Posted on 12/02/2009 11:45:33 AM PST by ricks_place
Michael Mann, Penn State University meteorology professor, said Climategate is an attack on man-made global warming scientists.
"I think it is unfortunate that some scientists out there are using this situation to settle personal scores, to settle a vendetta," Mann said, in an exclusive interview with AccuWeather.com's Katie Fehlinger.
Mann said that the e-mail leak happened just in time for the Dec. 7, 2009, United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, where world leaders, including President Obama, hope to come to an agreement on a framework for future international climate change mitigation.
"It is not a coincidence... that this event happened in the weeks leading up to the summit in Copenhagen," said Mann. "They've taken scientists' words and phrases and quoted them out of context, completely misrepresenting what they were saying."
Despite skepticism, Mann insisted that global warming is real.
"My main interest right now is to make sure that this manufactured controversy does not distract policy makers," said Mann.
(Excerpt) Read more at accuweather.com ...
Even though I know it is not practiced these days, I thought the job of a news reporter was to ask questions of someone and not just let someone tell their side of the story.
Here are three people from ACCU Weather who I would assume are degreed in journalism or a weather related area and they fail to ask Mann: “Mike, what about all of that raw data that was destroyed?” “What do you have to say about that?”
Instead these ACCU Weather journalists put together a press release for Mann. Or it could well be that Mann sent them this press release he had prepared and these dutiful idiots at ACCU Weather published it.
“”””Climategate Used to Settle ‘Vendetta,’ Says Mann
Posted 2009-12-02
Michael Mann in an Exclusive
Interview with AccuWeather.comMichael Mann, Penn State University meteorology professor, said Climategate is an attack on man-made global warming scientists.
“I think it is unfortunate that some scientists out there are using this situation to settle personal scores, to settle a vendetta,” Mann said, in an exclusive interview with AccuWeather.com’s Katie Fehlinger.
Mann said that the e-mail leak happened just in time for the Dec. 7, 2009, United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, where world leaders, including President Obama, hope to come to an agreement on a framework for future international climate change mitigation.
“It is not a coincidence... that this event happened in the weeks leading up to the summit in Copenhagen,” said Mann. “They’ve taken scientists’ words and phrases and quoted them out of context, completely misrepresenting what they were saying.”
Despite skepticism, Mann insisted that global warming is real.
“My main interest right now is to make sure that this manufactured controversy does not distract policy makers,” said Mann.
Ultimately, Mann feels that scientists are not holding climate change data back from the public.
“The community is doing a good job at putting the data out there... there really is nothing to hide,” Mann said.
Phil Jones, director of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) from which questionable global warming e-mails were leaked, temporarily stepped down from his position yesterday to allow investigation to continue without disruption.
Mann protected his work and the work of his peers as Penn State launched an investigation into what critics call a fabrication of global warming data.
“Phil Jones is a very honest scientist,” Mann said. “He was probably talking about getting rid of measurements that they didn’t consider reliable.”
Penn State is conducting an inquiry into Mann’s possible role in the controversy, as reported by The Daily Collegian.
Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.) is asking the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works to hold hearings on the Climategate matter.
Eduardo Zorita, scientist at the Institute for Coastal Research, is calling for Mann, Jones and others to be banned from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) process for the review and publication of climate change data.
“The scientific assessments in which they may take part are not credible anymore,” said Zorita.
Marc Morano, climate change skeptic and executive editor of ClimateDepot.com, agrees.
“Mann has been dogged for years about his scientific work. Climategate exposes his glaring weaknesses as a scientist,” he said in an e-mail to AccuWeather.com.
AccuWeather.com’s Katie Fehlinger hosts “Headline Earth,” a weekly video series that reports climate change current events and issues.
Story by AccuWeather.com’s Carly Porter, Gina Cherundolo and Katie Fehlinger “””
Michael Mann is an embarrassment to science. He had his co-conspirators were the ones with a vendetta - against the sceptics! He was more than willing to prostitute his scientific responsibilities to push a destructive and horribly expensive global warming agenda, against plenty of evidence to the contrary.
I sincerely hope that he’s stripped of his scientific credentials and does some jail time. The magnitude of what’s being attempted by the global warmers and environuts is both staggering and contemptible. We are, after all, talking trillions of dollars and the future of the US economy.
Gravytrain indeed.
>> “They’ve taken scientists’ words and phrases and quoted them out of context, completely misrepresenting what they were saying.”
