Michael Mann on CAGW skeptics, "a fringe minority of our populace clings to an irrational rejection of well-established science,"

A fringe majority?

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — THE overwhelming consensus among climate scientists is that human-caused climate change is happening. Yet a fringe minority of our populace clings to an irrational rejection of well-established science. This virulent strain of anti-science infects the halls of Congress, the pages of leading newspapers and what we see on TV, leading to the appearance of a debate where none should exist.

Most people, including me, do believe it is warmer now than it was 100 years ago, but that doesn't mean we believe anything strange is going on. Climates change. That is what they do. We are currently in a warming period. This is a part of a cycle that has repeated many times in the past. Warming is much preferable to another ice age. The last ice age almost wiped humans out according to scientists and may have actually drove Neanderthals to extinction. The number that believes man is primarily responsible for global warming is the fringe minority. 


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Democrats Try to Change Virginia Law to Thwart Investigation of Michael Mann

Two Demo State Senators are trying to change Virginia law in order to thwart a fraud investigation of Dr. Michael Mann of Climategate fame. Why am I not shocked? Global warming true believers never want you to peek behind the Wizard's curtain.

The Daily Progress reported:

Two Democratic state senators are proposing to change state law to thwart Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s efforts to investigate a former University of Virginia professor’s research on global warming...

The bill is in response to efforts by Cuccinelli, a Republican, to investigate possible fraud by former UVa professor Michael Mann in relation to five taxpayer-funded research grants between 1999 and 2005.

The senators, A. Donald McEachin and J. Chapman Petersen, will meet this morning with Del. David J. Toscano, D-Charlottesville, at the Capitol to discuss the legislation.

The Video Micheal Mann Does Not Want You to See

Penn State climatologist Michael Mann, implicated in "climategate" scandal, is threatening to launch a lawsuit against the producers of this parody video posted on YouTube.

Climategate: Hide The Decline - the video


Minnesotans for Global Warming initially pulled the video, but after receiving promises of support are telling Dr. Mann to "bring it on."

In his letter Mann threatened legal action, claiming the spoof video "illegally used his image and defamed him."

Neither Mann nor Penn State responded to requests for comments...

Davis and No Cap and Trade said they welcome the lawsuit.

The group is eager to conduct an in-depth probe of Mann's work and "finally look at how it was done. We understand why Michael Mann is eager to silence public discussion of the hockey stick scandal, but truth is an absolute defense."

According to Davis, the video was created in the wood-warmed RV that is the "world headquarters " for Minnesotans for Global Warming and its three members, who jokingly think that Minnesota could use a little more heat.

When the letter first arrived, they quickly pulled the video from You Tube and their website because they couldn't afford to defend against a lawsuit...

Here is the sequel.

Hide The Decline II - The Sequel

Climategate Update: Mann Throws Jones Under the Bus

AGW climatologists are attacking each other as they scurry for cover in the aftermath of the Climategate leaked email scandal. Professor Michael Mann, the Director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University and author of the infamous hockey stick graph, has moved to distance himself from some of the comments in the emails from Professor Phil Jones who has temporarily stepped down as director of the scandalized Climatic Research Unit (CRU)at the University of East Anglia.

The Telegraph reported:

One of the scientists to whom the emails were addressed, Professor Michael Mann, the Director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University has moved to distance himself from some of the comments in the emails that suggest scientists did not want the IPCC, the UN body charged with monitoring climate change, to consider studies that challenged the view global warming was genuine and man-made.

Ever wonder what the infamous Mann's 'Hockey Stick' graph would look like without the 'Hide The Data' trick? Here it is.

Mann's 'Hockey Stick' Graph Without The 'Hide The Data' Trick

Ever wonder what the infamous Mann's 'Hockey Stick' graph would look like without the 'Hide The Data' trick? Here it is.


Does anyone see a 'Hockey Stick?'

The above graph was reconstructed from this leaked email by Climate Audit and posted on their mirror site.

Hockey Stick Graph Creator Michael Mann Implicated In Global Warming Fraud

The infamous 'Hockey Stick" graph. (above)

Dr. Michael Mann is the co-author of the famous “hockey stick graph” of temperature trends. He has been implicated in the hacked emails implicating Hadley CRU, authors of the Hadcut record, in hiding data contrary to global warming and trying to suppress critics. Here is one of the emails addressed to Dr. Mann,

From: Phil Jones
To: ray bradley ,mann@xxxxx.xxx, mhughes@xxxx.xxx
Subject: Diagram for WMO Statement
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:31:15 +0000
Cc: k.briffa@xxx.xx.xx,t.osborn@xxxx.xxx

Dear Ray, Mike and Malcolm,
Once Tim’s got a diagram here we’ll send that either later today or
first thing tomorrow.
I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps
to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from
1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline. Mike’s series got the annual
land and marine values while the other two got April-Sept for NH land
N of 20N. The latter two are real for 1999, while the estimate for 1999
for NH combined is +0.44C wrt 61-90. The Global estimate for 1999 with
data through Oct is +0.35C cf. 0.57 for 1998.
Thanks for the comments, Ray.

Cheers
Phil

Prof. Phil Jones
Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) xxxxx
School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) xxxx
University of East Anglia
Norwich Email p.jones@xxxx.xxx
NR4 7TJ
UK

It is unclear exactly what "Mike’s Nature trick" is, but it appears to help hide the temperature decline. This looks very damning to Dr. Mann.