by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
It has been a very busy two weeks for me, next week is also very busy, hopefully by September things will settle down (for a month, anyways). I haven’t been able to keep up with what is going on elsewhere in the blogosphere, or to develop any new content, but here a few things to stimulate discussion over the weekend. I would like to thank those of you who have been sending me links via email
The adventures of Michael Mann
Over at Bishop Hill, I have been following the latest on Michael Mann’s lawsuits, particularly the pending suits against CEI and Mark Steyn/National Review. Also over at Bishop Hill (also WUWT), they are discussing the latest tranche of emails obtained by CEI.
I am trying to figure out what Mann is trying to accomplish with these lawsuits. I guess he is hoping to intimidate people into not saying negative things about him? It seems to be backfiring, since his suits and threats of suits don’t seem to be slowing people down from criticizing him. I imagine that CEI would relish a lawsuit and all the info they could obtain on discovery. All this must be costing Mann a fortune, but I guess the Climate Scientist Defense Fund must be doing well?
I just spotted this new post over at RealClimate, written by Mann, entitled “Language Intelligence,” about a new book of this title by Joe Romm. An excerpt:
The book is a de facto field guide for recognizing and assimilating many of the key tools of persuasive language and speech, something that is ever more important to science communicators who face the daunting challenge of having to communicate technical and nuanced material to an audience largely unfamiliar with the lexicon of science, sometimes agnostic or even unreceptive to its message, and—in the case of contentious areas like climate change and evolution—already subject to a concerted campaign to misinform and confuse them.
Well I haven’t read the book (don’t intend to), but it sounds like lessons in propaganda to me.
Climate science as culture war
The Stanford Social Innovation Review has a length article entitled Climate Science as Culture Wars. Subtitle: The public debate around climate change is no longer about science—it’s about values, culture, and ideology. The material here is familiar territory for Climate Etc. regulars, but it provides a well written and comprehensive overview. And it only uses the word ‘denier’ in the context of a discussion on recognizing the power of language and terminology. The article is worth reading.
Climate change and Catholic guilt
The catholic culture blog has a very interesting article: The Moral Downside of Climate Change. The whole article is well worth reading, but I particularly like the closing paragraphs:
In any case, it will take far more study, with far more accurate and universally respected results, over a much longer period of time before our limited human comprehension can form a true picture of what is happening, why it is happening, whether it is a source of long-term concern, and whether there is anything particular to be done about it. Under these circumstances, making climate change into a moral priority—that is, a guilt trip—is extraordinarily imprudent. It will serve as more than a distraction. Like many a cause célèbre before it, climate change will become an excuse to ignore the damage done through human relationships that are sadly based on a rejection of God and the natural law.
As many a pundit has said in other contexts: It’s not the heat, it’s the humility. Or at least it ought to be. We could place greater trust in researchers who recognize this. And if all the rest of us could recognize it too, and so stop our endless rebellion against the real moral law, even the environment would benefit.
It’s not the heat, it’s the humility. Quote of the week.
Tropical Storm Isaac
Sometime next week i will do a post on Isaac, describing some new developments in extended range hurricane forecasting. For those of you living on the Gulf Coast, our current forecast is for Isaac to develop into a hurricane (most likely weak), at landfall at most a Cat 1 (probably a TS). In terms of landfall location, our forecast has been consistently tending westward of the National Hurricane Center’s forecast. Our cone of uncertainty is starting to narrow, with the track distributions centered around Pensacola FL and Mobile AL. Looks like Mitt Romney and co are off the hook for a Tampa landfall.
Arctic sea ice
Blogs are atwitter with discussion of a possible record low Arctic sea ice extent this year. The Arctic Sea Ice Graphs site keeps track of all available sea ice data and analyses. Depending on which data set you look at, the Arctic sea ice extent is approaching or has surpassed the record minimum extent (for the period since 1979) in 2007. There are even predictions of an ice free Arctic Ocean by the end of Sept. I’ll do a post later in Sept on “what is going on and what does all this mean.” But in the mean time, here is highly confident prediction: the Arctic Ocean will NOT be ice free by the end of Sept. In fact, nearly all of thin and loosely consolidated ice has already melted (helped along by the big cyclonic storm in early Aug). The remaining ice is consolidated near Greenland and the Canadian archipelago, and is at high latitudes where the autumnal cooling is well underway. So I would suspect that there will be an earlier than usual sea ice minimum this year, with the minimum not getting much lower.
Michael Mann has hung himself by his own petard.
Even the NY Times is opening up to reality. This morning I was allowed to post these truths about the current pseudo-election campaign:
“Climategate emails and documents that were released in Nov 2009 – and the strange response of world leaders and leaders of the scientific community to clear evidence of scientific fraud – have finally forced us to one undeniable conclusion: Politicians have shadow-boxed before TV cameras since 1945 to hide secret agreements to form a tyrannical one-world government to save the world (and themselves) from the threat of nuclear annihilation:
http://omanuel.wordpress.com/about/#comment-818
Now it is time to “Reclaim your birthright !”
Oliver K. Manuel
Former NASA Principal
Investigator for Apollo
http://www.omatumr.com
– – – –
Some scientist, probably Fred Hoyle (FH), contacted another British writer of science fiction George Orwell (GO) in ~1946-47 and warned him that science was corrupted to obscure the energy (E) stored as mass (m) in the cores of heavy atoms like U and Pu, perhaps planets like Jupiter and Saturn, ordinary stars like the Sun, and galaxies.
GO had already written “Animal Farm” about the rise of communism under Stalin before WWII. In 1948 GO wrote a futuristic novel, “Nineteen-Eighty (1984)” to warn society of the disaster ahead when a tyrannical government distorts information and uses electronic surveillance to control people.
http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/
We steadily moved toward 1984, except for a brief disruption of plans when John F. Kennedy (JFK) unexpectedly won election in Nov 1960. Tensions rose in 1961, 1962 and 1963 as the USSR launched the first human into space, the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, JFK announced the USA would use the Apollo program to win the space race, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the murder of JFK and the killing of his assassin.
Richard M. Nixon (RMN) was elected in 1968. Henry Kissinger flew to China in 1971 and agreed to end the Apollo program. RMN announced that decision in Jan 1972, and world leaders were back on track to unite nations and end national boundaries, while politicians (Democrats and Republicans; Conservatives and Liberals; Capitalists and Communists) shadow-boxed before TV cameras.
Sorry I couldn’t decipher the puzzle before the Climategate surfaced in 2009.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/obama-relentless-negativity-article-1.1143143?comment=true
ABC News Flash:
Neil Armstrong, the first human to walk on the Moon has died.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/neil-armstrong-man-moon-dead/comments?type=story&id=12325140#.UDkumTD5P8A
Neil was the American hero who accepted John F. Kennedy’s challenge and risked his life to save mankind from domination by the USSR !
Unfortunately Neil Armstrong and others committed to the exploration of space were betrayed by corrupt world leaders after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963.
http://judithcurry.com/2012/08/25/week-in-review-82512/
My condolences to his family.
With deep regrets,
Oliver K. Manuel
Former NASA Principal
Investigator for Apollo
http://www.omatumr.com
> Unfortunately Neil Armstrong and others committed to the exploration of space were betrayed by corrupt world leaders after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963.
Thank you, Oliver K. Manuel, for using the death of a hero in such a manner.
Long before the death of Neil Armstrong, I had already concluded and reported that our space program was betrayed by corrupt world leaders that secretly agreed to end the Apollo program in 1971, announced by P{resident Richard M. Nixon on 5 Jan 1972.
So had others: http://claudelafleur.qc.ca/Nomoredreams.html
Thank you, Oliver K. Manuel.
As the Charles Hynes of Big Government Science, you are an inspiration to the children of the world.
My mistake! The New York Times has not recovered sanity.
But the New York Daily News is helping to promote their recovery.
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/obama-relentless-negativity-article-1.1143143?comment=true
If the Climategate dominos start to fall, we will have good reason to celebrate the lives of those like Neil Armstrong who risked their
a.) Lives to save the United States from domination by the USSR, and
b.) Research grants to support the basic scientific principals of honestly analyzing and reporting experimental results.
Unfortunately the ladder divided the scientific community into i.) a large, dominant group of arrogant consensus scientists, and ii.)a tiny, poorly-funded group unfortunately group of skeptics.
http://omanuel.wordpress.com/about/#comment-818
Uhhh, I believe it’s hoisted, not hung, by his own petard. A petard being a bomb used to blow a hole in a castle. I suppose we could say he has hung himself on his own yardarm, but it lacks the panache.
More like, instead of any physical damage from an actual explosion between the legs, the science of Mann is more like a wet péter’ in a crowd
Michael Mann is simply a pawn in a big-stakes game that frightened world started in 1945 to save themselves and the world from annihilation by “nuclear fire” !
George Orwell warned us of this in 1948:
http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/
I recognized serious problems ahead when the late Dr. Dwarka Das Sabu and I were ambushed at the National AGU in Washington, DC in April 1976, but couldn’t decipher the intrigue before witnessing the equally strange response of world leaders and leaders of the scientific community to Climategate after Nov 2009.
Thanks to Professor Curry and others who publicly addressed deceit in government science, we finally have a chance to reclaim our birth-right, provided:
a.) Politicians don’t start a war to stay in power, and
b.) We don’t waste time and energy on pawns like Michael Mann.
“the enginer Hoist with his owne petard” -Hamlet
= sapper exploded with his own bomb
Figuratively, Mann is now harmed by his association with Penn and CRU, both organizations fhat formerly fhad been useful to him to bring about harm to others…
Dr. Curry
What is Dr. Mann attempting to accomplish by his lawsuits?
I can’t really comment, as I don’t know the details of all the odious business, however as a general principle if someone names you a pedophile on a national forum, at length and with great enthusiasm, and you have asked them to stop and retract and they go on to become more insistent.. I think that might be in and of itself sufficient explanation for suing them, with no need for a deeper agenda. That the National Review has apparently flaunted with extreme contempt the purpose of the discovery process to patently attempt to avoid a lawsuit by bullying Dr. Mann.. hardly endears their conduct to one, or raises the opinion of the civil-minded about their morals or ethics. Certainly, they’ve lost any semblence of truth.
Or do you think calling colleagues pedophiles merely to demean their conclusions is fun, and fair game, in Science?
If you have actually read the articles in question then you know they did not call him a pedophile, or even compare him to one. The reference to Sandusky was an indictment of PSU investigative methods.
Having spent 3 years at Penn State (1989-1992) and doing my best to leave as quickly as possible (after encountering much unpleasantness that got swept under the rug by the administration), I have a pretty good understanding of the problems with the Penn State administration. No one has called Mann a pedophile, but IMO it is legitimate to point out the problems in the Penn State administration as evidenced by the football scandal.
Why not let the evidence speak for itself?
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/309442/football-and-hockey-mark-steyn
In the wake of Louis Freeh’s report on Penn State’s complicity in serial rape, Rand Simberg writes of Unhappy Valley’s other scandal:
I’m referring to another cover up and whitewash that occurred there two years ago, before we learned how rotten and corrupt the culture at the university was. But now that we know how bad it was, perhaps it’s time that we revisit the Michael Mann affair, particularly given how much we’ve also learned about his and others’ hockey-stick deceptions since. Mann could be said to be the Jerry Sandusky of climate science, except that instead of molesting children, he has molested and tortured data in the service of politicized science that could have dire economic consequences for the nation and planet.
Note that Rand Simberg’s post was retracted with apology. NR’s, not.
But if you’re going to compare someone to a person whose personal morality doesn’t come out looking too good among your readers for the sake of trying to torpedo their arguments, at least learn from how the real professionals do it without exposing themselves to lawsuit:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/08/24/suing-mark-steyn-for-libel-has-michael-mann-ever-heard-of-oscar-wilde/
Though those gloating about the power of discovery ought be reminded there’ve been nine inquiries involving Mann; discovery was part of half of them; they got noplace. And contemptuously announcing you invite a case simply to profit by discovery will not endear you to most judges.
How about this one, talking about a corrupt agency. Three people were put in charge by the USA anti-doping agency to nail Lance Armstrong. One of them was Clark Griffith, a Republican product of wealth, who earlier this year essentially plead guilty to molesting a female student.
Old man Clark Griffith goes at the top of the list of all time nasty hypocritical thugs.
So where would Bill Clinton rank in your panoply of nasty hypocritical thugs? Teddy Kennedy?
Clark Griffith was the son of the Minnesota Twins baseball franchise owner Calvin Griffith. Everyone knows that sports franchise owners are the great leaches of public funding, preying on homerism of gullible sports fans and cowardly politicians that give in. The molester son Clark Griffith frequented the local Republican talk shows and has never done anything to serve the public good . He got caught molesting once, so he likely did it more often. Beyond that, going after Lance Armstrong and indirectly all the charitable works that Armstrong has done has made him a pathetic excuse of a human being.
My view on steroids and doping is mixed. I know that usage leads to anger and rage issues (i.e. roid rage) but Armstrong has never shown any of those side effects. He is possibly more of a medical miracle than anything else. His chemotherapy could have somehow changed his natural metabolism to use oxygen more effectively. Who knows?
I also have a huge interest in improving personal transportation. What if drugs could improve muscle recovery and could be made safe? This could extend people’s ability to get around on human-power further on in their years.
You need to understand the logic of metaphors.
When I say ‘nixon is a rat’ I am not literally claiming that he has a tail
and eats garbage. A metaphor asserts that there is a subset of predicates
that apply to each entity. There are some exceptions to this such as
“no man is an island” . The goal in interpreting a metaphor is finding those set of predicates that are true of both entities.
At the level of syntax a metaphor looks like a statement of identity, but sematically it works if and only if it picks out a subset of predicates.
Love is Love, doesnt work as a metaphor. Love is a puppy, works.
Reading the text you can see exactly what predicates They intend for the reader to pick out. Mann “could be said” to be Sandusky because he tortured and molested data. That sentence tells you which predicates are picked out. While the metaphor is way over the top as far as civil discourse goes it’s par for the course in today’s climate debate.
I suspect no law suit will arise, especially if they have a look at the irregularities surrounding the penn state investigation. One look into the “recusal issue” and Mann’s lawyers will wise up.
An interesting one:
> Bloodcurdling requests
http://neverendingaudit.tumblr.com/post/19344909360
The “logic” is that Mann is being analogized to a pedophile.
Nice way to stand in opposition to the “tribalism” in the debate, steven.
Seriously. That has to be some of the worst dissembling I’ve seen yet in the climate debate. You’re trying to say that he compared Mann to a pedophile to make a point about the validity of Mann’s science?
Hilarious.
No Joshua I am explicating the metaphor, although they already did it for the reader in the text. I grant that the metaphor is gross, uncivil, over the top. you name it. I’m doing exactly the same thing I would do if someone analogized a skeptic with a holocaust denier. or if someone called me a nazi. I think any properly informed jury would see the difference between me literally calling you a serial killer and me saying that you were the ted bundy of the blogosphere, kidnapping and killing every conversation.
I suppose if you or willard want to challenge my explantion of how metaphor works I can dig around and find the references from Lakoff and Johnson. Bottom line: mann can sue for catecresis, probably not libel.
I think that there is little else to say of meaning here. It is tribalism in a rather base form. Decoding the semantics of the metaphor misses the real meaning. It’s trees for forest stuff. It was obviously meant as an insult by virtue of comparing Mann to a pedophile.
Personally, I could care less about how the semantics overlap with the legal analysis. Perhaps you’re more interested in the semantics.Fine.
For me, however the court rules or however someone parses the semantics doesn’t change the intent of the analogy (and I see it as more an analogy than a metaphor).
Josh,
I know that your reading comprehension is good enough to have understood what was written in the piece.
So why make this statement?
tim –
Which piece?
Which statement?
Joshua if you want to see it as an analogy that is fine. There is a close relation between the two. It could also be taken as a similie. In any case,
I think the better case for them rests on the charge of “fraud”
If a bad analogy is enough to occasion a libel lawsuit, then I would expect the courts to be filled with violators of Godwins law.
You should also note the slimy way they distanced themselves from actually making the claim themselves.
compare: Joshua is a rat with ‘it could be said that Joshua is a rat’
They didnt add those words for nothing. Those words are added to give plausable deniability. ‘we didnt say he was a such and such’ we wrote that it could be said. slimy. shows a consciousness of the impropriety of what they are writing.
Joshua,
Please check this other one:
> The vicious tone of Mann’s response to criticism was worthy of Andrew Fastow.
http://neverendingaudit.tumblr.com/post/10519534633
Is it a metaphor or an analogy?
My response got mis-nested post:
http://judithcurry.com/2012/08/25/week-in-review-82512/?replytocom=232169#respond
Steven Mosher
catecresis or catechesis?
I’m not a lawyer, but isn’t the grounds for a lawsuit the accusation of fraud rather than the metaphor?
The guy at NR has tried to soften the accusation by saying he didn’t mean Mann committed criminal fraud.
So, perhaps NR does not want to try to defend itself against libel if the issue is an accusation of criminal fraud.
Are there different kinds of fraud? I don’t know.
Excellent point Steve. They made a snide reference that he had molested the data. It’s supposed to be slightly humorous and mean and also to convey the point about his data handling.
By the way I also liked this quite a bit: “I think any properly informed jury would see the difference between me literally calling you a serial killer and me saying that you were the ted bundy of the blogosphere, kidnapping and killing every conversation.”
heh Bill, you liked the ted bundy one. I think however that example and the sandusty example share a certain flaw.
A good metaphor or a good analogy illuminates or structures the unknown using the structure of the known.
My metaphor about Joshua and the metaphor about Mann do not do this.
They are not illuminating, we understand nothing better about mann situation. the metaphor is made because of the connotation. That is, the data irregularities in Mann’s work are not CLARIFIED by the metaphor they are framed in such a way that decent discourse about the factual matters are rendered impossible.
This is not using metaphor as a way of knowledge. So while they look like they avoid calling him a pedophile , its exactly like those heartland billboards. defensible on purely legalistic grounds, but pretty wretched otherwise.
steven –
Useful analogies are useful.
Useless analogies are useless.
Always have been, always will be:
To have the bad form of quoting myself (from my moment of blog fame!):
“Bottom line: mann can sue for catecresis, probably not libel.”
Thanks, best laugh I’ve had all week.
Clmate Etc is favoured hang-out of convicted paedophiles.
That’s not a metaphor, is it?
Joshua: You’re trying to say that he compared Mann to a pedophile to make a point about the validity of Mann’s science?
The very sentence that uses the metaphor explicitly denies that Mann committed crimes or lewd acts against anyone. The metaphor of “torturing data” is so widely used as to be a cliche, equivalent to even a mild criticism of statistical methods. The really important direct comparison is between the two investigations by Penn State officials, and I expect that to be understood by any American jury. It will be especially clear to the jury when the language of the two exonerating reports is read, in which the effectiveness of bringing money to Penn State is cited as exonerating evidence. That some climate scientists and Penn State administrators seem not to understand the point may mean that they are too biased or thick to serve on a jury.
I personally am delighted that Mann is represented by attorneys for the “Merchants of Doubt”. After years of AGW believers and proponents decrying the influence of money, climate scientists are now being asked to pay the salaries of attorneys for Big Tobacco. It is too sweet for words.
I also am delighted that the suit, if it proceeds, will be going against Mark Steyn. I may not agree with everything he says, but he says it very well. I probably won’t (in Voltaire’s phrase) “defend to the death [his] right to say it”, but I will certainly donate to his defense, should that seem necessary. I don’t think it will be necessary. Mark Steyn is paid to write, and he will be paid before, during, and after trial for writing about his experience and his point of view. I expect it to be great reading, handsomely rewarded.
Steven Mosher: defensible on purely legalistic grounds, but pretty wretched otherwise.
It will be on purely legal grounds that the libel suit, should it proceed, will be decided. And should it go to court, I am sure that the point of the comparison, that it draws attention to two investigations by Penn State officials, will be repeatedly driven home in reporting on the trial, and driven home to the jury in the trial. However this affects public esteem for NRO, Investors Business Daily, Mann, Steyn, and other publications, the libel trial, should it proceed, will make the Penn State administration look worse and worse the longer the trial takes. I expect that every publication that ever published an editorial critical of AGW or policies advocated by AGW proponents will now follow IBD and publish editorials quoting the passage of Steyn that is the target of the libel suit.
Steven Mosher | August 25, 2012 at 1:53 pm |
Where a lawsuit’s involved, it’s more important to understand the logic of Civil Law.. which I make no claims to apprehend in the slightest.
However, the component look like this, according to legal loudmouths commenting so far for free (in law, free advice is worth every penny):
1.) attempt to demean professional credibility removes the defense of the target is a public figure – you can call Nixon a rat, but if you say he’s committed criminal breach of trust, you’re liable for defamation;
2.) knowing the charge false or not caring removes the defense of press freedom; saying Mann fell into your trap and you intend to use discovery to find information barred from you previously is ‘not caring’;
3.) malice compounds; putting Mann in the same box as Sandusky’s marginally fair game, given Penn State’s many problems administratively (it’s not unique, by the way – in all forms of sexual assault and deviance, universities in America run at 2-20 times the average incidence, but try to get that published in a peer reviewed journal); repeating the slur with imputation that it is much more than just a common administration with a common issue about looking into problems, that’s malice, and it makes it plausible that the NR’s editor has handed Mann a Brinks truck of the NR’s money.
Michael said: this place is a favored hang-out of convicts. And like The Fight Club, you aren’t supposed to point out the fellow’s name.
Because like the perp Clark Griffith, who went after Lance Armstrong, we have a combined perp/crackpot here who will go to great lengths to raise FUD, for whatever twisted reasons that suit him.
> Metaphors are the Rolls Royce of figures. Or, to put it more aptly, metaphors are the Toyota Prius of figures because a metaphor is a hybrid, connecting two dissimilar things to achieve a unique turn of phrase.
http://neverendingaudit.tumblr.com/post/480035578
no man is an island.
sometimes the lack of a connection works as well as a connection.
some research into cognitive linguists ( start with the great linguistics wars) might be in order. next assignment will be to bring together heidegger, lakoff, and Derrida. Nietzsche if you are bold
> Check-Kiting
http://neverendingaudit.tumblr.com/post/318623946
Check kiting is a wonderful metaphor. The other day someone asked me if I was going to publish a paper of metadata for station inventories because they needed to cite it in their work. The puzzlement was deep until I explained it with steve’s check kiting metaphor. The metaphor, if it works, structures the unknown with the conceptual framework of the known. But as frost wrote.. all metaphor breaks down. hmm, that’s either in one of his essays on poetry or his letters.. not sure. if you want an exact cite it may take a bit of searching.
You can google frost on metaphor willard. You’ll find some interesting stuff.
Nietzsche and Frost is also an tasty intellectual reeses peanut butter cup.
Here’s another good one:
> Maybe this is a little more schizophrenic than it appeared at first blush. Like the NAS report.
http://neverendingaudit.tumblr.com/post/521848474
Speaking of Frost, who’s a God to me:
> We dance round in a ring and suppose, / But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
http://neverendingaudit.tumblr.com/post/6249746834
Please don’t tell Chuck Norris.
Ah willard. so glad you like frost. Somewhere around here I have the first 100 pages of a dissertation on him. it starts with.. the poem.. and walks
a straight crookedness from there..
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173528
Technically, as there is no cause-and-effect, it’s not correct to say “logic of metaphors”; metaphorical reasoning, or reasoning by analogy is, strictly speaking, a form of magical reasoning, like teleurgy (gravity is a pull at a distance), contagion (once you’ve dropped food on a dirty floor, it’s contaminated by floor contact), similarity (a plant that looks like a liver will have medicinal properties that affect the liver), etc.
Technically speaking, metaphor theory is only metaphorical:
> There is no single principle on which metaphor works.
http://academics.eckerd.edu/instructor/dempsenp/bibliography/poetics/searlemetaphor.html
> Why not let the evidence speak for itself?
Because it’s afraid of Chuck Norris.
The article you post proves the point…………They did not call him a pedophile.
Regarding the PSU inquiry:
Even if Mann was an angel the inquiry was flawed. They claimed that Mann was above reproach simply because he was successful at raising funds and conducting research. There is a glaring logical flaw in that reasoning.
Bart R | August 25, 2012 at 1:00 pm | Reply
“But if you’re going to compare someone to a person whose personal morality doesn’t come out looking too good among your readers for the sake of trying to torpedo their arguments, at least learn from how the real professionals do it without exposing themselves to lawsuit:”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/08/24/suing-mark-steyn-for-libel-has-michael-mann-ever-heard-of-oscar-wilde/
Mann just can’t catch a break. NRO compares him to a homasextual caught and imprisoned and now Forbes compares him to another famous homasextual caught and imprisoned. What gives?
David Springer | August 25, 2012 at 2:49 pm |
Mann can’t catch a break from a barrage of persistent, mean-spirited, untrue and frankly dimwitted persecution.
He’s not the arch-Climatologist in chief. He’s not the foremost proponent or thinker in AGW and Climate Change. His studies and figures aren’t the bulk or bullwark of the case for GHE. He isn’t the establishment, holds no position that could make him conceivably important in proportion to the efforts spent attacking him, and as far as I can tell, not particularly likely to find these tactics motivation to change his mind about the science facts.
It’s a waste of time to go after him.
See, I can get being a denialist — it’s a fundamental psychological aberration, like kleptomania. I can even get being a ditherist — paralysis by analysis and neurotic hesitancy are commonplace. But just wasting all these efforts on bullying one single guy? That’s just plain meanness. I’d cross the street to avoid coming into contact with that sort of stupid.
Bart R,
Why the constant scapegoating, you ask?
Here’s Ron Broberg’s explanation:
> Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.
http://neverendingaudit.tumblr.com/post/24472458681
BartR,
“He’s not the arch-Climatologist in chief. He’s not the foremost proponent or thinker in AGW and Climate Change. His studies and figures aren’t the bulk or bullwark of the case for GHE.”
I couldn’t agree more. Mann started out as a grad student who wrote a paper that the movers and shakers in the CAGW activist camp realized would make a great icon for their movement. The hockey stick.
As a scientist, he was too sloppy, and/or too vain, to get the help on statistics he so sorely needed. Once he was published, and his graph used as one of the central talking points of the movement, he and those in the movement who had adopted them had to circle the wagons and defend every deletion, every flip of a graph, every statistical gaffe, as though they were the work of Einstein.
Personally, I think that in the dark of night, Gavin Schmidt dreams of chasing Mann around, beating him across the head and shoulders with a tree corer.
While the 2001 AR3 (or TAR) included the hockey stick, the AR4 in 2007 didn’t. The science moved on in the last ten years, but this bickering is stuck in the past. Can they find some IPCC referenced work since 2001 to complain about? It would be a discussion of more relevance.
I used a similar line describing the scary stupid, specifically writing “if I saw him getting on the bus, I would wait for the next one”.
steven –
They aren’t the only ones who add words to ensure plausible deniability. Our dear Judith did it as well:
It is true that they didn’t “call” him a pedophile. But they freakin’ analogized him to a pedophile.
When I parse the semantics there, I see a rhetorical flourish; a kind of combined ambigious antecedent and non-sequitur. How does “but” connect those two clauses? Why would calling him a pedophile affect the legitimacy of “point[ing] out the problems one way or another?”
What happened in this case was a cynical exploitation of repulsion about child abuse for the purpose of scoring cheap political points. No more and no less.
Honestly, I don’t think it matters in a certain sense. I certainly don’t worry about Mann’s feelings being hurt. Sticks and stones and all of that.
My problem is when people who are trying to diminish the influence of tribalism – and I do believe that to be Judith’s goal – can’t get far enough out from under their own tribalism to be constructive rather than counterproductive. Just as Mann shouldn’t engage in such behavior, nor should anyone else. Each and every time that Judith turns a blind eye to tribalism among “skeptics” – whether it be McKitrick calling someone a coward or Steyn analogizing Mann to a pedophile – she misses an opportunity, IMO.
Trust me Im well aware of the dangers of rhetorical excess. When I wrote for Big Government defending Jones against the charge of Fraud the comments I got back were not very nice. The rhetorical excess of charging him or mann with fraud, leads some to foment for legal action, where I think some institutional housecleaning is in order.
Bascially we are in a position where mann charges people privately with fraud and other people charge him publically with fraud. I don’t want to adjudicate those cases. Rather, I would ask this question.
Which is going to be more effective in restoring civility.
Mann’s tribe pointing out the incivility of people on the other side.
Mann’s tribe doing what they can to clean up discourse where they control it: on their side of the street.
Balls tribe pointing out the incivility of people on the other isde
Balls tribe doing what they can to clean up discourse where they control it. on their side of the street.
It’s interesting to watch. I’ve been hanging out at nevens every day this year. Saying almost nothing. The discourse was very civil…basically no skeptics go there. Folks happily chat about the science and ice. As records fell, readers would venture out to “skeptic sites” and start some confrontations. (me too of course) and back home on the ice blog the discourse changed.. away from the ice towards politics. Quickly the regulars took control and admonished folks to keep their eyes on the ice..
fascinating to watch. He runs a nice focused blog, you should read it.
Nobody who participates in this discourse can clean up anybody elses act but there own and their own tribe (perhaps) And I fully recognize that I fail at that myself on a regular basis. I also recognize that its futile for me to point out the excess and lapses on all side. That just recapitulates the issue. Maybe before people build bridges we ought to practice building a peaceful island. More and more I’m coming to the realization that ravetz was right in Lisbon when he offered non violent communication as a path out.
here at judiths ( and at keiths perhaps) its just open warfare. Actually two of the only places where you have actual engagement by both sides.
