Nowhere does Mr. Mann explain why he is less corrupted by the millions he receives from politically controlled institutions-WSJ review

Even if Mann's accusations were correct, he exempts himself from scrutiny for endless millions that funnel to him from government and crony political entities.

3/15/12, "WSJ trashes Mann in review of ‘Mann Kampf’," Steve Milloy, JunkScience

Anne Jolis closes her Wall Street Journal review of Michael Mann’s new book with:

"… Yet for all his caviling about “smear campaigns,” “conspiracy theorists” and “character assassination,” Mr. Mann is happy to employ similar tactics against his opponents. Patrick Michaels, former president of the American Association of State Climatologists and a past program chair of the American Meteorological Society’s Committee on Applied Climatology, is introduced as “a prominent climate change contrarian at the University of Virginia primarily known for his advocacy for the fossil fuel industry.” (Nowhere does Mr. Mann explain why a scientist might be more easily corrupted by a check from, say, a coal company than by one from a politically controlled institution.)

Just this February, Mr. Mann took to the Daily Kos to praise the theft of internal documents from the free-market Heartland Institute for offering “a peek behind the curtain of industry-funded climate change denial.” It was revelatory, but not in the way he thought. Hours after Mr. Mann posted his online musings, the much-decorated hydroclimatologist Peter Gleick (2003 MacArthur fellow, adviser to the EPA and, until recently, chairman of the American Geophysical Union’s task force on scientific ethics) confessed to the Heartland theft. Apologizing for his actions, he wrote that he had been “blinded by my frustration with the ongoing efforts—often anonymous, well-funded, and coordinated—to attack climate science and scientists.”

Mr. Mann closes “The Hockey Stick” with a passionate call for more scientists to join him “on the front lines of the climate wars.” “Scientific truth alone,” Mr. Mann writes, “is not enough to carry the day in the court of public opinion.” It would be “irresponsible,” he says, “for us to silently stand by while industry-funded climate change deniers succeed in confusing and distracting the public and dissuading our policy makers from taking appropriate actions.” These are unfortunate conclusions for a scientist-turned-climate-warrior

• whose greatest weakness has always been a low estimation of the public intellect."

Read the entire review." "The Climate Kamikaze,"The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars" argues that global temperatures have risen in conjunction with our use of fossil fuels."

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"The Old Grouch | March 15, 2012 at 9:21 pm |

Mann is a man who is working to insure his government funding is maintained by continuing to state the global warming Obama party line. It makes me laugh that he accuses each person who disagrees with him as being on industry payroll

• as if that is any
  

• different than being on the
  

• government gravy train."

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