Brandon Shollenberger's review of 'The Hockey Stick and Climate Wars' by Michael Mann
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[h/t to Adam] At Lucia's blog, on Feb 15th, Branden Shollenberger commented:
"I just received my copy of Michael Mann’s book. The first sentence of it is (emphasis mine):
On the morning of November 17, 2009, I awoke to learn that my e-mail correspondence with fellow scientists had been hacked from a climate research center at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom and selectively posted on the Internet for all to see.
Two pages later, there are these two sentences:
Instrumental records from around the globe indicate that Earth has warmed by almost 1 degree Celsius (about 1.5°F) over the past century. That may seem a small amount, but it is already noticeable in glacier retreat, rising sea level, more frequent heat waves, and more intense hurricanes, among many other phenomena.
That’s as far as I’ve gotten, but it shows a disturbing trend. Ideas which are possible, but by no means known to be true, are stated as fact. If this is remotely representative of the book’s accuracy, there is no way the people giving it glowing reviews read it with an open mind."
Over the next few days Brandon finds more errors as he reads the book. It is quite fun to follow the unfolding story but you can download the whole review as a pdf here.
And there's more! This weekend Brandon hopes to share a second document covering other issues and which we will add as an update to this post.
Frank O'Dwyer has his own opinions on Brandon's review which you can read here - he doesn't like it.
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The "classical" scientist: The search for truth.
The "modern" scientist: The search for fame.
Nothing more need be said about them.
When did anne tell us we had to give up energy security for her religion?
Why won't an honest man trying to save the planet show us his work?
Who asked Mann for his private email and banking records?
Where is that peer reviewed paper that refutes natural variability as the cause of recent or any global climate changes?
Have you always been so gullible?
Cool Whip still has zero science to back his religion, still cannot produce even one peer reviewed paoper that refutes NV, even with...
Quote:They absolutely must be the most innept collection of scientists the world has wever seen, and Cool Whip chooses them for mentors!
That is such a bullshit claim typical of your appeals to authority. Unfortunately for you Drewski people here can, unlike you, think for themselves.
Like email theft, integrity changes with the weather/climate
Climate Disbadshit often scrapes the bottom of the barrel for their content and this time it appears that scraped up the stuff under the barrel.
Great genius!
Found that paper yet Cool Whip!
But Climate Disbadshit still proudly presents it as a headline.
Classic.
Anne has got more intelligence, grace, honour and compassion in her little finger than you have got in your poor excuse for a body.
Instead of insulting and ridiculing her, try and learn a bit from her.
Shame on you
Substitute a german accent, and replace the word "denier" with the word "juden" and you'll understand Drewski and his kind. They need something or someone to hate, without that they are nothing.
Drewski claims "all that education" yet his actions indicate otherwise.
Exactly how did I do that Mr Juvenile Joke Man?
sCeptic Rule #6: If you have nothing of substance to say, accuse the logical person of using insults.
You know all about "yellow journalism' don't you Drewski? It's the forte of you and your kind.
Seeing as you never have anything of substance to say your little rule quote is quite humorous.
Go project elsewhere Drewski, all you ever do is come here accusing us of what you are guilty of.
I guess it is a waste of my time to ask Cool Whip to provide refutation of natural variability.
Sucker!
I willingly and gladly (and, yes, logically) appeal to authority when I am a patient at a hospital and that authority is a doctor or when I am a passenger on a plane and that authority is the pilot or if I am a student and that authority is a teacher.
In fact, I appeal to those whose knowledge is greater than mine in every field of endeavor. You would have to be an idiot or, it appears, a sCeptic not to.
So, yes, 868 university presidents and EVERY science academy in the world and even the American Petroleum Institute acknowledge that heat trapping gasses trap heat, so I appeal to their authority. Call me a conformist.
You really are yesterday's news. Even your "logic" is antiquated.
For once you're right Cool Whip. Glad you've FINALLY caught on.... you're EITHER an idiot or a skeptic... one or the other!!!
Oh, and if your doctor is predicting your health 50 years into the future based on a computer program... get a second opinion.
PS we don't look at you as a conformist... we look at you as a dupe. So stop flattering yourself!!!
Not to worry Coolio, I've seen climostrologists 'overlook' the Little Ice Age and Medieval Warming Period so don't feel bad about your incompetence.
PS...thanks for coming to visit and allowing us to gloat at your expense!
As I said, the hatchet job on Mann was so botched that the author above had to provide a disclaimer. And the "masterpiece", itself has gone poof -- disappeared into the night like so many sCeptic brain cells.
You can't claim to be motivated by ethics or morality as Gleick has shown the world what you and your kind are really about.
Must suck to be you.
Found that paper yet CW?