A Disgrace to the Profession Quotes

“Nobel Prize winner Ivar Giaever reminds us that “in pseudoscience you begin with a hypothesis which is very appealing to you, and then you only look for things which confirm the hypothesis”.”
― Mark Steyn, "A Disgrace to the Profession"

“A few weeks after the Climategate emails were released, Dr Sprigg spoke at the 13th Energy & Environment Expo in Phoenix177: Focusing closely on the Climategate scandal, in which leaked emails revealed IPCC gatekeepers hid, manipulated, and destroyed scientific data that contradicted claims of substantial human-induced global warming, Sprigg said the scandal has harmed the movement’s scientific credibility.”
― Mark Steyn, "A Disgrace to the Profession"

“We remember the famous curve in the shape of a hockey stick… However, no serious scientist still gives it the least credit.”
― Mark Steyn, "A Disgrace to the Profession"

“MICHAEL E MANN is the bristlecone pine of scientists. Just as removing the bristlecones makes his hockey stick collapse, so removing Mann from the climate conversation would make a lot of the drama and hysteria and sheer unpleasantness disappear.”
― Mark Steyn, "A Disgrace to the Profession"

“Mann has the most closed mind in the scientific community.”
― Mark Steyn, "A Disgrace to the Profession"

“the beauty of the climate-change circus is that you never need to ask “Who peer-reviews the peer-reviewers?” Mann peer-reviewed Jones, and Jones peer-reviewed Mann, and anyone who questioned their views got exiled to the unwarmed wastes of Siberia.”
― Mark Steyn, "A Disgrace to the Profession"

“if you take away one single thing from Climategate, it’s that the global warm-mongers have wholly corrupted the “peer-review” process.”
― Mark Steyn, "A Disgrace to the Profession"

“the global climate models (whether downscaled to regions or not) have failed to predict changes in the statistics of regional climate…”
― Mark Steyn, "A Disgrace to the Profession"

“Competent scientists do not doubt the hockey stick because it does not have enough publications to back it up. They doubt it because it has been shown to be based on incorrect math and inadequate data.”
― Mark Steyn, "A Disgrace to the Profession"

“Who does most damage to the climate movement? Michael Mann, Phil Jones, Jim Hansen, Peter Gleick, Al Gore, Rajendra Pachauri (not necessarily in that order).”
― Mark Steyn, "A Disgrace to the Profession"

“our” reaction on the errors found in Mike Mann’s work were not especially honest.”
― Mark Steyn, "A Disgrace to the Profession"

“The interpretation of the observational science has been consistently over-egged to produce alarm.”
― Mark Steyn, "A Disgrace to the Profession"

“Let us stop making unjustified claims and exaggerated projections about the future even if the editors of some eminent journals are just waiting to publish them.”
― Mark Steyn, "A Disgrace to the Profession"

“When McIntyre & McKitrick itemized specific problems with Mann’s work of the kind he had raised more generally back in 1996, Wigley was sympathetic - if only in private.”
― Mark Steyn, "A Disgrace to the Profession"

“I don’t think they are scientifically inadequate or stupid. I think they are dishonest and members of a club that has much to gain by practicing and perpetuating global warming scare tactics.”
― Mark Steyn, "A Disgrace to the Profession"

“Why did the IPCC so quickly and uncritically accept the Mann et al hockey stick analysis when it first appeared? I cannot help but conclude that it’s because they wanted to believe it.”
― Mark Steyn, "A Disgrace to the Profession"

“have no way of knowing how cold (or warm) the globe actually got”, how did the IPCC know it’s hotter than it’s been for a thousand years?”
― Mark Steyn, "A Disgrace to the Profession"

“Peer review” at scientific journals means that every paper submitted gets reviewed by (generally) anonymous referees with expertise in the field.”
― Mark Steyn, "A Disgrace to the Profession"

“the UN IPCC desperately needs this graph.”
― Mark Steyn, "A Disgrace to the Profession"

“the fact that the climate models do not reliably model the real climate.”
― Mark Steyn, "A Disgrace to the Profession"

“Professor Brown said that Mann’s reconstructed planetary “average” is “possibly representative of no climate state that actually ever existed”.”
― Mark Steyn, "A Disgrace to the Profession"

“Pseudoscience is a very strange thing, because in pseudoscience you begin with a hypothesis which is very appealing to you, and then you only look for things which confirm the hypothesis.”
― Mark Steyn, "A Disgrace to the Profession"

“We now know that the hockey stick graph is fraudulent.”
― Mark Steyn, "A Disgrace to the Profession"

“The behavior of Michael Mann is a disgrace to the profession.”
― Mark Steyn, "A Disgrace to the Profession"

“Furthermore, the scientists who actually collected the tree-ring data that Mann cannibalized insist they’re primarily an indicator of CO2 fertilization, not temperature.”
― Mark Steyn, "A Disgrace to the Profession"

“The Nobel Institute had nothing to say about him, other than that he had never won a Nobel Prize.”
― Mark Steyn, "A Disgrace to the Profession"

“regard appeals to authority as somewhat unAmerican”
― Mark Steyn, "A Disgrace to the Profession"

“How many of us, on being assured that “the science is settled”, are aware that it’s been settled on the basis of one Québécois tree?”
― Mark Steyn, "A Disgrace to the Profession"

“saying it gets warmer or colder by a few tenths of a degree, should be taken as evidence that the end of the world is coming.”
― Mark Steyn, "A Disgrace to the Profession"