Timothy Birdnow

Look at this; Michael "Hockey Stick" Mann, the guy who fudged data to promote climate change alarmism and who spent much of the rest of the time since suing people for no good reason and losing, was just elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in a disgusting display of political theater trumping real accomplishment.

After honoring that sleazeball Mann the university has the audacity to proclaim:

Execrable more like it. Mann has done very little decent science in his day, jumping on board the Climate Change gravy train early on. He was the father of the "hockey stick graph" which simply eliminated the Roman and Medieval Warming Periods and he did that by a sneaky trick "Mike's Nature trick" in which he switched from proxy data (which was dubious at best as he only used three trees from Yamal in Siberia to show warming) to temperature station data without telling anyone that was what he was doing. He did this to "hide the decline" as Phil Jones, head of the Climate Research Unit of East Anglia, said in one of the Climategate e-mails. The reality is the proxy data showed a temperature decline (actually a decline in the rate of growth, but you get the point) and Mann couldn't have that so he switched to the very poor-quality station data to make it appear to be warming. In other words, he lied.

And this guy gets a great honor like this!

He should have been fired for this. Academic dishonesty is grounds for termination, tenure or not.

This is how Leftism works. They protect their own, and then reward them for services rendered. Now Mann will spend his old age with a bunch of honors and medals and statues and plaques. The only good thing about it is he won't be able to persuade his conscience. Hopefully he'll always know he was a fraud.

Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 23, 2026 01:31 PM (5FaDg)

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at April 23, 2026 04:02 PM (oflqW)

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