By Rich Kozlovich
In March of 2011 "Canadian journalist Donna Laframboise. Former National Post &
Toronto Star columnist, past vice president of the Canadian Civil
Liberties Association", posted this article,
The Strange Case of Sari Kovats noting it was "astonishing how a mere student became an IPCC guru. And here's the story.
In 1994, Kovats was one of only 21 people in the entire world selected
to work on the first IPCC chapter that examined how climate change might
affect human health. She was 25 years old. Her first academic paper
wouldn't be published for another three years. It would be six years
before she'd even begin her doctoral studies and 16 years before she'd
graduate…..So when are Kovats, the IPCC, and the British government all
going to admit that she is far from being a world-class scientific
expert? Will she resign her position as coordinating lead author - or
will the new edition of the climate bible be irretrievably tainted by
her participation?
Let's face it, all this anthropogenic climate change has exposed this one incontrovertible fact: Grant money has made scientific integrity is an oxymoron!
There is a lot of stuff that can be gleaned from that paragraph you may find
amazing. Probably the thing I find most amazing is that so many are
amazed at these exposures. I don’t find any of this amazing at all, because it
was obvious to me, and many others, that the IPCC was founded in
corruption in the beginning, it is foundering in corruption now, and
will eventually collapse under the weight of its corruption.
The only difference between when it was formed and now; is that now
everyone knows, at least for those who actually care about truth. The important thing to realize is this; when someone so far
from the center of information as I am can see what is going on, this
question must be asked:
How can leaders in the political, scientific and
journalistic realms not see what is going on, or not report truthfully
what is going on?
The answer is clear, the corruption of science is ubiquitous.
From the very beginning it was obvious that the claims of the IPCC would
fail the test of history. Everything we are told should bear some
resemblance to what we see going on in reality. I have said this often
in the past and nothing that I have seen has changed my mind: Everything
you see on the news, everything you read in the newspapers and
everything you learned in school is a lie. Not necessarily lies of
commission, although they are guilty of that also, but mostly lies of
omission. If scientists won’t practice the first rule of science, De
Omnibus Dubitandum, (Everything is to be questioned) then ordinary people must do so. Question everything, including them. Especially them.
No matter what anyone says; you can’t marginalize the truth! You
can suppress it; you can ignore it; you can avoid it; you can attempt
to undermine it; you can attempt to subvert it; you can attempt to
organize against it; you can even laugh at it - but if we have the
courage and the fortitude to stand and confront the lies, irrespective
of the personal costs, the truth will stand the test of time.
When
you murder someone the case is never closed. The same holds when you
murder the truth. No matter how long it takes, truth is defended despite
all the calumnies heaped on those who stand firm against the lies and
the propaganda intended to persuade those who have been deceived.
Here is the link to the more current pieces on what I've titled
The Mann Chronicles, and below are past articles I've stored on Michael Mann from 2014 to 2008.
I
am using the word "inventor" on purpose, since the Hockeystick is a
manufactured item and does not correspond to well-established historic
reality. It does not show the generally beneficial Medieval Warm Period
(MWP) at around 1000 AD, or the calamitous Little Ice Age (LIA)
between about 1400 and 1800. In the absence of any thermometers during
most of this period, the Hockeystick is based on an analysis of
so-called proxy data, mostly tree rings, from before 1000 AD to 1980,
where the proxy temperature suddenly stops and a rapidly rising
thermometer record is joined on.
Since
its publication in 1998 and 1999, the hockeystick graph has had a
turbulent history. It was adopted by the IPCC (UN-Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change) in its 3rd Assessment Report (2001) to support
the claim of a major anthropogenic global warming (AGW) during the
20th century. Since then, the IPCC has distanced itself from the graph,
which has been completely discredited.....To Read More......
The Continuing Chronicles of Mann Posted in Junkscience.com by Steve Milloy Mann Sycophant: ‘There is a trend to threaten climate science promoters with death, imprisonment, execution, etc’
An Epic Week of Success For PSI It’s
been an extraordinary week for PSI both in the news and behind the
scenes. A dramatic twist in a high profile lawsuit, the publication of a
new paper set to trigger a scientific paradigm shift, plus a membership
surge bringing eminent scientists into the fold - including one Nobel
Science Prize nominee.
The
biggest media story concerns developments in the Climategate scandal
involving disgraced Penn. State University researcher, Dr. Michael Mann
and our very own chairman, Dr. Timothy Ball. It seems Ball is on the
brink of a sensational courtroom victory over Mann, who first stole onto
the world stage thanks to his ‘hockey stick’ graph trumpeted across the
world in 2001 by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Mann’s graph was widely cited as the smoking gun proving catastrophic
man-made global warming.
Temperatures
boiled over when Ball fearlessly declared that Mann belongs “in the
state pen, not Penn. State.” That quip incensed the thin-skinned Mann
into filing a libel suit against Ball in the British Columbia Supreme
Court, Canada.
Hard
to believe that was almost 18 months ago! But now the tables have
turned and last Friday Mann was exposed for the crime of perjury. It
transpired that he lied when making sworn statements under oath that he
was a co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize alongside former Vice
President, Al Gore and the UN’s IPCC.