If your interested in communication its fascinating to compare home turfs with the battleground sites. Interesting also to watch the sporatic raids on home turfs.
That is an outstanding post Steven Mosher!
(1) Forums like Neven’s Arctic Sea Ice are places where rational public discourse holds sway.
(2) Forums like WUWT are places where denialism and abuse reign unchallenged.
(3) Forums like Climate Etc are markets where both factions display their wares! :grin: :grin: :grin:
So it’s simple, eh? :grin: :grin: :grin:
Yes – I liked that comment also:
Mann’s tribe pointing out the incivility of people on the other side. Mann’s tribe doing what they can to clean up discourse where they control it: on their side of the street.
Balls tribe pointing out the incivility of people on the other isde
Balls tribe doing what they can to clean up discourse where they control it. on their side of the street.
I consider those questions rhetorical, and agree with your rhetoric.
I read Neven’s blog some. First started reading it when he got in a dust-up with Jeff Id, IIRC, just about when I first started looking at Air Vent.
Yup.
The important failure isn’t really engaging in tribal discourse – I consider that a natural tendency for almost anyone (going back to the fundamental nature of motivated reasoning). The important failure, IMO, is in the hubris of thinking that you, yourself don’t do it, or that your group doesn’t do it, or that the balance isn’t more or less equal, and even more, the biggest failure lies in a lack of good faith effort to correct for that tendency.
Maybe so. My experience thus far has shown that very few on “the other side” will give me any benefit of doubt of good faith. Without trust, efforts at communication are mostly futile, I agree.
See comment above.
I think no doubt.
I’m starting to think about a prioritized a list: (1) human capital as a solution and (2) stakeholder dialog as a means to get there – and I think that stakeholder dialog requires non violent communication.
I have some very unscientific (not quantified, not controlled for bias) thoughts about that. I actually think that there’s more dialog at Keith’s. Mostly because in general the “skeptics” in balance are of a higher caliber in terms of intent to communicate (I don’t think that is true of the “realists” there and wonder what might happen if that were true also). Purely speculative – but I think that is because Keith is more balanced. Here – non-violent “realists” like Moolton and Peeka get very little traction. My guess is that they’d get more traction at Keith’s if they showed up there. Thus my speculation that if Keith experimented with balancing his “schtick” more he might generate more non-violent dialog.
I do find it all interesting. It is amazing just how sticky the communication problem is – and just how little solid dialog there is across battle lines.
Joshua,
Here’s an interesting metaphor from the article I believe Mosphit is citing:
> In an effort to shoe horn a paper into the IPCC report, the scientists working together with Stephen Schneider of Climate Change journal, destroyed the credibility of chapter 6 of the 4th Assessment of the IPCC.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2010/02/01/Leake-and-the-London-Times–Climate-Scientists-thwarted-FOIA
The first occurence of “Jones” in that article is this one:
> It was this concern, continually highlighted by the peer-to-peer reviewers, that has brought so much perspective to the now infamous Climategate email of “Mike’s Nature trick” to “hide the decline” sent by Phil Jones.
The second occurence is this one:
> [T]hey knew as they hijacked the process that Stephen McIntyre was watching. Yet they persisted and were caught. One scientist, Phil Jones, even suggested changing the dates on papers to hide the misdeed. But there was no hiding of the misdeed as they left a paper trail of violations.
This should be evidence that Moshpit defended Jones, I suppose.
It would be interesting to have some examples of comments to this article. My browser gives me “0 comments”.
***
Interestingly, this article does not appear there:
http://www.breitbart.com/Columnists/Steven-Mosher
He did molest the data. What’s the problem?
wrong cite willard.
The worst thing about the piece was that they change my title from Jones Angonistes to what you read below. ( Gary Wills was a great teacher )
http://pjmedia.com/blog/climategate-not-fraud-but-noble-cause-corruption/
it only took 33 comments to break godwins law.
The correct cite for:
> When I wrote for Big Government defending Jones against the charge of Fraud the comments I got back were not very nice.
is from this site:
http://pjmedia.com/blog/climategate-not-fraud-but-noble-cause-corruption/
and not this other site
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2010/02/01/Leake-and-the-London-Times–Climate-Scientists-thwarted-FOIA
My mistake.
***
We now see Moshpit’s defense of Jones:
> Jones’ failing amounts to a version of Nixon’s crime: obstruction of science.
This figure of thought has been reused in the last paragraph:
> After Nixon’s interview with Frost, a substantial majority believed he was still covering up, and nearly three-quarters of viewers still believed he was guilty of obstruction of justice.
Is “Nixon’s crime” an analogy or a metaphor?
A fan of “MORE* discourse: Forums like WUWT are places where denialism and abuse reign unchallenged.
WUWT in particular invites challenges. If you write a rebuttal to one of their points, they will rebut your rebuttal, and a long thread full of citations of science and data can ensue. I have disputed (and sometimes praised) Willis Eschenbach, for example. No doubt they have a skeptical bias in their selection of what to discuss, but they permit challenge.
Dear Moshpit,
Najdorf players understand that their defense is first and foremost a counterattack.
The attack is the best defense, I suppose.
Except for championships, perhaps.
Please have honor to acknowledge that your “defense” line was fake.
At least once.
Nobody’s reading except you and me anyway.
This is your last chance.
Yes, willard. As I said ‘wrong cite” i pointed you to the big government post when i meant to point you to the later post at PJ media.
i’m not quite sure what you want to make out of the fact that i confused the two. As you can tell I’m not a regular contributor there. Basically one piece in early feb of 2010 and my last in late feb. as i recall.
Like i said I defended jones against the charge of fraud. What I struggle with even to this day is the right conceptual framework to make sense of it. So, you will see a series of analogies. duh. i’m not happy with a single one of them and none gets it right. If I got it right I imagine folks on both sides would say ‘yes, that nails it’
it’s not fraud. its not boys behaving badly. what is it?
1. noble cause corruption? a concept taken from law enforcement
2. obstruction of science.. like nixons obstruction of justice.
3?
What is it? I would never say that I catgeorically defended Jones against all charges. I clearly don’t. I dont defend Jones against all charges. But, as i’ve said repeatly I think calling it fraud was over charging the case and calling it boys behaving badly was under charging it.
To put it another way, the prosecution was trying to charge the defendent with murder and I testified that he couldnt have commited murder at the time, because at the time of the murder he was jaywalking. I want to call that a defense. You want to call it it an attack. I’m fine with that. I attacked him for jaywalking to explain why he could not have commited the murder others were accusing him of.
Some moves on the board are sharp. Some moves look like a defense and can be described as a defense, but they open lines of attack.
That said, I was struck at the time by the parallel between the stories.
down to the frost interview. The same way I was struck by the screwtape story. the question to ask is always, does this old story help us understand this new story? If not, suggest another way to comprehend it.
Dear Moshpit,
I asked you to acknowledge that for you to say that you “defend” Jones in any way is a stupid trick.
The first paragraph does not address that.
Nor the second paragraph.
Nor the third paragraph.
Nor the fourth paragraph.
We do get some parsomatic effort in the sixth paragraph:
> I would never say that I catgeorically defended Jones against all charges.
Nice try, Moshpit.
You’re just a fake.
Godspeed,
w
Your understanding of discovering is somewhat limited.
In any case brought against Mann discovery is limited(he was the defendant). This is protected by ‘unreasonable search and seizure’.
Mann is bringing the suit, in effect the prosecutor. The defendant will be entitled to ‘near unlimited discovery’, because the prosecutor is not protected by ‘unreasonable search and seizure’. The defendant is entitled to rifle thru virtually all of the prosecutors documents in an effort to find evidence.
“The defendant is entitled to rifle thru virtually all of the prosecutors documents in an effort to find evidence.”
Sometimes “skeptics” are so cute I just just want to ruffle their hair and send them on their way.
I only wish I too could live in a world of makebelieve where physics is whatever I want it to be and the law works like something from a shoddily researched crime novel.
Now not only do you get to put someone on trial for a crime, simply by publicly accusing them of it, but you actually get to put them on trial with fewer safeguards, a lower standard of evidence and no restrictions whatsoever.
Maybe if the NRO claims they need to tie Mann backwards on a horse and run him out of town the judge will do that too.
Oooh! Or maybe the NRO can claim that via the EPA President Obama needs some investigin’ too. Those lines for a Whitehouse tour can be pretty long, much better if the judge lets you walk into the oval office and go through the drawers.
“The defendant is entitled to rifle thru virtually all of the prosecutors documents in an effort to find evidence.”
Really? Even if they have no idea what they are looking for? Just a fishing expedition?
Just to clarify this with an example, if I called someone a pedophile with no evidence and they sued me, I would be entitled to search their computer, look over their bank accounts and their work history, plus more? No limit? Can I search their home?
My post was not retracted, and there was, and will be no apology. A couple lines referring to Sandusky were simply deleted from it.
simberg8 | August 25, 2012 at 8:05 pm |
Do your publishers and editors say the same thing?
Could they?
To clarify, it appears they do not, and you know it, and you don’t mention it:
*Two inappropriate sentences that originally appeared in this post have been removed by the editor. (Your own blog’s bolding, not mine.)
Oh, and the definition of retraction is “removed by the editor,” to the common person.
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/retraction seems to be pretty much exactly what happened to your piece at the hands of your editors.
OK, apparently you have a problem with reading comprehension.
They did not retract the piece, and they did not apologize. They merely deleted a couple lines.
Deleting a couple of lines is retracting them.
Explaining that you had done something inappropriate and retracted it is an apology.
Sure, it’s a pretty lame retraction and a pretty weak apology, and given that you’re unapologetic it seems others — the editors — are speaking for you in this; which calls into question your power to speak on your own behalf.
Is there a grown up there who we can talk to?
What are the names of the editors who retracted the lines and dictated the apology to you?
Can they explain what went down?
Unfortunately for your illogical thesis, Mann continues to demand a retraction and apology from CEI, which continues to be not forthcoming.
Impressive though it is that you still think you have anything interesting to say about this, can we hear from the editors who retracted the offensive lines and dictated the insufficient apology?
It’s hardly surprising Mann wasn’t satisfied with it; let’s face it, it’s lacklustre and feeble. Who are these editors again?
There’s a perhaps unfair but common perception that when it comes to entities such as state university administrations they’re all alike. All the actors went to the same schools to learn the trade, so to speak, so they’re all alike. Penn States tribalism to protect their own is therefore what we expect from all university administrations. Guilt by association is a logical fallacy but that doesn’t mean it’s not a good bet.
> All the actors went to the same schools to learn the trade, so to speak, so they’re all alike.
All except Chuck Norris, who’s not an actor anyway.
Beware not to think that Chuck Norris is an actor while in His presence.
Actor have to pretend
What makes you so sure, Cap’n?
Chuck is actually a nice guy
As much if not more than Ronald Reagan, no doubt about that.
Wow! Someone analogizes Mann to a pedophile and nary a peep of criticism from you? In fact, you go on to say that it is “legitimate” to “point out problems” in the context of him reacting to being analogized to a pedophile?
Interesting way to “build bridges.”
IMO God exists.
And it’s Chuck Norris.
Too afraid to think otherwise.
You don’t seem to have a problem equating CAGW skeptics with holocaust deniers. Is that somehow better or unlike equating a pedophile coverup with a scientific fraud coverup?
Apparently that was directed at me?
Once again, you form false conclusions. Which is what happens when you form conclusions without any evidence.
Come back again when you’ve begun the nature of valid conclusions.
We’ll talk.
You don’t see to have a problem beating your wife, Joshua.
The football scandal is evidence of the football scandal, and nothing else.
Head. Sand. Bury.
Hint: the “football scandal” had nothing to do with football. Had a lot to do with the integrity of the school’s administration.
Neck. Necktie. Party.
It had nothing to do with Mann.
INTEGRITY(tm).
JCH: The football scandal is evidence of the football scandal, and nothing else.
Fair enough. But flaws in the Penn State internal investigation into allegations of problems in the football program are evidence of flaws in Penn State internal investigations, led by the same man, into other allegations. Not evidence “beyond a reasonable doubt”, but certainly “probable cause” to believe that the same team conducted both investigations with equal superficiality.
Mann hasn’t got a leg to stand on re pedophile. Mann clearly qualifies as a recognized public figure. NRO is a recognized source of political news and commentary. The burden is on Mann to prove that a reasonable person would believe that Mann is a pedophile based upon what NRO wrote. Otherwise NRO is commentary is protected political parody. The Supreme Court precedent is rather famous – Jerry Falwell vs. Larry Flynt 1988 – which ws made into a movie with an A-list cast in 1996.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustler_Magazine_v._Falwell
Jerry Falwell would have been known to a large percentage of the public. Because he was a very public figure.
Whether or not Mann would found to be a public figure is not yet determined. He might be found so, but he also might not. It’s up to a court to determine that.
As was the case with Carol Burnett, state law matters.
Mann screwed the public and to the extent that he was not alone and given a lot of assistance and support academia also is on trial for Mann’s actions.
Maybe to the public who reads Hustler Magazine. It wasn’t on the newstand where I grew up that’s for sure. Michael Mann is familiar to anyone who has done the least little bit of reading about Climate Change. The so-called Hockey Stick and its creator are iconic symbols. Imagine, if you can, that we count the number of hits going back several years to Michael Mann’s name in the news:
http://news.google.com/news?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4LENN_enUS461US461&q=%22michael+mann%22
He’s been mentioned by every major newspaper and news magazine on the planet ad nauseum.
Warning: Humor
Celebrity
http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=michael+mann&word2=michael+jackson
Michael Jackson vs. Michael Mann
12:1 win for Micheal Jackson
http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=michael+mann&word2=michael+jackson
http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=michael+mann&word2=michael+jordan
7:1 win Michael Jordon vs. Michael Mann
http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=michael+mann&word2=michael+moore
5:1 vs. Michael Moore
http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=michael+mann&word2=michael+fox
1:1 vs Michael Fox
http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=michael+mann&word2=michael+fox
1:1 vs. Michael Vick
The defense rests.
P.S. Please don’t sue me for comparing to Michael Mann to Michael Jackson or Michael Vick. An average person may believe I was being serious so let me so state that any resemblance is entirely coincidental.
Here is the proof that this program is a fraud:
http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=chuck+norris&word2=michael+jackson
I say we contact Senator Inhofe right away.
Chuck Norris wouldn’t hit Michael Jackson for at least two reasons:
1. Chuck Norris doesn’t hit girls.
2.sh!t splatters.
> Chuck Norris doesn’t hit girls.
Metaphorically speaking, yes he does.
With his beard, usually.
it will be interesting to see how the opinions of those who know Mann have changed or not changed as a result.
The unintended consequence of the Falwell v Flynt case law is that the MORE outrageous the terminology, the more likely it is that courts will find it protected speech — satirical, hyperbolic, metaphorical, and intended for humorous effect. If I say Mann is careless and lazy and stupid, (“IF” I say so) that’s plausible and perhaps defamatory. If I say he was born in Kenya, a card-carrying communist, and had WIlliam Ayers ghostwrite his latest book, I would be (“IF”) making some sort of satirical point intended to be (but not actually very) funny. A notorious radio jock such as Mark Steyn, like Howard Stern or Larry Flynt, enjoys a certain presumption of hyberbolic humorous intent. Any attempt to silence a jester reflects badly upon the king.
The threatened law suit is based on the fraudulent allegation not the Sandusky affair comparison, which was made by a third party. That is where legitimate discovery would occur.
Bart
In Football and Hockey, Mark Steyn actually wrote:
The key benefit for NR
I encourage readers to donate to Dr. Ball’s legal fund where he is undertaking such discovery.
The National Review Response Letter provides an excellent summary on the legal issues of defamation.
For an extensive historical review, see:
Climate Depot responds to Mann and his lawyer’s claims about the Hockey Stick & Climategate
See also: Fighting the Mann
Best Michael Mann Headline Evah
David L. Hagen | August 25, 2012 at 2:38 pm |
Yeah. About that. Please don’t take this as an argument from authority; on many topics I pretend to no authority whatsoever, however when it comes to insulting others through metaphor and smear, I’m .. above the average level of conversance and familiarity with the subject matter.
NR pretty much said Mann was a pedophile because Mann has taken a position in Science they dispute and wish to bring down. That’s not really a practice that is tolerable, especially given the extremity of it. I’d expect every Scientist to find it as offensive in any form to the spirit of Science as when it was done by Steyn and NR in public and maliciously, gleefully and intentionally as when it was done in private and incidentally, smugly and thoughtlessly by Jones and CRU in the Climategate emails about Curry.
But Jones didn’t call Curry a pedophile. He suggested in passing that she was neurotic about why no one was citing her results. It’s hardly on the same scale.
As for the unemployable ex-geographer, Tim Ball, and his defamation of Andrew Weaver, I’d urge people to distance themselves from odious people doing and saying odious lies about personalities because they disagree with their unrelated Scientific conclusions.
Tim Ball’s witch-hunting tactics ought be offensive to any person of faith; after all, David, weren’t your kind burned at the stake once upon a time? No, wait. I’ve got that backwards. You’re from the burning good, books bad tradition. My apologies should you feel slighted by the unintentional comparision to superstitiousand ignorant practitioners of dark arts.
Bart R
Re: “Please don’t take this as an argument from authority”
OK I will accept that you have none.
On the invalidity of Mann’s models, I believe Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick have done an excellent job of exposing the errors.
In addition, Mann makes Ball’s case in the Climategate emails and in his hiding the poor R2 data for his models etc.
Bart R: NR pretty much said Mann was a pedophile
The written text, which was the basis of the libel claim, explicitly denies that. Whatever the text says “pretty much”, it fully and explicitly claims that Mann tortured data. I expect that, at trial, the literal meaning of the text, and its explicit denial of a claim that Mann committed any crime, will count a great deal toward a judgment of whether the published text constituted legal libel.
MattStat/MatthewRMarler | August 26, 2012 at 12:30 pm |
Except that won’t be what the trial will be about. The trial will be about the word “fraud” and their impact on the potential professional employability of Mann and his expected revenues, compounded by NR openly admitting it didn’t care if the claims were false, and by the malice in comparing any person to a pedophile.
NR won’t get to make the trial about what it wants, because the trial will be about what the Civil Law allows to be tried on. That’s the way the law was built. You think situations like this are new under the law? That all lawyers and judges are idiots and you know the law better than them? This wishful thinking view of the legal system is why lawyers get paid so very, very much.
Bart R: Except that won’t be what the trial will be about.
If that is the case, then your comment that I responded to was irrelevant.
I’m not famous for my relevancy.
This is news to you?
On Mann v Ball:
John O’Sullivan: New SLAAPstick Courtroom Capers as Michael Mann Falls Foul Again
Michael Mann v Timothy Ball VLC-S-S-111913 25 Mar. 2011, Supreme Court of British Columbia
1st Skolnick Affidavit April 17, 2012
John O’Sullivan: Canada Bar Association Rules ‘No Misconduct’ by Tim Ball’s Legal Team
JOhn O’Sullivan posted on Mann’s Facebook:
David L. Hagen | August 25, 2012 at 3:21 pm |
You do understand that the net and sum of O’Sullivan’s legal credentials come from a mail-order company? That citing O’Sullivan’s opinion on law amounts to taking the least informed, most erroneous possible stance?
I suspect you do. You’re a smart enough guy to be doing this on purpose, as opposed to actually believing what you say.
Bart R
Why are you attacking O’Sullivan’s authority instead of examining his evidence? In my citation, O’Sullivan explicitly referred to the “r-squared cross-validation results for the HS”. Steve McIntyre recently reiterated that Mann’s “r-squared” results were about 0 – ie not significant.
Mann’s withholding the evidence that the “hockey-stick” had no significance is at the heart of the scientific and the legal controversy.
O’Sullivan’s review appears to reasonably address legal issues. Your burden is to show that his analysis was wrong. For starters, see:
Libel Law and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: Towards a Broader Protection for Media Defendants Amy R. Stein, Fordham International Law Journal, Vol. 10 (4) 1986 Art. 6
Why are you attacking O’Sullivan’s authority..?
I suspect if you had any grounding in law, you wouldn’t need to ask. See, you cited not O’Sullivan’s evidence only, but O’Sullivan’s rationale and conclusions. Which in law would be thrown out.
That’d be why his authority is not just meaningless, but a positive detriment to the case, given he’s repeatedly made false claims about his standing before the bar. His clearly fraudulent habits mean his evidence itself is tainted, and ought be treated with utmost skepticism if allowed at all.
But that’s not me saying it. That’s what the Canadian courts have said.
I have no burden whatsoever with regard to the analyses of a fraudster, however much you claim otherwise.
Where did you get your law degree?
Hey Bart,
Time to activate your other brain cell.
We will all wait for you to catch up.
“I guess he is hoping to intimidate people into not saying negative things about him?”
Of course, if Dr Mann thinks being accused of fraud and likened to a pedophile is objectionable and legally actionable that must mean he wants to “intimidate” his critics.
Maybe his critics could find a way to be critical that doesn’t involve false accusations of criminal misconduct?
Or is this another one of these situations where one must never ever criticise the “skeptic” tribe and instead find some way to make the “IPCC scientists” responsible?
The pedophile cover-up comparison is protected political speech.
The fraud accusation perhaps not. Mann appears to be on the ropes in the Canadian lawsuit. The Canadian court ordered him to produce all the data and notes used in the tree ring temperature reconstruction so it can be determined what he knew and when he knew it. The accusation is that Mann knew the reconstruction failed the common practice of giving the model partial calibration data and seeing if it could reproduce the rest: i.e. does the model know the right answer without being told what it is? Mann is accused of withholding his knowledge of the model failure and thus being intentionally deceiving which may or may not constitute criminal fraud. Unless Mann produces the evidence the court ordered he’ll be held in contempt, fined, and the suit dismissed.
“The Canadian court ordered him to produce all the data and notes used in the tree ring temperature reconstruction so it can be determined what he knew and when he knew it. “
I haven’t followed the case – when did this happen?
The pretzels of law are indeed convoluted:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brendan-demelle/affidavits-in-michael-man_b_1711581.html
http://www.desmogblog.com/tim-ball
Skydragon Slayers + defamation + children?
Yeah, I’m staying way back from this one, other than saying shame on them all.
Oh, and while we’re at it: http://www.skepticalscience.com/mann-fights-back.html
Shame on Mueller:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BQpciw8suk
Look at what Mueller does: he says “This is the data as they published it on the cover.” And he shows a chart of his own in different colors than what was really published. Why? Because his colors make his story clearer. It’s not true, but it’s clearer. So he’s saying something for the sake of making his side of the story clearer, but he’s using a trick to hide the decline in correlation between what he’s saying, and what actually happened. Mueller’s not wrong, really. He simply uses a few changes in what were actually factual occurences to present his case. Perfectly innocent and justifiable. In a speech, not peer-reviewed. Or, say, on the cover of a pamphlet, not peer-reviewed.
Colors? Really? That’s the substance (or lack thereof) of your critique?
How does it change the fact that they “hid the decline”?
Other Bart
See if you can follow the difference:
The text in bold is part of a continuous thought, distinct from what went before it.. The text in italics is part of a different but related thought, distinct from what went before it.
The text in bold is part of a continuous thought, distinct from what went before it. The text in italics is part of a different but related thought, distinct from what went before it.
See what Mueller did? He took a line that was red and stopped around 1960 and another line that was black and started around 1960, and made them both black, and claimed that the line was misleading. Well, duh! He made it misleading.
Pay attention. Mann’s lawyers have sent threatening letters to a number of news outlets. The NRO incident is merely the latest round.
He threatened a lawsuit against Minnesotans For Global Warming over the ‘hide the decline spoof video’.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/04/20/prominent-climategate-figure-threatens-lawsuit-over-spoof-video-no-cap-and-trade-coalition-says-%E2%80%9Cbring-it-on%E2%80%9D/
.”however as a general principle if someone names you a pedophile on a national forum, at length and with great enthusiasm, and you have asked them to stop and retract and they go on to become more insistent..”
Even assuming this is accurate, which it is not….what about all the other law suits either pending or threatened. The statement in question: “Mann could be said to be the Jerry Sandusky of climate science, except that instead of molesting children, he has molested and tortured data in the service of politicized science that could have dire economic consequences”
Only a willful misreading would conclude Mann is being called a pedophile.
should read…”only a willful misreading could result in the conclusion that…”
There is an inference that no one knows what all went on between Mann and his sycophant understudies in private but the public result of their collaboration is godawful.
PIOMAS arctic sea-ice volume is a model based on observations. Unlike area, the annual volume trend has been much more shocking. If you extrapolate the minimum as they do on this site, 2015 becomes a possibility for zero volume.
https://sites.google.com/site/arctischepinguin/home/piomas
It’s surprising that no-one on Climate Etc seems to know that Michael Mann is suing *both* National Review *and* — in a parallel legal action — The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI).
Mann’s strategic rational for the parallel lawsuit is evident, and is based upon the observation CEI and NR published startlingly similar, startlingly abusive, startling ill-judged editorials.
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Mann’s Objective Publicly expose the command-and-control structure of climate-change denialism.
Mann’s Strategy Call witnesses to testify, under oath, regarding the parallel origins of their libelous assertions.
Mann’s Tactics Offer each of CEI and NR a plea-bargain, providing each “peaches” upon the other, regarding denialist marching-orders and astro-turfing operations.
Mann’s Guidance The Code of Omertà is robust at the institutional level of climate-change denialism, yet notoriously flimsy at the individual level. To exploit this weak point, Mann’s legal team will therefore focus legal pressure upon the individuals under whose name the libels were published. In particular, what services has CEI’s staff of 40 provided to denialist bloggers, and to sister institutions such as Heartland?
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Predictions (1) CEI and NR will do all they can to ensure that individuals named in Mann’s suit do not testify under oath … or if they do, that their testimonies are well-rehearsed and carefully coordinated. (2) Conversely, Mann’s team will do all they can to exert pressure upon individual witnesses, in particular by calling multiple witnesses to the stand, and by deposing CEI and NR employees in separate discovery processes.
Question What portion of climate-change denialist prose, nominally originating from private citizens, in fact originates from CEI professional operatives?
OMG! You mean watchdog agencies like NRO and CEI are actually doing what watchdogs are supposed to do! Holy SHEEE-IT! That IS big news!
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Prediction. IF Mann actually sues, which is unlikely, Mann will not comply with discovery orders, be held in contempt and fined, and the suit dismissed.
I think his tobacco lawyer is too smart to let that happen. Now if Mann fires him and hires another lawyer, that’s when you want to buy popcorn futures.
fan,
already started in on your pot smoking, in anticipation of the ballot measure passing in Washington?
Now you are starting to understand, David Springer! Very good! :) :) :)
Yes, Michael Mann’s objective is to win in the court of public opinion, by illuminating — in depositions under oath! — the subsidized preparation, by hired operatives, of denialist demagoguery.
Within a republican democracy, Michael Mann’s objectives are of course wholly laudable. Well done, Michael Mann! :) :) :)
What is your next question, David Springer? :) :) :)
I don’t deny Michael Mann the right to deceive the public nor practice corrupt science. By the same token he has no right to do this free of potential civil, criminal, and professional consequences. Let the chips fall where they may.
A fan of *MORE* discourse: Yes, Michael Mann’s objective is to win in the court of public opinion, by illuminating — in depositions under oath! — the subsidized preparation, by hired operatives, of denialist demagoguery.
If that is his goal, he picked a losing strategy. As it stands now, he is threatening to sue for libel. All the defendants will need to show is that what was published was not libelous. Mann’s team will have to show that it was libelous, as defined by law and court judgments. Who paid whom and when probably won’t be admitted as evidence, as long as it does not directly relate to the question of whether the published text itself was libelous.
Maybe those most familiar with the laws and court cases can chime in on this.
Matt,
I am a big fan of Mark Steyn, and hope he is given the chance to do to Michael Mann what he did to the language police in Canada when they falsely accused him of hate speech.
Steyn used the word fraud with respect to Mann’s published work. So Mann will likely be able to sustain his initial burden of proof that the remark was libelous. The other remarks, almost certainly not.
But on the claim of libel for fraud, in the hugely unlikely event Mann actually filed suit, Steyn will argue both that the comment was true, which is an absolute defense, and that since Mann is a public figure, he has to show “actual malice.”
Actual malice does not mean bad intent in this usage, but knowledge, or reckless disregard of the fact, that the statement was false. In other words, Mann will have to prove that what Steyn said was false, AND that he knew it was false, or should have.
But since no case will probably ever be filed, we will never get the chance to enjoy the fireworks.
Gary M
I liked your comment.
Your bowtie must be on too tight again if you think anyone who doesn’t already share your left-wing ideology would consider SourceWatch to be a trusted source.
Watching SourceWatch
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I did not realize you were a conspiracy theorist. You should get together with Gleick and Oliver who always posts here.
Which one’s Gleick? Robert?
fan appears to have drunk the climate alarmist kool aid.
See the University of Arizona release
A fan of *MORE* discourse: (1) CEI and NR will do all they can to ensure that individuals named in Mann’s suit do not testify under oath … or if they do, that their testimonies are well-rehearsed and carefully coordinated. (2) Conversely, Mann’s team will do all they can to exert pressure upon individual witnesses, in particular by calling multiple witnesses to the stand, and by deposing CEI and NR employees in separate discovery processes.
(1) is almost a prediction, but I am sure that witnesses will be reminded to answer questions truthfully, to the best of their ability, and that all of the defendants will review reliable knowledge. Of course their testimony will be well-rehearsed; who would want it off-the-cuff?
(2) are you saying that Mann will try to win a libel suit by establishing that a bunch of people talked and wrote to each other to make sure that what they printed was accurate and not libelous?
