Michael Mann is the creator of the infamous "hockey stick graph," which purported to show a dramatic increase in global temperatures over the last 100 years but has been thoroughly debunked by a number of scientists. Before his fall from grace, he was one of the most important climate scientists in the world. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
Professor Mann threatened to sue the creators of a YouTube video called "Hide the Decline" and demanded that the video (which can be seen here) be removed from YouTube. As Marc Morano of Climate Depot points out, "Michael Mann was a top U.N. scientist who is now in 2010 spending his time worrying about YouTube videos."
Maybe Morano is spending so much time on YouTube because he can't deal with the dramatic collapse of the Radical Green Agenda over the last few years. In Australia, once the forefront of the global warming battle, the prime minister shelved his proposed cap-and-trade legislation as he watched support for both the bill and him plummet.
Lawrence Solomon, author of the Deniers (now in paperback), has more:
"His once popular plans to cut back emissions by 5% by 2020, which were scheduled to begin next year, have been twice rejected by Australia’s Senate faced certain defeat in a third vote that was expected in several weeks.
"Once the darling of the environmental movement, Rudd is now widely seen as ineffectual. A poll commissioned by the Climate Institute and the Conservation Foundation found that just 36% of voters saw Rudd as the best person to handle climate issues, and that 40% found no difference between his Labour government and opposition conservatives."
Polling of this nature has shown up all across the world as the case for global warming broke down and more doubts cast upon the science and the politics. Actions like Mann's will only make it worse. It appears that he's trying to suppress dissent. The public has had enough of that.
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