainy. A crime against the planet, arguably the most profound of all crimes.
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I thought we had an agreement that there would be a trigger warning on pictures of beady-eyed rats, Mr. Worrall?
I thought the trigger warning rule only applied to Oreskes? 🙂
You might be technically correct, but ffs man!
🤣🤣🤣
Unbelievable. And unbelievably clueless.
Thank God and all the little fishies.
“I’m left without a support system and the latest science on climate change”
Let me help this person out: Currently, there is NO evidence that CO2 has any effect on the Earth’s climate or weather.
Nothing will change next year.
You have all the knowledge you need about CO2 and climate change right now. You don’t need an update.
in the 46 years since the Charney report we have gone from a best central estimate of 3C/doubling of CO2 to a best central estimate of 3C/doubling of CO2, and aren’t much more certain about it. Yes, i’d say that cutting the funding way back is in order.
I obtained a Ph.D. in Geophysics way back, and learned to dislike many of my fellow scientists because from their behavior I’d guess them to be insular and entitled. They believe themselves entitled to interminable funding from all the rest of us because playing with models is so important. Meanwhile the epidemic of CO2 anxiety has grown to have bad effects on mental health, science education, energy policy and government funding.
…, we have gone from a best central estimate of 3C/doubling of CO2 to a best central estimate of 3C/doubling of CO2, and aren’t much more certain about it.”
Actually, I think that we are less certain of it because the range has increased at both ends in recent years.
Isn’t that just simply to encompass the lower estimates that dominate more recent work while not apparently undermining the 3C figure? Though how they justify the upward extension seems never to get much attention.
The USGCRP is ambiguous. The four billion is just a list of 13 agency climate research efforts each of which is separately funded as part of that agency’s funding. Then there is the tiny USGCRP office that produces (1) an annual report Our Changing Planet that summarizes the 13 agency activities and (2) the occasional National Climate Assessment, or as I call it the National Scare.
All prior NCAs were produced under Democrat presidents except the one was actually late so published early in Trump’s first term. Zeroing the USGCRP office is great but I think only Congress can zero the four billion a year.
“All prior NCAs were produced under Democrat presidents except the one was actually late so published early in Trump’s first term.”
Hmmm … Makes me wonder if it was intentionally published late?
I agree! Mann is right! His lies about climate are pure villainy, crimes against Humanity and unarguably the most profound crimes against the Human Race.
Yes, Mann is the villain here.
Think of all the harm his climate change scaremongering lies have done to the mental health of the children of the world.
And that’s just one area where his lies have done damage.
The Dishonest Temperature Data Mannipulators have caused great pain in the world. They need to be held to account for the insanity they have spawned with their lies about CO2 and temperatures.
If Michael Mann doesn’t like it, it must be a really good idea.
Death by a thousand cuts, $ 4 billion at a time, nice to see. Excellent warmup exercise, let’s hope the IPCC will be up soon
Waahh waahh waahh go the climate
grifters“scientists”, now they’ll need to find honest work!You crossed out the wrong word. 😉
Hi katherine, you little scallywag, please provide this website with the data to support your claim.
No one will laugh at you, promise.
There she goes, lying about the climate again.
Mortadella face embarrassingly chimes in again……
https://youtu.be/Xcb4_QwP6fE?si=fsp_v6a2xPVTi9Oj
Very relevant link.. Thanks for the laugh. 🙂
Is the acronym USGCRP missing its A?
I have written to the Royal Society describing Prof Mann’s activities and the opinions held by 100.world class scientists ((A Disgrace to the Profession”) and asking why on earth he has been elected as a member. No reply yet.
The creatures outside looked from pig to Mann, and from Mann to pig, and from pig to Mann again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Quit insulting pigs.
Are you sure you’ve got tge name right? Shouldn’t it be USGCRAP?
Shouldn’t it be Gulf of America, not USG?
I thought by now, he’d realize
There ain’t no way to hide those beady lying eyes.
Climate Emergency at an end
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/11/19/climate-scientists-officially-declare-climate-emergency-at-an-end/
It was all just a fantasy and fraud to begin with.
Could someone please send a copy to to Ed Milliband