I think he’s saying what we might discover is some interesting communication links between eg CEI and other thinktanks and certain journalists who may or may not be being paid by said thinktanks.
lolwot, if you are correct, how does that pertain to the charge of libel? So Steyn is paid out of funds from NRO subscribers, contributors and advertisers — so what? The editor of IBD likewise is paid out of money from advertisers, subscribers and contributors — how is that relevant to a charge of libel?
Nothing much has changed from the point of view of AGW True Believers–e.g., their models may be flawed and their predictions may have failed and even if the promoters of global warming alarmism — like Al Gore and Michael Mann — are now seen as charlatans, they still are certain that moderninity is screwing the Earth and every living thing under the Sun and they must stop it by screwing America.
The attack on the glaciers may be happening at the water level causing calving and loss of many cubic miles of ice. Much of industry uses cooling water which, after being heated, goes to rivers and oceans and makes its way to the arctic. (I also believe it is the heat emitted from our fossil fuels and nuclear power, not CO2, that is causing global warming. I have belabored this point at length on previous blogs but won’t do so here.
I have belabored this point at length on previous blogs but won’t do so here.
It is probably good that you don’t. A single thunderstorm of moderate size reflects back into space more energy than is emitted as thermal radiation from all power plants on the Earth put together.
Do the math.
Do the maths or look it up. The heat from thermal power station is miniscule in context.
Any one thinks Mann is an intelligent animal?
You mean sort of like Ayn Rand’s Ellsworth Toohey, a popular columnist for the Banner, must have been intelligent?
@plazaeme
My amateur diagnosis is that he suffers from some form of borderline egotistical personality disorder. Like the very odd Julian Assange, attention seeking comes pretty high up his list of behaviours and needs. A guy who really believes that there is no such thing as bad publicity and goes out of his way to generate some if the spotlight fades away.
I believe that people with similar conditions can score highly on IQ tests. Whether IQ tests are actually a measure of ‘intelligence’ is another question.
But I am firmly convinced that he has only a limited concept of how ridiculous his antics make him appear to many, and absolutely no real world ‘nous’ or judgement. I do not find him trustworthy or reliable. And I doubt a judge and jury would find him so either.
> I do not find him trustworthy or reliable.
Who would have guessed?
@willard
You do find him trustworthy and reliable???
Here, drink some of this wonderful Snake Oil Extract from my Old Grandpappy’s Secret Recipe while you sign the contract to buy this nice bridge I just happen to have about my person. Cash (used notes) in advance will do nicely, thanks.
And then let me escort you to your next appointment with my friend the financial wizz Bernie Madoff who will help you invest the remainder of your fortune.
Sucker!
Dear Latimer,
Thank you for probing my mind.
We now have more badassociations: an hypothetical snake oil seller and Bernard Madoff.
That hypothetical snake oil seller could very well be using your Grandpappy’s recipe.
I’m not sure how you can be so sure.
Does it leave a bad taste in the mouth like yours?
And just ans an afterthought, fighting three simultaneous libel actions is going to take a lot of the plaintiff’s time and energy. How would his employers feel about these peripheral interests impacting upon the ‘proper work’ he is paid to do?
I know that in my commercial career, an employer might well have turned a relatively benign eye on one such suit f it was quick and successful. But by the time it got to three, sharp questions about commitment to the institution and the value it received from the employee would have been asked.
Or is academia really just full of sinecures as I suspect
Good work Latimer, that’s another angle in the effort to try and shut him up. It’s almost as if you guys think he might…win!
I think if I was his employer I’d be asking some searching questions about whether I was going to get any work of any value out of him while he was concentrating on the lawsuits. And if the answer was ‘no’, I’d be starting to take steps to get rid of him.
Nothing to do with ‘shutting him up’. He can make as much noise as he likes (the more he does so, the more his dwindling reputation suffers IMO – and that is only good news).
But it seems to me he can’t occupy an institutional position and draw an institutional salary while devoting his time and energies to purely personal matters. Unless his post is just a well-funded sinecure.
lolwot: Good work Latimer, that’s another angle in the effort to try and shut him up.
Mann works under contract to the Federal Government and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He has to manage his research group, research funds, publish results and file reports and meet with classes. If his pursuit of the lawsuits interferes with those contractual obligations then he will have to forego future grant applications (i.e. take a cut in pay and reduce the income to Penn State that Penn State cited favorably in its review of him.) “[T]he effort to shut him up” is poor wording to describe contractual obligations.
I think Latimer’s worry is more theoretical than real. Whatever else, Mann seems to work really hard, and his record to date suggests that he can probably pursue the libel suits as well as meet his obligations. Still, it is a potential problem that Penn and Federal auditors will probably be alert to.
@MattStat
‘Still, it is a potential problem that Penn and Federal auditors will probably be alert to.
Let’s hope they are so alert, because at the moment the key Mannian lawsuit indicator is trebling every few days. And – using an approved method of climatological extrapolation – that means that there will be 9 active suits by the end of August, and a staggering 729 before the end of September. However hard he works, Mann cannot keep track of all these and do whatever work he gets paid for.
Personality disorders are kind of like mutts. When you have more than one breed, you get some weird looking creatures. In Mann’s case, he’s clearly got a lot of narcissist, but it’s hard to tell what else is mixed in there. I also see a huge persecution complex, but that’s often part of the narcissism thing.
When weather is at its worst and you need help who are you going to receive help from, others like you who share the danger or a tenured climatist ponificating from an ivory tower?
As I commented over at BH, my personal opinion for Dr Mann’s recent actions are that they help re-inforce his self-image of being on the front lines of the climate war. He apparently feels that it is easier to be heroic as a “warrior” or a “soldier in the trenches” than as a college professor or scientist. Perhaps he should consider following Scott Mandia’s lead and on occasion dress up as Crusader (mail coat, white coverlet with red cross, etc).
Dr. Curry, you write with respect to Arctic sea ice “I’ll do a post later in Sept on “what is going on and what does all this mean.””
Thank you very much for this, and I look forward to what you will write and the discussion that will follow. I hope people will resist the urge to make any comments at this time. Does it make sense to have a little discussion of what is happening to the Antarctic at the same time?
Would you mind linking to where this prediction has been made?
No Dr Curry made sure not to mention that part.
Iolwot
I suspect she is referring to this, which has been on the front page of wuwt for several months
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/05/12/the-arctic-ocean-could-be-nearly-ice-free-at-the-end-of-summer-by-2012/
Tonyb
So we have one statement from 2007 that the arctic will be “could nearly ice free,” by 2012 to compare to Judith’s reference to plural predictions that it will be ice free – with a clear implication that those predictions were recent?
I certainly hope she was thinking of something that more closely matches her description. Otherwise one might think she was being perhaps just a tad or smidgeon hyperbolic?
Surely not.
Zwally in 2007 said: “the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012”.
Watt’s interpretation of this: “the Arctic will be “nearly ice free” according to a prominent NASA scientist”
He’s changed could into will. Not even subtle.
In any case I am pretty sure Zwally doesn’t believe as of now that the arctic ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of this summer. So who exactly does Dr Curry think believes that?
All it looks like to me is she is aiding the denier led deception, a deception to pretend that arctic sea ice isn’t melting as fast as “those alarmists” are predicting.
When in reality it’s the deniers who have the ones wrong. 2007 was supposed to be an outlier. The sea ice was supposed to be recovering. Caught with their pants down the climate deniers try to pretend arctic sea ice is declining slower than expected, when the truth is the opposite.
Put it this way: You don’t see Watts comparing IPCC AR4 sea ice projections with reality do you? No he has to pick the most extreme prediction and even then has to switch “could” for “will” for it to work.
Searching the comments on Neven’s Arctic Sea Ice weblog for the word “free” finds multiple remarks like these:
Although these remarks are reasoned and serious, all are off-the-cuff remarks.
None-the-less, it is strikingly evident that this year’s Arctic ice-melt is proceeding far faster than any IPCC forecast ever envisioned.
Yikes. :cry: :cry: :cry:
BREAKING NEWS The Competitive Enterprise Institute — which had posted a libelous attack on Michael Mann — now has “removed two sentences that it regarded as inappropriate“.
It is mighty interesting that CEI has partially yielded to Mann’s demands, whereas National Review remains entirely obdurate.
Interpretation CEI foresees that they cannot win in trial, whereas NR is obdurate.
Prediction Mann will take both cases to trial, with a view toward public exposure of the command-and-control structure of subsidized denialist demagoguery.
So Mann’s objectives and strategy both are simple, eh? :) :) :)
And laudable too, because public transparency is good, eh? :) :) :)
Fan
Your prediction is hilarious. Command and control structure? You are joking, right?
Tonyb
No, I suspect a system of communications runs in the background, kind of like a command and control structure. To push out stuff and messages at certain points, etc. Certain journalists, certain bloggers.
Iolwot
I am flattered that you think sceptics are that well organised. We are a very disparate group whose beliefs vary somewhat which is both our strength and our weakness?
Organised command and control? What sort of ‘stuff’ and ‘messages’ do you think is going on in the background?
Tonyb
We would all of us be shocked … *shocked!* … to discover that The Competive Enterprise Institute had ever pursued any but the purest objectives, from the purest motives, by the purest means! :) :) :)
That’s great news, fan:On that point we can all agree.
That is probably the only way to get to the bottom of deception that has corrupted government science since 1945 !
Someone is obviously lying and we need to know who it is so we won’t make the mistake of re-electing that person.
With kind regards,
Oliver K. Manuel
Former NASA Principal
Investigator for Apollo
http://www.omatumr.com
Oliver K. Manuel,
The children of the world can trust you to get to the bottom of whatever fancies your iron will.
Yes, old Oliver is the Clark Griffith (USA anti-doping agency) of the climate science watchdogs, making sure that every last co-ed will learn the truth about dedication.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Clark+Griffith
Tranparency would be nice. Particularly in view of the lengths to which Michael Mann, UVA, and Penn State have gone to specifically to avoid transparency. This was the whole point of NRO’s commentary. Maybe someday even you might understand that what’s transparent for the goose is transparent for the gander.
David Springer, it is terrific that you and Michael Mann agree on the virtue of transparency! :) :) :)
Let us all hope that The Competitive Enterprise Institute sees the light too, eh? :) :) :)
And I’m so glad that you agree with me that Michael Mann should release all the research behind the hockey stick into the public record.
Do you anticipate it will require court order or will he have a change of heart and do the right thing voluntarily? NRO’s strategy is to goad him into a situation where a court will order the disclosure. They’re interested in the truth wherever it may lead. I’m glad you agree with and support NRO in this matter.
“I’m so glad that you agree with me that Michael Mann should release all the research behind the hockey stick into the public record.”
What at this point isn’t in the public record?
I suspect the records requested and denied to the State of Virginia justice department in its investigation into Mann for violations of the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act while he was employed at UVA. The Supreme Court of upheld the university’s refusal to release the records.
More here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney_General_of_Virginia's_climate_science_investigation
The Supreme Court of Virginia basically reached the finding of “witch hunt” and that Virginia DOJ had insufficient evidence of wrongdoing to move forward to discovery.
With Mann now in the role of accuser the defendant (NRO) has a right to those same records in its own defense. NRO is interested in the truth and is doing whatever it takes to get the records that Virginia DOJ failed to obtain. So Michael has to now ask himself if what’s in those records is worth exposing to get NRO and countless others to stop the accusations of wrong-doing. They’re more or less daring him to come clean and willing to risk being on the losing end of a defamation suit in the process if the evidence is exonerating.
“I suspect the records requested and denied to the State of Virginia justice department in its investigation into Mann for violations of the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act while he was employed at UVA. The Supreme Court of upheld the university’s refusal to release the records.”
What specifically. is not in the public record. Be specific.
If you can.
“The Supreme Court of Virginia basically reached the finding of “witch hunt” and that Virginia DOJ had insufficient evidence of wrongdoing to move forward to discovery.”
If the state of Virginia had insufficient evidence to force discovery what on Earth makes you think the NRO will do any better?
Do you really think you can accuse people of crimes and then use the inevitable lawsuit to rifle through their records looking for evidence of said crimes?
If the NRO can show specifically Mann is in possession of something that will help their case they might get somewhere. “Give us his emails so we can see what fraud might be in there” and “Give us all his written notes so we can look for the fraud” will get laughed out of court.
I we knew what was in Mann’s email, computer, and filing cabinets we wouldn’t need a court order. Duh.
Mann is now the accuser. He’s accused NRO of the crime of defamation. And yes that does entitle NRO to whatever evidence is in Mann’s possession that may exonerate them. Withholding evidence is a crime in and of itself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoliation_of_evidence
If Mann files suit against NRO, will be entitled to discovery of any documents and information that are relevant to his claims, and NRO’s defenses extending to anything that might lead to such relevant evidence. It is a very broad standard. And entirely fair.
In this country, NRO is not liable for defamation just because Mann, and you, think he should be. He has to prove it to a jury first. And if he wants to pursue that route, he has chosen to subject himself to the rules of discovery.
By the way, Mann will also be subjecting all the other members of the Team, and their institutions, to discovery just as broad. I would love to see the emails going back and forth about that right now. (And if there is a law suit, we just might.)
Which is why I don’t believe he will ever do so against Mark Steyn. Steyn already has a history of fighting against censorship by law suit.
Mann probably thinks that he can tell the judge only to allow his side to present evidence because the respondents are “deniers”. I would bet that he knows better and is bluffing.
People who keep ‘interesting company’ should think twice before suing for defamation of character.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/13/friday-funny-dr-michael-mann-keeps-interesting-company/
Incredibly, the folks at WUWT have understood neither whose discovery Mann is seeking nor why. :!: :?: :!:
Perhaps you should assist them, oh vukecevic? :) :) :)
I am happy to quote a more accurate AMO reconstruction. :)
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/AMO-recon.htm
AfoMd
Hundreds of your posts and countless hours of your time are going to waste. Your contribution to humanity would be beneficial rather than harmful if your undoubted debating skills are directed in promoting the real cause of climate change, rather than parroting the AGU dogma.
If you are paid to do what you are doing, perhaps tone it down, to save you any possible future embarrassment.
If anyone is paying John Sidles to post as he does here it must be the oil lobby because he’s just making the CAGW crowd look even more foolish, if that’s possible.
vukcevic said:
Well, you are already on the list of alternate theorists, growing every day. The list is up to 30 commenters who contribute to Climate Etc with their own anti-consensus theory. All 30 theories differ to some degree. They can’t all be right so either all 30 of you are wrong, or one of you is right and the consensus is wrong.
Mr.Vukcevic, are you the one with the correct theory? Are you willing to be embarrassed if your own theory turns out wrong?
Whatever attitude that the Fan of Discourse presents, which is actually kind of mild encouragement, it really pales in comparison to the crackpots that push their own theories here relentlessly.
WHB
My hypothesis is only known to an eminent member of a top American university, the opinion is not positive, but not entirely negative either, cautiously neutral with strong degree of skepticism.
Is it correct? No idea but it yields good correlations.
Would I get embarrassed? Don’t really care, but I doubt I would since I use only data from top science and research institutions, and it is a hobby after all.
What about CO2? Suspect not much in it, time will tell.
If you really wish to make some contribution to science than find the numerical data file for the graph
Figure 6. An illustration of the effect of the regression of the moon’s nodes on the water levels at Puget Sound, WA.
ftp://ftp.flaterco.com/xtide/tidal_datums_and_their_applications.pdf
then we can discuss science if you so desire.
If not than continue to ‘thrash the empty straw’ as many of your erstwhile correspondents here do, or use your time intelligently and spend one minute or two and compare my results with those of Mann and Gray
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/AMO-recon.htm
or google
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/*.* there are 53,700 entries.
Science should be fun
:)
I am indeed impressed.
http://www.washington.edu/news/2011/06/01/john-sidles-receives-2011-guenther-laukien-prize/
It should be noted that it is possible that Seattle is in an area which may prove that the natural forces are primary and by far most important driver of the multidecadal climate oscillations.
Dr. Sidles I would appreciate if you could dig the numerical data for the graph on page 23
Figure 6. An illustration of the effect of the regression of the moon’s nodes on the water levels at Puget Sound, WA.
ftp://ftp.flaterco.com/xtide/tidal_datums_and_their_applications.pdf
Dr. Sidles if you do get a file you will be first to know why natural magnetic oscillations so fundamental to climate change on macro as well as on micro scale elsewhere.
A $20,000 award shared by 3 researchers is impressive? I was one of several engineers at Dell in the late 1990’s serving on the patent committee who voted up/down on ten prizes that size each and every week. And that was the just the immediate award for having a patent abstract approved for filing with the US PTO. It was actually a $5,000 stock option per named inventor on the abstract, up to 3 inventors, that would vest over a period of 5 years. If the patent was granted the vesting became 100% at the same time. Given the US PTO took about 3 years back then to grant a patent and that Dell stock was splitting at least once a year during my tenure there the options were worth, in some cases, six figures for each inventor per invention. We had some prolific engineers who had 20 or more patents granted and made millions of dollars that way. I could be wrong but I believe each of the 300 patents I approved for filing between 1997 and 2000 went on to be approved including 4 of my own abstracts. I reviewed and voted on about 1000 patent abstracts (rough estimate 10/week for 100 weeks). It was certainly an eye opening experience learning how the patent game is played amongst the uber giant high tech companies. I’m not favorably impressed with it to say the least.
I was at Puget Sound once. Back in 1988. I was the first engineer in the world to get an Intel 82786 vector graphics coprocessor working with three parallel processors all synched to the same clock with one co-proc each for the red, green, and blue color planes. Basically did it in a company I founded with just 3 employees and me the only technical guy. As I recall it was Motorola or maybe Raytheon who were developing an upward looking sonar on submarines that produced a real-time 3D display of overhead ice. They were having problems getting the Intel graphics co-proc working and asked Intel to send help. So Intel hired me to go to Puget Sound. Lovely there. I seem to also recall driving up to VanCouver, Canada on that trip as I had customers for my 82786 graphics accelerator products there. Quite impressive. I was in that area few times for meetings at Microsoft as well. Actually got pitched by Bill Gates hisself. You’d be amazed at the red carpet that gets laid out to engineers who design products that are sold by the millions with Microsoft O/S and Intel CPU in every one. Got the royal treatment a few times in Taiwan too by companies making laptops for us. Shark fin soup – meh, can take it or leave it. I would have loved to go to Sony in Japan for a while when I was on the design team for Dell’s first color laptop circa 1993. Sony was our manufacturing partner on that project.
Impressive too, but I think that both Dr. Sidles and you and few others here are engaged in a waste of valuable time and talent ?
I still hope that Dr. Sidles via his university contacts may be able to dig out numerical data for the graph on page 10 (27/127)
Figure 6. An illustration of the effect of the regression of the moon’s nodes on the water levels at Puget Sound, WA.
ftp://ftp.flaterco.com/xtide/tidal_datums_and_their_applications.pdf
since my attempts have filed.
My appeal goes to anyone else too, who may be able to help
Nice twist on the “Mommy, mommy, they did it fiiiirrrrrst” defense. Actually never saw that one before.
Re: The Moral Downside of Climate Change
“an almost willful refusal on the part of the proponents to open their eyes to the for more pressing moral infections which have already metastasized in our culture like a deadly cancer.”
It’s not an “almost.” This is why the AGW idea exists in the first place. AGW is a classic case of a disinformation campaign. It’s designed to distract, not inform. There’s never going to be a scientific resolution, just the bleating of Warmer sheep until night falls.
Andrew
What’s the difference between a camel and a jackass?
Michael Mann’s lawyer successfully defended Joe Camel, the cartoon camel that RJ Reynolds used to promote Camel cigarettes when the Federal Trade Commission said the cartoon character was in fact advertising cigarette smoking to children.
Filed under the category “I sh!t you not”
http://www.cozen.com/attorney_detail.asp?d=1&atid=1406
Could it be their URL is an indication of their approach to practicing law?
Definition of COZEN
1
: to deceive, win over, or induce to do something by artful coaxing and wheedling or shrewd trickery
2
: to gain by cozening someone
For anyone who thinks Mann is thinking clearly when he threatens to sue, ask yourself this: if there is nothing to hide, then why has UVA spent so much money fighting FOI? So clearly, Mann will willingly go into discovery in libel trials. Sure.
I’ve got a bridge for sale for all who believe this.
“why has UVA spent so much money fighting FOI”
Moral principle? perhaps not something you are familiar with
Tribal culture. Something that you, consciously or unconsciously, have deeply ingrained in your psyche.
Very generous of the people of Virginia to allow the University to be so moral.
Wonder why the folks at that other state university in Virginia didn’t feel as compelled to be so moral?
What some do not understand in my humble opinion is that rage is perhaps the most powerful of all emotions….certainly powerful enough to cause a person to commit self-destructive acts. All Mann knows is that his professional reputation…which I have the sense is everything to this man…is under attack. This fills Mann with rage, and his hunger for revenge causes him to do things that are clearly not in his best interest (to say the very least)…
Most skeptics I know are rubbing their hands with glee at the prospect of Mann having to turn over things that can expose him for the fraud many of us are convinced he is.
If you sue me for saying you spread STD’s, does discovery mean I get to examine all of your medical records, and even have you examined by a doctor? If so, that doesn’t seem right to me, even if it is the law.
BTW, I am speaking hypothetically, rather than actually accusing you have having or spreading STD’s.
BTW, I am not accusing you of cheating on taxes or
Disregard my “BTW, I am not accusing you of cheating on taxes or ” in my previous post.
Wait ! Now it sounds like I am accusing you of cheating on taxes. I’m not. Of course you might have. I don’t really know.
That seems awfully close to reductio ad absurdum. Medical records are afforded an extreme amount of confidentiality. Research, notes, and correspondence relevant to an unclassified project sponsered with taxpayer money seems like it’s in a completely different category.
But yeah, your medical records would indeed be seen at least by the judge if not the defendants and jury. You may have heard that rape victims are warned that if they pursue a rape charge in court it’s brutal. The accused has the right to face and question their accuser so there’s no getting out of it getting grilled on the stand. Their sex life and any relevant medical records are all fair game in open court. The defending attorney’s duty is to make them look like a slut and plant a seed of doubt in a jury’s mind that the rape was really a consensual act.
David, I hope the public has advanced beyond thinking a prostitute can’t be raped.
I don’t know anything about discovery in a libel suit, but I doubt the defense has unlimited access to information on the plaintiff. I imagine the defense would be limited to getting information that is relevant to the suit.
David Springer (and pokerguy, Bad Andrew, etc.) … climate-scientists are rejoicing that recent denialist commentary regarding Mann’s legal actions has been so utterly irrelevant to the primary strategic elements of the climate-change debate.
Scientists are rejoicing for this simple reason: over the long run, it is precisely denialist malfocus that ensures the defeat of denialist demagoguery, eh? :lol: :lol: :lol:
David Springer (and others), thank you for comments that have consistently and plainly illuminated the malfocus and bankruptcy of climate-change denialism! :grin: :grin: :grin:
You’re confused, John Sidles. I deny nothing that is true and I’m an astute student of the truth. You on the other hand evidently wouldn’t know truth if it bit you. It if hasn’t bit you yet, by the way, it will.
Dave Springer, everyone here on Climate Etc — including even you yourself :grin: — appreciates that your comments are similarly rational and focused to the abusive editorials — and billboards :grin: — of CEI, NR, and Heartland.
Strikingly similar, eh? :!: :?: :!:
Thank you for this illumination, Dave Springer! :grin: :!: :grin:
It must be a fun way to live, Joy. Decide a priori what you’re going to believe, then serenely ignore any and all data that might cast doubt on that belief. Personally, I think Mann will be pulled back from the precipice by those with wiser, cooler heads. I passionately hope not, but I think that’s the way it will go.
I wouldn’t say a kind word about Heartland if you held a gun to my head. I have no idea who CEI is and frankly if I’ve lived this long without needing to know I’m not going to bother learning now. NRO on the other hand is the online version of the National Review which was founded in 1955 by no other than William F. Buckley Jr. and which has a stellar reputation. Mann tangles with NRO at his own risk. Interestingly enough Mann’s lawyer is a well known defense attorney for oil and tobacco companies. How ironic is that?
You don’t half write a load of pretentious old bollocks, mate, No wonder the hoi polloi think you’re all away with the Fairies from Planet Zog.
Latimer Alder, leading climate scientists appreciate that (in the words of General Marshall) “The end is not yet clearly in sight but victory is certain.”
The victory of science over denialism that is.
The victory that comes because (as we see in the Arctic) “Nature cannot be fooled.”
Perhaps it’s time for you to switch sides, Latimer Alder? :?: :!: :?:
John Sidles, I certainly understand why you keep harping on Arctic Ice Extent. It’s the only thing you have given that global average temperature has been trending down for the past 14 years.
I would simply point out that the Arctic is a very small corner of the planet earth and any warming there has not been enough to offset the declining global average temperature. You do understand the difference between regional and global warming, correct?
More on the topic of pretentious old bollocks a la ‘A Fan’ and why the hoi polloi completely disregard it from the excellent Ben Pile:
http://www.climate-resistance.org/2012/08/environmentalisms-amoral-disorder.html
I don’t think climate scientists do much rejoicing these days unless it’s in Cancun for a free convention with open bars at the after parties. For the most part they seem bitter, guarded, and angry.
If anyone is rejoicing these days it’s people like me over the fact that the IPCC is nothing more than a paper tiger whose policy advice is largely ignored by the U.S. government and rejoicing over the fact that best global temperature sensing network, MSU equipped weather satellites, has recorded global cooling for the past 14 years. Three more years of that and it qualifies as climate in Ben Santer’s expert opinion who’s on record as saying less than 17 years is weather not climate. I can hardly wait. Cheers!
I am surprised you accept the MSU weather satellites, considering the research hasn’t been released.
What are you talking about? Spencer and Christy’s work at UAH is an open book and so is Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) who independently replicate it
Actually not an open book.
a few years back one of us, magicjava, went down the path of trying to get all the software to check the satellites from the sensor to the final output.. estimation of temperature. That means checking UAH work and the code for the data product they consume from the data originators they use.
Magicjava ran into a little thing known as ITAR.
so, you are wrong. it’s not an open book and will never be an open book unless you can get past the ITAR requirement.
I’m sorry Steven because I must be mistaken in that it appears you’re comparing needing a security clearance to get weather satellite source codes from NASA to needing a court order to get tree ring source code from Michael Mann.
Surely that’s not what you meant to say, right?
In any case the private firm Remote Sensing Systems has the requisite security clearance and they do a bang-up job of independent replication and audit. I’m very careful to never choose one over the other due to any minor difference and in fact prefer RSS because I won’t have to deal with the bigots who have a chip on their shoulder over UAH’s Christy and Spencer being Christian apologetics who believe God created the universe. The RSS boys are co-authors in all sorts of papers by the usual list of suspects like Ben Santer. When possible I choose the least unimpeachable sources by the loony left. I quote wickedpedia constantly even though everyone acknowledges its liberal bias. You know you’ve arrived when you can beat the snot out of your opponents with references to their own work. Just this evening I referred to a 2007 article I wrote:
http://www.uncommondescent.com/science/ipcc-ignores-studies-of-soots-effect-on-global-warming/
which exclusively uses NASA, Geophysical Research, and James Hansen himself for the data and images to make my points. It’s a real gem. You should read it carefully. Some of the image captures are from NASA interactive tools they’ve since removed from public access and or “adjusted” since then to better reflect the change in upper level management from Bush to Obama. Global warming was revised upward concommitant with the change of political party of the boss man in the White House. Isn’t that just precious?
Imagine, magicjava, whoever the f*ck that is, doesn’t have a security clearance. I had a secret clearance at one time. The FBI needed more than just my real name to approve it, to say the least. They interview your neighbors when you were a child along with your high school teachers, and others I’m probably not aware of because it didn’t get back to me through the grapevine.
I wonder how loud and long the laughter at the FBI when some anononymous internet coward named magicjava asks for confidential government satellite source codes. Get your butt buddy Richard Mueller to fetch it for you and get you on the approved access list. It’s probably only a confidential clearance you’ll need which is pretty easy to obtain but it will involve a real name, a real address, photo ID, and probably a birth certificate. Now that I think about it that’s more than you need to become president of the United States and get the nuclear weapons access codes and commander-in-chief of the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, and
my beloved Marine Corps. How messed up is that?
To be honest I think they gave Obama a fake football that doesn’t really contain the nuclear launch codes. I refuse to believe the Pentagon, CIA, and other agencies that outlive individual presidents were quite stupid enough to hand over the keys to the US arsenal to someone who might not even be an American citizen for all they know.
Well, I take that back. I’m sure the CIA does know if Obama is a legitimate US citizen or not and have acted accordingly without risk of making the Democratic party US look like something out of a banana republic.
If I were Mitt Romney and Obama was demanding my tax returns I’d tell him I’d trade one year of my tax returns for his Columbia college records, another year of my returns for his selective service registration, another year for his social security number, another year for his pre-senatorial passport record, and the final of the five years of tax returns for a microfiche image of his original 1961 birf certificate ostensibly on file with Hawaii.
I’d bet dollars against donuts there would be not be a single trade made.
“in fact prefer RSS because I won’t have to deal with the bigots who have a chip on their shoulder over”
Oh I thought it was because only RSS shows a negative trend since 1998…
“In any case the private firm Remote Sensing Systems has the requisite security clearance and they do a bang-up job of independent replication and audit”
This is sooo interesting. You accept the satellite data even though you now discover it cannot be publicly audited because data it relies on is withheld from the public.
