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"A Disgrace to the Profession" Kindle Edition
And yet what it purports to "prove" is disputed and denied by many of the world's most eminent scientists. In this riveting book, Mark Steyn has compiled the thoughts of the world's scientists, in their own words, on hockey-stick creator Michael E Mann, his stick and their damage to science. From Canada to Finland, Scotland to China, Belgium to New Zealnd, from venerable Nobel Laureates to energetic young researchers on all sides of the debate analyze the hockey stock and the wider climate wars it helped launch.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateSeptember 1, 2015
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At a time when the U.S. and the world's nations are trying to put together an agreement to tackle climate change (for better or for worse), Steyn's book reminds everyone of Climategate, why the public doesn't trust climate scientists and aren't buying their "consensus". - Judith Curry --Climate Etc.
I recommend Steyn's book highly, because it really gets to the heart of the matter about that lack of scientific rigor in climate science that has become a poster child for noble cause corruption . - Anthony Watts --Watts Up With That
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- Publisher : Stockade Books (September 1, 2015)
- Publication date : September 1, 2015
- Language : English
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Introducing him at the United States Senate in 2015, Ted Cruz called Mark Steyn "an international bestselling author, a Top Five jazz recording artist, and a leading Canadian human rights activist".
All of which happens to be true.
Mark Steyn is the author of After America, which was a Top Five bestseller in the United States and a Number One bestseller in Canada; America Alone: The End Of The World As We Know It, a New York Times bestseller in the United States and a Number One bestseller in Canada; and his most recent bestseller, The [Un]documented Mark Steyn. His new book, The Prisoner of Windsor, is set to release in April 2023.
His most recent CD is his cat album, dedicated to his own beloved cat Marvin: Feline Groovy: Songs for Swingin' Cats was a Number One jazz bestseller, a Top Twenty album on the Billboard chart, and a Top Thirty album on Amazon's pop chart. "A Marshmallow World", his Christmas single with Jessica Martin, reached Number Seven on Amazon's easy listening bestsellers, and Number 41 on their main pop chart. Their subsequent full-length Christmas album, Making Spirits Bright, reached Number Four on the jazz chart. "Nine Lives", the song he co-wrote with Kevin Amos, was a Top Thirty smash on the Moldovan Hit Parade.
Steyn's human rights campaign to restore free speech to Canada led to the repeal by Parliament of the notorious "Section 13" hate-speech law, a battle he recounts in his book Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech And The Twilight Of The West.
Steyn hosts The Mark Steyn Show, which airs every evening Monday to Thursday. He also presents Steyn's Song of the Week every Sunday afternoon on Serenade Radio. In New York he can be heard with his longtime EIB comrade, Bo Snerdley, every Tuesday on 77 WABC.
For a decade and a half until Rush's death, Mark Steyn was a hugely popular guest-host of America's Number One radio show The Rush Limbaugh Program (EIB). He was also a favorite guest-host of America's Number One cable show Tucker Carlson Tonight, and hosted its lead-in-show Fox News Primetime. He regularly drew some of the highest ratings in all US television as a host for Tucker and other top shows.
With fans around the world, Steyn has appeared on stages across the planet from Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. His 2016 nationwide tour of Australia was sold out coast to coast. He has spoken in the Canadian Parliament, the Ontario Parliament, the Danish Parliament, and the Australian Parliament, where he was introduced by the then Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop.
Over the years, Mark Steyn's writing on politics, arts and culture has been published in almost every major newspaper around the English-speaking world, including Britain's Daily Telegraph, Canada's National Post, The Australian, The Irish Times, The Jerusalem Post, The Wall Street Journal, and many more.
Steyn's other books include A Song For The Season, Mark Steyn's Passing Parade, Mark Steyn From Head To Toe and The Face Of The Tiger. His personal view of musical theatre, Broadway Babies Say Goodnight, is an acknowledged classic published to critical acclaim in London, and to somewhat sniffier notices in New York.

I am a cartoonist and illustrator working in London, UK. In 2009, post Climategate, I became interested in Climate Change and Energy Policy and began posting cartoons on blogs in the UK and US - see www.bishop-hill.net and www.wattsupwiththat.com - see also Twitter.com/cartoonsbyjosh
I have published a book 'All You Need To Know About Climate Change... in Cartoons' which is available on Amazon.
I have also been commissioned to provide cartoons for books and manuscripts.