Climate High-Sticking: The Unmanly Mann Oh
this is going to be fun. Michael Mann—he of the iconic climate change
“hockey stick” that purports to prove man-made climate change by
displaying how global temperature is at its highest level in 2000 years
(somehow making the Medieval warm period disappear)—is threatening to
sue National Review and Mark Steyn (and perhaps Peter Wood of the
National Association of Scholars) for libel for questioning whether Penn
State’s exoneration of Mann over the “Climategate” scandal was as
self-serving as their investigation of Jerry Sandusky. Rand Simberg
wrote in a blogpost post that “Mann could be said to be the Jerry
Sandusky of climate science, except that instead of molesting children,
he has molested and tortured data in the service of politicized science
that could have dire economic consequences for the nation and planet.”….
As we see now with Mann, people from his scientific circle can dish it
out to people like Lomborg, but can’t take it….. As I say, deposing this
entire happy band of climateers will be great fun.
Get Lost - My response to Michael Mann So,
as you might have heard, Michael Mann of Climategate infamy is
threatening to sue us. Mann is upset — very, very upset — with this Mark
Steyn Corner post, which had the temerity to call Mann’s hockey stick
“fraudulent.” The Steyn post was mild compared with other things that
have been said about the notorious hockey stick, and, in fact, it fell
considerably short of an item about Mann published elsewhere that Steyn
quoted in his post…… He’s going to go to great trouble and expense to
embark on a losing cause that will expose more of his methods and
maneuverings to the world. In short, he risks making an ass of himself.
But that hasn’t stopped him before.
Zone of Reality: Mann Versus Ball On Sunday I posted "I Will Huff and Puff and Blow Your House Down"
discussing these lawsuits by Mann against Ball and Steyn. I was
watching this from the beginning but nothing happened for quite a while.
It is surely now coming to a head. John O'Sullivan has posted some
worthwhile information succinctly outlining the issues and what appears
to me to be an eventual outcome that can only be devastating to the
hucksters of global warming, the socalled 97% of scientists who concur
with their views, the governments of the world who have jumped on this
bandwagon and the IPCC....Oh....and Mann too!
New SLAAPstick Courtroom Capers as Michael Mann Falls Foul Again Media
war of words erupts in anticipation of another global warming courtroom
battle. We take time to see how latest events connected to
Climategate’s controversial scientist Michael Mann stack up alongside
Mann’s legal shoot out versus Dr. Tim Ball.
Last week
Pennsylvania State University (PSU) popped back up on the notoriety
radar thanks to lingering fallout over their jailed child sex felon,
football coach Jerry Sandusky. PSU’s other alleged bad boy,
climatologist Michael Mann, came out with all legal guns blazing after
popular right-wing writer, Mark Steyn and the National Review wrote of
the parallels in the “whitewashes” PSU investigations performed
separately on Sandusky and Mann. The recent and hard-hitting Freeh
Report is damning of PSU’s hierarchy.
Virginia Attorney General Cuccinelli Versus the Judiciary of Virginia There
are a large number of people who knew from the beginning that this
whole Anthropogenic Global Warming scare was bogus. The one thing the
warmers and press all kept pointing to was the Hockey Stick Graph as an
absolute confirmation of their claims. Unfortunately the only people who
had access to the data as to how they arrived at these numbers were
those who were part and parcel of the scare mongering. When asked why
the data wasn't released for open peer review (which is the standard to
show the science is accurate) they refused; stating they had worked on
this for years and they weren't going to turn it over to people who just
wanted to rip it apart. But that is what peer reviewers are supposed to
do. That is what they have done forever. That is what peer review is
all about. For them to make such a statement is a tacit acknowledgement
that what they produced wasn’t science; and when the federal government
forced them to release that material it was shown to be junk science.
What the Cuccinelli Climategate case really means Don't
waste your time reading the liberal press about this one. The Virginia
Supreme Court issued a decision in the case in which Virginia Attorney
General Ken Cuccinelli sought emails from the University of Virginia
about Michael Mann's "hockey stick" graph, made famous by the
Climategate fiasco. Cuccinelli issued a subpoena under the Fraud Against
Taxpayers Act (FATA), which authorizes investigations of suspected
fraud to obtain taxpayer money. The court ruled that Cuccinelli could
not get the emails. But the decision was not about academic freedom or
anything like it, although the liberal press would like you to believe
that it was. In fact, the decision highlights one of the many ways that
government is allowed to break the law. FATA allows the Attorney General
to investigate suspected fraud used to obtain state funds. The Attorney
General may issue a civil investigation demand, which is essentially a
subpoena, to any "person" suspected of using fraud to obtain state
funds. Any "person" includes any corporation. The University of Virginia
is incorporated.....
Desperate Climate Scientists File Second Lawsuit Against Top Skeptic - Mann,
the infamous creator of the now discredited ‘hockey stick’ graph was
once the darling of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC), a tax hungry government funded organization that blames mankind
for raising global temperatures by 0.7 degrees during the 20th Century.