The data is hidden from the tax paying public who paid for the data and you are absolutely fine with that. Not only are you fine with it, you defend the record as being audited by another group (RSS).
Which begs the question: Are you guys simply acting like drama queens when you cry about tax-payer data being withheld in other areas? When you claim the science cannot be verified/it cannot be trusted is that just an act? Because your stance with the satellite records is certainly not consistent with it being genuine. If it were genuine you would surely act outraged that these scientists using tax-funded satellite data had not released the data behind their research. You would be demanding that either the data is released or the results struck from the journals they are published in.
Actually, RSS charges academic (even NASA funded researchers) to use their data
It also strikes me that you thought “Spencer and Christy’s work at UAH is an open book” when it wasn’t. So much for due diligence. If I had made such a statement in my line of work without verifying it I’d have been fired for incompetence.
“Spencer and Christy’s work at UAH is an open book and so is Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) who independently replicate it”
Well now we know neither are an open book what do you think now? Yes you stick to the line that RSS independently replicates it so that’s why you accept it.
Except if you were consistent you’d have to admit GISTEMP replicates HadCRUT and therefore GISTEMP and HadCRUT don’t need to be open books either…
Seems clear to me that the only reason you demand open books from certain scientists and not others is because you enjoy pretending they are doing something wrong, when really you don’t actually have a problem with closed books.
All is right because RSS was Intelligently Designed. :)
The satellite data is available. Mosher’s anonymous friend wanted the DSP code in the satellite instrumentation. Evidently that’s not something the US wants its enemies to have. Perhaps it has applications to other kinds of sensors used in the spy business. Try to keep up.
The Stanford Social Innovation Review article contains this:
But studies also have shown that people are more likely to believe in the science when they have an experience with extreme weather phenomena. This has led climate communicators to link climate change to major events, such as Hurricane Katrina … The cumulative body of weather evidence, reported by media outlets and linked to climate change, will increase the number of people who are concerned about the issue, see it as less uncertain, and feel more confident that we must take actions to mitigate its effects.
That made me much less accepting of their overall scientific perspective.
Kind of a giveaway when they feel the need to leverage the psychology of adverse anecdotal experience to buttress the shoddy science, isn’t it?
Can you imagine if your trigonometry teacher thought they had to frighten you into believing the Pythagorean Theorum? Classic. Pass the popcorn.
Mann’s tobacco industry experienced law firm is “Cozen O’Connor.”
Google for the meanining of the word “cozen.” Hilarious!
Google for scientific studies of denial. Instructive! :) :) :)
Scientific studies of scientific denial.
Fox:Henhouse
Me:ROFLMAO
@ A Fan
Your link is to an irrelevant review of a documentary film about tobacco.
Try again.
Presumably they are the US cousins of well-known UK legal eagles ‘Sue Grabbit and Runn’
I think they’re being paid with public funds and are partners of the firm Bill, Padding & Howe.
Last week (I have been absent, and this may have already been discussed), John Christy evaluated Jim Hansen’s recent efforts:
“In press reports for this paper (e.g., here), Hansen indicated that “he had underestimated how bad things could get” regarding his 1988 predictions of future climate. According to the global temperature chart below (Fig. 2.2), one could make the case that his comment apparently means he hadn’t anticipated how bad his 1988 predictions would be when compared with satellite observations from UAH and RSS:”
http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/Fig2.2-summer-fixed.gif
“By the way, a climate model simulation is a hypothesis and Fig. 2.2 is called ”testing a hypothesis.” The simulations fail the test. (Note that though allowing for growing emissions in scenario A, the real world emitted even more greenhouse gases, so the results here are an underestimate of the actual model errors.)”
http://www.drroyspencer.com/2012/08/fun-with-summer-statistics-part-2-the-northern-hemisphere-land/
“Note that though allowing for growing emissions in scenario A, the real world emitted even more greenhouse gases, so the results here are an underestimate of the actual model errors.”
That’s wrong. Roy and John are incompetent.
No sense explaining why they’re wrong when it’s so much easier and so much more fun to attack them personally.
The claim is wrong. The real world emitted far LESS greenhouse gases than scenario A.
Yeah but it emitted MORE carbon dioxide than scenario A.
You never heard me bitch about laws to limit real pollutants like methane, soots, nitrides, and sulfides. CO2 is plant food and more of it is beneficial.
Your bitching does not give you the excuse to cherrypick data.
The cherry-picking is all yours. CO2 isn’t the bad guy. You and your ilk tried to make it that way because your mission isn’t really to prevent global warming its to slow the economic growth of the major fossil fuel consumers. You can’t do that without making CO2 the target. The US is a major fossil fuel consumer but we lead the world in clean technologies targeted at everything except CO2. That’s because we rightly recognize that CO2 is plant food and will also become an important commodity as a raw material for manufacture of durable goods made largely out of carbon compounds by synthetic microorganisms. Carbon is the most versatile and useful element there is for making stuff. There are more and more diverse and more useful carbon compounds than any other class of materials.
You’re funny. I agree with you that methane and soot and things other than CO2 are bad for the environment and you can’t bring yourself to gracefully agree on the common ground we happen to share. I’m the enemy so nothing I say can be right. The cognitive dissonance you are experiencing right now must be physically painful in intensity if you have more than two brain cells that operate in concert.
You don’t get it do you.
If Hansen says CO2+N2O+CFC+CH4 = 0.6C warming
you don’t get to claim he predicted 0.6C warming from CO2 alone and because that hasn’t happened he is wrong.
Great. Hansen was right. Global warming was halted by means other than slowing down the growing abundance of plant food in the atmosphere. I’m betting its mostly the outlawing of incandescent light bulbs but that’s just my opinion and it could be wrong. In any case… mission accomplished. Global warming arrested and nowhere in sight. No need to take any further actions. You shouldn’t fix things that are not broken. Sage advice. Write that down.
Actually back in 1988 Hansen said soot was the largest single forcing agency after CO2. Do your homework for a change. The shock might kill me if you do.
LOLTWAT:
This is me back in 2007 writing about how the IPCC vastly downplayed the role of soot in global warming even though climate change golden boy James “Jimmy Dean” Hansen was the author of the study assessing the amount of warming that soot was responsible for…
http://www.uncommondescent.com/science/ipcc-ignores-studies-of-soots-effect-on-global-warming/
Enjoy.
“Actually back in 1988 Hansen said soot was the largest single forcing agency after CO2.”
citation needed.
interesting URL btw. So you are skeptical of the theory of evolution too.
I’m skeptical of all bandwagon science supported by just-so stories. Mud-to-man evolution by a random dance of atoms happens to be one of those bandwagons. I believe the evidence points to two possibilities in general – there are an infinite or nearly infininite number of universes each with its own set of physical laws the hugely vast majority of which have laws that cannot support the formation of stars and planets and life and one universe that was purposely created with the almost impossibly unlikely conditions that allow us to be here to observe and wonder about its origin.
Did you know that if the mass of the universe was greater or lesser by the mass of a single grain of sand it would have either collapsed in upon itself from the force of gravity or flown apart before stars could form?
This is referred to as “the fine tuning problem”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuning
The cosmological constant was once though to be precisely zero. Einstein put this constant into his equations for general relatively and then called it the biggest mistake of his life because it should have been zero and cancelled out.
As it turns out the cosmological constant isn’t quite zero. It’s zero followed by 21 zeroes to the right of the decimal point followed by a one. That small deviation from zero is about how much the universe would weigh if measured in grains of sand. If was one grain larger or smaller we wouldn’t be here to talk about it. There are many other physical constants that must have the precise value we observe or the whole shootin’ match wouldn’t work.
So you believe what you want. Me, I’m an engineer and I believe I know a design when I see one. I could be wrong but the alternative to a created univserse is an accidental one and that seems pretty preposterous to me given the precision and interdependence of a great many physical laws and constants needed for it to exist and persist long enough for life to arise.
Citation…
Actually it’s Hansen 2005. Here’s an image I snagged from somewhere of individual forcings. Note BC (black carbon) is 08W/m2 while CO2 is 1.5W/m2. Soot is more than half of the forcing of CO2 according to the following VERY long list of experts who put their name underneath Hansen’s in 2005. The 2007 IPCC report showed 0.1W/m2 of forcing due to BC. What’s up with that?
http://www.uncommondescent.com/images/hansenforcings.jpg
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 110, D18104, 45 PP., 2005
doi:10.1029/2005JD005776
Efficacy of climate forcings
J. Hansen
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, New York, USA
Columbia University Earth Institute, New York, New York, USA
M. Sato
Columbia University Earth Institute, New York, New York, USA
R. Ruedy
SGT Incorporated, New York, New York, USA
L. Nazarenko
Columbia University Earth Institute, New York, New York, USA
A. Lacis
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, New York, USA
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
G. A. Schmidt
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, New York, USA
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
G. Russell
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, New York, USA
I. Aleinov
Columbia University Earth Institute, New York, New York, USA
M. Bauer
Columbia University Earth Institute, New York, New York, USA
S. Bauer
Columbia University Earth Institute, New York, New York, USA
N. Bell
Columbia University Earth Institute, New York, New York, USA
B. Cairns
Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
V. Canuto
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, New York, USA
M. Chandler
Columbia University Earth Institute, New York, New York, USA
Y. Cheng
SGT Incorporated, New York, New York, USA
A. Del Genio
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, New York, USA
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
G. Faluvegi
Columbia University Earth Institute, New York, New York, USA
E. Fleming
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
A. Friend
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, Orme des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
T. Hall
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, New York, USA
Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
C. Jackman
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
M. Kelley
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, Orme des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
N. Kiang
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, New York, USA
D. Koch
Columbia University Earth Institute, New York, New York, USA
Department of Geology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
J. Lean
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D. C., USA
J. Lerner
Columbia University Earth Institute, New York, New York, USA
K. Lo
SGT Incorporated, New York, New York, USA
S. Menon
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
R. Miller
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, New York, USA
Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
P. Minnis
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, USA
T. Novakov
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
V. Oinas
SGT Incorporated, New York, New York, USA
Ja. Perlwitz
Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
Ju. Perlwitz
Columbia University Earth Institute, New York, New York, USA
D. Rind
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, New York, USA
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
A. Romanou
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, New York, USA
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
D. Shindell
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, New York, USA
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
P. Stone
Center for Meteorology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
S. Sun
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, New York, USA
Center for Meteorology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
N. Tausnev
SGT Incorporated, New York, New York, USA
D. Thresher
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
B. Wielicki
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, USA
T. Wong
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, USA
M. Yao
SGT Incorporated, New York, New York, USA
S. Zhang
Columbia University Earth Institute, New York, New York, USA
We use a global climate model to compare the effectiveness of many climate forcing agents for producing climate change. We find a substantial range in the “efficacy” of different forcings, where the efficacy is the global temperature response per unit forcing relative to the response to CO2 forcing. Anthropogenic CH4 has efficacy ∼110%, which increases to ∼145% when its indirect effects on stratospheric H2O and tropospheric O3 are included, yielding an effective climate forcing of ∼0.8 W/m2 for the period 1750–2000 and making CH4 the largest anthropogenic climate forcing other than CO2. Black carbon (BC) aerosols from biomass burning have a calculated efficacy ∼58%, while fossil fuel BC has an efficacy ∼78%. Accounting for forcing efficacies and for indirect effects via snow albedo and cloud changes, we find that fossil fuel soot, defined as BC + OC (organic carbon), has a net positive forcing while biomass burning BC + OC has a negative forcing. We show that replacement of the traditional instantaneous and adjusted forcings, Fi and Fa, with an easily computed alternative, Fs, yields a better predictor of climate change, i.e., its efficacies are closer to unity. Fs is inferred from flux and temperature changes in a fixed-ocean model run. There is remarkable congruence in the spatial distribution of climate change, normalized to the same forcing Fs, for most climate forcing agents, suggesting that the global forcing has more relevance to regional climate change than may have been anticipated. Increasing greenhouse gases intensify the Hadley circulation in our model, increasing rainfall in the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), Eastern United States, and East Asia, while intensifying dry conditions in the subtropics including the Southwest United States, the Mediterranean region, the Middle East, and an expanding Sahel. These features survive in model simulations that use all estimated forcings for the period 1880–2000. Responses to localized forcings, such as land use change and heavy regional concentrations of BC aerosols, include more specific regional characteristics. We suggest that anthropogenic tropospheric O3 and the BC snow albedo effect contribute substantially to rapid warming and sea ice loss in the Arctic. As a complement to a priori forcings, such as Fi, Fa, and Fs, we tabulate the a posteriori effective forcing, Fe, which is the product of the forcing and its efficacy. Fe requires calculation of the climate response and introduces greater model dependence, but once it is calculated for a given amount of a forcing agent it provides a good prediction of the response to other forcing amounts.
Earlier Dave Springer: “Actually back in 1988 Hansen said soot was the largest single forcing agency after CO2. Do your homework for a change.”
Dave Springer Now: “Actually it’s Hansen 2005.”
Whoops!
So, as I stated CO2 was the largest component of Hansen 1988 scenario A.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/Hansen-1988-prediction-advanced.htm
“As Figure 4 shows, Hasen’s Scenario B is currently closest to the actual forcing (according to Skeie et al.), but running about 16% too high (since 1988).”
Real world emissions were closest to, though lower than, Scenario B.
Once you adjust for the slightly lower emissions Hansen’s 1988 projection is only slightly too sensitive – something Hansen accepts and corrected in later research.
People that try to prove his 1988 work “wrong” invariably end up having to seriously misrepresent it to make it so. You really have to consider just how sloppy Christy and Spencer must be to get a basic fact like that wrong while making a comparison.
More CO2 was emitted than scenario A. If you want to go after real pollutants that are far less costly to control then be my guest. Methane and soot can be public enemies #1 and #2 for all I care. Stop the practice of flooding rice fields with precious fresh water just to kill weeds prior to planting which generates huge amounts of methane and stop feeding high carbohydrate foods to cattle that causes them to burp methane like crazy. I’ll get behind that. Make the rest of the world burn soot free gasoline with catalytic convertors and computerized fuel systems to vastly limit polluton (GHG and otherwise) and make them put particle filters in industrial smokestacks. The US already does that. Follow our example to a cleaner more properous world. You know you will eventually anyway just as sure as you wear blue jeans and use the internet we invented.
shareperoo
Scenario A was for CO2 growth rate in the 1988.
The CO2 growth rate has been increasing since 1988 as shown in the following chart:
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/esrl-co2/compress:12
The CO2 growth rate has been increasing because the slope of the CO2 has been increasing.
The hilarious thing is methane growth in the atmosphere virtually halted in 1998 without a bit of effort expended to stop it. No one knows why.
Curiously, global warming halted at the same time. Curiouser and curiouser the designated global warming scapegoat CO2 continued to grow at the same rapid pace it’s been on since the industrial revolution began.
The most curious thing of all is how this doesn’t change the narrative that CO2 growth must be stopped at all costs even when the CO2-global warming link vanishes into thin air.
This is characteristic of dogmatic beliefs. No amount of contrary evidence will sway the true global warming believer. This is no different than Young Earth Creationism. People who rely on faith to support their beliefs never let facts get in the way.
Global warming did not halt in 1998. In fact according to UAH the rate of warming has slightly increased when data since 1998 are added in:
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/uah/plot/uah/to:1999/trend/plot/uah/trend
Warming still happening, CO2 still rising (remember ocean acidification too). Scenario A not happening does not make scenario B good.
The reason for focus on CO2 is because it is the primary component of the human forcing:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/pics/SolheimForcings.jpg
In scenario A had come about that would be different, but it didn’t.
Dear loltwat,
Your graph is for the past 33 years. I did not claim that all past global warming was negated from 1998 to present. I said global warming halted and global temperature began to decline in 1998. And indeed it has:
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/rss/from:1998/plot/rss-land/from:1998/trend
Read it, weep softly to yourself, and deny deny deny in public. Play to your strengths little buddy.
Sorry, not that it makes any difference because both datasets show declining temperature since 1998, but I accidently picked land-only above.
Land + ocean is also in decline:
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/rss/from:1998/plot/rss/from:1998/trend
FOURTEEN YEARS OF GLOBAL COOLING AND COUNTING!!!
It must suck to be a CAGW dipthong today. Three more years and the spell of cooler weather turns magically becomes a cooling climate. At least according to Ben Santer…
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2011/2011JD016263.shtml
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 116, D22105, 19 PP., 2011
doi:10.1029/2011JD016263
B. D. Santer
Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA
It must REALLY suck to be Ben Santer.
Compact flourescent light bulb reaches mass market in 1995.
~wikipedia
Global warming halts in 1998 and begins a decline:
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/rss/from:1998/plot/rss/from:1998/trend
Coincidence? You decide!!!!
Oh that’s rich, loltwat.
I back up my claims with, in the most recent example, a 2011 paper by climatologist Ben Santer that appeared in Geophysical Research and you back yours with link to a blog, Skeptical Science.
Nice contrast, don’t you think? LOL indeed.
“Your graph is for the past 33 years. I did not claim that all past global warming was negated from 1998 to present. I said global warming halted and global temperature began to decline in 1998. And indeed it has:”
Incorrect. If warming had stopped and declined since 1998 then we’d expect the rate of warming since 1979 to have fallen. It hasn’t.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/uah/plot/uah/to:1999/trend/plot/uah/trend
That’s weak.
Here are the two periods with the trend separated for each period.
The reason the trend over the entire period rose, try to follow along here, when the post 1998 data is added is that the post 1998 data is consistently higher than the 1979-1998 period. A plateau was reached in 1998. It’s a high plateau but global average temperature has been slowly declining since reaching it.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/rss-land/from:1979/to:1998/plot/rss/from:1979/to:1998/trend/plot/rss/from:1998/plot/rss/from:1998/trend
Your graph trend line shows 0.14C warming between 1979 and 1998.
If warming had really stopped after that then temperature rise from 1979 to 2012 would be 0.14C or less.
But in actual fact the temperature rise from 1979 to 2012 is 0.45C
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/rss-land/from:1979/plot/rss/from:1979/trend
Therefore warming did not stop in 1998.
I rest my case.
Judith – aren’t there a tad too many paranoids among the commenters at this site? am starting to think there is zero information below the “Leave a reply” line
Steven Mosher’s remarks explain it concisely. :)
It’s the schizoids that you have to keep an eye on.
Couldn’t prove otherwise by your contribution to it that’s for sure.
I’ve got my eye on you, David.
Judy,
Speaking of metaphors, I found this one about you:
> Please stop presenting your own bright ideas to Judith Curry as though she’s some kind of truth machine.
http://neverendingaudit.tumblr.com/post/742194676/truth-machine
Speaking of truth machine, I’m starting to miss Bender Bending Rodriguez.
To briefly summaries IPCC’s climate science, as shown in the chart below, it built the AGW sand castle by smoothing the GMST oscillation before the 1970s, leaving the warming phase of this oscillation since then untouched, and calling this recent warming man-made.
http://bit.ly/OaemsT
Today, there is no doubt that a scientific consensus exists on the issue of climate change. Scientists have documented that anthropogenic sources of greenhouse gases are leading to a buildup in the atmosphere, which leads to a general warming of the global climate and an alteration in the statistical distribution of localized weather patterns over long periods of time. Today, there is no doubt that a scientific consensus exists on the issue of climate change. Scientists have documented that anthropogenic sources of greenhouse gases are leading to a buildup in the atmosphere, which leads to a general warming of the global climate and an alteration in the statistical distribution of localized weather patterns over long periods of time. This assessment is endorsed by a large body of scientific agencies—including every one of the national scientific agencies of the G8 + 5 countries—and by the vast majority of climatologists. The majority of research articles published in refereed scientific journals also support this scientific assessment. Both the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science use the word “consensus” when describing the state of climate science.
That consensus was obtained by misinterpretation of the data by smoothing the GMST oscillation before the 1970s, leaving the warming phase of this oscillation since then untouched, and calling this recent warming man-made.
http://bit.ly/OaemsT
More generally, one can seek possible broker frames that move away from a pessimistic appeal to fear and instead focus on optimistic appeals that trigger the emotionality of a desired future
=>Continue the manipulation by another means.
NSF is building a $33 million national propaganda system to spread the climate change scare.
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2012/08/nsf_promotes_climate-change_ed.html
The focus is on how best to spread the scare, with a focus on adults. Each grant goes to a network, which is then supposed to clone itself and grow. The San Diego group is even focusing on so-called Key Influentials, which sounds like lobbying to me.
http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1239797
This is being done by NSF’s Division of Undergraduate Education, but it has little to do with that. DUE is just the vehicle. They are being very systematic, targeting different climate issues and communication channels.
When it comes to government propaganda efforts, I have never seen anything of this scope. The funny part is that the Republicans are paying for this travesty, since they control the House and hence the budget. This massive propaganda effort should be killed as quickly as possible.
Climate Science as Culture War
By Andrew J Hoffman
It is a very well written article that supports your position on what to do to stop man made Global Warming.
Enjoyed reading it.
However, I disagree with your position.
In the following chart, when you look at the global mean temperature data since record begun 162 years ago, there has not been any change in its pattern.
http://bit.ly/Aei4Nd
Its pattern has been on a slight warming trend since the little ice age.
Steven Mosher | August 25, 2012 at 5:26 pm |
“It’s interesting to watch. I’ve been hanging out at nevens every day this year. Saying almost nothing. The discourse was very civil”
You saying almost nothing. Discourse was very civil.
Connect the dots there, Steverino!
By the way, where can skeptics go where climate change trolls don’t come to stir up sh!t? Civil discourse is easy peasy when the trolls aren’t around. Even when religion and politics is the subject matter which are traditionally off limits for casual discussion in the presence of differing beliefs if unpleasantness is unwanted. And of course catastrophic global warming is about little other than dogmatic belief and politics.
where can skeptics go in order to claim that emissions followed Hansen’s scenario A without someone inconveniently pointing out that isn’t right?
Try WUWT, Jo Nova or ClimateRealists. They’ll put up with false information and attack anyone who attempts to correct it.
No no no. Read what I wrote. I specifically requested an example of somewhere where no attacks on skeptics take place. Mosher mentioned a place where there are no skeptics attacking the group think. Where is there a place a skeptic can for a peaceful groupthink atmosphere? I don’ think such a place exists. The only groupthink is done by the practioners of bandwagon (a.k.a. consensus) science. Put a dozen skeptics in a room together they’ll start hating each other in short course precisely because the science IS NOT settled.
When you start talking science and math, you are in my house. I don’t want to see anybody throwing down stuff that don’t make sense. Get it, bro?
lolwot
The issue is CO2. Your villain is CO2.
Its positive slope has been increasing since 1958 as shown in the following chart.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/esrl-co2/compress:12
This shows the average CO2 growth rate per year has been increasing since 1988 of Hansen’s Scenario A of about 1.5% growth per year.
Wow. What happened to comment throttling? Did it get turned off after a brief flirtation with it a few days ago?
” communicate technical and nuanced material” -MM
Well, if there was ever an indictment of Climate Science, there it is. The results should NOT be nuanced, but straight-forward and reliable.
How I loathe the trite use of that word. Its meaning has morphed into something completely different:
“The claim/policy/approach doesn’t make sense at all, but that’s only because of nuance. Obviously, if you reject the OPINION we intend to have you adopt, it’s that you don’t understand the nuance that the rest of us smart people do.”
I don’t think you’ve understood what they mean by “nuanced”.
The article says: “science communicators who face the daunting challenge of having to communicate technical and nuanced material to an audience largely unfamiliar with the lexicon of science, sometimes agnostic or even unreceptive to its message, and—in the case of contentious areas like climate change and evolution—already subject to a concerted campaign to misinform and confuse them.”
Let me give an example of this “daunting challenge science communicators face.”. There is a nuanced distinction between a record showing “no statistically significant warming” and showing “no warming”. When Phil Jones a few years ago was asked whether warming since 1995 was statistically significant he gave the straight-forward answer that no it wasn’t statistically significant.
But he was speaking to “an audience largely unfamiliar with the lexicon of science” (ie the public) and they largely will not know the important difference between “no statistically significant warming” and “no warming”.
The “concerted campaign to misinform and confuse” then jumped on Phil Jones answer (in fact it turns out they were responsible for setting the question) and spread word that Phil Jones had said there had been no global warming since 1995. Of course that’s not what he had said, but by quoting his exact words and not explaining to the public what statistical significance was they could get away with it.
What Phil Jones could have done in hindsight is not answer the question straight-forwardly. He could have refused to directly answer the question with a yes, no answer and instead just state “warming since 1995 is at the 90% significant level” for example. That statement there is true and can’t be misused as easily.
This lesson alone is an example of why scientists have to be good science communicators. They can’t just naively state things straight-forwardly when people are trying to trap them and twist your words.
Let me give an example of this “daunting challenge science communicators face.”. There is a nuanced distinction between a record showing “no statistically significant warming” and showing “no warming”. When Phil Jones a few years ago was asked whether warming since 1995 was statistically significant he gave the straight-forward answer that no it wasn’t statistically significant.
Let’s start by asking the question. Why would anyone care to ask the question? The question is asked because there may need to be policy implemented that can alter many people’s lives. If you have any doubt about this, read http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2008/0425/p05s01-woam.html
There are other, more poignant tales, including people eating clay cakes due to increased costs of corn.
Second, the question is the wrong one. The right question is “What is the certainty that climate change is due to human C02 generating activities, affecting the global temperatures since 1995.” In other words, if it’s not on account of human activities, what can one do?
The follow on question is “Given the models are so far off from the actual projections, why should I listen to you?”
The final question is “OK, you have somehow convinced me people are mucking up the climate. Why aren’t you scientists making a carbon neutral energy source that’s cheap enough for the major carbon producers (China, and soon to be India).”
“Let’s start by asking the question. Why would anyone care to ask the question?”
Because they want to fool the public into thinking warming stopped in 1995 and they can misuse the answer to that end.
And that’s why science communicators are needed who can wade through the nuances and traps that disingenuous questioners will ask.
What? That’s a joke, right?
The current policy being implemented stands to make Al Gore some super mungo rich person (despite his absolute despicable nature), the cost to implement the current ideas is in the Trillions, not to mention all the geo-political implications, and that’s the best you can do?
“An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.” ~Ernest Rutherford, The Father of Nuclear Physics
“Explaining an alleged scientific discovery to a barmaid is a rewarding experience regardless of whether she understands it or not.” ~David Springer, Inventor of the Internet
Well, what can I say? I tend to agree with this sentiment. The only difference is I’ve met a rare class of people who can easily see what others cannot, and they can explain concepts in a simple way that does not require all the nuance escape hatch, yet none is lost.
Oi Mr CleverClogs lolwot!
Don’t you go around making out that it’s all my Phil’s fault. He’s a good boy he is! Ever so kind to his dear old Mum…nearly always remembers my birthday if he hasn’t put the card in his filing system and lost it.
And he was ever so clever at school. Really good at most things that didn’t need lost of sums – and sums can be tricky things can’t they?
But he’s easily led, my Phil. Fell in to the wrong crowd early on. And he’s such a tender thing that he couldn’t escape from their clutches. There’s Mikey and Keef and Jim and Gavin adn all these clever people with degrees and gowns and things…and they all influence him far too much…..hide this, delete that, say this, shut up…well,, what’s an artistic and sensitive boy to do? He just goes along with it for a quiet life. That Mikey is reeely nasty…rude and arrogant and Phil tries to emulate him.
I fell reeely reely sorry for him getting into such a mess. Poor Phil. Its the others that should be getting the heat.. He’s just the useful idiot that the others all use.
That nice Mr Alder (ooh he’s ever so kind and got dishy eyes) tells me I should go for a nice lie down now.
@lolwot
‘There is a nuanced distinction between a record showing “no statistically significant warming” and showing “no warming”. When Phil Jones a few years ago was asked whether warming since 1995 was statistically significant he gave the straight-forward answer that no it wasn’t statistically significant.
But he was speaking to “an audience largely unfamiliar with the lexicon of science” (ie the public) and they largely will not know the important difference between “no statistically significant warming” and “no warming”.
Go on then.
Please explain the ‘nuanced distinction’ between the two in sufficiently clear terms so that I can relay your wisdom to the barmaid in the Dog and Duck come opening time.
The floor is yours.
Sure,
Calculate the confidence of a warming trend since 1995:
If it’s less than eg 5% you can claim there’s been no warming.
If it’s more than eg 95% you can claim there’s been warming.
Inbetween is a no mans land. But if the warming is 90% confident, it’s incorrect to claim that because it is below 95% therefore there’s been no warming.
@lolwot
The first question Doris in the D&D asked was
‘So the best that we can say is that we don’t know if there has been any warming? Well what’s all the big fuss about? If even clever scientists can’t find it, I don’t see why the rest of us should worry about it at all. There’s far worse things to concern us than global warming that isn’t happening’
Your reply?
The public debate around climate change is no longer about science—it’s about values, culture, and ideology.
How can I read such tripe? Immediately, the author jumps into an “Us vs. Them” discussion. Let’s talk about the “Us” for a moment. We received gibberish from Al Gore. Or maybe, self interest from Al Gore. We are getting gibberish from Jerry Brown here in CA. When I say “gibberish,” it’s too polite a term. It means “Because the world is going to die a death of heat exhaustion, we are going to make everyone here pay to implement green technologies that won’t do a damn thing to change the global climate.” That’s assuming the failed models are correct!
It’s a crisis? In CA, one can look up all state employee salaries. It’s amazing how much more nurses make than the professors. I saw recently a physics professor making $80K, while nurses at UC Davis Medical in the trauma unit are making $170K a year (from $70K – $170K for the nurses). You want to fix things? Put the money into researching thorium based reactors. At home, bundle up nuclear breeder reactors, if anyone is concerned about the US C02 footprint, which has declined to pre 2000 levels.