That claim just cracks me up. The context of fraud has been demonstrated so many times that by now it’s settled science — the debate is over! :-0
Mann’s audacity is breathtaking. But then, audacious pretty much sums up the entire climate fraud.
He had == He and
Sorry.
I Married an Ax Murderer...
“Wo-Mann...” da da da da dnk...
“A fool with a plan.” da da da da dnk...
“Wo-Mann...” da da da da dnk...
“I say God damn...” da da da da dnk...
“Wo-Mann...” da da da da dnk...
“You and your plan, Mann...” da da da da dnk...
“Go-Mann...” da da da da dnk...
“Straight-Mann...” da da da da dnk...
“To hell-Mann...” da da da da dnk... rimshot...
When you sit and think about this...there probably isn’t a law that you could really put against the guy. You could terminate him from the University for false publications but that likely won’t happen. It would be nice to see him denied any government funding for any research project from this point on, if he is guilty of false publications.
I think the Michael Mann that created Miami Vice has a better grasp of reality and science than the Gaia-worshipping climatolist Michael Mann does.
Meanwhile, as Mann tries to lie his way out of the current unpleasantness he is facing, Google is now reporting 21,100,000 hits for Climategate.
This thing is going crazy. There were like 19 million hits but a couple of hours ago.
But then, maybe Google is doing a GOOGLEGATE on us making us believe we are making a lot of noise when it is not really happening at all.
Payback’s a ..... problem....
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This group needs an “exorcism” all right....
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When you can’t use facts to defend yourself, slip right into ad hominem and vague, free floating ad hominem at that, right, Mikey?
If it were real they would have been screaming to save the hydro-electric dams in California. They would have been screaming to replace coal plants with nukes.
But no, all they did was collect millions and go to catered luncheons.
These bastards belong in jail.
Psychopaths always play the victim card when caught.
fellow Pennsylvanians, time to start writing your state legislators and telling them not one more dime in appropriations until this fraud gets the bum’s rush off campus
AND, We Are Where?!?!
When Obama wrote a book and said he was mentored as a youth by Frank, (Frank Marshall Davis) an avowed Communist,
People said it didn’t matter.
When it was discovered that his grandparents, who were strong socialists, sent Obama’s mother to a socialist school, and introduced Frank Marshall Davis to young Obama,
People said it didn’t matter.
When people found out that he was enrolled as a Muslim child in school and his father and stepfather were both Muslims,
People said it didn’t matter.
When he wrote in another book he authored “I will stand with them (Muslims) should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
People said it didn’t matter.
When he admittedly, in his book, said he chose Marxist friends and professors in college,
People said it didn’t matter.
When he traveled to Pakistan, after college on an unknown national passport,
People said it didn’t matter.
When he sought the endorsement of the Marxist party in 1996 as he ran for the Illinois Senate,
People said it doesn’t matter.
When he sat in a Chicago Church for twenty years and listened to a preacher spew hatred for America and preach black liberation theology,
People said it didn’t matter.
When an independent Washington organization, that tracks senate voting records, gave him the distinctive title as the “most liberal senator”,
People said it didn’t matter.
When the Palestinians in Gaza, set up a fund raising telethon to raise money for his election campaign,
People said it didn’t matter.
When his voting record supported gun control,
People said it didn’t matter.
When he refused to disclose who donated money to his election campaign, as other candidates had done,
People said it didn’t matter.
When he received endorsements from people like Louis Farrakhan and Mummar Kaddafi and Hugo Chavez,
People said it didn’t matter.
When it was pointed out that he was a total, newcomer and had absolutely no experience at anything except community organizing,
People said it didn’t matter.
When he chose friends and acquaintances such as Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn who were revolutionary radicals and domestic terrorists,
People said it didn’t matter.
When his voting record in the Illinois senate and in the U.S. Senate came into question,
People said it didn’t matter.
When he refused to wear a flag, lapel pin and did so only after a public outcry,
People said it didn’t matter.
When people started treating him as a Messiah and children in schools were taught to sing his praises,
People said it didn’t matter.
When he stood with his hands over his groin area for the playing of the National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance,
People said it didn’t matter.
When he surrounded himself in the White house with advisors who were pro gun control, pro abortion, pro homosexual marriage and wanting to curtail freedom of speech to silence the opposition
People said it didn’t matter.
When he aired his views on abortion, homosexuality and a host of other issues,
People said it didn’t matter.
When he said he favors sex education in Kindergarten, including homosexual indoctrination,
People said it didn’t matter.