Now he is desperate to hit back at his critics with the help of Big
Green's immense financial resources. Below we examine the shady
background of Professor Mann and explain what Ball must do to defeat
this latest legal challenge. The ascent of Mann
Climate
Realists has an interesting article (see link below) that looks at the
extraordinary rise to prominence of the hockeystickmeister, Michael
Mann. This is one of the angles of the hockey stick story that is still
something of a mystery - how did such an obscure scientist, one who had
just completed his PhD, get to be lead author on the Third Assessment
Report of the IPCC?
Headline Story: Did a Secret Climate Deal Launch the Hockey Stick Fakery? By John O’Sullivan, guest post at Climate Realists …………."So what miracle turned this problematic researcher’s life around? If
miracles happened for Mann, they came in the form of Barry Saltzman.
You see, this struggling student’s career was transformed the moment
Saltzman became his Ph.D adviser. Only after Saltzman applied his
influence were Mann’s lofty credentials “rushed through.” Mann then
turned himself into a makeshift tree ring counter, and overnight became
the iconic figure in the IPCC Third Report (2001). The rest is history,
as they say."........If my name were Ken Cuccinelli I would want to
chase down one or two grant and funding sources; with proof of collusion
a case for fraud holds water. That's treble damages and Virginia’s
taxpayers will be sitting $1.5 million better off plus expenses.
Ken Cuccinelli v. 810 academics - Academic freedom is not a license to commit fraud Carr
and 809 other Virginia scientists and academics signed a petition
launched by the activist Union of Concerned Scientists, protesting
Commonwealth Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s investigation of former
University of Virginia professor Michael Mann. The American Association
of University Professors likewise opposes Cuccinelli, who is seeking
documents from UVA, to determine whether there are grounds to prosecute
Mann for violating the Fraud Against Taxpayers Act, by presenting false
or misleading information in support of applications for state-funded
research. Carr claims Cuccinelli is attempting to “drown out”
scientific debate.” Others have accused the AG of conducting a “witch
hunt,” engaging in “McCarthyite” tactics, and “restricting academic
freedom.”
Split Court Decision for Michael Mann in Global Warming Legal Battle Virginia
Supreme Court renders a verdict that permits continued suppression of
evidence in the Michael Mann ‘hockey stick’ graph controversy – but only
just. One dissenting judge scuppers the climatologist’s hopes of yet
another global warming whitewash and skeptics remain upbeat…..
Harvard vs. University of Virginia…not even close! I first discovered this at Greenie Watch
and have since learned that his comments also appeared in the Letters
to the Editor section of the Wall Street Journal on Friday, September 3,
2010. I would like to thank Dr. Battig for allowing me to reproduce
his comments. He originally posted this on his site, Climate Reality on
August 31st, 2010. Dr. Bettig has strong views regarding the need for
scientific integrity and has posted other comments regarding this
particular issue in an article titled, Why is UVa Hiding M.Mann Behind a Legal Smoke Screen? (published in the Charlottesville “THE HOOK” on June 24, 2010.) RK
Scandal and Insanity at Penn State - In a repeat of Copenhagen, on the eve of the Durban climate change gabfest, someone released another horde of emails from alarmist climate
researchers, including Dr. Michael Mann, whose infamous “hockey stick”
was headlined in the 2001 IPCC report to justify the Kyoto agreement and
demands that nations slash fossil fuel use and economic growth. Meanwhile,
back on Dr. Mann’s campus, Pennsylvania State University was
confronting the sordid Jerry Sandusky affair. Sports Illustrated
summarized the Augean Stables task in an article titled “Missteps at
every turn: Efforts to clean up Penn State reveal how deep the
institutional problems lie.” A new hockeystick?
Sunday, September 7, 2008 lifted with permission from
Greenie Watch - After years of
headscratching, Michael Mann thinks he has finally devised a new set of
statistical procedures that will revive his discredited "hockeystick"
graph. An email about it from John A [johna.sci@googlemail.com] below: The BBC in their traditional position of custodian of climate science
orthodoxy, have announced that Michael Mann has produced yet another
Hockey Stick:
A new study by climate scientists behind the controversial 1998
"hockey stick" graph suggests their earlier analysis was broadly
correct. Michael Mann's team analysed data for the last 2,000 years, and
concluded that Northern Hemisphere temperatures now are "anomalously
warm".
Yep, all the
omens are good.
In their latest study, Dr Mann's group collated more than 1,200 proxy
records - the majority from the Northern Hemisphere - and used different
statistical methods to analyse their cumulative message. We used two different
methods that are quite complementary in the assumptions they make about data,
so that provides a test of the sensitivity of data to the methods used,"
he told BBC News. "We also made use of a far wider network of proxy data
than previously available. "Ten years ago, the availability of data became
quite sparse by the time you got back to 1,000 AD, and what we had then was
weighted towards tree-ring data; but now you can go back 1,300 years without
using tree-ring data at all and still get a verifiable conclusion."
Of course Dr Mann
made this claim of robustness to the removal of dendroclimatic records last
time, which turned out to be a flat out lie: The Hockey Stick shape disappeared
when the bristlecone pines of Western Colorado were removed as Mann himself
knows because he tested for their removal and then failed to report that
salient and inconvenient truth (ie the CENSORED directories).
