Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Mann on Morano: "Morano is just a cog in a larger attack and disinformation machine...He’s a hired hand and his main role is to intimidate and discredit climate scientists in the hope that they will withdraw from participating in the public discourse"

I Can Engage In A Flawed Debate About Climate Change « Graham Readfearn

In the show Morano delivers a devastating and convincing 35-second blitzkrieg of climate science misrepresentations, in the way that Goldacre describes. In the segment, Morano’s claims go unchallenged, but we can easily check them here.

...Earlier this week I asked Professor Mann about the role which Marc Morano was playing in the climate debate. He told me:

Morano is just a cog in a larger attack and disinformation machine. As I point out in my book, he is funded and abetted by the very same corporate interests who help bankroll the climate change denial effort in the U.S. His modus operandi of publishing scientists emails, portraying them as enemies of the people, is just one of the lines of attack used. Morano is the pit bull who carries those attacks out for them. He’s a hired hand and his main role is to intimidate and discredit climate scientists in the hope that they will withdraw from participating in the public discourse.

3 comments:

SE Pepper said...

Well it takes one to know one-- Mann is an expert at the job title of "cog" since he's an ORIGINAL one. Talk about "Disinformation Specialist"-- Mann INVENTED the position.

Anonymous said...

1. Morano is a hired hand. So is Schmidt.

2. His job is to discredit "climate scientists": those scientists who are political activists rather than scientists. Like Mann and Hansen.

3. Neither 1 nor 2 are anything but ad hominem attacks. As long as Morano represents the truth about CAGW, his testimony stands by itself.

When Mann stands on a stage and debates his work and its application to CAGW, then I will be persuaded he has something to offer. Right now he is an obstacle to be dealt with and put aside, the sooner the better. And when Mann thinks Al Jezeera is a good platform for convincing others, he demonstrates his vanity, not his veracity.

Mike Jowsey said...

"...his main role is to intimidate and discredit [CAGW-activist] climate scientists in the hope that they will withdraw from participating in the public discourse"

What's wrong with that? Besides, they have never entered the public discourse - apparently the science was settled back in the day.