A few days ago, Professor Michael Mann of the University pf Pennsylvania — a climate scientist whose “hockey stick” graph was at the center of, among other things, Al Gore Jr.’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” – filed a libel suit against National Review, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Mark Steyn, and (regular PJ contributor) Rand Simberg. The reason for the libel suit was that both Steyn and Simberg had questioned whether the investigation that “exonerated” Mann of misconduct related to the Climategate emails (we revealed them at PJM in 2010.)
Well, there are some interesting things to be found in the complaint, including page 2 paragraph 2, in which he claims to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, apparently because he was one of the IPCC scientists. The IPCC received the Peace Prize along with Al Gore in 2007. Mann even shows a certificate for this:
The Nobel Committee is usually pretty careful with these things, and the IPCC had more than a thousand participants — are they all Nobel Laureates? The Washington Examiner contacted the Nobel Committee, and got this answer:
Geir Lundestad, Director, Professor, or The Norwegian Nobel Institute emailed me back with the following:
1) Michael Mann has never been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
2) He did not receive any personal certificate. He has taken the diploma awarded in 2007 to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (and to Al Gore) and made his own text underneath this authentic-looking diploma.
3) The text underneath the diploma is entirely his own. We issued only the diploma to the IPCC as such. No individuals on the IPCC side received anything in 2007.Lundestad goes on to say that, “Unfortunately we often experience that members of organizations that have indeed been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize issue various forms of personal diplomas to indicate that they personally have received the Nobel Peace Prize. They have not.”
This should be an interesting lawsuit indeed.
I hope narcissism is still in the DSM, because it most certainly is real. Unlike CAGW.
Charlie, two thoughts: 1) His claim about winning the Noble prize is about as true as his claim about the hockey stick. 2) He must be moron because all the data he’s been hiding will now be subject to discovery. Finally McIntyre et al. will get all the data they have been requesting.
Actually, McIntyre does have all of his data. It was found, unprotected, on his ftp server including a directory named “censored” or something like that. This was done long ago, and McIntyre and McKitrick published the critique in like ’03 or so.
The secrets that may come out in discovery have more to do with collusion, that were strongly hinted in the climategate emails.
The other thing that has yet to drop is the encryption key for the big climategate II dump. This rather large file is on 1000s of hard disks all over the world, and all it takes is the release of a key, and there will be another massive climategate release.
Mann’s a narcissistic fool who doesn’t know when to shut up and lay low. This is going to blow up in his face like an illudium Q-36 explosive space modulator.
snork – Thanks for the info. I know UAE is still hiding data, so I thought Mann was as well. I believe there are lots of e-mails from the UVA that Mann does not want released, and they should be ripe for discovery.
Snork, you’re confused — That was the East Anglia CRU. But Mann’s data has been made available; M&M did an interesting paper on it: http://multi-science.metapress.com/content/r27321306377t46n/
No, Charlie. They did a paper on the CRU, but before that, they did at least one (I think more than one) on Mann. M&M published a lot of papers. It was the Mann HS that got M&M started on this entire campaign. The Mann HS was from 1998-1999. This goes way back.
Go over to Climateaudit and search for “censored”.
Michael Mann is at Penn State, not the University of Pennsylvania.
It was Examiner.com, not the Washington Examiner. Truly astounding scoop, though!
Is it Friday yet?
If I were on the Nobel Committee, I would soooo give him a Nobel Prize for Literature, for having invented Mann-made Global Warming.
To be perfectly fair, the allegation that Mann simply added his name to a certificate has been retracted on some conservative blogs (I just saw that, but now don’t remember exactly where…)
I’d like a link, as I haven’t seen it.