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Bishop Hill Mann writes doggerel
Mar 31, 2011 Climate: Mann Michael Mann has written to top US newspaper the Payson Roundup defending his honour...
Editor:
An individual named Terry Putnam did a grave disservice to your readers by making false and defamatory statements about me and my climate scientist colleagues...
I always liked the good old days when letters to the editor began "Sir", or perhaps "Dear Sir".
Reader Comments (66)
It did take Mikey all of 4 days to respond to Mr Putnam’s ummm whatever you want to call it:-
Friday 25th March, 3011
Cycles of global warming, cooling are common
“Even Al Gore’s favorite Michael Mann-produced “hockey-stick” temperature graph was proven to be a fraud. Leaked secret diplomatic cables show that the U.S. government used espionage, bribery and extortion to pressure foreign governments to support the U.S. position on climate change”.
http://www.paysonroundup.com/news/2011/mar/25/cycles-global-warming-cooling-are-common/
I doubt very much that Mann had much personal involvement in this. It reads to me like a piece of boiler plate PR stuff trotted out by a clipping service to et no criticism go unrebuffed. All those foundation funded PR firms have to do something to show that their grant should be renewed.
Of course, if members of Mann's family lives in the Payson area he might just have been forced to respond so as to keep his parents/grandparents/in-laws happy.
Dr Mann is clearly well regarded by his colleagues (from the Climategate e:mails):
Original Filename: 926681134.txt.
From: "Raymond S. Bradley" <rbradley@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
To: k.briffa@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject: vomit
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 07:25:xxx xxxx xxxx
Excuse me while I puke...
Ray
>From: mann@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
>Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 13:00:xxx xxxx xxxx(EDT)
>To: juppenbrink@xxxxxxxxx.xxx, k.briffa@xxxxxxxxx.xxx, t.osborn@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
>Cc: mann@xxxxxxxxx.xxx, mhughes@xxxxxxxxx.xxx, p.jones@xxxxxxxxx.xxx,
> rbradley@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
>
>Dear all,
>
>Thanks for working so hard to insure a final product that was
>acceptable to all. I think that Keith and Tim are to be
>commended on a fine job w/ the final version of the
>Perspectives piece that appeared, and I thank Julia for her
>especially difficult editorial task.
>
>I appreciate having had the opportunity to respond to the
>original draft. I think this opportunity is very important
>in such cases (ie, where a particular author/groups work
>is the focus of a commentary by someone else), and hope
>that this would be considered standard procedure in the
>future in such instances.
>
>I think we have some honest disagreements amonst us about
>some of the underlying issues, but these were fairly treated
>in the piece and that's what is important (The choice of
>wording in the final version was much better too. Wording
>matters!).
>
>Thanks all for the hard work and a job well done. I like
>to think that may feedback helped here--so I take some
>pride here as well.
>
>best regards,
>
>mike
>
mondo
Feel the love...
Mondo and BBD
Which one of them will break the Code of Honour first, and dump publicly on Mann?
"Excuse me while I puke..."
Beautiful. Just beautiful...
Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward.
Whoever cannot take care of himself without that law is both.
...
From Lamb of God's Omerta
golf charley
It's interesting how much energy has gone into presenting a united front, isn't it?
"The number of independent or external inquiries seems to keep rising - it is now up to seven!"
The number has been adjusted. It's more than we thought.
Mar 31, 2011 at 7:10 PM | bernie
I had much the same thought... the Payson Roundup? Gotta wonder of this is not another one of those Soros initiatives.... Mikey, are you paying for this? Is your suit against Dr. Ball being paid out of your own pocket or is there some benificent third party meeting the expenses? Inquiring minds want to know, and all that...
MM's claimed vindication by the NAS, and other worthy bodies, sounds suspiciously like Al Gore's equally spurious claim, that the British High Court found in his favour, when it clearly did not.
These guys inhabit a totally different planet to the rest of us.
Perhaps he's laying a paper trail, so that when he is finally taken to court he can plead insanity.
For Micheal Mann, the letters should begin "Dear Agony Aunt.
It's amazing they keep throwing the word 'libel' around, isn't it?
Never get round to suing though.
In the US libel cases are a two edged sword as they involve 'discovery'.
I.E. The person making the charge of libel has to basically forgo any right to privacy so that the lawyers for the accused can properly prepare a defense.
.” He ignores the fact that the highest scientific body in the nation, the National Academy of Sciences, affirmed my research findings in an exhaustive independent review published in June 2006
Did it? I thought it agreed with the Wegman report!
Is this another case of Mann seeing what he wants to see, and hearing what he wants to hear?
Michael Mann's work is very interesting.