When his background was either scrubbed or hidden and nothing could be found about him,
People said it didn’t matter.
When the place of his birth was called into question, and he refused to produce a birth certificate,
People said it didn’t matter.
When he had an association in Chicago with Tony Rezco, a man of questionable character, who is now in prison, and had helped Obama to a sweet deal on the purchase of his home,
People said it didn’t matter.
When it became known that George Soros, a multi-billionaire Marxist, spent a ton of money to get him elected,
People said it didn’t matter.
When he started appointing czars that were radicals, revolutionaries, and even avowed Marxist/Communists,
People said it didn’t matter.
When he stood before the nation and told us that his intentions were to “fundamentally transform this nation” into something else,
People said it didn’t matter.
When it became known that he had trained ACORN workers in Chicago and served as an attorney for ACORN,
People said it didn’t matter.
When he appointed a cabinet member and several advisors who were tax cheats and socialists,
People said it didn’t matter.
When he appointed a science czar, John Holdren, who believes in forced abortions, mass sterilizations and seizing babies from teen mothers,
People said it didn’t matter.
When he appointed Cass Sunstein as regulatory czar and he believes in “Explicit Consent”, harvesting human organs without family consent, and to allow animals to be represented in court, while banning all hunting,
People said it didn’t matter.
When he appointed Kevin Jennings, a homosexual, and organizer of a group called gay, lesbian, straight, Education network, as safe school czar and it became known that he had a history of bad advice to teenagers,
People said it didn’t matter.
When he appointed Mark Lloyd as diversity czar and he believed in curtailing free speech, taking from one and giving to another to spread the wealth and admires Hugo Chavez,
People said it didn’t matter.
When Valerie Jarrett was selected as Obama’s senior White House advisor even though she is an avowed Socialist,
People said it didn’t matter.
When Anita Dunn, White House Communications director said Mao Tse Tung was her favorite philosopher and the person she turned to most for inspiration,
People said it didn’t matter.
When he appointed Carol Browner, a well known socialist, as global warming czar, who is working on Cap and Trade,
People said it doesn’t matter.
When he appointed Van Jones, an ex-con and avowed Communist as green energy czar, who since had to resign when this was made known,
People said it didn’t matter.
When Tom Daschle, Obama’s pick for health and human services secretary could not be confirmed, because he was a tax cheat,
People said it didn’t matter.
When as president of the United States, he bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia,
People said it didn’t matter.
When he traveled around the world criticizing America and never once talking of her greatness,
People said it didn’t matter.
When his actions concerning the middle-east seemed to support the Palestinians over Israel, our long time friend,
People said it doesn’t matter.
When he took American tax dollars to resettle thousands of Palestinians from Gaza to the United States,
People said it doesn’t matter.
When he upset our Eastern European allies by removing plans for a missile defense system against the Russians,
People said it doesn’t matter.
When he played politics in Afghanistan by not sending troops the Field Commanders said we had to have to win,
People said it didn’t matter.
When he encouraged and engineered spending us into a debt that was so big we could not pay it off,
People said it didn’t matter.
When he took a huge spending bill under the guise of stimulus and used it to pay off organizations, unions and individuals that got him elected,
People said it didn’t matter.
When he took over insurance companies, car companies, banks, etc.,
People said it didn’t matter.
When he took away student loans from the banks and put them through the government,
People said it didn’t matter.
When he designed plans to take over the health care system and put it under government control,
People said it didn’t matter.
When he set into motion a plan to take over the control of all energy in the United States through Cap and Trade,
People said it didn’t matter.
When he finally completed his transformation of America into a Socialist State, people finally woke up......... but it was too late.
Any one of these things, in and of themselves does not really matter. But.... when you add them up one by one you get a phenomenal score that points to the fact that Obama is determined to make America over into a Marxist/Socialist society. All of the items in the preceding paragraphs have been put into place. All can be documented very easily. Before you disavow this, do an internet search. The last paragraph alone is not yet cast in stone. You and I will write that paragraph. Will it read as above or will it be a happier ending for most of America? Personally, I like happy endings.
Never before in the history of America have we been confronted with problems so huge that the very existence of our country is in jeopardy. Our biggest enemy is our President and a contingent of politicians in Washington DC.
Remember that a lot of those hits are people repeating each other on their blogs, or articles reprinting syndicated feeds, or reposts and references within sites, so not all of it is original content. However, yes, it is spreading.
his own words prove he is not an objective scientist, he's an ACTIVIST!
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