Don’t have Obama say he is going to tax energy usage to subsidize poor people’s use of energy. How does it help to increase energy usage? Isn’t that the goal?
Stop fracking around with fracking. Natural gas is a great way to reduce carbon-dioxide. And Forget about carbon sequestration for coal, a political concern. Can’t upset those union coal miners.
And do NOT tell us how it is possible to have an “All Electric Fleet” in ten years, five years ago.
Simply put, if this is such a crisis, and the goal is NOT some “uncomfortable new world order,” then put the money where it counts, into things that will actually make a difference, instead of adding layers of control and government. That means for now, massive methane production, and perhaps cheap nuclear if it can be figured out.
And in general, it is my view that in a crisis of increased temperatures, sulfates can be used to buy time. Like volcanoes that cool the earth. That’s a heck of a lot better than the expensive alternatives fools are pushing on people.
Huh? Just for grins I looked up Curry’s salary in Georgia putblic records and her cohort on the BEST project’s salary Richard Mueller of UC Berkely. Both of them make in excess of $220,000 per year. Nurses don’t earn half that. And you wonder why kids are running around today with college loans that are bigger and longer than most home mortgage payments.
I’m not excusing the medical industry for milking the cow for all its worth but at least the medical industry in the US is delivering a world class product. Meanwhile US education is mediocre at best. Not to mention at BEST.
Both situations are in fact the product of cheap easy money and associated legal statutes from the US government. Few people gave a rat’s ass about the cost of health care or a college education because they didn’t have to directly pay the money for either of them. At least not right away. The bill for the excesses of the past few decades is just now coming due. Health insurance including very generous policies for government employees, generous and generally unquestioning payment plans for Medicare and Medicaid, divorced most people from the cost of medical care. Had an unexplained dizzy spell? No problem. An MRI that will get billed to some insurance company for $2500 is included with the $20 co-pay for the office visit to your primary physician who orders it. UNLIKE Canada or the UK you can get your MRI the same day the doctor orders it. No lines. No questions. No immeidate or direct cost to you. When the actual cost of medicine is divorced from the person receiving it then excesses happen. People use the service more frequently and the provider raises the price to whatever level the market will bear. Low interest student loans from the government to anyone asking for one drove up the cost of education to ridiculous levels where tenured professors responsible for a teaching a few classes 9 months out of the year have no other responsibilities or performance obligations and are paid lavish salaries just below (what a coincidence) the $250,000/year level that former professor Barack Obama classifies as rich people who should have their tax burden increased. Anyone here really think Curry does five times the amount of work as the janitor who sweeps and mops and polishes the floors in the classrooms she uses a few times a week? She couldn’t do his job any more than he could do hers. His job however is the more demanding and his is the job that can be terminated for poor performance.
Anyone here really think Curry does five times the amount of work as the janitor who sweeps and mops and polishes the floors in the classrooms she uses a few times a week?
She couldn’t do his job any more than he could do hers.
Perhaps you meant five times the effort? I doubt JC would have much trouble learning how to be effective at mopping floors. The other way around? Well, who knows. Why don’t you express the chances of that.
Second, I think you completely misunderstand the nature of academics. They are modern day monks. Their currency isn’t necessarily in $, but in other things. This whole Climate Science BS has confused what that is.
Academics are caretakers of human progress. That’s what angers me most about the crap that flows from these people. They have elected to become Moses, coming down from the mountain with a book written in a language only they can understand, and demanding the world accept it, and bow to their decisions.
“They are modern day monks.”
You mean they WISH they were modern day monks. I know some modern day monks and they are men with an unselfish dedication to the spiritual life. In contrast, the behavior I see in academics these days makes me think academics are petty freeloaders with big mouths and a sense of entitlement akin to welfare dependents.
Andrew
According to the Bible, Moses had the Arc of the Covenant built to house the Stone Tablets (with the commandments written on them), along with a pot of manna and Aaron’s Rod. Ordinary people weren’t even allowed to set eyes upon the Arc. In fact, very few people would have seen it at all.
It seems to me that Mann and Jones would have liked to keep the raw data hidden away from the people in the same way. I suppose that we are supposed to just have “faith” in the authenticity of the “data”.
To be fair, most academics are more intelligent and understand the subject better than you or me. Lets not become too arrogant and egotistical in our own inferior abilities.
She is unlikely to have the physical strength to excel at the job nor the mental makeup to be content pushing broom, buffing floors, and emptying trash cans. Perhaps those attributes could be aquired over time but so might the janitor, over time, be able acquire skills to teach science classes. I just have a hard time justifying why the science teacher’s value is five times that of the janitor. I’m not blaming her for this state of affairs, certainly, but given her compensation is a direct concern to taxpayers footing the bill for low interest government college loans her compensation and, in general, the operating cost structure of state schools, becomes my business. Professor Obama and the liberals are talking about dismissing obligations to repay student loans in some cases and this will only make the situation worse with regard to soaring costs. When the cost of an education becomes divorced from the concern of both students and public institutions and taxpayers are the ones left holding bag for it then Houston, we have a problem.
Dave Springer writes “UNLIKE Canada or the UK you can get your MRI the same day the doctor orders it.”
I always bristle when I see this sort of comment about our Canadian medical system. I am sure there are occasions when you can get an MRI in Canada on the same day that a doctor orders it. IF there is an urgent medical requirement to have an MRI immediately. The priority for medical treatment in Canada is driven almost exclusively by the urgency which a patient’s medical condition dictates. If the medical condition of the patient is urgent enough, virtually anything can happen. It is just that the money that the patient has, has very little effect on what treatment the patient gets.
Bristle all you want but this is encyclopedic knowledge and your delicate feelings about your health care system are not a concern to me. With nationalized health care comes rationing of services. There is no rationing in the US for any insured person and no rationing of emergency services for the uninsured. Those most vulnerable (elderly, disabled) have public insurance. Those least vulnerable (young, healthy) can forego insurance and risk no more than financial loss. No one is turned away from emergency care and there are safety nets for the destitute.
You see Jim, in this country a majority of us believe that adults should be free to decide what kinds of personal risk/reward they’re willing to undertake. America is the land of guaranteed opportunity not guranteed outcomes. If you like a nanny state that’s your business and I’m glad you like what you have.
All heathcare systems, including ours, ration care.
Most, like Canada’s, direct care towards the people who need it most.
The US system rations on the basis of ability to pay. There is an irrational, inconsistent, wasteful “safety net” which throws away hundreds of billions of dollars and leaves huge, gaping holes in the care.
Its a failing system, and much like the climate system, Dave lacks a rudimentary understanding of how it operates.
David, you write “No one is turned away from emergency care and there are safety nets for the destitute.”
What a warped view of how a medical system is supposed to work. For once, I agree with Robert. The object of medicine should be to PREVENT patients from ever getting sick; not to have to treat them when they become sick. The bulk of the medical care provided in Canada is done at the least cost; the routine visits to family doctors, who do the preventitive medicine such as keeping up immunization shots. This is where systems like that in the USA fail miserably.
Lookup Florentino Martinez, at the following site:
http://www.sacbee.com/statepay/
Name:
Florentino Martinez
Department:
UC Davis
Year:
2010
you will see: Job Title: NURSE, CLINICAL III
Total Pay: $194,005.45
And don’t get excited by the overtime. I’m sure Muller (who doesn’t show up) puts in more.
Now, I know saving the world isn’t as important as saving indigent Americans, but still.
UC Davis. So the nurses employed by state universities are grossly overpaid as well. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!
Bureau of Labor Statistic in the U.S. average salary of registered nurses is $67,270. You are not in my debating league, Barbar. Give it up now or look even more foolish.
http://www.registerednursern.com/registered-nurse-rn-salary-pay-wages-and-income-of-registered-nurses/
Registered Nurse Average Salary: Mean Salaries for RNs
Compare with:
http://www.higheredjobs.com/salary/salaryDisplay.cfm?SurveyID=3
Every category of professor has a median income higher than that of registered nurses. Given the light workload over only 9-months of the year the disparity becomes more notable.
In any case I was absolutely, unequivocably right to protest the erroneous statement that started this which was that physics professors get paid less than nurses. That is wrong, wrong, wrong.
+1
You claimed nurses don’t make half what Curry does. That claim was shown to be completely false; you completely failed to make that argument.
You tried to recover the situation by comparing the average nursing salary with Curry’s. But of course, that’s an utterly meaningless comparison because Curry doesn’t make anything like the average academic’s salary.
If you compare an average nurse to an average instructor, there is nothing like a 2:1 disparity. If you compare a high-paid academic with a high-paid nurse, there is nothing like a 2:1 disparity. Either way, as usual, you fail on the facts.
@robert
I;d be more convinced by your dismissal of Dave Springer’s figures if your post showed the correct ones. You haven’t shown any at all.
Why should I believe your interpretation over anybody else’s?
I’ve shown why Davy is wrong: he made a fundamental error in logic (or he simply lied ;).
The correct figures are just a brief Google away. Don’t let me keep you.
@robert
I’m sure that I am not alone in immediately assuming that anybody whose answer to a challenge is ‘use Google’ does not have a solid grasp of the subject in question.
You beautifully illustrate why.
> How can I read such tripe?
Incredible, isn’t it?
re; civil discourse
Sometimes I’m sorry I invented the internet. Even though those times are very rare and I feel the loss of civility is vastly outweighed by information at your fingertips I nonetheless offer my sincere apology to all you whining maggots.
http://neverendingaudit.tumblr.com/post/30209808639
Oh my, such big letters you have. You must be a very powerful important person to own and control such large letters.
Thank you, David Springer.
Coming from the Tim Berners-Lee of the Climate Denizens (go team!), it means a lot to me.
Since I don’t own guns and dogs, I try to compensate, perhaps.
I don’t own the letters, btw, I only limited rights.
willard (@nevaudit) | August 26, 2012 at 11:54 am | Reply
“Since I don’t own guns and dogs, I try to compensate, perhaps.”
Good luck with that. Entry level guns for the casual owner are not expensive and require no maintenance or other continuing cost of ownership. You might not live in a free country with a constitutionally guaranteed to right to own of course. Dogs can require substantial ongoing commitments that I don’t recommend everyone undertake but for many it’s a very rewarding experience and the right dog, or even the wrong dog as long as it can bark, reduces the practical need of gun ownership for home defense. The dog won’t help much though against a population disarmed and vulnerable to the whims of domestic police forces.
Thank you, David Springer.
Next time a clown tries to invite himself to my house, I’ll think about what you’re saying.
Love it. :)
Do you think it was insufficiently over the top so that I could reasonably presume it needed no /sarc or other explicit tongue-in-cheek marker?
It can be a difficult call to make but I thought starting out with an Al Gorish claim to having invented the internet and ending with the stereotypical Marine Drill Sergeant term “maggots” would require a dedicated dullard to miss the comedic intent.
Never use any marker, David Springer.
How could you ever be over the top anyway?
David, I laughed and laughed at the comment. So I got it. I can’t imagine anyone didn’t
I certainly can imagine someone who imagined people who did not.
http://neverendingaudit.tumblr.com/
Yer not wrapped real tight, are ya, Willard?
Zed’s dead, baby, Zed’s dead.
I had to crash that Honda and it’s not a motorcycle baby, it’s a chopper. Now please stop crying and get on or we’re going to miss our plane.
Twas a misclick, btw.
Sorry about that.
http://bit.ly/Oh3GoR
While I hate to interrupt such an stimulating discussion, Issac modeling looks like it may be more interesting.
http://www.weatherbellmodels.com/weather/hwrf.php
Dr. Ryan Maue has a slick product the WUWT has just linked to. predicting up to a cat 4 landing near Biloxi. Dr. Curry has a weak storm landing a bit to the East. Captdallas2, with a ring side seat, is looking at the weather we just had in the Straights and thinking fizzle near the ‘Glades.
Should I feel bad about putting poor little loltwat’s dick in the dirt despite the appearance of him begging for it and liking it?
Regarding this years summer Arctic sea ice melt. The season overall weather-wise was not as favorable to melting as 2007 was overall, but 2012 is set to smash pretty much every significant record set in 2007.
Why? Much less sea ice volume than in 2007 (i.e. much thinner ice) overall. This was a rather non-eventful summer that wasn’t particularly exciting in terms of melt potential from weather, but it really just goes to show you what the long-term thinning of the ice means in terms of melt potential. Pretty much all the ice that could have melted in the non-Arctic Basin areas did melt, and so, the Arctic Sea ice volume by the end is pretty much all (80% or more) contained in the Arctic Basin.
The big Arctic Cyclone in early August was a rare event, but it chewed up the ice only because that ice was so thin and fractured already. We could see a “recovery” next year (like we saw in 2008-2009 after the 2007 very low minimum), or we could see another year much like this year.
One lesson we did learn (and which I did comment about in March and April) was that late-winter bumps up in sea ice extent after the whole winter is running low really don’t mean much as those late season bumps up mean the ice is very thin and will melt rapidly in the ensuing summer.
Expect all the ice by 2020 to be first year ice each melt season in the Arctic if you get my meaning.
Yes it’s almost guaranteed now that 2013 will reach or even beat the 2012 minimum
sorry: 2007 minimum, obviously we don’t know what the 2012 minimum is yet
The only thing MM has going for him is the usual – the web of mutual back-scritchin’ and whitewashing by beneficiaries of the CAGW raid on the public purse.
It may suffice.
“Well I haven’t read the book (don’t intend to), but it sounds like lessons in propaganda to me.” – JC
…..so let me make rash statements about it.
Ah, the smell of ‘skepticism’ in the morning!
Are you Michael Mann?
Go Team!
For comparison; the National Review (Online’s) past — including very recent — stance on defamation.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/313422/adelson-files-60-million-libel-suit-against-democratic-group-nathaniel-botwinick
But is libelous speech a fundamental right?
http://cmcevoy.public.dev.nationalreview.com/corner/152482/libel-tourist/stanley-kurtz
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/257438/wrong-rauf-andrew-c-mccarthy
Libel, of course, is a legally actionable defamation, entitling the wronged party to sue for money damages against the alleged slanderer. That’s serious business. In fact, to conclude that a public figure like Rauf has been libeled is to maintain that the purported slanderer made her baseless accusation either knowing it was untrue or in reckless disregard of its falsity.
And for further comparison, what legal scholars opine:
http://www.litigationandtrial.com/2012/07/articles/attorney/hockey-stick-graph/
Of course, if the Court doesn’t grant the motion to dismiss, then Steyn and Simberg might have a bit of a problem on their hands, and that’s where the Sandusky comment comes into play. Assuming their remarks aren’t protected opinion, and they can’t prove their accusations are actually true, then Mann can likely convince a Middle District of Pennsylvania or District of Columbia jury that the accusations were made with “actual malice” — just consider the Sandusky analogy.
And a blast from the (holocaust) denialist past of NR, and its attitude toward that stain on its record:
http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/irving.asp?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America&xpicked=2&item=irving
..and columnist Joseph Sobran, a former senior editor at the National Review deemed “obsessed on the subject of Israel” by Review editor, William F. Buckley, who “disassociate[d]” the magazine from the “obstinate tendentiousness” of Sobran’s columns.
NR has fallen a long, long way since those days.
Bart R | August 26, 2012 at 2:58 am | Reply
“And for further comparison, what legal scholars opine:”
http://www.litigationandtrial.com/2012/07/articles/attorney/hockey-stick-graph/
I was interested in that legal opinion long enough to find out it began with a bogus climate science lesson by a lawyer who doesn’t know a mole from a mule.
My prayer for this Sunday:
Please Lord, let Michael Mann file suit against National Review and Mark Steyn. Let him be subject to discovery of all his emails, memos, notes, drafts and every other single paper relating to hiding the decline, screwy statistics, upside down Tiljander, lost or hidden data and code, etc. And let him not understand that by filing, he opens up to subpoena and deposition every other member of the team, and the institutions they work for, that corresponded with him. Not to mention those who participated in the previous Tom Sawyeresque “inquiries.” (You know, the scene with the white wash…the fence…the gullible dupes who believed everything he said.)
And Lord, let the case go to trial with Mann on the witness stand, under oath, subject to cross examination by a lawyer who knows what he is doing.
You’re a funny guy BartR. Touching in your naive belief in everything you have been told to believe. Unfortunately for those of us who live in the real world, some of the CAGW activists also have lawyers who actually know what they are doing. So we are going to have to settle for letters with meaningless, widely publicized threats, but no actual law suits.
Rats!
GaryM | August 26, 2012 at 12:00 pm |
Interesting to know you pray to a God of hate and deception.
Is Satan your Lord?
OK, I was wrong. You’re not funny at all. Sad, yes. Funny, no.
Well, I’m no Dana Carvey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWHOIowtzXA
But then, you’re no Joe Pesci.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E84VqqCPI7w
Bart R,
Are IPCC reports your church’s encyclicals?
Andrew
Bad Andrew | August 26, 2012 at 2:14 pm |
Well, BA, as you’re a self-professed Catholic, they’re certainly yours. Or don’t you pay attention to your Pope?
You know, his stance on Climate Change is pretty definitively of the GHE is settled, CAGW is real and devastating, and anyone not acting against carbon emission is committing a Mortal Sin thing? That Catholic Pope?
Remember him?
Bart R,
You didn’t answer my question. Let me rephrase: Are IPCC reports the encyclicals of the Church of Global Warming? Are you allowed to disagree with them in your church? Or are they dogmatic?
Andrew
BartR knows almost as much about the Catholic Church as he does about economics.
Bad Andrew | August 26, 2012 at 2:58 pm |
I’m not sure it’s physically possible to answer your question.
You see, for you, there’s apparently no difference between religious faith and logical conclusion. If logic comes up with something you don’t believe in, it’s fine for you to dismiss logic as easily as you dismiss the beliefs of people who were raised differently from you.
However, for a Catholic, brought up in the teachings of the Catholic saints like Thomas Aquinas, that’s an apostate and sinful position. To a Catholic, where logical inference, where Science, disagrees even with a position of Canon, then logic wins. It’s an article of Catholic doctrine, a dogmatic belief taught every Jesuit and endorsed by a lineage of popes. Look it up.
But it’s the position you take, in Mortal Error. (That means your immortal soul will burn in Purgation for Eternity, according to your Pope. Which is none of my business, so long as you’re reconciled to taking a stance at odds with the Pope and the saints, and by article of Catholic doctrine, God.)
What is my issue is trying to explain logic to someone who rejects it. A surprising stance, considering you claim to be a computer programmer. Do you just pray your subroutines calls will return with the right answer? That your pointer references will be valid? Is it faith, or binary logic, that makes a computer process? Is it belief, or compilation of code into machine instructions?
The IPCC reports are just Policy papers drawn up to advise Policy makers by collating, summing and surveying some of the extant relevant work and doing some Policy-related analyses to explain in layman’s terms the state of the body of knowledge of Climate at any given time. For a Catholic like yourself, they’re like missals or church newsletters.
If you want to know the Encyclicals of my Church, check out Newton’s Principia; Russel & Whitehead’s Principia Mathematica is also a good starting point, too. Oh, and the writings of St. Augustine about St.Peter in Corinth to Proba, for your own sake.
“I’m not sure it’s physically possible to answer your question.”
You could just comment a yes or a no, followed by a brief, but straightforward explanation. Ah, but you’re a Warmer. That’s obviously not your shtick.
Andrew
And let’s look at who Dr. Mirus is aiming his remarks at in the Catholic Church: http://www.news.va/en/news/durban-climate-change-conference-underway
But where did the Pope come up with such ideas?
http://www.uscatholic.org/blog/2011/05/scientist-says-listen-pope-climate-change
He’s got advisors. In this case, the advisors sift through evidence Dr. Mirus claims doesn’t exist, to come to the opposite conclusion of Mirus’ argument from ignorance. Quite unexpected.
That’s right. Dr. Mirus is calling the Pope imprudent after due consultation with and among his policy and science advisors. Directly. Publicly.
Good luck with that, Doc.
Phil Jone’s mum, while appreciatin’ yer loyalty never the less lol
I imagine that CEI would relish a lawsuit and all the info they could obtain on discovery.
I would like to find out he meant by the following:
I would not give them *anything*. I would not respond or even acknowledge receipt of their emails. There is no reason to give them any data, in my opinion, and I think we do so at our own peril!
http://bit.ly/SDBmS0
David Springer
Please bookmark the following link for the projection of the Met Office (the original had disappeared from its webiste):
2014 is likely to be 0.3 deg C warmer than 2004
http://bit.ly/P7k2jo
Only two years left for the verification!
This is real science. Projection followed by verification.
Now comes the moment of verification and truth: testing the theory back against protocol experience to establish its validity. If it is not a trivial theory, it suggests the existence of unknown facts which can be verified by further experiment. An expedition may go to Africa to watch an eclipse and find out if starlight really does end relatively as it passes the edge of the sun. After a Maxwell and his theory of electro-magnetism come a Hertz looking for radio waves and a Marconi building a radio set. If the theoretical predictions do not fit in with observable facts, then the theorist has to forget his disappointment and start all over again. This is the stern discipline which keeps science sound and rigorously honest.
The Scientist
Life Science Library
By Henry Margenau, David Bergamini
And the Editors of LIFE
1966
BREAKING NEWS: BIGGEST HOCKEY-STICK EVER From Nevin’s Arctic Sea Ice weblog, by way of Neven’s guest column this week on SkepticalScience titled “Why Arctic sea ice shouldn’t leave anyone cold”, comes the mightiest climate-change hockey-stick ever seen! :cry: :?: :!: :?: :cry:
One thing that the discourse here on Climate Etc teaches is that climate change denialism originates very largely in economic and political dogmatism.
That is the simple reason why freemarket /libertarian dogmatists deny the reality of climate-change with the same fervor that fundamentalist /Marxist dogmatists deny the reality of Darwinian evolution.
In the end “Nature cannot be fooled”, and that is why the rational reality of evolution and climate-change both are taught in science classes today.
————–
Conclusion At the end of the day, religious & political dogmas adapt to scientific realities … not the other way around … and this is of course the essence of the Enlightenment upon whose principles the American nation was founded. :lol: :!: :lol:
————–
Appreciation is extended to Climate Etc, as a forum where the principles of the Enlightenment, and the practical necessity of these principles, both are plainly evident!
Thank you Climate Etc!. :lol: :!: :lol:
Fan, you have in the past mentioned that Arctic Sea Ice is melting faster even that predicted in the climate models. Why’s that? Could it be that the amplitude and frequencies of the internal oscillations are not well understood?
While the increase in Antarctic sea ice is inconsequential, it is an indication that Antarctic climate is changing in the opposite of the model projections. That just means the is likely more to the situation than the “sensitivity” focused on in the models.
Wrong is still wrong which should be expected of models. The trick is to learn from the mistakes that modelers should know are likely.
Cap’n –
Is that a fully considered statement – particularly if you consider mass as well as extent? For example, if I’m not mistaken our dear Judith has was co-authored a paper that uses climate models to reach a different conclusion. A quick Google tells me that others say that the models don’t have enough data to make predictions about the dynamics affecting antarctic ice variations (and so use statistical methods to make projections).
Joshua, yep, pretty much fully considered. Ice mass is more a function of precipitation. Colder in the Antarctic would mean more snow on the sea ice which would be less likely to last more than one season. A warmer Antarctic should actually increase ice mass.
Cap’n –
I don’t see how your answer follows from my question.
I am questioning whether your observation of divergence between patterns of change and model predictions is accurate – not asking about your confidence that you understand what might be causal in variations.
IMO, yes, then opinions are like buttholes :) To me, without understanding the more of the natural variations which have relevant periods of 5 to 14,000 years with a peculiar 1470 +/- 500 year oscillation that is due, any divergence of observation from the models is important.
So I tend to look for the most stable region, the oceans specifically 44-64S latitude, to predict as much as possible, what are the more important things to watch. Antarctic sea ice, ~ 64S is a pretty important indication of the change in heat capacity. Sea ice change is a pretty fair measure of changes in the thermodynamics.
And Fan, if we can’t determine the hemispherical energy imbalance, predicting a global energy imbalance is like pissing yourself in a dark suit :)
???
Cap’n. I seem to be missing my mark. Let me try one more time, then I’m off to fry some bacon.
When you say that observations are different than climate model predictions w/r/t Antarctic sea ice – which climate model predictions are you referring to?
For your consideration, I offer this link – which refers to a a paper co-authored by Judith. How do you see observations as different than the “predictions” Judith made in her paper based on climate models? (the article has some careless editing errors, which suggest that it may not present an accurate summary of Judith’s study.)
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/08/antarctic-ice-future/
And this link lays out an argument that not enough is known about the dynamics for climate models to predict variations in Antarctic sea ice – which presumably does not preclude validity in those models’ ability to predict larger scale climate change.
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/div/ocp/projects/sea_ice.html
Now these links I provide came from a very basic use of The Google, and while Judith is a noted expert I have no idea of the qualifications of the scientists who wrote the blurb from Columbia. Still, each article in its own way suggests that your statement about what the models predict for variation in Antarctic sea ice may be in error.
Joshua, Antarctic sea ice extent change is an observation. Antarctic Ice Mass is a separate issue. Check out the projected warming by latitude. I have a slow connection thanks to Issac, but look at where observations deviate most from projections, that is what I am referring to as modeled projections.
Now there is one minor issue interpreting the model versus observations. That is because the accuracy of the Antarctic temperature data is totally screwed up. Warming in the Arctic is greater than projected and less than projected in the tropics. Only the mid-latitudes actually agree well with projections.
Since I am using the temperature projections versus all observations. Doesn’t Antarctic sea ice extent increasing while temperatures are supposedly increasing sound odd to you? Doesn’t southern ocean cooling differ slightly from projections?
So since Antarctic Ice Mass change is not predicted because it is complicated, why would I compare that to a model not predicting Antarctic Ice Mass change. I am looking at the modeled temperature changes.
If that is confusing, sorry
That is a great question, Captdallas! :) :) :)
On Neven’s Arctic Sea Ice weblog, there is no shortage of detailed explanations offered — see for example comments by “Old Leatherneck” (who apparently is Dave Springer’s USMC alter ego :) ) — and detailed numerical models similarly provide explanations, and yet regrettably, in both cases the explanations are so intricate as to be relatively uninstructive.
A less specific, but perhaps more satisfying, global explanation is simply that:
(1) CO2 increase is secular, monotonic, and accelerating, and so
(2) earth’s energy imbalance is secular, monotonic, and accelerating, and so
(3) climate-change is secular, monotonic, and accelerating.
It’s not complicated, Captdallas!
Here “secular” is a term from mathematical dynamics meaning (roughly) “changing not as a cycle that averages to zero, but as a cumulative trend having a nonzero long-term average” … “monotonic” meaning “the trend has just one sign” … “accelerating” meaning “the rate-of-change itself is increasing.”
Statistical/cyclical analyses aren’t good at predicting these secular /accelerating changes … that’s why folks who rely overmuch on statistics & cycles are surprised over-and-over again by “Black Swan” events like this year’s Arctic ice-melt.
Hopefully the preceding is useful to you, Captdallas! :) :) :)
Fan, Accelerating appears to be wrong. The Northern Hemisphere is a complicated indicator of global energy imbalance. Warming in the NH due to CO2 or land use has little short term impact on ocean heat capacity. Cooling due to volcanic aerosols has a greater impact. That tends to imply that most of the NH energy is supplied by the southern hemisphere pretty much like every thing suggests.
So imagine this, while the Earth has an Equator, it would have a different thermal equator. In NH winter, the Solar TSI is much larger than is NH summer. The Southern hemisphere oceans control the thermostat. So attempting to model “global” climate based on predominately northern hemisphere land, is friggin’ hilarious, much like you devotion to repetition of failing theories.:)
“One thing that the discourse here on Climate Etc teaches is that climate change denialism originates very largely in economic and political dogmatism.”
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That seems quite self-evident as it sure isn’t based on looking objectively at all the data.
Fan
Source please of that Hockey stick reconstructed arctic ice graph which extraordinarily appears to show the Vikings were sailing round in ice bound seas whilst the Little Ice Age apparently succeeded in melting the arctic ice.
tonyb
Reconstructed changes in Arctic sea ice over the past 1,450 years
JCH
Thanks, you must have posted it as I was reading and composing my reply.
tonyb
Fan
I have tracked down the source of your graph that demonstrates (to your satisfaction if no one elses) the arctic ice Hockey stick..
“Here we use a network of high-resolution terrestrial proxies from the circum-Arctic region to reconstruct past extents of summer sea ice, and show that—although extensive uncertainties remain, especially before the sixteenth century—both the duration and magnitude of the current decline in sea ice seem to be unprecedented for the past 1,450 years. “
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v479/n7374/full/nature10581.html
‘Extensive uncertainties?’ That does not even begin to register as proof Fan, and my question remains as to why the timing seems topsy trurvy with the most ice in Viking times and the least in the LIA. Seems perverse to me.
Ps Whilst the article is behind a pay wall the supplementary information is not and anazingly includes tree rings. table S1 from here
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v479/n7374/extref/nature10581-s1.pdf
is especially worth viewing.
“Likewise, the ANK melt record was shown to correlate poorly with local surface temperature records56. Hence distant changes in sea ice extent must be recorded via teleconnections at ANK, through changes in atmospheric circulation patterns associated with sea ice changes”
Both Stevre Mcintryre (comments are interesting as well)
http://climateaudit.org/2011/12/05/kinnard-arctic-o18-series/
and tamino
http://tamino.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/1400-years-of-arctic-ice/
followed this, and Tamino also commented on the LIA conundrum.
