{"id":15186,"date":"2012-03-08T11:31:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T16:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/?p=15186"},"modified":"2012-03-08T11:31:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T16:31:10","slug":"mann-in-damage-control-mode-over-amo-coinage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2012\/03\/mann-in-damage-control-mode-over-amo-coinage\/","title":{"rendered":"Mann in damage control mode over ‘AMO’ coinage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our report questioning Michael Mann’s claim to have coined the term “Atlantic multidecadal oscillation” (AMO) seems to have put Mann in damage control mode.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/2012\/03\/07\/climates-stolen-valor-did-mann-lie-about-coining-atlantic-multidecadal-oscillation\/\">After we reported yesterday that <em>Science<\/em> reporter Richard Kerr claimed credit for coining “AMO”<\/a>, Kerr then followed up this morning in an e-mail that said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Steve,<\/p>\n<p>A clarification is required concerning the coining of the term “Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation” or AMO. <strong>It turns out that my recollection, as I recounted it to you, differs from Michael Mann’s recollection (which I had not been aware of).<\/strong> I have always assumed that I suggested the obvious term to him and had him okay it, <strong>he recalls my asking for a term and his suggesting it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That was a long time ago. My handwritten notes from the phone interview were discarded after some years in the course of routine cleaning and condensing of my files. My recollection <strong>could<\/strong> well be faulty, encouraged by all those ego-stroking citations of my news story in the refereed literature. There is no way to say whose recollection is fuzzier, and it matters not.<\/p>\n<p>Dick [Emphasis added]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I responded:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dick, <\/p>\n<p>Will note the confusion\/uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>But note that RealClimate credited you in a 2004 posting. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks, <\/p>\n<p>Steve<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kerr responded:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thanks, Steve, but RealClimate only notes that the term was “introduced” in the story.<\/p>\n<p>Dick<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I responded:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By you, though! And no credit given to Mann. I will note your exception, though. Steve<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Willie Soon observed in an e-mail that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But consider [that there was] no AMO [mention] in however many thousand words [Mann] and Tom Delworth had written in their 2000 paper in Climate Dynamics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We report. You decide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our report questioning Michael Mann’s claim to have coined the term “Atlantic multidecadal oscillation” (AMO) seems to have put Mann in damage control mode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-energy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6SqJi-3WW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}