Mann update: He's still denying that he received $10k for a talk in sunny Florida; he admits that he received travel expenses and does typically receive a speaker's fee; also suggests that I'm a "professional" climate change "denier", which is a lie

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Yesterday a Heartland Institute affiliate Alyssa Carducci (http://heartland.org/alyssa-carducci) engaged in a smear on a right-wing website falsely claiming that I was receiving 10K for a talk that I am giving at the Sports Turf Managers Association (STMA) Annual Meeting in Daytona (http://florida.mediatrackers.org/2013/01/16/climate-alarmist-michael-mann-charges-10000-speaker-fee/). Not that I'd complain if they were, and indeed Jodi Solomon Speakers Bureau does typically negotiate a speakers fee for engagements they book for me.

But in reality, I am doing the SMTA event pro bono (other than travel expenses) and Ms. Carducci's claim that I am receiving 10K for the event is pure fiction. Nonetheless, the false claim was immediately trumpeted by climate change deniers like Christopher Monckton and Tom Nelson.
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While some might be surprised that climate change deniers would immediately promote a pure falsehood in an attempt to smear me, this if of course precisely the sort of behavior we have come to expect from professional climate change deniers.

Its also a cautionary tale that you really can't believe anything you hear from the likes of Monckton, Nelson, and their ilk.