Prominent scientist and climate activist Michael Mann appealed to an asserted scientific consensus to chastise President Donald Trump on CBS’s 60 Minutes program last night.
Ironically, Mann himself ignored clear scientific consensus in order to promote his own, out-of-the-mainstream climate change theories.
While interviewing Mann, CBS’s Scott Pelley said, “There have always been fires in the West. There have always been hurricanes in the East. How do we know that climate change is involved in this?” Pelley followed up with, “The president says about climate change, ‘Science doesn’t know.’”
Replied Mann, “The president doesn’t know, and he should know better. He should know that the world’s leading scientific organizations, our own U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and national academies of every major industrial nation, every scientific society in the United States that’s weighed in on the matter. This is a scientific consensus. There’s about as much scientific consensus about human-caused climate change as there is about gravity.”
Mann’s description of the conclusions of the “scientific consensus” however, is exactly the opposite of what scientific bodies report.
As documented in Climate at a Glance: Hurricanes, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) expresses “low confidence” in any connection between climate change and changes in hurricane activity.
Similarly, as documented in Climate at a Glance: U.S. Wildfires, U.S. wildfires are much less frequent and severe than they were in the first half of the 20th century – 100 years of global warming ago.
Moreover, the IPCC reports a decrease in drought conditions – which is the primary climate factor regarding wildfires – in the global region including the U.S. West. Moreover, the IPCC finds no evidence of an increase in drought globally, either.
Ultimately, data, evidence, and scientific facts are far more indicative of scientific truth than a real or imagined consensus of scientists.
Yet, to the extent Michael Mann wishes to invoke consensus as a scientific argument, the clear consensus of scientists is that Mann is promoting extreme climate theories that have no basis in reality.
Read more at Climate Realism
Well, in the photo, Mann certainly looks like he is surprised by how own ideas.or is he saying “if you believe what I say you will believe anything”? or is it just simoly hat he does not really have a clue? Except keeping his job? Since when did “consensus” mean anything in science? it is almost always the one who breaks with it who gets to the truth.
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Michael Mann is not a scientist. He long ago abandoned that for a career as a fear porn hustler.
Just like James Hansen and Bill Nye and the Union of Concerned Scientists think of Brett Strongs litle hit song MONEY THAT’S WHAT I WANT the same gose for the rest of the Eco-Freak Greenpeace,Sierra Cub EDF NRDC and the rest of them all
The real tragedy is that CBS treated it all as gospel truth. No alternate view or facts provided. Consensus science: = a mutual agreement to believe something, or treat something as true, in the absence of objective, verifiable and repeatable testing and observation. This is the basis of most religions and cults.
This is the jerk that got his ass kicked, along with the Weaver idiot in British Columbia, when the BC Supreme Court threw out their lawsuit against Dr. Bellwhen he refuted the Mann / Weaver bs about a changing climate. Mann was charged with Contempt of Court when he refused a Court order to produce his so-called “evidence”, and he and Weaver had to cover all legal costs of Dr. Bell. We would expect that when Mann got his ass kicked by the BC Supreme Court that he would have sat back and realized he is full of poo-poo. He is still spewing his garbage. His famous hockey stick graph and the 97% “consensus” have been shown repeatedly to be fiction and outright lies.
If Mann’s rebuttal was quoted accurately. What does he or any alarmist mean when they claim “there is climate change”.
Any dam fool can make that claim. In his case he likely believes that human activity causes a CO2 increase which has a significant impact on global temperatures which brings on various other events.
Neither Mann nor any other alarmist can provide any evidence that CO2 variation has any impact on our global temperature. That claim is based on cherry picked short term data. Such correlations do not imply causation.