Michael Mann now has a personal blog. (Nothing there yet.) Here's the RSS feed.
Between Twitter, Facebook, RealClimate and now a blog, he must be the most socially connected scientist on the planet. And I see him quoted everywhere these days. And he still co-authors a lot of papers and articles.
Here was his recent rebuttal to an op-ed by Oregon's leading denier, Gordon Fulks.
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FWIW, I think MM is getting rather political. It makes you wonder, no? But thanks for the link, I've subscribed.
The link is Fulks not Mann!!
I think Mann's rebuttal is at http://www.bendbulletin.com/home/5886585-151/guest-column-gordon-fulks-disinforms-readers
Thanks David.
Hi William. Yes, I think Mann has definitely gotten political. On purpose. I think he wants to be the next James Hansen. I'm not sure if that's a bad thing or not. I think climate science still needs one. Mann has been through a huge amount of crap and come out on top of it. He's clearly a pugilist who won't back down and in this way found his place in the climate science ecosystem. I'm not sure, but I'm not sure that's a bad thing. He has big balls. A lot of deniers have gone up against him and fallen short -- Joe Barton, Lamar Smith, Ken Cuccinelli, Chris Horner.... I think climate science -- science -- would be the poorer if Mann had folded on these fights and let them take him emails, papers, and his respect. So while I recognize that not many scientists are willing to fight as he has, I think he's been the fighter that was needed in his time. Overall, I think he deserves what he's earned.
PS: I also think Mann has done a lot of important science, with reconstructions.
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