From it we can determine the decline in Arctic ice through the 20th century but not much else.
Tonyb
Judith:
I’m hoping that reposting will catch your eye (assuming that you don’t reflexively ignore all of my comments).
You demonstrated in an earlier post that you have a commitment to exploring as much of the literature on Arctic sea ice as you can, within reason.
I assume that means that when you make a statement like that I quoted above in this comment, it comes from your knowledge of the literature. Would you mind linking to the multiple occasions where this predication has been made?
You need to be a not-IPCC ditto-head to get noticed……
Or at least a recognizable person in the real world. That’s not necessarily someone using a real name we can see but at least an email address she can see that reveals a person she recognizes.
Go over to Watts place. The prediction that the arctic could be ice free in 5 years was made in 2007 by Jay Zwally of NASA.
Watts has a ‘countdown calender’ running. It’s always fun to ‘pretend’ to take predictions that are obviously not going to come true seriously.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/05/12/the-arctic-ocean-could-be-nearly-ice-free-at-the-end-of-summer-by-2012/
Here’s Jay Zwally’s bio…
http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/directory/eospso_members/h_zwally.php
He has had over 100 referred publications in glaciology, polar research, climate science, and physics.
Notice the use of the present tense in JC’s statement. Someone, somewhere (possibly plural) is predicting an ice-free Arctic by the end of September.
Harry –
I would have thought this kind of nonsense to be beneath you.
As has been noted above – Watts changed “could” to “will”
Watts also ignores that Zwally’s “prediction” of what “could” was specifically contingent on the trends of 2007 continuing.
Unfortunately, the type of motivated analysis we see in Watts’ input on this issue is very characteristic of Watt’s input more generally.
What becomes particularly unfortunate is that seemingly large numbers of “skeptics” either ignore of just fail to notice his bias-confirming ways. Neither ignoring or not noticing what Watts is doing here is consistent with skepticism. Both ignoring and failing to notice Watt’s behaviors are consistent with “skepticism.”
Well this is why I call them climate deniers.
People just questioning things wouldn’t put so much effort into finding ways to deny the measured decline in arctic sea ice.
There is no reason to “deny” the decline in Arctic sea ice. It is a regional phenomenon. You can see from AMSU that, globally, this year’s temp is pretty much in the middle of the last 10. There is nothing to see here. Move on.
http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/execute.csh?amsutemps
“There is no reason to “deny” the decline in Arctic sea ice.”
No honest reason anyway.
I’m having a Doomsday party on 21 December 2012.
I’m well aware Dr Zwally used the qualifier could as I am also well aware that the entire IPCC report is loaded with could’s and may’s and possibly’s.
I passed ‘critical reading’ long ago with a solid A.
The first thing one should do when reading a document is line thru every statement that has a ‘could’ or ‘may’ type qualifier in it. This separates facts from opinion.
Of course those who have an agenda line thru the coulds and mays and present them as facts.
Here is the abstract from one of Hansen’s latest papers…
http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/ha05510d.html
as usual it’s filled statements like this Satellite gravity data, though too brief to be conclusive, but also has statements like this Thus goals to limit human-made warming to 2°C are not sufficient — they are prescriptions for disaster. and from the full text Fig. 1 shows estimated global deep ocean temperature in the Cenozoic, the past 65.5 million years. and my favorite
The fact that CO2 is the dominant cause of long-term Cenozoic climate trends is obvious
Of course a lot has changed in the last 65 million years…like the Himalayan mountain range didn’t exist 65 million years ago.
Of course we can go ask some geologists what they think
http://fsu.edu/news/2008/06/12/tibetan.fossils/
Establishing an accurate history of tectonic and associated elevation changes in the region is important because uplift of the Tibetan Plateau has been suggested as a major driving mechanism of global climate change over the past 50-60 million years
Hansen’s ‘obvious’ statement ignores the Tibetan Uplift as a possible driver of ‘global climate change’ over the last 50-60 million years. He notes the collision of India and Asia but then ignores the massive change in elevation of Tibet that continues to this day.
I can either laugh or cry at the level of implied certainty when so much is uncertain.
If a scientist says something ‘could’ happen without a numerical qualification as to probability then the scientist is implying that the ‘could’ is a ‘will’.
I’ve also managed to pass ‘persuasive writing 101’.
Saying there is a 1% chance of rain tomorrow is not the same as saying it could rain tomorrow.
Harry –
Sorry, this should be here:
http://judithcurry.com/2012/08/25/week-in-review-82512/#comment-232481
Yes…the nested comments can get lost.
But your point that everyone that reads Watts reads it without a ‘critical eye’ is probably lost on me.
I noticed he dropped the could, I also notice an awful lot of ‘alarmist’ stuff drops ‘could as well’.
Standard ‘persuasive writing’ is to imply a level of certainty without actually stating the level certainty. You use the biases of your readers in order to ‘fill in blanks’ that were never actually stated.
I would think you would be schooled on the differences between white propaganda, grey propaganda and black propaganda as a communications professional.
White is truthful and doesn’t lead the reader to a false conclusion
Grey is truthful but presented in a manner that leads the reader to conclusion not supported by the facts presented.
Black is outright falsehood.
You would be hard pressed to find ‘pure white’ anywhere in the climate debate.
Somebody at NASA makes a somewhat ‘alarmist’ ‘could’ prediction. Now Watts is making fun of it.
I’m on record that coal consumption is going to peak around 8 billion tons. If it hits 9 or 10 billion tons then plenty of folks will be laughing at me. If it peaks at 8 billion tons then I’ll get to laugh at all the alarmists that claimed it would never peak.
“Somebody at NASA makes a somewhat ‘alarmist’ ‘could’ prediction. Now Watts is making fun of it.”
If skeptics want to make fun of wrong predictions why not start with their own? Since the 2007 minimum skeptic blogs have been playing the line of “nothing to see here” and pushing the idea of a “recovery” of arctic sea ice. A new record minimum in 2012 is exactly the opposite of what they’ve led everyone to believe would happen.
But of course skeptics won’t want to admit this, so perhaps instead they will make fun of the mainstream scientific predictions of arctic sea ice decline that could now be criticized as not being alarmist enough?
http://www.realclimate.org/images/seaice10.jpg
Of course not, if skeptics made fun of *those* predictions it would weaken their desired narrative of “alarmist scientists” and “nothing to see here”.
So what they’ve gone for is framing the lowest prediction they can find as “The Definite Prediction Of IPCC Scientists” and this is all that allows them to retain a figment of their “Nothing To See Here”, “alarmist scientists” narrative.
Also note that while skeptics are happy to describe Zwally’s prediction as alarmist now, you can be sure that if it does come to pass they will be the first ones to claim the changes aren’t in any way alarming. In fact I can well imagine that a few years back some of the arctic sea ice projections that predicted ice free conditions by 2050 would have been described as “alarmist” by skeptics.
From Neven’s weblog:
Verdict Subsequent Arctic ice-melts have validated Dr. Zwally’s 2007 remarks as being startlingly accurate, eh? :) :) :)
Actually – in responding to Watt’s inaccurate claims of a “prediction,” you are just wandering down a rabbit hole.
It wasn’t a “prediction”: It was a statement of what “could” happen if trends continued as they were in 2007.
This (Watt’s inaccuracies and responses to his inaccuracies) is all a bunch of nonsense. It is point-scoring, and it has nothing to do with the science.
“In any case, it will take far more study, with far more accurate and universally respected results, over a much longer period of time before our limited human comprehension can form a true picture of what is happening, why it is happening, whether it is a source of long-term concern, and whether there is anything particular to be done about it.”
I agree with this statement, quoted by Judith, as originating from the catholic culture blog, 100%. Climate science needs to garner a much greater understanding of the impact of natural variability on climate, given that the system itself is vastly complex and non-linear. Until this is done, there’s no way whatsoever that the effect of human activity can be ascertained to any degree of statistical probity.
I would like to take up again the issue of the measurement of total climate sensitivity; a discussion I have had recently with lolwot and other proponents of CAGW. The impression that lolwot wants to give about the measurement of total climate sensitivity, is that it is merely a minor issue with respect to CAGW. I would argue that it is not a minor issue, but a unique, and very major issue.
IF, and it is a very big IF, but IF total climate sensitivity can actually be measured, then the value obtained will, for all time, settle the issue of whether CAGW is real or not. If the actual meausrement shows that total climate sensitivity has the large value that the proponents of CAGW speculate it has, then this will silence their critics for ever. No longer will any of us denier/skeptics, be able to claim that CAGW is a hoax.
If, however, and as I expect, the value of measured total climate sensitivity turns out to be indistinguishable from zero, then the case for CAGW collapses. I wonder why lolwot is so insistent that the case for the measurement of total climate sensitivity is only a very minor and unimportant issue.
14 years with no warming
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/rss/from:1998/plot/rss/from:1998/trend
despite an 8% increase in atmospheric CO2
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/esrl-co2/from:1998/plot/none
What does this imply to the unbiased observer, Jim?
I would infer it to mean that there are other factors involved with the earth’s average temperature where those factors, either natural or manmade or both, are sufficient to negate and reverse, at least for 14 years, the warming effect of anthropogenic CO2.
The Unbiased Answer Unbiased observers conclude that climate-change denialists habitually cherry-pick the weakest observations of the earth’s smallest and most variable thermal reservoirs! :) :) :)
And all the while, denialists absurdly ignore the mightiest climate-change hockey-sticks ever seen! :lol: :lol: :lol:
Dave Springer, you might take a example from “Old LeatherNeck“, who serves as your non-denialist “good twin” on Neven’s Arctic Sea Ice weblog! :) :) :)
Dave you write “What does this imply to the unbiased observer, Jim?”
I agree with what you are saying and implying. That is why I believe that, if and when total climate sensitivity is ever acutally measured, it’s value will be found to be indistinguishable from zero. But that is not the issue. The point is that what you have stated does not actually MEASURE total climate sensitivity.
What I am trying to find out is why the proponents of CAGW are so against any sort of attempt to actaully MEASURE total climate sensitivcity. That is where I hope someone can help me.
The only way to measure sensititivity is thru ocean heat content.
Unfortunately, the sailors quip that ‘Below 40 degrees south there is no law,Below 50 degrees there is no god.’ pretty much means there isn’t any good long term data below 40 degrees south because sailors avoided sailing below 40 degrees south.
Jim Cripwell, it is a pleasure to answer your question! :) :) :)
The answer you seek is stated plainly in James Hansen et al. “Earth’s Energy Imbalance and Implications“ (2011):
Answer Careful measurements of climate-sensitivity are essential to the simple long-term strategy of climate-change science for achieving the total victory of Enlightenment science over denialism.
What is your next question Jim Cripwell? :) :) :)
Fan, Sidles, whatever your name is, you write “Answer Careful measurements of climate-sensitivity are essential to the simple long-term strategy of climate-change science.”
I swore I would ignore you, and I am sure I will regret this posting, but you do write the most complete and utter non-scientific drivel. I am talking about the measurement of total climate sensitivity. You are talking about forcings. They have completely different Dimensions, and are barely related.
When you can say something sensible to say about measuring total climate sensitivity, it might be interesting, but I doubt it. I sure wish you would stop abusing this wonderful blog that our hostess has provided.
Since 1998, every year, CO2 concentration in the atmosphere increased by 1.94 ppm per year from 365 to 393 ppm as shown.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/esrl-co2/from:1998/to:2012/plot/esrl-co2/from:1998/to:2012/trend
For this increase in CO2 concentration, the global mean temperature trend decreased as shown.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1998/to:2012/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1998/to:2012/trend
From this data, since 1998, the global mean temperature trend has been flat.
CONCLUSION=> CO2 emission does not cause global warming!
Analogy=> Potatoes contain arsenic does not mean that eating it will kill you.
CO2 is a heat trapping gas in the closed flask of the laboratory does not mean that it behaves the same way on the open and windy surface of the earth.
The warming trend since the beginning of the satellite record has increased since 1998:
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1979/to:2012/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1979/to:1998/trend/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1979/to:2012/trend
lolwot, you write “The warming trend since the beginning of the satellite record has increased since 1998:”
So what. You along with Fan, are completely ingoring my question. It is impossible to measure total climate sensitivity from the figures you quote, because it is impossible to prove how much of any warming is caused by additional CO2 in the atmosphere. You proponents of CAGW are wonderful at providing all sorts of red herrings on this blog, doubtless in an effort to make it look like you are writing something sensible, while all the time just repeating a lot of progaganda.
How is this related to the measurement of total climate sensitivity?
Red herrings Jim?
That’ll be all the claims of “no warming since 1998”. Those are the red herrings. Those are the distractions. Why would I talk about climate sensitivity when climate skeptics can’t even get right that the world continued warming past 1998?
Some of them even question whether the CO2 rise is caused by man!
These are the red herrings.
If we look at 1999 instead (so to cover the 98 el nino), we see the trend continues as-is:
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1979/to:2012/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1979/to:1999/trend/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1979/to:2012/trend
Or to look at it another way, lets cast our minds back to 1999. A big El Nino is just winding down and the trend since 1979 is 0.15C/decade, meaning the world has warmed 0.3C in 20 years.
If global warming had then stopped we’d still be only 0.3C higher than 1979 today. 0.3C warming over the period 1979-2012 works out at 0.09C/decade.
Yet the trend since 1979 is actually 0.15C/decade. The same as the trend was from 1979-1999. Ie the trend hasn’t changed, the warming hasn’t stopped.
Of course it can be simplified further.
Warming from 1979 to 1999: 0.3C
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1979/to:1999/trend
Warming from 1979 to 2012: 0.5C
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1979/to:2012/trend
That’s an extra 0.2C warming. That means warming didn’t stop in 1999. It’s that simple.
Do they give classes at CAGW school in how to construct graphs to obscure any trend that doesn’t suit the talking point of the day?
Well answer me this GaryM,
Warming from 1979 to 1999: 0.3C
Warming from 1979 to 2012: 0.5C
If warming stopped in 1999, where did that extra 0.2C come from?
Lolwot,
I’m the wrong guy to ask. I don’t believe we can measure global average temperature to within tenths of a degree now, let alone when the instrumentation was even more scare and more inaccurate. I was just commenting on your, and your CAGW colleagues’. use of graphs as propaganda.
Now I understand why those who take the temp record at face value might prefer to cherry pick one year over another. On either side. But y’all are just so quick in your response time to create competing graphs that make a stark visual contrast by emphasizing certain data, or time frames, over others.
Usually CAGW graphs are colored in dark, menacing red or heavy black to emphasize the talking point at issue. But cherry picking a date, of extending or contracting the frame of reference, works too.
Either way, you are all getting better at it. The ham handed Mannian deletion of inconvenient data seems to be declasse…for now.
I just wonder whether it was a seminar, or a full semester course?
Oh so you don’t have any problem with David Springer and Girma’s use of graphs then GaryM? Thanks for revealing your partisanship. Go team skeptic!
Dave, what happens when you change 1998 to 1997 or 1999?
Why is that and how does that affect your low-hanging fruit-cake arguments?
What happens if you use 2000? 2001? 2002? 2003? But if you start in 2008….
Cherry picking is fun.
Even if you eliminate the 1998 el nino, the graph shows a rise in temps until about 2002. Since then, a decline. Unless you start again in 2008….
It’s all phrenology, tea leaves, astrology at best. What happened last year did not prove or disprove CAGW. What happens this year, and the next, and the next, will not prove or disprove CAGW.
The only graph that matters will be the graph of the election results in the U.S. in November of this year. If conservatives win the presidency and both houses of congress, the CAGW money train is going to get derailed.
If progressives win, Kyoto and Copenhagen won’t matter. Decarbonization will begin in earnest in the U.S. And it won’t stop until the economy crashes enough to cure people of their addiction to “free” goodies from the government.
Signal to noise ratio anyone?
The zombies need 13 seats in the big house to start eating brains. Odds are heavily against.
Some of you CAGWers suck at math, dontcha?
The GOP holds 47 seats in the Senate. By my advanced mathematical calculations, that means they need 4 to take outright control. (If I remember correctly, 51 is a majority of 100, unless you have Mann doing the statistics.) If Romney wins, they only need three, because Paul Ryan will be the tie breaker.
GaryM, my math is fine, it takes 60 zombie votes to unilaterally defund the climate express freight train. Filibuster anyone?
bob droge,
You apparently don’t know any more about Senate rules than you do how to subtract.
If the Dems could pass Obamacare using reconciliation, the GOP can use it to defund the EPA’s attempts to nationalize the energy economy. They pass a budget that simply zeros out funding for the CO2 regs.
Oh, and the filibuster is also a creation of the Senate, and can be discarded by a majority vote. If that is what it takes to keep the energy economy away from the CAGW fanatics at EPA, let alone stop the Obamacare leviathan, that’s what will happen.
Cloture is 60 votes, or a 3/5ths majority to end a filibuster.
Check the Senate rules and get back to me.
@bob drooge
Obamacare was passed with a 51% majority in the senate. It can be unpassed in the same manner. Unless you understand how it was passed without a super-majority you will not understand how it can be unpassed without a super-majority.
Actually unpassing it is easier. The House of Representatives controls the purse strings. They can simply refuse to fund it. They can do the same thing to the EPA. They can’t vote to fund something that doesn’t exist. Passing legislation that creates a new agency requires approval of both houses of congress plus a POTUS signature. POTUS can be overruled by a super majority in congress though. However, what requires no cooporation by either the president or the senate is funding. This was dramatically illustrated recently by a Republican simple majority in the House holding the full faith and credit of the United States Treasury hostage by refusing to raise the debt ceiling limit. Without approval to raise the debt ceiling the United States would not have been able to pay the vigorish on US Treasury notes and the US would have gone into default on its loans. That was a VERY BIG deal and it was done solely through the ability of a simple majority in the House to refuse to authorize spending.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Dave Springer, notice I took care to correctly spell your name,
You obviously don’t know what the word unilaterally means.
GaryM, everyone remembers how Ronald Reagan wisely appreciated that “Nature cannot be fooled” … and so we hope that today’s politicians — of all political parties of all nations … cultivate a wise appreciation like Reagan’s that “Arctic sea ice shouldn’t leave anyone cold.”
Appreciation is extended to Neven’s Arctic Sea Ice weblog for explaining the science so clearly! :) :) :)
fan,
You seem to have a case of sea ice Tourette’s. I think they have meds now that could help you control your condition.
The first step in self-help is always acknowledging to yourself that you need help. I’m afraid John Sidles is not capable of that first step. Perhaps an intervention by his family, if he hasn’t alienated them all by now, would be in order.
bob droege | August 26, 2012 at 1:06 pm | Reply
“Dave, what happens when you change 1998 to 1997 or 1999?
Why is that and how does that affect your low-hanging fruit-cake arguments?”
The fruit-cake is entirely yours and you perhaps should have changed the year and seen for yourself before opening your mouth and putting your foot in it.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/rss/from:1997/plot/rss/from:1997/trend
Beginning in 1997 the rate of decline is nearly flat but still in decline.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/rss/from:1999/plot/rss/from:1999/trend
Beginning in 1999 there is a 0.03C/decade warming trend which is a factor of 10 less than the IPCC prediction.
Beginning in 2000 the trend is flat and beginning in 2001 or any year after that the trend is negative.
Since 2002 the trend is 0.10C/decade cooling.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/rss/from:2002/plot/rss/from:2002/trend
Is there something about how the trend taken in increments of a sine wave that confuses you? It’s a bit noisy but not all that much. 1998 was the peak of the positive portion of a sine wave with an approximate 60-year periodicity. This sine wave rides atop a longer period cycle measured in centuries that includes the Roman Warm Period, the Medieval Warm Period, and the Little Ice Age. We have been on the warming side of that cycle since the Little Ice Age. Historians of the future will call our time perhaps The Industrial Warm Period. If history repeats, and it usually does, then the cooling trend we observerd beginning circa 1998 and which had accelerated to 0.10C/decade cooling by 2002 will continue until we’re in a repeat of the Little Ice Age once again.
“Beginning in 2000 the trend is flat and beginning in 2001 or any year after that the trend is negative.”
says Dave Springer, but
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/rss/from:2008/plot/rss/from:2008/trend
and he also compares trends to IPCC estimates but fails to provide an analysis of the error bounds and whether the trends identified actually exclude the IPCC trends or not.
And with RSS you have to go back to 1989 or so before you get a trend that is statistically valid.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/trend.php
And if you are seeing sine wave in all this data, my only conclusion is that you are the one ingesting psychotropic substances, or else that the zombies have already engested your brains, but I think that has already been established.
CFAN’s latest forecast on Isaac:
Tropical Storm Isaac – Currently moving through the Florida Straits, Issac is gaining organization and is likely to become a hurricane later today as it enters the Gulf of Mexico. Since Saturday, the CFAN forecast for Isaac has shifted westward in agreement with the latest model consensus. well west of this morning’s forecast from the National Hurricane Center. Landfall is now expected near New Orleans, LA by Tuesday evening or in the early overnight hours, and the cone of uncertainty has narrowed and is now bound to the west by Marsh Island, LA and to the east by Panama City, FL. The risk of movement through the Production Region has increased today and remains high (60%+). We expect Isaac to be a strong category 2 storm at landfall and the risk of it becoming a major hurricane continues to increase but is just within the upper moderate range (30-60%). At this time, risk of reaching category four or five intensity has increased but remains low (10-30%). In addition to tropical storm force winds, the risk of hurricane force winds in the Production Region is also now high (60%). Tropical storm force winds for the Production Region are likely to begin late Monday morning and last until early Wednesday afternoon. Finally, based on the latest size forecasts from the European model guidance, Isaac is forecast to become the sixth largest landfalling Gulf TC since 1920. This large horizontal size coupled with his fast forward motion should lead to substantial wave setup leading up to landfall. Significant wave heights are expected to reach 30-35 ft, individual weight heights may reach 50-60 ft, and swell heights will likely reach 10-15 ft.
The up to 30% figure is interesting…
POST-31 JULY PROBABILITIES FOR AT LEAST ONE MAJOR (CATEGORY 3-4-5) HURRICANE LANDFALL ON EACH OF THE FOLLOWING UNITED STATES COASTAL AREAS:
1) Entire U.S. coastline – 48% (full-season average for last century is 52%)
2) U.S. East Coast Including Peninsula Florida – 28% (full-season average for last century is 31%)
3) Gulf Coast from the Florida Panhandle westward to Brownsville – 28% (full-season average for last century is 30%)
(from a paper updated 3 August 2012 that was coauthored by Dr. Bill Gray)
FORECAST OF ATLANTIC SEASONAL HURRICANE ACTIVITY AND LANDFALL STRIKE PROBABILITY FOR 2012
We anticipate a slightly-below average remainder of the hurricane season this year due to an anticipated weak El Niño event and a tropical Atlantic that is less favorable than in the past two years. This forecast is a slight increase from activity predicted in early June, due to a slower-than-anticipated onset of El Niño and a somewhat more favorable tropical Atlantic than observed earlier this year. We expect a slightly below-average probability of United States and Caribbean major hurricane landfall.
(as of 3 August 2012)
By Philip J. Klotzbach1 and William M. Gray2
Time to prepare:
1. Until we know exactly where the hurricane is going to make landfall, and exactly what its top wind speed will be at that time, no one should prepare. Until we know exactly what kind of danger the storm poses, we should treat it as posing no danger at all.
2. People should not stockpile food, fuel, or water, or prepare their homes for high winds. In the unlikely event that this storm, which we don’t really know anything about, shatters your windows, blowing the glass inward, human ingenuity will allow you to adapt to the shards of broken glass flying towards you and your family.
3. The government should play no part in preparing for the storm (which is not necessary anyway). In fact “hurricane” is just an alarmist word for a windy day, probably invented by the government as a pretext for using the National Guard to impose martial law. That’s why “hurricanes” always target the freedom-loving South.
Maybe if they made a hockey stick-shaped drawings of the hurricane, we’d be better prepared. Or maybe if we can just get Pres. Obama to stop the seas from rising again, some damage could be avoided. Or maybe we can build coastal co2 sequestration facilities real quick we can store the Bad Weather causing demons safely, like they did in Ghostbusters.
Andrew
1. The entire Gulf Coast should be evacuated. The damage from this potentially catastrophic storm could be….worse than we thought.
2. The government should impose an immediate 100% tax on food stuffs, to be invested in Al Gore’s new alternative food company. We must wean ourselves from the addiction to proteins, carbohydrates and fats.
3. The government should appoint neighborhood life “coaches,” with the power to send to jail anyone who does not comply with the experts’ “recommendations” regarding how to reduce their contribution to globalclimatewarmingchange, which caused this hurricane in the first place.
Or… just park the buses on high ground and blame Bush if there’s a disaster.
This is going to be interesting. There are clearly very different predictions as to what Isaac is gong to do. The next 48 hours or so will be well worthwhile, following what Isaac actually does.
If Isaac trashes New Orleans like Katrina did, how much should we all chip in to re-re-build it?
And will it be Bushes’ fault?
The whole point of the post Katrina response was to ‘not rebuild it’.
The population of NOLA in 2005 was about 445,000, 2010 census has it at 343,000. So only about 1/2 the evacuee’s went back.
I lived in NOLA in 1980, and then visited it again in ’09. Didn’t look that different. By ’09, there wasn’t anything there that would indicate that there was a major disaster. The place always was kind of seedy, but the city sure didn’t look like any kind of depopulation had happened.
Probably depends on what neighborhoods you visited. I have a friend that owned an Art Gallery in the French Quarter. Took him about two weeks to open back up.
The Army Corp of Engineers recommended not rebuilding anything that ended up under 14 feet or more of water.
http://biotech.law.lsu.edu/la/coast/lacpr/FinalReport/Vol%20I/Real%20Estate.pdf
Take a gander at Six Flags if you want to see some of Katrina’s lasting legacy. I visited Six Flags, New Orleans in 2006. It was surreal. Eeerie. Dead. Ghostly. Surrounded by tall trees with no small limbs or leaves. Like the grim reaper came through and sucked the life out of everything.
https://www.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4LENN_enUS461US461&q=new+orleans+six+flags
Kinda depends on whether or not the Bush Army Corps was able to make them build the levees right this time. People forget that Katrina didn’t do that much damage until the defective levee failed.
Pray with me that it grows in intensity and makes landfall at the far western boundary. We need rain, and lots of it, in south central Texas. Hurricane rain bands are badly needed and usually our best shot at a drought-buster this time of year.
Nice to see the church quoting Frank Zappa (unattributed) – after trying so hard to ban his words and jail him while he was alive.
Here is another prediction made in 2004, which may end up being proved wrong. (Looks like the academics where getting carried away with alarmist predictions in that year!)
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v427/n6970/full/nature02121.html
“we predict, on the basis of mid-range climate-warming scenarios for 2050, that 15–37% of species in our sample of regions and taxa will be ‘committed to extinction’……
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I don’t think I’ll bother.
Yes 2004 a year of alarmist predictions…
oh wait..
“Arctic summer sea ice is projected to decline by at least 50 percent by the end of this century with some models showing near-complete disappearance of summer sea ice.”
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041108213307.htm
“One model projects an ice-free Arctic Ocean in summer by mid-century.”
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/detect/human-access-arctic.shtml
Don’t expect skeptics to cite these mainstream predictions though. They don’t fit the narrative of “Alarmist Scientists!” that skeptics want to push.
It’s 2050? Or 2099? Man did I over sleep.
lolwot: They don’t fit the narrative of “Alarmist Scientists!” that skeptics want to push.
Some scientists are alarmist and some are not. Now if we could only get some sort of consensus that the science, taken as a whole, does not provide cause for the alarmism of the alarmists. Perhaps the next report of the IPCC can say “THERE IS NO CAUSE FOR ALARM!”
MattState and GaryM, in her 5-minute video “Why are climate scientists so conservative?“, historian Naomi Oreskes explains why politicians should have a “Plan B” prepared, in the event that IPCC prove to underestimate the accelerating pace of climate change.
Because history shows plainly that politicians who assert “No ‘Plan B’ is needed” are bad leaders, eh? :) :) :)
Having a “Plan B” is essential for one over-riding common-sense reason, that every foresighted statesman appreciates:
MattState and GaryM, hopefully this information will be illuminating for you! :) :) :)
fan,
But we do have a Plan B already.
Plan A is: put an enormous drag on the economy by sucking out hundreds of billions MORE in taxes at a time of high unemployment, to fund unworkable technology and the growth of massive progressive bureaucracies to micromanage the energy economy.
Plan B is: Don’t do Plan A.
There’s that alarmism problem of yours rearing its ugly head again.
Where’s your evidence that a carbon tax will be an “enormous drag” on the economy? Any proof?
Only a proto-Marxist CAGW progressive would ask for proof that a massive tax would be a massive drag on the economy, particularly when slowing the economy is one of the expressed purposes of the tax.
But the funny thing about this country is, on a political issue like CAGW, I don’t have to prove, I get to vote. And so does every other eligible voter.
See you in November.
Nice ad hom . . . if you could stop peeing yourself with fear, could you provide some evidence for your claims?
Or are you going to lose this argument like you lost WWII and lost the segregation fight. ;)
Sorry Bob, I gotta take my son to see “2012 – Obama’s America.”
I’ll explain why you’re a proto-Marxist CAGW progressive when I get back.
To be fair, Gary, highest marginal tax rate in Eisenhower/Kennedy days was a whopping 90% and it was equal to or north of 70% for many good years. I’m a financial conservative but I’m also a student of fact and the fact is that marginal tax rates are not correlated with economic malaise. In fact with a couple of decades of the lowest marginal tax rates in this century we find ourselves in a deep and lasting recession not exceeded for 80 years. So if there is any correlation at all it argues against low marginal tax rates driving economic expansion.
