I had an interesting exchange with Marshall Shepherd, President of the American Meteorological Society today. Marshall had tweeted as follows:
Marshall: learned n strange emails/blogs some disagree with my #Tedx Talk, @MichaelEMann HockeyStick discredited (hasn't), & wx varies-gee "who knew"
In my usual polite way, I responded as follows:
Me: I attended a debate with a paleoclimate guy a few months ago. In q&a he was asked about hockey stick. He said "it's broken".
To which Marshall's response was this:
Marshall: @aDissentient why don't you ask @MichaelEMann
Marshall: @aDissentient and fyi, I generally don't debate anything that isn't published in the peer-review lit, best regards
Hardly a meeting of minds but it was all going rather well. Unfortunately at this point Mann himself joined in:
MichaelEMann @DrShepherd2013 Marshall, I don't engage disinformation-spewing trolls. It just encourages them...
Moments later, Shepherd blocked me.
Hmm.