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The insanity of Mann's hockey stick has been with us since the late 1990's and it is easy to become disillusioned with science when one sees formerly respectable colleagues jumping onto the AGW bandwagon. A tiny bit of historical knowledge should have been sufficient to discredit the conclusions drawn by Mann. For example, as glaciers have melted in Greenland and in the Alps, we find evidence of prior structures (pathways, wells, graveyards) pointing to similar climatic conditions eight hundred to a thousand years ago. Likewise, in Norway wells have recently been found where the water at the bottom is still frozen. But this knowledge was thrown aside as once prestigious publications published article after article supporting the nonsense, and professional societies debased themselves by publicly endorsing the notion that the world was on the cusp of a catastrophe. When McIntyre and McKitrick published their devastating analysis of the errors inherent in Mann's methods, the whole thing was dismissed because they weren't part of the gang that had hijacked "climate science", despite the clarity and persuasiveness of their writing. The release of the ClimateGate emails should have writ the end of the charade, but it didn't.
Now Steyn has applied his particular talents to the issue, and he has created a wonderful mosaic based on the remarks and writings of scientists from around the world to provide an entertaining, critical, and comprehensive overview of Mann's work. Some of the tiles in this mosaic are very small, just a few words, but their color provides just the right sort of highlight to put some other remarks in perspective. He has also distilled some of the silliness in Mann's methods into some easily understood criticisms, such as the paradox that the bristle cone tree "rings" (really splotches of living tissue attached to a largely inert trunk) from the White Mountains east of Lone Pine, Ca, do not predict North American climatic conditions, but they are used by Mann to predict Northern Hemisphere conditions. Or the fact that world climatic conditions for a fifty year period are represented by two cedar trees from the Gaspe Peninsula in Quebec.
The power of the book comes from Steyn's ability to include remarks from well over a hundred "credentialed" scientists in a logical and fast moving way. It also provides an insight into the kind of preparation that underlies Steyn's humor. It must have required a lot of work.
I purchased my first copy from Steyn's website, and I did that to help support his legal expenses which are related to a frivolous law suit that Michael Mann brought against Steyn in an attempt to silence his criticism. I purchased a Kindle version to give me a quicker way of finding material in the book.
Professor Jonathon Jones of Oxford University:
"The hockey stick is an extraordinary claim which requires extraordinary evidence...the evidence is extraordinarily weak...its defenders were desperate to hide this fact...I'd always had an interest in pathological science, and it looked like I might have stumbled across a really good modern example...The Hockey Stick is obviously wrong. Everybody knows it is obviously wrong."
As 1973 Nobel Prize winner Professor Ivar Giaever said “Global Warming has become a new religion – because you can’t discuss it and that is not right.”
Steyn’s book documents the problems with the hockey stick, its use by the IPCC without proper peer review or validation, and the attempt to cover up its problems. It does this artfully using the words of the scientists, both “alarmists” and “deniers” and those in between. The list of quoted scientists is huge and includes Mann’s co-authors and others who supported him even after the paper and his hockey stick were shown to be wrong and perhaps, fraudulent.
So, the book shows that the hockey stick is dead to all scientists on all sides of the climate debate. What is the impact of this appalling chapter in the history of science? I think that Professor Judith Curry says it best:
“With regards to climate science, IMO the key issue regarding academic freedom is this: no scientist should have to fall on their sword to follow the science where they see it leading or to challenge the consensus. I’ve fallen on my dagger (not the full sword), in that my challenge to the consensus has precluded any further professional recognition and a career as a university administrator. That said, I have tenure, and am senior enough to be able retire if things genuinely were to get awful for me. I am very very worried about younger scientists, and I hear from a number of them that have these concerns.”
This is an outstanding and important book and I highly recommend it.
I've written a more complete review, this is just an excerpt, for the rest of it, go to:
https://andymaypetrophysicist.wordpress.com/2015/08/28/new-book-a-disgrace-to-the-profession-by-mark-steyn/
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À partir de là, les péripéties juridiques sont bien complexes mais Mark Steyn a contrattaqué car il veut que Michael Mann témoigne, sous serment, à propos de son travail.
L'enjeu: pour Steyn, c'est la liberté d'expression. Mais face au délai du processus juridique (maintenant 5 ans), il a cherché à creuser dans les raisons qui font que Michael Mann est seul alors que lui a reçu le support de nombreuses personnes et journaux.
Le résultat: ce livre qui regroupe de nombreux témoignages de scientifiques à propos de la courbe en crosse de hockey.