David Springer,
If you think the “economic malaise” is a result of too little being paid in taxes, rather than the explosion in government spending, I’m not sure why you consider yourself an “economic conservative?”
The tax rates in 2003, 2005, 2005, 206, and 2007 were all the same as they were in 2008, and are now. Look how the level of revenue increased until the crash in 2007-8. (If you really wanted to, you could even look as far back as the Reagan tax cuts, which dropped the top rate from 70%, and the decades of prosperity, and increasing tax revenues, that resulted.)
Then look at the huge jump in spending beginning in 2008, from which there is no sign of retreat.
It is the lack of economic activity that has killed revenues, and higher marginal tax rates will result in even less economic activity. If you don’t believe THAT, then you are not an economic conservative. Even Obama admitted that last year.
Not sure where you are getting your “facts,” but you might want to re-check them.
Oops, left out the link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Revenue_and_Expense_to_GDP_Chart_1993_-_2008.png
Plan A is good to have. Plan B is also good to have, but it can’t be “not plan A”.
Once upon a time, in a territory governed by Hedly Lemar, was a town called Rock Ridge. Hedly was a diabolical sort, and sprung a character out of jail and sent him to Rock Ridge to be the new Sheriff. The town had a plan A. Plan A was to welcome the Sheriff. Then they saw the Sheriff. They didn’t have a plan B.
This is the problem with all this planning. It can’t take into account unknown unknowns, such as a Governor who wants to destroy the town. So when the old coot in the belltower yells “the the Sheriff is near” (or something like that), they’re waiting with the wrong plan.
In the end, none of it mattered.
P.E. said
Once upon a time there was a legendary Hollywood actress named Hedy Lamarr. She had some amazing math talents and was the inventor of the precursor to the spread spectrum technology used widely in wireless communications. Look it up.
She also apparently sued the producers of Blazing Saddles for mocking her name and settled out of court.
Truth is stranger than fiction, something that skeptics never seem to be able to comprehend. They live in some fantasy land of beliefs and desires, never addressing the real science.
Oh no you don’t take the name of Mel Brooks in vain. Heathen.
Fan
Surely Naomi is involved in the history of science and as such is not a ‘historian’ in the way you perhaps mean? She is of course much cited by people on the warmist side such as Al Gore
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Oreskes
I’d however agree with the need for a Plan B. All our attention is focused on Warming when cooling would be more detrimental. Is that what you mean by a Plan B Fan, in which case I agree with your far sightedeness of the perils of cooling.
tonyb
A fan of *MORE* discourse: “Why are climate scientists so conservative?“
So now you are pushing alarmism.
Hmm…. Speaking of Naomi Oreske, I was reading about her over at Jo Nova’s a week or so ago. Never really heard of her before that. Seems she has some sort of a figurative trans-gender “hard-on” for old, white guys. Calls ’em “weirdos” and that sort of thing. Even does a little Miss Shrink-wannabee analysis of their loneliness and attention-seeking needs–you know, the typical, phony, hive-psych agit-prop deal. And all this, mind you, from some eco-biggie who is supposed to be a highly-credentialed mover-and-shaker a-strut on the world stage and all (but I guess that’s the sort of thing you have to expect when the empowered man-haters kick all the white-boys out of the IPCC and replace them with gal-pals).
But what most struck me most about Naomi Oreske was the picture of her that accompanied Jo Nova’s article. I mean, like, check out the totally improbable Naomi’s even more improbable hair-do! I mean, like, –don’cha agree?–Naomi doesn’t so much sport a hair-do as she has constructed on the top of her head a do-it-yourself, wilderness habitat, perfect for nesting black-widow spiders! Jeez.
So is there anyone out there who would trust someone like Naomi, with her “weirdo” sense of hair-style, and all, to be their make-a-buck/make-a-gulag Philosopher-Queen and Cull-Mistress? I mean, like, is there anyone out there that so completely dorked-up?
P. S. Check out some of the 50’s era GUM mail-order catalogs. See any five-year-plan-make-quota-babushka-head-scarf super-models in the catalogs that remind you of someone? I mean, like, I’m just asking.
That language is interesting–e.g., “we predict, on the basis of the current level of unionized government workers, that Western civilization will be ‘committed to extinction’……
“I am trying to figure out what Mann is trying to accomplish with these lawsuits.”
Name recognition is my guess. By now he’s surely realized he’s not going to become the Alexander Fleming of Climate Maladies and will take his fame wherever and however he can find it.
He’s trying to achieve the same as any other inadequate loser who decides to kill himself very publicly (eg suicide by cop) ‘so that I’ll be famous when I’m dead’.
Mann’s idea is to make himself a laughing stock rather than a corpse..but at least a famous one.
One truly confident in his own abilities and his work would just rise above the jibes and prove his worth by publishing great science. That he chooses to concentrate on the law not on climatology says it all.
Latimer,
Mann is a highly productive researcher. He has authored or co-authored almost 130 papers in his scientific field, including 7 papers so far in 2012. I am providing a list of his papers, but it is very lengthy, so I will understand if a moderator deletes it.
Kozar, M.E., Mann, M.E., Camargo, S.J., Kossin, J.P., Evans, J.L., Stratified statistical models of North Atlantic basin-wide and regional tropical cyclone counts, J. Geophys. Res. (in press).
Ning, L., Mann, M.E., Crane, R., Wagener, T., Najjar, R.G., Singh, R., Probabilistic Projections of Anthropogenic Climate Change Impacts on Precipitation for the Mid-Atlantic Region of the United States, J. Climate, 25, 5273-5291, 2012.
Steinman, B.A., Abbott, M.B., Mann, M.E., Stansell, N.D., Finney, B.P, 1500 year quantitative reconstruction of winter precipitation in the Pacific Northwest, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., doi: 10.1073/ pnas.1201083109 (online publication), 2012.
Fan, F., Mann, M.E., Lee., S, Evans, J.L., Future Changes in the South Asian Summer Monsoon: An Analysis of the CMIP3 Multi-Model Projections, J. Climate, 25, 3909-3928, 2012.
Mann, M.E., Fuentes, J.D., Rutherford, S., Underestimation of Volcanic Cooling in Tree-Ring Based Reconstructions of Hemispheric Temperatures, Nature Geoscience, 5, 202–205, 2012.
Goosse, H., Crespin, E., Dubinkina, S., Loutre, M., Mann, M.E., Renssen, H., Sallaz-Damaz, Y., Shindell, D., The role of forcing and internal dynamics in explaining the “Medieval Climate Anomaly”, Climate Dynamics, doi: 10.1007/s00382-012-1297-0 (online publication), 2012.
Goosse, H., Crespin, E., Dubinkina, S., Loutre, M., Mann, M.E., Renssen, H., Sallaz-Damaz, Y., Shindell, D., The medieval climate anomaly in Europe: Comparison of the summer and annual mean signals in two reconstructions and in simulations with data assimilation, Global and Planetary Change, 84-85, 35-47, 2012.
Ning, L., Mann, M.E., Crane, R., Wagener, T., Probabilistic Projections of Climate Change for the Mid-Atlantic Region of the United States – Validation of Precipitation Downscaling During the Historical Era, J. Climate, 25, 509-526, 2012.
Singh, R., Wagener, T., Van Werkhoven, K., Mann, M.E., Crane, R., A trading-space-for-time approach to probabilistic continuous streamflow predictions in a changing climate – accounting for changing watershed behavior, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 15, 1-13, 2011.
Diaz, H.F., Trigo, R., Hughes, M.K., Mann, M.E., Xoplaki, E., Barriopedro, D., Spatial and temporal characteristics of climate in medieval times revisited,, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 92, 1487-1500 2011.
Katz, B., Najjar, R.G., Cronin, T., Rayburn, J., Mann, M.E., Constraints on Lake Agassiz discharge through the late-glacial Champlain Sea (St. Lawrence Lowlands, Canada) using salinity proxies and an estuarine circulation model, Quat. Sci. Rev., 30, 3248-3257, 2011.
Kemp, A.C., Horton, B.P., Donnelly, J.P., Mann, M.E., Vermeer, M., Rahmstorf, S., Reply to Grinsted et al.: Estimating land subsidence in North Carolina, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 108, E783, 2011.
Mann, M.E., On long range dependence in global surface temperature series: An editorial comment, Climatic Change, 107, 267–276, 2011.
Kemp, A.C., Horton, B.P., Donnelly, J.P., Mann, M.E., Vermeer, M., Rahmstorf, S., Climate related sea-level variations over the past two millennia, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 108, 11017-11022, 2011.
Schmidt, G.A., Mann, M.E., Rutherford, S.D., A comment on “A statistical analysis of multiple temperature proxies: Are reconstructions of surface temperatures over the last 1000 years reliable?” by McShane and Wyner, Ann. Appl. Stat., 5, 65–70, 2011.
Bowman, T.E., Maibach, E., Mann, M.E., Somerville, R.C.J., Seltser, B.J., Fischhoff, B., Gardiner, S.M., Gould, R.J., Leiserowitz, A., Yohe, G., Time to Take Action on Climate Communication, Science, 330, 1044, 2010.
Sriver, R.L., Goes, M., Mann, M.E., Keller, K., Climate response to tropical cyclone‐induced ocean mixing in an Earth system model of intermediate complexity, J. Geophys. Res., 115, C10042, doi:10.1029/2010JC006106, 2010.
Fan, F., Mann, M.E., Lee., S, Evans, J.L., Observed and Modeled Changes in the South Asian Summer Monsoon over the Historical Period, J. Climate, 23, 5193-5205, 2010.
Rutherford, S.D, Mann, M.E., Wahl, E.R., Ammann, C.M., Comment on: “Erroneous Model Field Representations in Multiple Pseudoproxy Studies: Corrections and Implications” by Jason E. Smerdon, Alexey Kaplan and Daniel E. Amrhein., J. Climate (submitted), 2010.
Rutherford, S.D, Mann, M.E., Ammann, C.M., Wahl, E.R., Comment on: “A surrogate ensemble study of climate reconstruction methods: Stochasticity and robustness” by Christiansen, Schmith and Thejll., J. Climate, 23, 2832-2838, 2010.
Foster, G., Annan, J.D., Jones, P.D., Mann, M.E., Mullan, B., Renwick, J., Salinger, J., Schmidt, G.A., Trenberth, K.E., Comment on “Influence of the Southern Oscillation on tropospheric temperature” by J. D. McLean, C. R. de Freitas, and R. M. Carter., J. Geophys. Res., 115, D09110, doi:10.1029/2009JD012960, 2010.
Goosse, H., Crespin, E., de Montety, A., Mann, M.E., Renssen, H., Timmermann, A., Reconstructing surface temperature changes over the past 600 years using climate model simulations with data assimilation, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D09108, doi:10.1029/2009JD012737, 2010.
Mann, M.E., Zhang, Z., Rutherford, S., Bradley, R.S., Hughes, M.K., Shindell, D., Ammann, C., Faluvegi, G., Ni, F., Global Signatures and Dynamical Origins of the Little Ice Age and Medieval Climate Anomaly, Science, 326, 1256-1260, 2009.
Mann, M.E., Woodruff, J.D., Donnelly, J.P., Zhang, Z., Atlantic hurricanes and climate over the past 1,500 years, Nature, 460, 880-883, 2009.
Crespin, E., Goosse, H., Fichefet, T., Mann, M.E., The 15th century Arctic warming in coupled model simulations with data assimilation, Climate of the Past, 5, 389-405, 2009.
Bowman, T.E., Maibach, E., Mann, M.E., Moser, S.C., Somerville, R.C.J., Creating a common climate language, Science, 324, 37, 2009.
Mann, M.E., Do Global Warming and Climate Change Represent a Serious Threat to our Welfare and Environment, Social Philosophy and Policy, 26, 389-405, 2009.
Malone, R.W., Meek, D.W., Hatfield, J.L., Mann, M.E., Jaquis, R.J., Ma, L., Quasi-Biennial Corn Yield Cycles in Iowa, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 149, 1087-1094, 2009.
Fan, F., Mann, M.E., Ammann, C.M., Understanding Changes in the Asian Summer Monsoon over the Past Millennium: Insights From a Long-Term Coupled Model Simulation, J. Climate, 22, 1736-1748, 2009.
Mann, M.E., Schmidt, G.A., Miller, S.K., LeGrande, A.N., Potential biases in inferring Holocene temperature trends from long-term borehole information, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L05708, doi:10.1029/2008GL036354, 2009.
Mann, M.E., Defining Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 106, 4065-4066, 2009.
Mann, M.E., Bradley, R.S., Hughes, M.K., Reply to McIntyre and McKitrick: Proxy-based temperature reconstructions are robust, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 106, E11, 2009.
Steig, E.J., Schneider, D.P. Rutherford, S.D., Mann, M.E., Comiso, J.C., Shindell, D.T., Warming of the Antarctic ice sheet surface since the 1957 International Geophysical Year, Nature, 1457, 459-463, 2009.
[Corrigendum (Steig et al, 2009)]
Jones, P.D., Briffa, K.R., Osborn, T.J., Lough, J.M., van Ommen, T.D., Vinther, B.M., Luterbacher, J., Wahl, E.R., Zwiers, F.W., Mann, M.E., Schmidt, G.A., Ammann, C.M., Buckley, B.M., Cobb, K.M., Esper, J., Goosse, H., Graham, N., Jansen, E., Kiefer, T, Kull, C., Kuttel, M., Mosely-Thompson, E., Overpeck, J.T., Riedwyl, N., Schulz, M., Tudhope, A.W., Villalba, R., Wanner, H., Wolff, E., Xoplaki, E.,High-resolution paleoclimatology of the last millennium: a review of current status and future prospects, Holocene, 19, 3-49, 2009.
Wei, F., Xie, Y., Mann, M.E. Probabilistic trend of anomalous summer rainfall in Beijing: Role of interdecadal variability, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D20106, doi:10.1029/2008JD010111, 2008.
Rutherford, S., Mann, M.E., Wahl, E., Ammann, C., Reply to: “Comment on ‘Robustness of proxy-based climate field reconstruction methods’, by Mann et al.”, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D18107, doi:10.1029/2008JD009964, 2008.
Mann, M.E., Zhang, Z., Hughes, M.K., Bradley, R.S., Miller, S.K., Rutherford, S., Proxy-Based Reconstructions of Hemispheric and Global Surface Temperature Variations over the Past Two Millennia, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 105, 13252-13257, 2008.
Mann, M.E., Smoothing of Climate Time Series Revisited, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L16708, doi:10.1029/2008GL034716, 2008.
Foster, G., Annan, J.D., Schmidt, G.A., Mann, M.E., Comment on “Heat Capacity, Time Constant, and Sensitivity of Earth’s Climate System” by S. E. Schwartz, J. Geophys. Res., 113, L22707, D15102, doi: 10.1029/2007JD009373, 2008.
Mann, M.E., Sabbatelli, T.A., Neu, U., Evidence for a Modest Undercount Bias in Early Historical Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Counts, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L22707, doi:10.1029/2007GL031781, 2007.
Delworth, T.L., Zhang, R., Mann, M.E., Decadal to Centennial Variability of the Atlantic from Observations and Models, in Past and Future Changes of the Oceans Meridional Overturning Circulation: Mechanisms and Impacts, A. Schmittner, J. C. H. Chiang, and S.R. Hemming (eds), Geophysical Monograph Series 173, American Geophysical Union, 131-148, 2007.
Mann, M.E., Rutherford, S., Wahl, E., Ammann, C., Reply to Comments on ìTesting the Fidelity of Methods Used in Proxy-based Reconstructions of Past Climateî by Smerdon and Kaplan, J. Climate, 20, 5671-5674, 2007.
Sabbatelli, T.A., Mann, M.E., The Influence of Climate State Variables on Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Occurrence Rates, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D17114, doi: 10.1029/2007JD008385, 2007.
Mann, M.E., Emanuel, K.A., Holland, G.J., Webster, P.J., Atlantic Tropical Cyclones Revisited, Eos, 88, 36, p. 349-350, 2007.
Mann, M.E., Rutherford, S., Wahl, E., Ammann, C., Reply to Comments on ìTesting the Fidelity of Methods Used in Proxy-based Reconstructions of Past Climateî by Zorita et al, J. Climate, 20, 3699-3703, 2007.
Mann, M.E., Rutherford, S., Wahl, E., Ammann, C., Robustness of Proxy-Based Climate Field Reconstruction Methods, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D12109, doi: 10.1029/2006JD008272, 2007.
Mann, M.E., Climate Over the Past Two Millennia, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 35, 111-136, 2007.
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Mann, M.E., Briffa, K.R., Jones, P.D., Kiefer, T., Kull, C., Wanner, H., Past Millennia Climate Variability, Eos, 87, 526-527, 2006.
Goosse, H., Arzel, O., Luterbacher, J., Mann, M.E., Renssen, H., Riedwyl, N., Timmermann, A., Xoplaki, E., Wanner, H., The origin of the European “Medieval Warm Period”, Climate of the Past, 2, 99-113, 2006.
Goosse, H., Renssen, H., Timmermann, A., Bradley, R.S., Mann, M.E., Using paleoclimate proxy-data to select optimal realisations in an ensemble of simulations of the climate of the past millennium, Climate Dynamics, 27, 165-184, 2006.
Mann, M.E., Emanuel, K.A., Atlantic Hurricane Trends linked to Climate Change, Eos, 87, 24, p 233, 238, 241, 2006.
Mann, M.E., Climate Changes Over the Past Millennium: Relationships with Mediterranean Climates, Nuovo Cimento C, 29, 73-80, 2006.
Mann, M.E., Rutherford, S., Wahl, E., Ammann, C., Testing the Fidelity of Methods Used in Proxy-based Reconstructions of Past Climate, Journal of Climate, 18, 4097-4107, 2005.
Knight, J.R., Allan, R.J., Folland, C.K., Vellinga, M., Mann, M.E., A signature of persistent natural thermohaline circulation cycles in observed climate, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L20708, doi:10.1029/2005GL024233, 2005.
Cronin, T.M., Thunell, R., Dwyer, G.S., Saenger, C., Mann, M.E., Vann, C., Seal, R.R. II Multiproxy evidence of Holocene climate variability from estuarine sediments, eastern North America, Paleoceanography, 20, PA4006, doi: 10.1029/2005PA001145, 2005.
Rutherford, S., Mann, M.E., Osborn, T.J., Bradley, R.S., Briffa, K.R., Hughes, M.K., Jones, P.D., Proxy-based Northern Hemisphere Surface Temperature Reconstructions: Sensitivity to Methodology, Predictor Network, Target Season and Target Domain, Journal of Climate, 18, 2308-2329, 2005.
Cook, B.I., Smith, T.M., Mann, M.E., The North Atlantic Oscillation and regional phenology prediction over Europe, Global Change Biology, 11, 919-926, 2005.
Frauenfeld, O.W., Davis, R.E., Mann, M.E., A Distinctly Interdecadal Signal of Pacific Ocean–Atmosphere Interaction, Journal of Climate, 18, 1709-1718, 2005.
Mann, M.E., Cane, M.A., Zebiak, S.E., Clement, A., Volcanic and Solar Forcing of the Tropical Pacific Over the Past 1000 Years, Journal of Climate, 18, 447-456, 2005.
D’Arrigo, R.D., Cook, E.R., Wilson, R.J., Allan, R., Mann, M.E., On the Variability of ENSO Over the Past Six Centuries, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L03711, doi: 10.1029/2004GL022055, 2005.
Zhang, Z., Mann, M.E., Coupled Patterns of Spatiotemporal Variability in Northern Hemisphere Sea Level Pressure and Conterminous U.S. Drought, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, D03108, doi: 10.1029/2004JD004896, 2005.
Schmidt, G.A., Shindell, D.T., Miller, R.L., Mann, M.E., Rind, D., General Circulation Modeling of Holocene climate variability, Quaternary Science Reviews, 23, 2167-2181, 2004.
Cook, B.I., Mann, M.E., D’Odorico, P., Smith, T.M., Statistical Simulation of the Influence of the NAO on European Winter Surface Temperatures: Applications to Phenological Modeling, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, D16106, doi: 10.1029/2003JD004305, 2004.
Zhang, Z., Mann, M.E., Cook, E.R., Alternative methods of proxy-based climate field reconstruction: application to summer drought over the conterminous United States back to AD 1700 from tree-ring data, The Holocene, 14, 502-516, 2004.
Andronova, N.G., Schlesinger, M.E., Mann, M.E., Are Reconstructed Pre-Instrumental Hemispheric Temperatures Consistent With Instrumental Hemispheric Temperatures?, Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L12202, doi: 10.1029/2004GL019658, 2004.
Jones, P.D., Mann, M.E., Climate Over Past Millennia, Reviews of Geophysics, 42, RG2002, doi: 10.1029/2003RG000143, 2004.
Mann, M.E., On Smoothing Potentially Non-Stationary Climate Time Series, Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L07214, doi: 10.1029/2004GL019569, 2004.
Schmidt, G.A., Mann, M.E., Reply to comment on ëëGround vs. surface air temperature trends: Implications for borehole surface temperature reconstructionsíí by D. Chapman et al., Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L07206, doi: 10.1029/2003GL0119144, 2004.
L’Heureux, M.L., Mann, M.E., Cook B.I., Gleason, B.E., Vose, R.S., Atmospheric Circulation Influences on Seasonal PrecipitationPatterns in Alaska during the latter 20th Century, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, D06106, doi:10.1029/2003JD003845, 2004.
Shindell, D.T., Schmidt, G.A., Mann, M.E., Faluvegi, G., Dynamic winter climate response to large tropical volcanic eruptions since 1600, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, D05104, doi: 10.1029/2003JD004151, 2004.
Adams, J.B., Mann, M.E., D’Hondt, S., The Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction: Modeling carbon flux and ecological response, Paleoceanography, 19, PA1002, doi: 10.1029/2002PA000849, 2004.
Shindell, D.T., Schmidt, G.A., Miller, R.L., Mann, M.E., Volcanic and Solar Forcing of Climate Change during the Preindustrial Era, Journal of Climate, 16, 4094-4107, 2003.
Adams, J.B., Mann, M.E., Ammann, C.M., Proxy Evidence for an El Nino-like Response to Volcanic Forcing, Nature, 426, 274-278, 2003.
Mann, M.E., Ammann, C.M., Bradley, R.S., Briffa, K.R., Crowley, T.J., Hughes, M.K., Jones, P.D., Oppenheimer, M., Osborn, T.J., Overpeck, J. T., Rutherford, S., Trenberth, K.E., Wigley, T.M.L., Response to Comment on ‘On Past Temperatures and Anomalous Late 20th Century Warmth’, Eos, 84, 473, 2003.
Mann, M.E., Paleoclimate, Global Change, and the Future (book review), Eos, 84, 419-420, 2003.
Mann, M.E., Jones, P.D., Global surface temperature over the past two millennia, Geophysical Research Letters, 30 (15), 1820, doi: 10.1029/2003GL017814, 2003.
Mann, M.E., Ammann, C.M., Bradley, R.S., Briffa, K.R., Crowley, T.J., Hughes, M.K., Jones, P.D., Oppenheimer, M., Osborn, T.J., Overpeck, J.T., Rutherford, S., Trenberth, K.E., Wigley, T.M.L., On Past Temperatures and Anomalous Late 20th Century Warmth,Eos, 84, 256-258, 2003.
Mann, M.E., Schmidt, G.A., Ground vs. Surface Air Temperature Trends: Implications for Borehole Surface Temperature Reconstructions,Geophysical Research Letters, 30 (12), 1607, doi: 10.1029/2003GL017170, 2003.
Andrews, J.T., Hardadottir, J., Stoner, J.S., Mann, M.E., Kristjansdottir, G.B., Koc, N., Decadal to Millennial-scale periodicities in North Iceland shelf sediments over the last 12,000 cal yrs: long-term North Atlantic oceanographic variability and Solar Forcing, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 210, 453-465, 2003.
D’Arrigo, R.D., Cook, E.R., Mann, M.E., Jacoby, G.C., Tree-ring reconstructions of temperature and sea-level pressure variability associated with the warm-season Arctic Oscillation since AD 1650, Geophysical Research Letters, 30 (11), 1549, doi: 10.1029/2003GL017250, 2003.
Covey, C., AchutaRao, K.M., Cubasch, U., Jones, P.D., Lambert, S.J., Mann, M.E., Philips, T.J., Taylor, K.E., An overview of results from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, Global and Planetary Change, 37, 103-133, 2003.
Mann, M.E., Rutherford, S., Bradley, R.S., Hughes, M.K., Keimig, F.T., Optimal Surface Temperature Reconstructions using Terrestrial Borehole Data, Journal of Geophysical Research, 108 (D7), 4203, doi: 10.1029/2002JD002532, 2003.
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Braganza, K., Karoly, D.J., Hirst, A.C., Mann, M.E., Stott, P, Stouffer, R.J., Tett, S.F.B., Simple indices of global climate variability and change: Part I – variability and correlation structure, Climate Dynamics, 20, 491-502, 2003.
Gerber, S., Joos, F., Bruegger, P.P., Stocker, T.F., Mann, M.E., Sitch, S., Constraining Temperature Variations over the last Millennium by Comparing Simulated and Observed Atmospheric CO2, Climate Dynamics, 20, 281-299, 2003.
Rutherford, S., Mann, M.E., Delworth, T.L., Stouffer, R., Climate Field Reconstruction Under Stationary and Nonstationary Forcing, Journal of Climate, 16, 462-479, 2003.
Druckenbrod, D., Mann, M.E., Stahle, D.W., Cleaveland, M.K., Therrell, M.D., Shugart, H.H., Late 18th Century Precipitation Reconstructions from James Madisonís Montpelier Plantation, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 84, 57-71, 2003.
Ribera, P., Mann, M.E., ENSO related variability in the Southern Hemisphere, 1948–2000, Geophysical Research Letters, 30 (1), 1006, doi: 10.1029/2002GL015818, 2003.
Ghil, M., Allen, M.R., Dettinger, M.D., Ide, K., Kondrashov, D., Mann, M.E., Robertson, A.W., Tian, Y., Varadi, F., Yiou, P., Advanced Spectral Methods for Climatic Time Series, Reviews of Geophysics, 40 (1), 1003, doi: 10.1029/2000RG000092, 2002.
Mann, M.E. Large-Scale Climate Variability and Connections With the Middle East in Past Centuries, Climatic Change, 55, 287-314, 2002.
Mann, M.E. , The Value of Multiple Proxies, Science, 297, 1481-1482, 2002.
Cook, E.R., D’Arrigo, R.D., Mann, M.E., A Well-Verified, Multi-Proxy Reconstruction of the Winter North Atlantic Oscillation Since AD 1400, J. Climate, 15, 1754-1765, 2002.
Mann, M.E., Rutherford, S., Climate Reconstruction Using ‘Pseudoproxies’, Geophysical Research Letters, 29 (10), 1501, doi: 10.1029/2001GL014554, 2002.
Ribera, P., Mann, M.E., Interannual variability in the NCEP Reanalysis 1948-1999, Geophysical Research Letters, 29 (10), 1494, doi: 10.1029/2001GL013905, 2002.
Mann, M.E., Hughes, M.K., Tree-Ring Chronologies and Climate Variability, Science, 296, 848, 2002.
Waple, A., Mann, M.E., Bradley, R.S., Long-term Patterns of Solar Irradiance Forcing in Model Experiments and Proxy-based Surface Temperature Reconstructions, Climate Dynamics, 18, 563-578, 2002.
Mann, M.E., Bradley, R.S., Briffa, K.R., Cole, J., Hughes, M.K., Jones, J.M., Overpeck, J.T., von Storch, H., Wanner, H., Weber, S.L., Widmann, M., Reconstructing the Climate of the Late Holocene, Eos, 82, 553, 2001.
Bradley, R.S., Briffa, K.R., Crowley, T.J., Hughes, M.K., Jones, P.D., Mann, M.E.,Mann, M.E. Medieval Climatic Optimum, Encylopedia of Global Environmental Change,John Wiley and Sons Ltd, London, UK, pp. 514-516, 2001.
Mann, M.E. Little Ice Age, Encylopedia of Global Environmental Change, John Wiley and Sons Ltd, London, UK, pp. 504-509, 2001.
Shindell, D.T., Schmidt, G.A., Mann, M.E., Rind, D., Waple, A., Solar forcing of regional climate change during the Maunder Minimum, Science, 7, 2149-2152, 2001.
Mann, M.E., Large-scale Temperature Patterns in Past Centuries: Implications for North American Climate Change , Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, 7, 1247-1254, 2001.
Bradley, R.S., Briffa, K.R., Crowley, T.J., Hughes, M.K., Jones, P.D., Mann, M.E., Scope of Medieval Warming, Science, 292, 2011-2012, 2001.
Mann, M.E. Climate During the Past Millennium, Weather (invited contribution), 56, 91-101, 2001.
Folland, C.K., Karl, T.R., Christy, J.R., Clarke, R. A., Gruza, G.V., Jouzel, J., Mann, M.E., Oerlemans, J., Salinger, M.J., Wang, S.-W., Observed Climate Variability and Change, in 2001 Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis, Houghton, J.T., et al. (eds), Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 99-181, 2001.
Cullen, H., D’Arrigo, R., Cook, E., and Mann, M.E., Multiproxy-based reconstructions of the North Atlantic Oscillation over the past three centuries, Paleoceanography, 15, 27-39, 2001.
Mann, M.E., Gille, E., Bradley, R.S., Hughes, M.K., Overpeck, J.T., Keimig, F.T., Gross, W. , Global Temperature Patterns in Past Centuries: An interactive presentation, Earth Interactions, 4-4, 1-29,2000.
