Last month I received a worried telephone call from a government official in California. An Orange County government agency was holding a water summit, just days away, and one of the speakers was throwing a last-minute hissy fit about a fellow speaker scheduled for his panel.
According to the official, the speaker throwing the hissy fit, Climategate central figure Michael Mann, was expressing indignation that the other speaker allegedly did not have the scientific credentials to share a stage with him. The official worried that Mann would back out of his speaking appearance, after Orange County had extensively advertised Mann’s appearance there, if they did not remove the scientist to whom Mann objected. As cameraman Larry exclaimed after a Phil Connors hissy fit in the movie Groundhog Day, “Prima Donna!”
The government official was hoping for some good scientific give and take on the panel. Accordingly, he asked me if I could identify highly qualified scientists who could give a different perspective on global warming than alarmist Mann, and at the same time match Mann’s inflated view of his own credentials.
This is cornered-rat behavior.
Nay, good sir. Ths is conniving propagandist behavior, and verily predictable, an one knoweth one’s histories.
His article has a typo:
…recent decline in snowfall in the region rather than declining temperatures.
Should be ‘increasing’ temperatures.
Probably something you should include in comments at the Forbes site – there’s nothing we can do about it here.
Cute scares at the end. Mann’s predictions should be laughable to anyone with, as my grandmother used to say, with a lick of sense. He is correct about polar bears being creatures of (environmental) myth and New Orleans being below sea level in 40 years. When I moved there in 1975, a good piece of it already was.