Warmist Kevin Trenberth mimics Mann’s Nobel Prize claims?! Trenberth’s online CV lists himself as ‘Nobel Laureate’ — ‘Nobel Laureate (shared) for Nobel Peace Prize 2007 (as part of IPCC) Oct 2007’
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Mike’s Nobel Trick: Mann quietly alters his bio after rebuke by Nobel Committee for false Nobel Prize claims: ‘Behind the scenes, a lot of quiet airbrushing of the record seems to be going on’
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Michael Mann actually believes his own propaganda! Paragraph 5 of Mann’s official complaint against National Review says his critics are guilty of ‘personal defamation of a Nobel prize recipient’
Excerpt from Mann’s lawsuit:
“It is one thing to engage in discussion about debatable topics. It is quite another to attempt to discredit consistently validated scientific research through the professional and personal defamation of a Nobel prize recipient.”
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Michael Mann’s Hockey Stick snaps (again): Now you see it, now you don’t, now you see it again! A warm welcome back to the Mediveal Warm Period
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NRDC’s Dan Lashof: ‘Will Hurricane Sandy Get Politicians to Pull their Heads Out of the Sand?’
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Prof. Roger Pielke Jr. on Mann’s alleged Nobel Prize: ‘Mann’s embellishment has placed him in a situation where his claims are being countered by the Nobel organization itself’
Pielke Jr. excerpt:
Back in 2009, Mann explained why the title of his climate book – Dire Predictions — was an embellishment, and this explanation helps to explain why a small part of the community thinks that such embellishments are acceptable:
Often, in our communication efforts, scientists are confronted with critical issues of language and framing. A case in point is a book I recently co-authored with Penn State colleague Lee Kump, called Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming. The purists among my colleagues would rightly point out that the potential future climate changes we describe, are, technically speaking, projections rather than predictions because the climate models are driven by hypothetical pathways of future fossil fuel burning (i.e. conceivable but not predicted futures). But Dire Projections doesn’t quite roll off the tongue. And it doesn’t convey — in the common vernacular — what the models indicate: Climate change could pose a very real threat to society and the environment. In this case, use of the more technically “correct” term is actually less likely to convey the key implications to a lay audience.
So long as some climate scientists are willing to talk about their work as being “correct” in scare quotes in the context of a desire to shape public opinion, they are going to face credibility problems. Think Dick Cheney linking Al Qaeda to Saddam Hussein, and you’ll understand why such efforts are not good for either science or democracy.
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Hurricane Expert Chris Landsea: Any connection between AGW & hurricanes is ‘almost certainly undetectable’
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UN IPCC’s Richard Tol: ‘It is not clear to me why travelling around the world to write a synthesis of the academic literature is worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize’
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Challenged By MTV, Obama Says He Is ‘Surprised’ By His Own Climate Silence: ‘ I am surprised it didn’t come up in one of the debates’
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History is flexible! Michael Mann Now Running Around ‘With A Gallon of White-Out’! — Nobel Prize controversy causing Mann to erase the past!?
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