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@Josh --
Fantastic as usual.
I was wondering if you could do a "cartoon likeness" of Mann that the "Minnesotans 4 Global Warming" might use to put together another video classic?
It appears the Mann legal team got a hold of the software outfit (JibJab) that they used to create the video and pulled the WRONG video (ver. 2) for copyright (Mann with wood pic). I suspect that video (ver. 1) will be gone by the end of the week as well.
Just a thought ;)
Been there; done that. It's a macho thing, apparently:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2494075/posts
Shub Niggurath -
thanks very much for the american psychological assoc pdf.
and thanx josh for the laughs. here's another:
21 April: Quieter activity on Sun may push Britain into a modern-day Little Ice Age
Professor Mike Lockwood started the investigation after he realised the past two cold British winters had coincided with a particularly quiet period in the Sun's activity.
He was helped in his research by colleagues at Reading University, along with scientists at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire and the Max Planck Institute in Germany.
The team studied British weather records back to 1659. These were then compared with solar activity over the same period...
Professor Somi Solanki from the Max Planck Institute said this meant the recent cold weather did not contradict the theory that global warming is being caused by human activity.
'The connection between solar activity and cold winters in Europe only became apparent after we subtracted the superimposed trend towards global warming,' he said...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1267757/Britain-facing-bitterly-cold-winters-drop-solar-winds.html
For those of you living in Britain and such, we do have an active group here in the US all in favor of global warming, Minnesotans For Global Warming. Wonderful Mike sued them for using his image, a copyright issue, which in my view should have come under the satire exclusion, but perhaps Mann isn't seen as so significant a person by the courts. What what the heck.
This is the home page of M4GW which has a video press release about the issue.
http://www.minnesotansforglobalwarming.com/m4gw/
They already have a second copy of the Mike Mann video up, not using JibJab, which produced it. It was not a libel issue but a copyright issue of his image issue and you can all see the original video here
http://www.nocapandtrade.com/michael-mann-controversy/
My mistake -- BOTH versions are on
http://www.nocapandtrade.com/michael-mann-controversy/
And for those of you worried about libel in the UK, just imagine what would have happen to Manchesterians for Global Warming, had they existed. You really need to overall your libel laws in Britain. The Mann issue with M4GW is not libel. It is copyright of his image, that is all. And I suspect that will go away as he become a "person of significance."
There is work to be done for M4GW, Josh, as well as inspiration from their videos on Youtube.
Pat:
Two things are among the vital pillars to the theory of anthropogenic global warming
1) The role of the human mind in accepting a thing like AGW
2) The role of 'communication' of the science and policy in AGW
Psychology and science communication are 'hot areas' in climate change due to this. The APA is rotting from head-down, there can be no questioning that.
I dont imply every psychologist is infected though. Take a look at the Iron Shrink -
http://www.ironshrink.com/articles.php?artID=080904_APA_global_warming_silence_the_debate
I dont imply every psychologist is infected though.
I should hope NOT! Although I do agree with you about APA.
(Officially, my Ph. D. is in Psychology, although I hated Freud, Jung, et al. In reality, I am a physiologist interested in the biological basis of behavior, mainly biochemical influences, like drugs, etc.)
Shub Niggurath -
thanx for the new link, which led me to some other interesting stuff. fascinating to explore this area of the CAGW scam.
@Shub Niggurath - Thanks for the link as Pat said interesting stuff from a diffrent view point, with my tin foil hat on you would think the world order is trying to control everything we do and say. Shame the interweb came alone and ruined it, altough give it a few more years and guberments will have taken full control of this means of communication.
Intrepid Wanders
Do you mean this kind of thing?
Mann Hockey Trick
So Mann is insisting that he isn't a 'person of significance'? It's a start.. :-)
The one that really made me laugh was the one with the elephant at the bottom of this page.
I too would like to thank Shub Niggurath for the link to Iron Shrink; being interested in psychology and feeling increasingly dismayed by the general eagerness of psychologists these days to turn us into compliant consumers of the CAGW message, I find it greatly encouraging to learn of one who takes a sceptical viewpoint.