TEDxPSU - Michael Mann - A Look Into Our Climate: Past To Present To Future

Michael Mann is a professor in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, a climatologist, and the director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University. Michael is best known for his extensive background and research in the field of paleoclimatology. This work led to Michael's graph of temperature trends over the last thousand years, popularly coined as the "hockey stick graph" because of its resemblance to the sporting equipment. The graph has received acclaim and criticism since its publishing. He has received many awards and honors including, but not limited to, the Outstanding Scientific Paper Award by NOAA in 2002 and also was named one of the 50 Leading Visionaries in Science and Technology by Scientific American. Michael is also one of the founders of RealClimate.org, a highly acclaimed climate science website that was chosen in 2005 as one of the top 25 "Science and Technology" websites by Scientific American and as one of the top 15 "green" websites by Time Magazine in 2008. Michael's educational background includes an M.S. degree in Physics from Yale, and a Ph.D. in Geology & Geophysics from Yale.

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[CollinMaessen]

@robhoneycutt That is indeed one hell of a motivator.

[robhoneycutt]

@ncdave4life Here's the graph to support that:  tiny cc/gseix

[lavalson]

Michael Mann is the poster boy for BAD Science. He has been criticized and proven wrong so many times by his peers and yet he is allowed to promote his flawed and incorrect views on AGW. He is a total fraud and has been exposed as such and it is a disgrace to see that TED has invited him to be a speaker. I would like to see TED invite a speaker who has an opposite view on AGW since Mann never allows other scientists who are critical of his findings to be heard at IPCC meetings. Disgusting liar.

[fishellb]

People like Cuccinelli don't stop when they lose a skirmish or even a major battle. They just quietly regroup and keep coming at you. Cuccinelli aspires to higher political office than state AG, and this is how he is making a name for himself.

Watch your back, Dr. Mann. These people are vicious, and they never stop.

[putittogether]

Another FRAUD allowed to speak at TED. TED has deteriorated to such a level as to make it not trustworthy any longer on the subject of Science.

[MrIntegrator1]

505 NWO-supporters

watch?v=8LO9aDypiZg

[arktiro]

This is one of the worst presentations I have ever seen in years of watching Ted talks. Mann started off well and quietly showed the background and was becoming very convincing. His talk then descended into a whole lot of political point scoring and moralising. He wants to get past the 'silly political discourse' and yet does nothing to achieve it. BTW the polar bear looks more like it's about to decapitate his kid than get me on board with his boring, time-wasting and inept political gumph.

[MrCoffeeFiend]

Since the pointless funding debate has pushed the sciencific debate to the second page of comments I encourage all to check out appinsys(com) globalwarming

They have a large base of material gathered into one spot. You don't have to believe everything listed, I sure don't, but it is still a good source for information.

[MrCoffeeFiend]

@robhoneycutt That is the type of thinking that takes away all of your credibility. "If I know about Heartland then there must be 15 to 20 I don't know about." With people like you out there how can you blame anyone for choosing to be anonymous? Anonymous does not mean evil. It means I don't want extremists going through my trash and smearing my name. Having no proof is not stopping you from claiming "Oil funding" for a group.

[robhoneycutt]

@MrCoffeeFiend No, the GWPF carefully covers their tracks and takes donations from "anonymous donors."

[robhoneycutt]

@MrCoffeeFiend That's not what I said. I said this PROVES that the FF industry is funding climate denial. There are dozens of "think tanks" similar to Heartland out there. In fact, Heartland is one of the smaller ones. Take the $14 million that Heartland has received and multiply it by, say, about 15 or 20 to get a reading on how much is being spent to undermine climate science. Say, roughly a quarter billion spent on anti-science.

[MrCoffeeFiend]

@robhoneycutt That is a meaningless statement. Heartland is NOT behind all skeptics. I put up a link to GWPF and imediately had someone post that GWPF was backed by the FF Industry. That is not true at all. I looked into it and they have been accused of being funded by oil companies, but there is no evidence to back up the claim. GWPF has a policy NOT to accept donations from the FF Industry. If it turns out that GWPF is not backed by FF Industry will you stop believing in AGW?