Quiconque a gratté sous la surface de la question climatique est forcément arrivé aux fameux ClimateGates. Le premier étant connu pour la phrase devenue célèbre de 'hide the decline' (cacher le déclin). Derrière cet emblème, il ne faut néanmoins pas chercher longtemps pour trouver des affirmations prononcées par Mann et ces collègues qui montrent combien, à cette époque du moins, les incertitudes étaient grandes et certaines démarches absolument non scientifiques et non éthiques.
Les témoignages regroupés par Steyn sont tellement nombreux que ce livre est le volume 1; un second viendra peut-être avec le temps. Mais d'ores et déjà, le contenu est extraordinaire. Je ne vais pas tout spoiler mais laissez-moi vous donner quelques notions "croustillantes":
À la sortie du papier de Mann, la courbe en crosse de hockey était déjà ce qu'elle est aujourd'hui: une anomalie. Plus d'une centaine de papiers en climatologie avaient identifié via de nombreuses méthodes indépendantes l'existence d'une période chaude au Moyen-Âge suivie d'un petit âge glaciaire. Tout ça disparaît dans la courbe de Mann.
Pour les températures aux époques sans thermomètres, Mann s'est appuyé sur un proxy dont les spécialistes sont unanimes pour dire qu'il est une bonne représentation des niveaux de CO2 mais pas de la température. Mann l'a tout de même utilisé pour dériver des températures.
Les données de ce proxy sont limités au continent nord américain. De proche en proche, la courbe est dite représentative de la température de l'hémisphère nord puis de la planète toute entière.
Un professeur en Allemagne, à Berlin, a voulu en savoir plus. Il a assigné à une de ses thésardes de répliquer le travail de Mann. Elle est revenue quasi les mains vides. Quasi car elle a tout de même acquis la certitude qu'il n'était pas possible de répliquer le travail de Mann. Pour cause, ce dernier a mis 7 ans avant de partager le détail de ses données et méthodes.
Et vous avez ce genre de choses tout le long du livre. Tout le long. Cela va faire 2 ans que je suis la question climatique et son évolution et j'ai plongé de multiples fois dans les évènements passés. Mais l'ampleur de la fraude caractérisée de la courbe en crosse de hockey m'avait complètement échappé. Je crois qu'elle échappe à tous ceux et celles qui ne sont pas des spécialistes.
D'où la question fondamentale de Steyn: comment est-il possible que cette courbe soit devenue un emblème dans les rapports du GIEC, le film d'Al Gore et les médias en général quand les spécialistes avaient connaissance d'autant de problèmes, dans les données, dans les méthodes, dans les conclusions et au final dans la démarche elle-même?
I work in a scientific field, and often use statistical models to process raw data, which use filters and gating to try and remove noise and weighting to privilege certain data sets based on their perceived reliability, before the model gets to process the data and then, only if the model is good, (or close to reality if you like) will it be able to solve, and the errors being flagged will not exceed what is deemed acceptable - for there are always errors. A model is a statistical tool to reduce noise in data. The key elements here is the quality of the model and the quality AND quantity of the data - of course the better all of these are then the smaller the errors will be (statistically) and you can get a clearer picture of what you are looking at, that corresponds to the reality of the observations.... BUT even then the model will only solve for where you have programmed it to take you (usually because that is what you thought corresponded closest to reality) The model is not real - only a facsimile of a reality that you have already decided upon - the proof of the pudding is in how well you can match reality. If reality does not apply, then you can make any model take you anywhere with any data.
I think in Michael Mann's case, and indeed much of the models used by the IPCC they do not correspond to reality and that is their only fault, because any other parameter is of course subjective. (They give too much weighting to CO2 and its effect on the climate and also the amount of data AND its quality is not high in my personal opinion)
Well - that's my two pence worth. The mind-blowingly brilliant scientists in this book (some of whom are doing brilliant work that staggers me, science CAN in fact be amazing) that Mark presents, IN THEIR OWN UNEDITED WORDS, are worth taking seriously. Let the science speak at last, because the IPCC and State sponsored organisations who have hijacked the debate for political and personal reasons have held centre stage too long. (Yes, yes, I realise that in the socialist world, actions are not correlated with consequences and anything is possible! Forward!)
Thank you Mark Steyn, Prize Fighter for the Truth. Undefeated. I hope you will get your day in court and Dr Mann will stop wasting your time so you can get more books out. I can't wait for the next one.






