Before even thinking about squandering one hundred trillion dollars on an insane economy-collapsing Green New Deal premised upon an end-of-world climate catastrophe, let’s take a very hard look at the so-called “settled science” nonsense.
The Trump White House plans to convene a National Security Council review panel headed by Princeton emeritus professor of physics Dr. Will Happer to do exactly that.
One of the loudest, shrillest, most unsettled voices of protest against science scrutiny is emanating from Dr. Michael Mann, the author of a cobbled-together and thoroughly debunked “hockey stick” graph first used by the IPCC and Al Gore to gin up the climate Armageddon alarm.
A March 20 article co-authored by Mann and Bob Ward in The Guardian equated the planned NSC panel to Stalinist repression.
Accordingly, a great place to begin this investigation is to revisit scandalous Climategate email exchanges between members of Mann’s hockey team along with readily available public records I have previously written about in numerous Forbes and Newsmax articles.
Tom Crowley, a close Mann colleague, wrote, “I am not convinced that the ‘truth’ is always worth reaching if it is at the cost of damaged personal relationships.”
Yet friendship aside, Mann’s hockey ‘schtick’ graph co-author Raymond Bradley clearly drew the line regarding another research paper jointly published by Mann and colleague Phil Jones at the University of East Anglia.
Bradley wrote, “I’m sure you agree–the Mann/Jones GRL [Geophysical Research Letters] paper was truly pathetic and should never have been published. I don’t want to be associated with that 2000 year [climate] reconstruction.”
Nevertheless, Michael Mann sanctimoniously attacked Will Happer’s scientific credentials to chair the NSC’s panel because “[he] has not published any research on climate change in a reputable science journal.”
By “reputable,” Mann is obviously referring to publishers that exclusively post research papers endorsed by the Climate Crisis Cartel and its IPCC sponsors.
An email from Jones to Kevin Trenberth, a lead author of the 2001 and 2007 IPCC reports, said, “Kevin, Seems that this potential Nature [journal] paper may be worth citing, if it does say that GW [global warming] is having an effect on TC [tropical cyclone] activity.”
Jones wanted to make sure that people who supported this connection be represented in IPCC reviews, “Getting people we know and trust [into IPCC] is vital – hence my comment about the tornadoes group.”
Top cyclone expert Christopher Landsea demanded that the IPCC refute Trenberth’s scientifically unsupportable but highly publicized claim of a global warming-hurricane link following a deadly 2004 Florida storm season. Receiving no response, Landsea resigned as an invited 2007 IPCC report author.
A July 2004 communication from Phil Jones to Michael Mann marked “Highly Confidential” discussed keeping two papers published in Climate Research from being in that next IPCC report.
Jones wrote: Kevin [Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is.”
Jonathan Overpeck, a coordinating lead IPCC report author, suggested, “The trick may be to decide on the main message and use that to guid[e] what’s included and what is left out.”
Trenberth’s associate Tom Wigley of the National Center for Atmospheric Research warned in another email to Mann, “Mike, the Figure you sent is very deceptive . . . there have been a number of dishonest presentations of model results by individual authors and by IPCC . . . ”
Wigley and Trenberth suggested in another email to Mann, “If you think that [Yale professor James] Saiers is in the greenhouse skeptics camp, then, if we can find documentary evidence of this, we could go through official [American Geophysical Union] channels to get him ousted [as editor-in-chief of the Geophysical Research Letters journal].”
Writing to Phil Jones, Peter Thorne of the U.K. Met Office advised caution, saying, “Observations do not show rising temperatures throughout the tropical troposphere unless you accept one single study and approach and discount a wealth of others. This is just downright dangerous.”
Thorne prudently observed in a separate email, “I also think the science is being manipulated to put a political spin on it which for all our sakes might not be too clever in the long run.”
Another scientist worries, ” . . . clearly, some tuning or very good luck [is] involved. I doubt the modeling world will be able to get away with this much longer.”
Still, another observed, “It is inconceivable that policymakers will be willing to make billion-and trillion-dollar decisions for adaptation to the projected regional climate change based on models that do not even describe and simulate the processes that are the building blocks of climate variability.”
One researcher foresaw some very troubling consequences, “What if climate change appears to be just mainly a multi-decadal natural fluctuation? They’ll kill us probably . . . ”
Oh, Mann!
I understand your angst about where your rebounding hockey puck may wind up.
Read more at CFACT
Of course Mann and others don’t want to have this scientific debate because they’ve been used to squashing any and all disagreement since they know that they’ll lose. It’s amazing that following ClimateGate so many years ago that they are still going strong with the lies.
“Hockey shtick”, “hockey team”, “hockey puck”, all oblique references to the obvious collusion between the American sports media and Bettman to steal the Stanley Cup year after year. As a lifelong Leafs fan, I demand an International Tribunal to investigate Michael Mann’s collusion with the Penguins.
Global warming, understood as a consequence of human activity, or the emission of greenhouse gases generated by this human activity, is an absurdity; and, to insist on that absurdity, is nothing but madness or execrable evil. Now, of the only thing that there is certain evidence is of the climatic change, that takes place every day, and that sometimes goes in a sense, and sometimes in another, that is to say: in the one of the heating or in the one of the cooling, but never indefinitely; and this, more because of the influence of the sun, than of any other variable to be considered. In short, men can only mitigate the effects of climate change or adapt, no more.
Amen.
The first mistake is to call it “climate Science ” . Pay to play science fiction is what it is . Circle the wagons defensiveness of these’ hide the decline”bull shit artists is apparent throughout their ass covering exchanges .
It is obvious they knew what they were doing . Criminal charges for perpetuating scientific fraud in order to keep the money flowing .
They have every right to be shitting their pants this $trillion dollar con game is going to be ripped to shreds . It’s long long over due .
The universities and government agencies that enabled the fraud will use their time wisely to follow the Clinton document destruction protocol .
Climate science .. what climate science ? Oh no no not us .
Michael who ?
In attacking Will Happer’s scientific credentials Michael Mann has followed a tactic that the left has used for decades. If you can’t discredit what someone says, then discredit the person. However, it is the facts and data that count, not who presents them.