Mann elected to National Academy of Sciences
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…
Mega-Rich Environmentalists Respond To Questions About Their Use Of Private Jets
From The Daily Caller Chris White Tech Reporter December 09, 2019 11:15 AM ET Billionaire Bill Gates and former Vice President Al Gore responded to criticism that their use of jets somehow conflicts with their desire to fight global warming, Axios reported Monday. Gates suggested to Axios’s Amy Harder that his heavy investments in green…
Climate Change Economist Commits Suicide Nearly A Year After Not Winning Nobel Prize
From The Daily Caller Chris White Tech Reporter September 05, 2019 1:32 PM ET Climate economist Martin Weitzman died Aug. 27 from a suicide about a year after being passed over for a Nobel Prize, as he reportedly grew despondent about his ability to contribute to his field. The Massachusetts medical examiner’s office ruled Wednesday…
‘Alarmism enforcement’ on hurricanes and global warming
From Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. ‘Alarmism enforcement’ on hurricanes and global warming Posted on September 7, 2019 by curryja | 1 Comment by Judith Curry I used to be concerned about ‘consensus enforcement’ on the topic of climate change. Now I am concerned about ‘alarmism enforcement.’ Ever since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, any hurricane…
Scientists Go After The Media For Highlighting A Study Showing IPCC Climate Models Were Wrong
From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch 9:16 AM 09/20/2017 A climate model expert told The Washington Post there would be “extra eyes really scrutinizing” a new study claiming climate models predicted more global warming than has been observed this century. And he was right. Climate scientists have rushed to criticize a study published in the…
Mann on the Lack of MSM Climate Coverage: "One has to wonder if television networks are compromised…"
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Michael Mann, inventor of the iconic Hockey Stick Graph, is concerned that TV networks might have been “compromised” into downplaying the climate crisis. Why has climate change been ignored in the presidential debates? While we rake over Clinton’s emails and Trump’s late-night tweets, climate has been the elephant in the…
A call to action – give #ClimateThanks
Another Internet campaign that could go horribly wrong… Tom Nelson advises me that the Yale Project on Climate Change Communications decided to prod readers into giving “Climate Thanks” this Thanksgiving on Twitter. A silly idea for sure, but certainly better than advocating eating “tofurkey” to lessen climate change. I’m sure WUWT readers have lots to…
Virginia is for warmers? Data says no.
A new tool for climate data visualization is showcased David Walton writes to tell us about a satirical piece by Mark Steyn – titled Virginia is for Warmers I was blessedly out of the country on Tuesday, so I’m belatedly catching up on post-election analysis. But I see that self-proclaimed Nobel laureate Michael Mann is hailing Virginia’s…
The big green machine: McAuliffe, Mann, and Megadollars
From the irascible Joe Romm at Climate Progress: But how did this happen? Follow the money. The Daily Caller has this story: Big ‘green’ dollars propel McAuliffe to victory Environmental activists poured millions of dollars into the Virginia gubernatorial campaign to help propel Democrat Terry McAuliffe to victory over Republican opponent Ken Cuccinelli. Environmental groups…