Mark Steyn (editor) - A Disgrace to the Profession

and his most famous creation:

Today most scientists dismiss the hockey stick. DR MADHAV KHANDEKAR

his science:

A lot of the data sets he uses are sh*tty. PROFESSOR WALLACE SMITH BROECKER

his obstruction of data-sharing:

If you want to claim that you are engaging in science, the programs are in your possession and you will not release them, then you are not a scientist. PROFESSOR DARREL INCE

his debating technique:

Is it not better to tweet which criticisms you disagree about rather than call him denier? Dr Tamsin Edwards

his mistakes:

Normally, this would be considered as a scientific forgery. PROFESSOR ATTE KORHOLA

his integrity:

I am not forced to assume good faith of criminals and the people who dont follow the rules of scientific integrity. DR LUBO MOTL

his corruption of peer review:

Scientists like Mike Mann, Phil Jones and others should no longer participate in the peer-review process. DR HANS VON STORCH

his role in Climategate:

The greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. PROFESSOR HAROLD LEWIS

his personal style:

Excuse me while I puke. PROFESSOR RAYMOND BRADLEY

and his damage to science:

Its time to let Michael Mann sink or swim on his own. DR JUDITH CURRY

Climate Change
The Facts

(2015)

edited by Alan Moran

with contributions from

John Abbot & Jennifer Marohasy ~ Andrew Bolt ~ Robert M Carter ~ Rupert Darwall ~ James Delingpole ~ Christopher Essex ~ Stewart W Franks ~ Kesten C Green & J Scott Armstrong ~ Donna Laframboise ~ Nigel Lawson ~ Bernie Lewin ~ Richard S Lindzen ~ Ross McKitrick ~ Alan Moran ~ Patrick J Michaels ~ Joanne Nova ~ Garth W Paltridge ~ Ian Plimer ~ Willie Soon ~ Mark Steyn ~ and Anthony Watts

~

ALSO BY MARK STEYN

Lights Out:

Islam, Free Speech And The Twilight Of The West

(2009)

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If these scientists have done something wrong, it will be found out and their peers will determine it Dont get your information from me, folks, or any newscaster. Get it from people with PhD after their names.

ED BEGLEY, JR

ACTOR AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST IN TV INTERVIEW WITH STUART VARNEY, NOVEMBER 24TH 2009

Nullius in verba

MOTTO OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY

ADOPTED SHORTLY AFTER ITS FOUNDING IN NOVEMBER 1660

AGU - American Geophysical Union

CRU - Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia

EPA - US Environmental Protection Agency

GRL - The peer-reviewed journal Geophysical Research Letters

GST - ground surface temperature

HadCRUT - The instrumental temperature record combining sea surface temperatures from the UK Met Offices Hadley Centre and surface air temperatures from the CRU

IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

LIA - Little Ice Age

MBH98 - 1998 Mann, Bradley and Hughes hockey stick

MBH99 - 1999 Mann, Bradley and Hughes hockey stick

MCO - Medieval Climate Optimum, a synonym for MWP

MWP - Medieval Warm Period

NH - Northern Hemisphere

NOAA - US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NRC - National Research Council of the US National Academy of Sciences

PCA - the statistical procedure of principal component analysis

SAT - surface air temperature

SPM - the IPCCs Summary for Policy Makers

SST - sea surface temperature

TAR - IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001)

WMO - World Meteorological Organization

Introduction

Prologue

I Mann is an island

II Mann of the past

III Mann of the present

IV Mann of the hour

V Mann of integrity

VI Mannsplaining

VII The Mann that got away

VIII Mannspreading

IX Mann boobs

X Mann o war

XI Mann hole

XII Mann overboard

Postscript

by Mark Steyn

Over the last 10,000 years it has been warmer than today 65 per cent of the time.

PROFESSOR GERNOT PATZELT, PHD
THE INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE AND ENERGY CONFERENCE, MUNICH, 2011

Once upon a time there was a thing called geologic time. It was a hell of a ride, as Professor Robert Laughlin of Stanford, summarizes:

Six million years ago the Mediterranean Sea dried up. Ninety million years ago alligators and turtles cavorted in the Arctic. One hundred fifty million years ago the oceans flooded the middle of North America and preserved dinosaur bones. Three hundred million years ago, northern Europe burned to a desert and coal formed in Antarctica.

No humans were involved, nor a single SUV or air conditioner. There was no caveman Al Gore to distribute an awareness-raising poster of the last gator plashing merrily round the North Pole as the ice closes in. Hasta la vista, Arctic turtle! See you later, alligator!

Climate change is a matter of geologic time, something that the earth routinely does on its own without asking anyones permission or explaining itself. The earth doesnt include the potentially catastrophic effects on civilization in its planning Were the earth determined to freeze Canada again, for example, its difficult to imagine doing anything except selling your real estate in Canada.

I doubt even Michael E Mann, the subject of this book and a man ever ready to pin the scarlet D to your chest, could get away with labeling Robert Laughlin a climate denier. Professor Laughlin is a Nobel Laureate - a genuine one, that is, not a fake, self-conferred one like Mann. Professor Laughlin is less a climate denier than a climate insouciant: If God or Gaia decides to reset the global thermostat, you might as well relax, because theres not much you can do about it. Long after a dank Nordic chill settled on sun-drenched Scandinavia, and the American midwest emerged from underwater, and the polar bears hunted the Yukon alligator to extinction, and the Mediterranean bedouin on their annual desert trek from Tangiers to Monte Carlo said, Hey, that oasis seems to be a lot bigger than it was last year, long after the upheavals of geologic time, man retained a certain humility before the awesome power of nature.