Mann of letters

Tip o' the hat to Lord Beaverbrook and Oxbridge Prat in Unthreaded, who note that Michael Mann has written his own take on the Hockey Stick wars. It's turning into a crowded field, what with me and Bradley covering the same ground.

Publication date is March 2012

Comments

[igsy]

How will Mann refer to "he who must not be named"?

[TheBigYinJames]

The single greatest compelling argument that sceptics aren't funded by big oil is that if we were, we would have won long before now. If we're so well funded, we're not doing it very well, are we?

[Maurizio Morabito]

And what's the first casualty of war?

[Mac]

MM

CAGWists like Mann has failed to recognise that old principle of warfare - No Battle Plan Survives Contact With The Enemy.

Continuely chucking mis-representations, untruths and bare faced lies out and over the trenches at the perceived enemy is only harming himself.

This must be the first time anyone has ended up with Trench-Mouth.

[DougS]

Can't wait to read it.

I love a good fantasy fiction!

[Foxgoose]

I've never seen a book, complete with cover design, plugged six months before publication.

Has he written it yet - or is he just flying a kite for backers/ funding sources?

I'm reminded of - "Look at the plumage!"..........."The plumage don't enter into it - it's stone dead!"

[Ecclesiastical Uncle]

From the Ecclesiastical Uncle, an old retired bureaucrat in a field only remotely related to climate, with minimal qualifications and only half a mind.

Don Pablo de la Sierra

I have traced the text of my original post on the subject of Mann’s literary style. It seems to have been posted before the middle of June. I expect I was reacting to one of the Bishop’s introductory pieces or some follow up remark by others that appeared at about that time and now suppose it contained a Mann quotation.

Mann’s ability to convey distaste was already well demonstrated in quotations in the HSI and we will probably be treated to more of the same in the upcoming book.

[UC]

Cover includes the smoothing trick, a fairly humorless approach

http://www.climateaudit.info/data/uc/climatewars.png

[RobB]

A month prior to publication (Febuary 2012) would be a splendid time for another release of the Team's hacked/stolen/FOIA emails!!

[HaroldW]

Don Pablo, you mention this:

In the draft plan, we're looking at recycling 20 percent of our garbage by 2010.
Michael E. Mann

Is this a reference to AR5 vis-à-vis AR4?

[Dr Slop]

I've been fortunate enough to see an advance copy of the back cover where it says

Excuse me while I puke

     -- Raymond S. Bradley, University Distinguished Professor, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts

[hunter]

In the US, Mann will get fluff interviews, softball questions, leading questions and wide publicity for this waste of good trees.
Which, it should be pointed out, the destruction of good trees is a bad impact on the Earth's carbon budget.
So Mann, in selling his lies, is actually going to hurt that which he claims is a crisis further, according to his own alleged belief system.

[Don Pablo de la Sierra]

Ecclesiastical Uncle

My guess is we will simply have to wait and see. My guess is turgid prose and a vacuous vocabulary.

HaroldW

My guess is both. What worries me is the reference to "bird flu". What is he up to?

[diogenes]

mmm...a blurb for a book that is not yet written - I smell the traces of Bob Ward!

check realclimate and the policylass for the reviews of the blurb - if you have the stomach.

My guess is that the book will never see the light of day - the blurb is enough. Not even Bob Ward can turn this into a something of book length.

[bill]

hunter, Mann, like all 'progressives' doesn't believe in his belief system applying to himself. Its a system for the 'little people'.
Maybe Columbia UNiversity Press aren't such duffers after all: book's at about 68,000 on Amazons best seller list, and thats before publication.

[Maurizio Morabito]

The book's content will depend on the lawsuits' outcome and will no doubt scanned avidly for material for further lawsuits.

[Paul Matthews]

Dr Slop, there is also Keith Briffa's endorsement:

I have just read this book - and I think it is crap.

[Fred Jensen]

Climate Wars! Since when did science become a war?

[dougieh]

re- where did he get the time - from C/A comment

John Whitman
Posted Oct 6, 2011 at 9:44 AM | Permalink | Reply
Dave Bufalo, P.E.
Posted Oct 5, 2011 at 9:49 PM

Bruen [Brune] went on to say that Mann is now on sabatical doing research into how to do climate research communications better.

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Dave Bufalo, P.E.,

Thank you for the info about the seminar based on your attendance.

Question for any long timers in the formal academic environment – What significance, if any, is there to the suggestion by Brune that Mann is on sabbatical for climate science communication research? Is that an academic code for being placed in hiatus pending some outcome of some other independent ongoing activity?

John

Steve: sabbaticals are a perq of academic life. No interpretation should be placed on Mann’s sabbatical other than academics get a lot of free time.

[SayNoToFearmongers]

Sabbatical? He could fruitfully spend his time learning how to sew mailbags, perhaps?

[Dr Slop]

Thanks for the Briffa quote, Paul! I assume some more puffs will be added by the time of publication. Btw, here's the beginning of the blurb.

This is not just the story of one man's fight against the juggernaut of the vested interests of the mighty oil companies and those who would be cravenly and self-interestedly blind to the looming, ineluctable environmental crisis. It is also the story of another fight. Although he humbly admits he is not a statistician, Michael E. Mann has taken on the inherently conservative forces of the statistical establishment, and though his work has forced researchers to recognize the true worth of mislabeled, mislocated, misinterpreted and mishandled data. It is also a personal fight. As a key member of the IPCC which correctly forecasted the looming environmental catastrophe we all face, he has a right to respect over and above that of others, and especially the respect of other scientists. He has used all the instruments available to him to ensure that that office is not besmirched. His conclusion, after more than a decade of selfless combat in the Climate Wars? "Plato was right!" Those who would satirize the correct forecasts of the IPCC and show disrepect to those who unselfishly risk well-being and, yes, even life, must -- for the good of humanity -- be banished to a small, very low-lying island.

[Dr Slop]

Paul, this just in, and this time it's positive:

Mann is right.

     -- William M Connelly

[Don Pablo de la Sierra]

Dr. Slop

Thank you for the rather lengthy quotation. I wonder if it was written by the Super Hero Scientist himself as he takes on the evil forces of conspiring statisticians, forcing them to recognize the "true worth of mislabeled, mislocated, misinterpreted and mishandled data." by which I assume he means his data.

Bonkers. If this is a sample of what is inside of the book, the man is bonkers. It will make him the laughing stock of the entire scientific world with the exception of the Royal Society, of course.

[Robert E. Phelan]

Let's see..... $28.95 / £19.95 for Mann's book, $4.99 to download Donna Laframboise's book. I'm afraid I'll have to read Mann's book, but I really hate contributing to his personal fortune. Maybe it will hit the remainders table early.....

[Dr Slop]

Don Pablo, my quote was, shall we say, a flight of fancy, but I'm pleased I got the tone right.

[Scots Renewables]

I shall buy and read 'The Hockey Stick Illusion' just before Mann's book comes out and read the pair of them one after the other. Whether I will feel any more edified afterwards is doubtful, but at least there will be a curious symmetry to the experience.

[James P]

My dictionary describes 'dispatches' as reports, "usually sent in haste", which sounds about right!

[kim]

Publish Piltdown Mann,
Move the jaw, croak evermore.
Risible icon.
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[Lt. John F. Kerry]

My awards and citations are just as good as Michael Mann's!