Wednesday, February 08, 2012

I just bought the Kindle version of Michael Mann's "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines"

I hate the idea of spending $9.99 on a climate hoax book, but I plan to get my money's worth.
Searching Mann's book for "denier" yielded 125 hits; "Morano" had 27 hits; "McIntyre" had 166 hits; "Watts" had 16 hits.
Mann's book currently has 15 reviews on Amazon, all five-star, many by his warmist friends.  I hope some climate realists eventually review the book as well.
Update:
Just FYI, all 16 "Watts" hits refer to Anthony Watts, not something like "watts per meter".

Twitter / @MichaelEMann
Amazon page for "The Hockey Stick..." under attack by Watts and deniers. Sane & objective reviews of book are welcome!
Twitter / @hengistmcstone: Climate deniers breaking A ...
Twitter / @MichaelEMann: @mike_cal The two "1 star" ...
The two "1 star" reviews both appeared within the past half hour now that denier Anthony Watts coordinated attack on using blog.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

And let's all be mindful to refrain from reviewing the book until after we've read it, unlike one Peter Gleick, who has been caught in a snare of his own making for failing to read a skeptical book BEFORE he posted a negative review. In skeptical parlance, let's not "Gleick" this up.

hengist mcstone said...

Why bother reading the book. Just search for a few keywords on Kindle and hey presto instant punditry.

movielib said...

Tom - Since you posted your comment, the additional count is 2 five star reviews, one 2 star and eight 1 star (0 star reviews are not an option). Plus, the "helpful" rate for the lower star reviews is a lot higher than for the glowing reviews from Mann's pals.

I won't post a review since I will not read the manntrash.

Anonymous said...

I will not be reading the book..unless someone does something as reprehensible as posting a bittorrent of it on Pirate Bay.

Hugh K said...

"Mann's book currently has 15 reviews on Amazon, all five-star, many by his warmist friends."

They must have used 'Mike's Trick'.

John Marshall said...

I did a review and slated it so not all reviews are good.

elmer said...

Did he mention Minnesotans For Global Warming?