AGW Scam Artist Michael Mann claims to won a Nobel Prize

Sticks and Stone
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/10/16/mark-steyn-sticks-and-stones/

AGW scam artist Dr. Michael Mann claims to have won a Nobel Prize - just another fabricated claim. He also continuously defames other leading scientists publicly, but just compare his abuse to data to fellow Penn Stater Sandusky - well that's a suing. (Extract from the article below)

'But the urge to litigate disagreement is never far from the surface in contemporary discourse. So both Ezra Levant and I find ourselves back in court yet again. In my case, I’m currently being sued in the District of Columbia by Dr. Michael Mann, the eminent global warm-monger, for mocking (in America’s National Review) his increasingly discredited climate-change “hockey stick.” So Dr. Mann has sued for what his complaint to the court called “defamation of a Nobel prize recipient.”

In fact, Dr. Mann is not a “Nobel prize recipient.” But, as Donna LaFramboise recently pointed out in these pages, he has spent many years passing himself off as one. The nearest he got to a Nobel was as one of several thousand contributors to one of various reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which in 2007 shared a Nobel Peace Prize. So Dr. Mann is a Nobel laureate in the same sense that my mother is: She’s Belgian, and Belgium is in the European Union, and the European Union was collectively awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last year. My mum does not claim to be a Nobel prize winner, but Dr. Mann did, on an industrial scale, including in his publicist’s bio, his book jackets and his website — until, in the wake of his false complaint, the Nobel Institute in Oslo declared that he was not a Nobel laureate at all. In that sense, Dr. Mann is, indeed, a fraud. It is a fascinating legal question whether a man guilty of serial misrepresentation can, in fact, be defamed. But it’s not that fascinating, and certainly not worth the court’s time and seven-figure legal bills.

Other than that, it’s a pretty basic free speech case. Dr. Mann, whatever his other gifts, is an inveterate name-caller. Consider his recent Guardian column defending his “hockey stick” from the bad case of brewer’s droop it’s acquired over the last 15 years of non-warming: Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish professor named (unlike Mann) by Foreign Policy as one of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers,” is dismissed as “career fossil fuel industry apologist Bjorn Lomborg”; Judith Curry, a member of the National Research Council’s climate research committee, winner of awards from the American Meteorological Society, and co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences, is billed by Dr. Mann as “serial climate disinformer Judith Curry”; and anyone else who has the impertinence to disagree with him is lumped under the catch-all category of “climate change deniers.”

As masters of devastating put-downs go, Dr. Mann isn’t exactly Oscar Wilde. Nevertheless, plonking and leaden and witless as his insults are, he has a perfect right to make them. Unfortunately, he’s one of those pathologically insecure types who feels he should be able to dish it out but that he shouldn’t have to take it. So he is suing because he didn’t like being described by Rand Simberg of the Competitive Enterprise Institute as, metaphorically, “the Jerry Sandusky of climate change” (a line I quoted). Jerry Sandusky is the Penn State football coach currently serving 30-60 years in the slammer for sexual abuse of children. In court, our notably unimpressive judge Natalia Combs-Greene declared, even before we got anywhere near the trial, that she was with Dr. Mann: “The court agrees with the arguments advanced by Plaintiffs. To place Plaintiff’s name in the same sentence with Sandusky (a convicted pedophile) is clearly outrageous.”

So what? It’s equally outrageous to call anyone who disagrees with you a “denier,” a slur with a very particular pedigree, and one which would be distressing to any critic of Mann with family who died in the Holocaust. And in the case of Dr. Mann, he was in fact (which is what courts used to concern themselves with) a colleague of the pedophile Sandusky at Penn State University for six years. So it’s not in the least bit “outrageous” to put Mann and Sandusky in the same sentence, even if only when compiling the Penn State faculty list, or drawing up guest invitations for its now indicted president’s Christmas cocktail party. If Dr. Mann doesn’t like being linked to Penn State’s scandals, he should get a new job.'

 

" Dr. Mann did, (claim to be a Nobel Prize winner) on an industrial scale, including in his publicist’s bio, his book jackets and his website — until, in the wake of his false complaint, the Nobel Institute in Oslo declared that he was not a Nobel laureate at all. In that sense, Dr. Mann is, indeed, a fraud."



This is global warming's top guy, isn't it?

 

Yes, sadly Dr. "Hockey Stick" is the best the global warming alarmists have to offer.

 

Fake data...fake Nobel prize....I didn't see that coming.

 

That's it? That pos is the head gazook of the GW total onslaught against reason and sensibility?

STFU bitches, it's time to Drill Baby Drill!! Energy independence for the US of A and then [after the collapse] we can kick back and do like Sarah Palin said: let Allah handle the Middle East! AGW nuts and liberals in general hate Sarah Palin, they HATE her actually, burned her church and investigated her about a dozen times, found nothing but bankrupted her personal finances with lawyer costs... so who's right after all you butt-ugly bitches, the AGW nuts/Liberals or great looking Sarah Palin?

 

Uhh, we have been.

 

Then we should be exporting energy!

I have a feeling that the Obamanation krap isn't going to fly much longer with the US voters. We might get some people in power eventually that will actually halve the moronic Public Sector and get the US back to work....

 

Uhh, we have been.

 

Similar to how the U.K wants to criminally prosecute anti-vaccine doctor, Andrew Wakefield, for his fabricated data -- the U.S. should start prosecuting the global warming alarmists for their fabricated data.

 

as an aside, it's pretty hard to tell what NOT to blame on vaccines: http://www.naturalnews.com/033584_Dr_Maurice_Hilleman_SV40.html starting with AIDS and cancer! Not to mention that the existence of prions wasn't known until the electron microscope uncovered them, we know little about what they do but when we bypass the digestive system and put them straight into our blood stream we are really getting screwed over...