Bradley, R.S., Hughes, M.K., Mann, M.E., Comments on ‘Detection and Attribution of Recent Climate Change: A Status Report’,, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 81, 2987-2990, 2000.
Mann, M.E., Bradley, R.S., Hughes, M.K., Long-term variability in the El Nino Southern Oscillation and associated teleconnections, , Diaz, H.F. and Markgraf, V. (eds) El Nino and the Southern Oscillation: Multiscale Variability and its Impacts on Natural Ecosystems and Society, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 357-412, 2000.
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Dude.
I would not give them *anything*. I would not respond or even acknowledge receipt of their emails. There is no reason to give them any data, in my opinion, and I think we do so at our own peril!
http://bit.ly/SDBmS0
Productive as in you can paper a room with them? Does quality count?
@Max_OK
I suggested that he should produce ‘great science’. You however showed that his name is on a lot of papers.
If there is a link between these two positions, it is not an obvious one. Which would you nominate as ‘great science’? And how can we isolate Mann’s individual contribution to the multi-author papers?
Mann has been good for the junk science filing cabinet business.
Lower league soccer in UK has lots of ‘journeymen’ players who have played in excess of 500 professional games for lots of different clubs.
A journeyman is one who is paid by the day (OF ‘journee’ = a day) but is not considered to be a master craftsman. Turns up, does an adequate job, moves on.
Your citations of Mann’s oeuvre seems to suggest that he is just a journeyman rather than being the great scientist of his imagination.
Latimer, earlier this year Mann was awarded the prestigious Hans Oeschger Medal for “Significant contributions to understanding decadal-centennial scale climate change over the last two millennia and for pioneering techniques to synthesize patterns and northern hemispheric time series of past climate using proxy data reconstructions.”
I don’t know if the Oeschger Medal means Mann’s work is great, but I think it would be fair to say it means his work is pretty good. Those medals aren’t handed out to everyone. .
I am not qualified to judge Mann’s papers. I don’t have a degree in science, have never published, a scientific work, and needless to say, have never been awarded a medal for contributions to science. Perhaps you are a scientists who has published and have won awards for your contributions. If so, I would like to hear about your achievements.
@max_OK
H’mm
‘Significant contributions to understanding decadal-centennial scale climate change over the last two millennia and for pioneering techniques to synthesize patterns and northern hemispheric time series of past climate using proxy data reconstructions’
Looks to me that he got it for his hockey stick (*). Which is hardly surprising since (according to his wiki entry) said Hans Oeschger was gagging for somebody to find something like it.
Interestingly they gave it to his hockey stick copublisher Raymond Bradley in 2007 for much the same stuff
‘Contribution[s] to paleoclimate reconstruction from continental archives and for being instrumental in the multi-proxy approach leading to the quantification of climate change over the last millennium’
Seems to me that teh HO medal coudl be renamed the Hockey Stick medal. And I absolutely agree that Mann is very well qualified to receive it.
But ‘great science’? I’m not convinced. Great science is Nobel Prizes, not tinpot EGU awards for climate alarmism..
(*) The full citation is not available on the interweb at this time…503 Service Unavailable error
@Max_OK
I did a little more research.
The European Geosciences Union gives four top awards each year. Mann has not received any of these.
And each year each research ‘subdivision’ gives out a gong or two. There are 27 available in total. The Hans Oeschger Medal is one of two gongs for the ‘Climate, Past Present and Future’ subdivision.
‘http://www.egu.eu/awards-medals/awards-and-medals/
I imagine that this is a bit like being awarded Player of the Year at a League 2 football club. Nice to get and shows a decent and/or industrious professional record. But it does not of itself signify an elevation to the greats of football like Pele or Best or Cruyff or McGregor.
Latimer, I don’t know if Mann’s science is great or not.
You think it’s not, and believe he should concentrate on achieving greatness as a scientists instead of suing NR for calling his science fraudulent.
To quote you, “One truly confident in his own abilities and his work would just rise above the jibes and prove his worth by publishing great science. That he chooses to concentrate on the law not on climatology says it all.”
It says to me Mann is confident he can work and sue too. It says to me he is not willing to take abuse lying down. It says to me he will fight for what’s right. I respect a man who will take up for himself when attacked.
Latimer, maybe you would just turn the other cheek if you were in Mann’s shoes. I wouldn’t criticize you for choosing to not retaliate if you were being smeared.
@Max_OK
Fine. We’ll have to agree to disagree.
What you see as ‘standing up for what is right’ appear to me as being a thin-skinned egotistical prat who loves to dish it out to others but can’t take it himself. Like the man says ‘if you can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen’
Let’s see how the cases play out in court. Gonna be fun! Ciao
Pal review.
‘Nuff said.
Maybe it’s this:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/07/23/deniers-disgust-and-defamation/#more-51977
Sorry about the run-ons, but there are about 130 papers by my count.
“about 130 papers”
It’s like cable TV. 130 channels and nothing to see.
Andrew
Probably not for the layperson. That could be said of science papers in general.
I agree about cable TV. I pay for it, but we only watch TV about 20 hours per month. Poor value.
MaxOk
Dr Mann writes good lucid papers unlike some of his peers whose paper writing skills are poor. That doesnt mean to say I agree with Dr Mann’s findings, but many scientists and researchers could take a lesson from him in setting out the information clearly
tonyb
My cable service is bundled with broadband internet and in my primary residence with telephone service too so the household has one common number in addition to everyone’s individual cell phone numbers. The increase in cost to add cable TV to the service is not large at all. For the price seeing a single movie for the whole family each month at a theater we get a great many hours of not just movies but all sorts of news, learning channels, and other things as well. It’s a very good deal. Generally any form of entertainment in the home that displaces entertainment outside the home is more economical to say nothing of being far more convenient.
It’s not a good value for us because we don’t watch TV much . I subscribe to Netflix so we can stream movies and watch movies on DVD”s.
We watch news and educational channels more than anything else. Some reality TV like Deadliest Catch and Gold Rush as well which are both entertaining and educational. I realize you can get essentially the same information from a personal device with a broadband connection but it’s not the same as a large flat screen in the family room where everyone can watch and talk about it at the same time.
“It’s not the heat, it’s the humility. Quote of the week”
So go to Mass, say three ‘Hail Marys’ with bowed head and the world will be ok. That’s one way of dealing with the problem, the other? Do a degree in physics.
Crime and Punishment.
The journey of Mann …
Rage rage by fraud war
Be come uppance fraught.
5-5-5?
Lord Monckton on arctic sea ice:
“Just fine. Steady for a decade.”
http://www.durangobill.com/SwindlePics/SwindleArctic1.jpg
Whoops.
Okay, PE, if classical is what yer want …
The journey of Mann
Rage rage ( Who dares claim fraud?)
Be come uppance fraught.
Welcome back Mike. Hmm … Naome …
Oracle Oreske
Platonist top down planning,
Plan B … then plan C.
Effect of Increase in CO2 concentration in the atmosphere on global mean temperature for the last 8 years:
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:2004/trend/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:2004/plot/esrl-co2/from:2004/trend/normalise/plot/esrl-co2/from:2004/normalise
Or, rather, the effect of global mean temperature on CO2 concentration for the last 52 years.
The data clearly indicate that CO2 tracks a natural equilibrium level, dictated foremost by temperatures. An analogous simplified system description is
dCO2/dt = (CO2eq – CO2)/tau1 + a*H
dCO2eq/dt = -CO2eq/tau2 + k*(T – To)
CO2 = atmospheric CO2 concentration
CO2eq = equilibrium atmospheric CO2 concentration
H = human inputs
a = atmospheric fraction of human releases after relatively rapid partition with the oceans
T = temperature
To = equivalent temperature equilibrium level (which is itself slowly time varying)
tau1 = short time constant
tau2 = long time constant
Because tau1 is short, human inputs are rapidly sequestered and have little effect overall. Because tau2 is long, the equilibrium level effectively integrates the temperature anomaly over relatively short timelines. The actual system is much more complicated, but this model faithfully captures the qualitative aspects.
I’m sure some who are unskilled will balk at the description, but it really cannot be gainsaid. The data show that the CO2 derivative is effectively proportional to temperature anomaly from a particular baseline. To get CO2 levels since 1958, all one needs is the temperature record, and the starting value. Human inputs are insignificant, and need not even be considered. The CO2 derivative matches as near perfectly as possible the scaled temperature anomaly in the fine detail (all the bumps and squiggles) with zero phase lag, which means the integrated CO2 level lags temperature. Temperature is therefore the cause, and CO2 is the effect.
This whole bloody contretemps is a complete and utter fiasco on the most basic level. It’s really an embarrassment, and will be a huge black eye which will leave its mark across every scientific discipline when it becomes widely known and accepted. As it must, because it is the truth, and the truth will out. The damage will take at least decades to undo.
I agree.
Pekka Pirilä | August 27, 2012 at 5:28 am |
2 ) Additional CO2 warms the Earth. The rate of increase in the CO2 concentration is caused by increased anthropogenic releases.
How much longer do we have to listen to these fictional memes? Where is the science? Where is the falsifiable hypothesis? You can’t even get your stories co-ordinated!
You’re not scientists.
You’re, generic, happy to use fraudulent data and impossible physics on which to base your claims – where is the show and tell for your claims that additional carbon dioxide warms the Earth?
You have no way of knowing how much carbon dioxide is anthropogenic, you have deliberately used faked volcanic numbers to downplay natural sources. The list goes on and on and on.
3 ) Anthropogenic releases are the reason.
A fib repeated does not make it true.
http://carbon-budget.geologist-1011.net/
“The estimation of worldwide volcanic CO2 emission is undermined by a severe shortage of data. To make matters worse, the reported output of any individual volcano is itself an estimate based on limited rather than complete measurement. One may reasonably assume that in each case, such estimates are based on a representative and statistically significant quantity of empirical measurements. Then we read statements, such as this one courtesy of the USGS (2010):
“Scientists have calculated that volcanoes emit between about 130-230 million tonnes (145-255 million tons) of CO2 into the atmosphere every year (Gerlach, 1991). This estimate includes both subaerial and submarine volcanoes, about in equal amounts.
“In point of fact, the total worldwide estimate of roughly 55 MtCpa is by one researcher, rather than “scientists” in general. More importantly, this estimate by Gerlach (1991) is based on emission measurements taken from only seven subaerial volcanoes and three hydrothermal vent sites. Yet the USGS glibly claims that Gerlach’s estimate includes both subaerial and submarine volcanoes in roughly equal amounts. Given the more than 3 million volcanoes worldwide indicated by the work of Hillier & Watts (2007), one might be prone to wonder about the statistical significance of Gerlach’s seven subaerial volcanoes and three hydrothermal vent sites. If the statement of the USGS concerning volcanic CO2 is any indication of the reliability of expert consensus, it would seem that verifiable facts are eminently more trustworthy than professional opinion.”
These are science facts contradicting your base premises. Doesn’t this bother any of you warmists?
Nobody has been able to propose any plausible alternative explanation, while the main stream science has a full success in explaining the main features. There remain gaps in the details but that’s by no means a reason to doubt the explanation.
Your basic claims have been shown time and time again to be faked.
You have not shown that there is anything out of the ordinary happening.
Show the full success of the main features.. Repeating ad nauseum that it exists is not science until it is fetched. None of you ever fetch this – why not? Can’t you find it?
Take up the challenge from Rhoda, all you here claiming that this is well proven.
http://bishophill.squarespace.com/discussion/post/1923523
It should be easy enough for you to fetch, you’ve had long enough to co-ordinate a proper physics proof to show us.
Not only is Myrhhhhhhhh supposedly an expert in radiation physics, now he is an authority of emission sources. You are burning both ends of the candle, way over your head. You are completely immersed in crackpot land.
I should add that the urge must be so tempting to anti-agree with one aspect of the science, and then getting egged on by your fellow team-mates, like Edim, to start spouting off nonsense on another area that you have no expertise in. Peer pressure is awfully strong in the land of agendas. Perhaps it derives from the same immature impulse as little kids in a schoolyard taunting a couple of kids to start a fight. That’s why you get called fake skeptics and poseur contrarians, as there is no substance, only bluster.
There are three main points to notice in that graph:
1 ) There are clearly correlations in the variability an a scale of a few years.
2 ) Both curves have a overall positive linear trend.
3 ) The derivative of the CO2 concentration is positive over the whole period.
The present main stream science explains each of them:
1 ) Variability of climate and in particular that related to ENSO affects strongly the vegetation (more trough effects on precipitation, but to a part through temperature). That effect is strong enough to explain most, if not all, of the variability in the rate of increase of CO2 concentration. Because ENSO leads to variability also in the global temperature we have the correlation.
2 ) Additional CO2 warms the Earth. The rate of increase in the CO2 concentration is caused by increased anthropogenic releases.
3 ) Anthropogenic releases are the reason.
Nobody has been able to propose any plausible alternative explanation, while the main stream science has a full success in explaining the main features. There remain gaps in the details but that’s by no means a reason to doubt the explanation.
So what? What is the cost/benefit of global warming?
If it is so important (or dangerous, or catastrophic or whatever), why do those people why advocate urgent action to cut global CO2 emissions:
1. continue to oppose economically rational solutions – such as allowing us to get low cost nuclear power?
2. continue to advocate economically irrational solutions – such as carbon pricing, renewable energy, more regulation, more taxes, more bureaucracy, world government …?
Can’t they see that advocating economically irrational policies, which are totally unacceptable to all but the wealthy elites, are not going to get anywhere?
Peter, just a suggestion, but when someone says something stupid like “1+1=3” and then someone spends time to correct that and point that 1+1 actually equals 2, it’s not very helpful to attack the correcter by screaming “WHATS THAT GOT TO DO WITH CALCULUS???”.
It only makes it look like you are trying to defend the original stupid claim through obfuscation and changing the subject.
Lolowot,
I suspect you are referring to the argument with WHT (or perhaps the earlier argument with Vaughan Pratt [note that they and you are all CAGW Alarmists so you share a religious like belief and use scaremongering of catastrophes as tactics to get your way]).
But you are attacking the wrong person. You should be directing your remark at WHT (and/or Vaughan Pratt). Clearly you didn’t understand the argument in either case but, given your ideological perspective and lack of objectivity, you decided to side with those who say what you like to hear, right?
The argument with WHT is about, either misunderstanding, or intentionally misleading other readers (such as you), about the 20,000 and 2 million factor in this comment: http://judithcurry.com/2012/08/17/learning-from-the-octopus/#comment-230741.
WHT is wrong but isn’t man enough to admit it – presumably because that is the accepted culture amongst the CAGW Alarmist; i.e. Never admit an error, just deny it and deny it and deny it and, if it all get to hard, take the accusers to court.
You missed: 4) the scaling factor which matches the “variability an a scale of a few years” also precisely matches the slopes. That slope integrates precisely into the curvature seen in the CO2 graph, and there is no more room to add in human components, because that would add additional curvature beyond what is needed for a match.
Anthropogenic releases cannot be “the reason”. The rate of emissions graph does not match the variability in the CO2 rate of change. The temperature does, and accounts for the curvature in the output as well. If you descale the temperature dependent term to reduce the curvature, opening up room for anthropogenic inputs, you no longer match the variability, the fine detail in the derivative. Ergo, anthropogenic inputs are insignificant – they are rapidly dealt with by sequestration feedback.
This other Bart character. Nice fake math, but you have not actually analyzed the transient dynamics. The CO2 fluctuations obviously follow the seasonal variations in temperature (due to natural outgassing) but it fails miserably at predicting the overall increase. I can see how much of a phony you are, as you only present the equations and don’t show the residual when plotted against the actual data.
BTW, here is a better way to plot the agreement in the seasonal fluctuations:
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/esrl-co2/mean:12/isolate:60/derivative/plot/hadcrut3vgl/isolate:60/from:1958/mean:12
The rate of CO2 increase is sensitive to significant short-term temperature rise (and fall), but the long-term temperature rise in comparison is pretty slow, while the long term CO2 response is large. You can’t have it both ways, and the outgassing only explains a fraction of this rise.
Sorry, you lose. If you actually try to plot your analysis, you will be very embarrassed. You probably know this and so are trying your hand at bluffing.
“The CO2 fluctuations obviously follow the seasonal variations in temperature (due to natural outgassing) but it fails miserably at predicting the overall increase. “
WRONG.
Amazing…and utterly lame, as I predicted. You accuse me of “fake math”, but you don’t even understand that the integral of a derivative is the original function, plus or minus an arbitrary constant. That is so elementary, you should be banned from ever posting to a technical site. Sheesh.
Nice one. Webby won’t like it.
Better demo.
The plot linked previously to show you were risibly wrong was from an exercise when challenged by Ferdinand Englebeen as to whether the relationship held with proxy CO2 data. I made the points that:
A) the proxy data is highly uncertain and unverifiable
B) matching it only requires making To tame varying, as it should be. I successfully demonstrated that by putting in a step change in 1945.
Fundamentally, based on the best and only truly reliable data we have since 1958, the relationship holds. As that is the interval over which most of the CO2 rise occurred, temperature, and not humankind, is definitely responsible for the lion’s share of the rise. A reasonable skilled analyst would expect that temperature is the dominant factor at all times.
Hey banning-boy. You can’t be coming into my house and be putting in fake offsets and constants to make the co2 match to temperature rise. You be failed for throwing down that stuff.
Maybe you have some DSP skilz but you ain’t got no physical insight. What kind of activation energy that can take a 1C change and gen up 40% rise in partial pressure of co2?
Your math be fake and your science is whack.
“What kind of activation energy that can take a 1C change and gen up 40% rise in partial pressure of co2?”
It’s not the change in temperature which has driven the largest portion of the rise. It is the effective equilibrium level of the temperature relative to the current.
My personal hypothesis is that it is due to deep ocean upwelling, and the effective temperature differential between the currently upwelling water at the time it downwelled centuries ago, and now. And, by “effective” I mean temperature and all the other factors which can influence relative concentration which can be expressed equivalently as the result of a temperature differential.
You have a fudge factor of 0.4 in the temperature adjustment. It is only there so you can create an apparent agreement through an integration step. It sickens me.
The actual fluctuations are of the ocean breathing on seasonal and multiseasonal cycles. The derivative is a high pass filter that allows this variation to be more clearly observed.
When you perform an isolate on the data, the long term change is removed and the seasonal variation shows up starkly, with no bias needed to fudge the data.
The activation energy for this is reasonably less than 0.5 eV, not the outrageously high and unphysical number that you would require for your model to work.
A derivative is not a high pass filter, at least not in any conventional sense. It’s gain is not unity in the pass band, and its phase response is a constant 90 degrees. For the gain and phase to match so closely, it is clear that the relationship is real and useful for predicting system evolution.
This is how typical natural systems work, governed by a set of differential equations which prescribe how the rates of change relate to the input variables. There is nothing extraordinary or questionable about what I have done, and for you to question it in this vein merely suggests you haven’t had much practical experience.
Removing the long term change, when it is precisely the right amount to produce the observed curvature in the measured CO2 record, is simply arbitrarily arranging the data to your liking because it is telling you things you do not want to hear.
Some more details/clarification, in case my initial reply is not clear:
For the magnitude and phase of the CO2 derivative and the temperature anomaly to match so closely, it is clear that the relationship is real and useful for predicting system evolution. As I have demonstrated, I can reproduce the entire CO2 record to high fidelity from 1958 using only the initial starting point, and the temperatures since. Clearly, human inputs are rapidly sequestered and have minor impact.
Removing the long term change, and keying your dynamics off the residual, is performing an artificial operation which nature cannot replicate. Nature acts on the entire quantity continuously and causally.
There is certainly a co-relation between temp and CO2 change and it is also clear that CO2 changes occur after Temp changes (not so much when temp falls) but causality is moot. I’m inclined to the view that both variables are being affected by something or somethings else.
You have your transfer function bass-ackwards.
You are not going to like this, but I have analyzed the Mauna Loa data every which way against SST and it matches the equatorial temperatures with a small phase shift.
Start with this longish blog post, and skip the first part on ice core data if you want to get to the current CO2 and temperature records:
http://theoilconundrum.blogspot.com/2012/03/co2-outgassing-model.html
Go to this set of diagrams showing the phase relationship between CO2 and SST:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AoUzuwoFQyA/T29AMKmFP7I/AAAAAAAABB8/O58gpDrQ-r4/s1600/co2_sst.gif
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-InuzyBBrMLw/T29At7dC_TI/AAAAAAAABCE/6NOsmUqzjwg/s1600/co2_sst_phase_plot.gif
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4Y99zZBS-Wc/T3PshjBrDeI/AAAAAAAABCs/a3WPAvfq8AE/s1600/sst_vs_co2_phase_plot.gif
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-N_AKjYxRhIo/T3UN2FXTb1I/AAAAAAAABC0/Rh745jX-sps/s1600/sst_co2_plot_zoom.gif
and then I plotted your equation the last time you made rounds around here.
First a Wolfram Alpha model for the phased response of [CO2] from a forcing temperature with gain of 3, and an anthropogenic [CO2] ramp included:
First-order response: x + (1/30) dx/dt = 3*cos(2*pi*t) + 2*t
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kBW46N1CZGE/T7Au87U_NrI/AAAAAAAABIk/HxEQFWpbwWQ/s1600/alphaGrowthCO2.gif
Phase relation from the solution: plot cos(2 pi t) and (675 pi sin(2 pi t)+10125 cos(2 pi t))/(15 (225+pi^2))
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qIkw0B7ANaE/T7Au2qnMfZI/AAAAAAAABIc/KuED81HJBPw/s1600/alphaPhase.gif
You really have not done any of the work that needs to be done. Your analysis is a pathetic, weak excuse for someone that poses as an engineer.
This is really pathetic work. You’re looking at the intra-annual variation, which has a lot more going on than mere temperature. If you want to know the phase relationship between SST and CO2 on an inter-annual basis, you can get it the same way as for the global set simply and directly from the WoodForTrees tool. It’s 90 deg phase shifted, with temperature leading, as expected and as any idiot can see, though I’ll admit, you have demonstrated you aren’t just any idiot. Most people would expect a little more humility from a guy who doesn’t even understand the relationship between derivatives and integrals. Stop being an obnoxious twit, and deal with the reality.
I have not worked out the full details because I have other more important technical research to pursue, but it is fairly clear that the simple derivation I worked out in another forum which follows establishes that an integral relationship between CO2 and temperature, such as the data unequivocally show, is reasonably to be expected. This, or something very much like it, is clearly the dominant process in place. Even you might be able to understand it if you free your mind from dogma.
Suppose we have a closed container which we fill half full of water at ambient temperature T before sealing it. It is at temperature T, and CO2 is partitioned between the air and the water to obey Henry’s Law. If we slightly heat the container, CO2 will outgas from the water and its concentration will increase in the air portion. We can express this relationship as
CO2 =CO2(0) + h*(T – T(0))
where CO2(0) is the concentration before the temperature changes from T(0) to T and h a constant. That much should be uncontroversial.
Now, let’s modify the experiment. At time zero, the concentration of the CO2 in the air portion is CO2(0) and the volume of water is V. We now take a volume dV of cold water at temperature To and exchange it with an equal volume of the warmer water in the container (representing the upwelling of the deep ocean). The cold water will heat up to match the ambient temperature, so it will release CO2 to the air proportional to the temperature change T-To. The CO2 in the air filled portion now becomes
CO2(1) = CO2(0) + h*(dV/V)*(T-To)
Now, suppose we do this repeatedly with a uniform time step dt. Then, we can say
CO2(t+dt) = CO2(t) + (h/V) * dV * (T – To)
But, at each step, the water in the container is becoming progressively more enriched with CO2, so each succeeding addition is a little less, in proportion to the CO2 in the water, which is proportional to the CO2 in the air. Thus, we actually get
CO2(t+dt) = CO2(t) + (h/V) * dV * (T – To) – CO2(t)*dt/tau
where tau is a proportionality constant having units of time. Thus
(CO2(t+dt) – CO2(t))/dt = -CO2(t)/tau + (h/V) * (dV/dt) * (T – To)
which is to say
dCO2/dt = -CO2 / tau + k * (T – To)
where k = (h/V) * (dV/dt). If tau is relatively large, then approximately
dCO2/dt := k*(T – To)
That, I believe, is where the integral relationship comes from. Over a local timeframe, the upwelling water from the deep oceans is acting as a source, pumping CO2 into the air due to the difference between its CO2 concentration, and that which is maintainable at the surface under the current climate state.
If you have another idea for how the integral relationship emerges, then by all means, share it. But A) nix the bad boy routine – it really is very unbecoming and makes you look foolish and desperate B) deal with the reality, and the constraints of the system which are dictated by the observed temperature-CO2 relationship (yes, that is an SST plot – any of the temperature sets will do, as they are all more or less affinely related).
I know you have a fetish for “long tail” responses, though you never appear to appreciate the implicit assumptions you make when deriving them. But, such responses can be incorporated into this schema by substituting operators for the various constants. Maybe, if you had a thought to engage constructively instead of jumping up and down and sneering like a kid, you could work out the general form for such representations.
But, I doubt it. You are a kid, and nothing but thoughtless snark and bile ever emerge from your piehole. It’s probably the main reason I don’t venture to this site very often. Of the shallow trolls who have infested it, you are one of the worst. This explication is mostly for the benefit of others who may be observing. Ah, well, what the hell…. Post Comment.
@bartemis
Please don’t say nasty things about our son, Webster. He has told us many times that he is very clever and good at sums. So you’d better believe it.
If you persist you will be hearing from my wife, Wilma. You will not enjoy that.
Like little Latie the sockpuppet, baby Bartemis is too immature to be participating with the big boys.
The problem with the upwelling idea is that cold water quenches CO2. It quenches intuitively because we all know that cold soda pop fizzes less than warm.
I just enjoy debunking the climate bozos that keep climbing out of the clown car.
“I have other more important technical research to pursue”
No doubt. The science of sock-puppetry is calling.
WebHubTelescope,
This might interest you:
http://moyhu.blogspot.ca/p/spencers-data.html
This comes from:
http://climateaudit.org/2011/09/08/more-on-dessler-2010/#comment-302631
Please note the constructive criticisms of Mark T.
Also of interest:
http://moyhu.blogspot.ca/2011/09/faulty-tapering.html
Willard, Kind of interesting but they are looking at digging ambiguous signal patterns out of the noise. This stuff is sitting there staring at you in the face, and Bartemis gets it flat out wrong.
Yet, Bartemis is probably the smartest and most technically proficient of the 30 climate clowns that post alternate theories here. That’s why I really have to give him the trash talk — it’s professional courtesy you know.
“The problem with the upwelling idea is that cold water quenches CO2.”
Duh, who’da thunk it? And, what happens when that cold water heats up at the surface?
Willard – in that thread, I demonstrated that Nick was wrong in his obsession with the supposed anti-causal component – you always get such an artifact, even with “perfect” data. I was right, and I stand by the analysis – the response has a 180 deg phase at relevant frequencies, and hence indicates negative feedback. As I stated earlier on this thread, the whole contretemps about alleged AGW is a fiasco for real science from beginning to end, and it’s going to exact a horrendous price when it becomes apparent to everyone.
And what is going to heat that cold upwelling water above the steady state?
Heat from somewhere else. Nearby surface volumes of the ocean. That will then lose some of its heat and then start to quench excess CO2. It really boils down to Arrhenius activation energies and Clausius-Clayperon model of the partial vapor pressure above a liquid. You yourself mentioned Henry’s law, which is really just an extension of these principles.
My oh my, do we have a live one here.
I have had discussions about teaching science with Vaughan Pratt in the past. I mentioned that it is actually more difficult to argue with a person that is way off in the weeds than if he makes a simple mistake. That’s why grading science papers is hard when the student is biting off way more than they can chew. You have to take a machete to all that illogical weed growth sprouting every which way.
> Bartemis is probably the smartest and most technically proficient of the 30 climate clowns that post alternate theories here. That’s why I really have to give him the trash talk — it’s professional courtesy you know.
Perhaps you should concentrate on these kinds of exchanges.
My point was not to rehearse any old thread, but to let you know that Bartemis can trash talk his way out of many situations.
Bartemis,
Here’s what Carrick says of this exchange:
> [I]f I may be frank, I think Bart’s problem is he’s hung up on what he knows, and isn’t willing to concede when he doesn’t. This happens to be an area that I’ve spent 20+ years working on, have numerous peer reviewed publications, and collected in the 100s of GB of data on. And even more to the point I’ve discussed this stuff (which I admit is highly nonintuitive) with perhaps a dozen very bright colleagues strategically positioned around the US at some very fine institutes. This isn’t an army of one in this case.
And just in case you do not realize it, Carrick is supposed to be on your side.
Perhaps letting go of that ego might help.
Just sayin’,
w
“We can express this relationship as
CO2 =CO2(0) + h*(T – T(0))
where CO2(0) is the concentration before the temperature changes from T(0) to T and h a constant. That much should be uncontroversial.”
No, what you want is van ‘t Hoff’s relation, which for small temperature variations would simplify to
[CO2] =[CO2](0)*(1 + h*(T – T(0)))
The point is that when you write integral relations, your h is not constant but proportional to [CO2].
But none of this is quantitatively useful when applied to the sea. Henry’s Law will tell you about the relation of free [CO2] in the water just at the surface and partial pressure. But [CO2] is itself the result of an equilibration with the more abundant {HCO3-] and [CO3–], and those equilibria have temperature dependence. Furthermore there is a gradient of [CO2] approaching the surface, and the actual rate of outgassing depends on how fast it can be transported to (and across) the surface.