This will be a fairly short diary -- but you've gotta check this out: Global-warming deniers wingnuts and their puppeteers are trying to blackball Michael Mann at PSU! Get a load of this web-page: http://www.votervoice.net/...
Juicy excerpt:
On February 9th, the Penn State Forum Speaker's Series is featuring Professor Michael Mann in a speech regarding global warming. This is the same professor who is at the center of the 'Climategate' controversy for allegedly manipulating scientific data to align with his extreme political views on global warming.
Join us in calling on the administrators of Penn State to end its support of Michael Mann and his radical agenda.
There's a even boilerplate letter-to-the-editor template available there. Here it is, for your enjoyment:
On February 9th, the Penn State Forum Speaker's Series is featuring Professor Michael Mann in a speech regarding global warming. Let's remember that this is the same Michael Mann who is at the center of the Climategate controversy for allegedly manipulating scientific data to align with his extreme political views on global warming.
Mann's own emails, which have now become public, show him admitting that the science on global warming is still in question and, even worse, conspiring with his left-wing cronies to intimidate and silence those who would dare to question his intentions.
At a time when Penn State should be doing everything possible to regain its status as a bastion of truth and integrity, the last thing they should be doing is supporting someone of such questionable ethics and motives with our tax dollars.
There is no place for this brand of extreme political activism, disguised as academics, at Penn State now or in the future. University leadership should be ashamed for continuing to provide Mann with such high visibility - at our expense.
You will certainly want to edit this appropriately and send it to your favorite newspaper. ;)
And there's more -- these anti-Mann wingnuts even have their own facebook page -- linky here: http://www.facebook.com/...
Dr. Mann has been tweeting about this; he's obviously been having a good laugh at these loonballs' expense.
BTW, for you Kossacks out there who live in Southern California, Dr. Mann will be presenting a lecture at the Aquarium of the Pacific (Long Beach) this Feb 15. Admission is only 5 bucks (free for Aquarium members).
You can find more information (and purchase tickets on-line) right here: http://www.aquariumofpacific.org/...
Given that the Aquarium is located right in Dana Rohrabacher's Congressional district, and given that lots of loonball young-Republican-types live nearby, there's a real possibility that attendees will be treated to a clown-show outside the venue at no extra charge!
I'd like to encourage folks to consider attending in order to give Dr. Mann the biggest possible show of support. And if you have any friends who are former deniers (i.e have come to their senses) who have any spare clown-shoes or tinfoil-hats lying around, you might be able to sell those clown-shoes and tinfoil-hats for a pretty penny if any denier wingnuts show up.
Oh yes, and Dr. Mall will be signing copies of his new book.
That's something that you'll definitely want on your coffee-table when your wingnut in-laws come to visit.
Be sure to have a bag of popcorn, all popped and ready to go.
Wingnut relative: "What the hell is this hockey-stick fraud book doing here?"
You: "Check this out -- it's even signed by the author!"
Then sit back and munch on your popcorn while your wingnut relative goes completely ape-s**t :)