I should have kept more data, but I was not interested in US data.

(I’ve only got through about 1/4 of it, so maybe they’ll be something “juicier” later.)

In other rabbit news, Eli references my “wiki work”: “Here is a short derivation of the adiabatic lapse rate.”<ref>[1]<ref /> which isn’t so much writing as fixing, as the previous version was _________ (not sure of the right word, “bad” comes to mind but isn’t quite right).

I can only hope the readers of this letter are as outraged as I am at Dr. Michael E Mann. First things first: Dr. Mann demands that his papers be discussed in only the most positive light. To ensure that this demand is met, he sends his Praetorian Guard after anyone who fails to show the utmost deference when planting big, wet, sloppy kisses on Dr. Mann’s behind. Every time he tells his minions that his subliminal psywar campaigns can give us deeper insights into the nature of reality, their eyes roll into the backs of their heads as they become mindless receptacles of unsubstantiated information, which they accept without question.

There are lots of weepy, wimpy flower children out there who are always whining that we’ve being too harsh in our criticisms of Dr. Mann. I wish such people would wake up and realize that Dr. Mann intends to create a new social class. Macabre dolts, odious wastrels, and sinful, garrulous blusterers will be given aristocratic status. The rest of us will be forced into serving as their vassals. He plans to tell everyone else what to do. What can you do about that? Start by reading about how Dr. Mann makes so many laughably wrongheaded statements, it boggles the mind to think about them. Become informed about the deceit, lies, and propaganda surrounding his promotion of “Mann-darinism”. Tell everyone you know that you’d think that someone would have done something by now to thwart Dr. Mann’s plans to have a serious destabilizing effect on our economy. Unfortunately, most people are quite happy to “go along to get along” and are rather reluctant to communicate. It is imperative that we inform such people that the best thing about Dr. Mann is the way that he encourages us to search for solutions that are more creative and constructive than the typically polyloquent ones championed by peevish muttonheads. No, wait; Dr. Mann doesn’t encourage that. On the contrary, he discourages us from admitting that some of us have an opportunity to come in contact with the worst kinds of lousy pop scientists there are on a regular basis. We, therefore, may be able to gain some insight into the way they think, into their values; we may be able to understand why they want to spawn a society in which those with the most deviant lifestyle, self-pitying behavior, or personal failures are given the most by the government.

Just because scientific McCarthyism exists and has for a long time, there is no reason for us to accept it from Dr. Mann. His most dissolute tactic is to fabricate “scientific” data from phony treemometers. This way, Dr. Mann can subjugate everyone into helping him make my worst nightmares come true. I really don’t want that to happen, which is why I’m telling you that Dr. Mann says that he values our perspectives. What balderdash! What impudence! What treachery!

Dr. Mann ought to unstop his ears and uncover his eyes. Only then will he hear that to which he has been too long heedless. Only then will Dr. Mann see that his treemometers are a logical absurdity, a series of deductions from a premise that has long been denied. Speaking of absurdities, I unequivocally believe that Dr. Mann is completely full of it. We can therefore extrapolate that we must establish beyond a shred of doubt that Dr. Mann’s peons are blissfully ignorant of his truculent, tasteless propositions. If we don’t, future generations will not know freedom. Instead, they will know fear; they will know sadness; they will know injustice, poverty, and grinding despair. Most of all, they will realize, albeit far too late, that Dr. Mann has been trying to trick people into believing that all literature that opposes his hockey stick was forged by the most jackbooted dingbats you’ll ever see. Apparently, he has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams with gloomy kooks; they’re unable to be convinced that there is an international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

Many people who follow Dr. Mann’s work have come to the erroneous conclusion that Dr. Mann’s rodomontades are our final line of defense against tyrrany. The truth of the matter is that his views have caused widespread social alienation and from this alienation a thousand social pathologies have sprung. Believe it or not, I really want to believe that Dr. Mann is a decent, honest person. Unfortunately, as is often the case, what I want to believe proves to be fantasy. The truth is that if the past is any indication of the future, Dr. Mann will once again attempt to lead me down a path of pain and suffering. Anyway, I hope I’ve made my point, which is that the acquisition and consolidation of wealth and power are the motivating forces that drive all of Dr. Michael E Mann’s selfish decisions.

– A troubled skeptic

With thanks to Scott Pakin, it’s only been modified a little.
And apologies to Dr. Mann. I needed a name, and you’re was the first to pop in my head. Dunno why.

Second: The only emails I’ve read, I’ve read involuntarily as they’ve been posted to Wikipedia. I don’t think it’s right reading the email of others.

Third: I assume the ‘worst’ emails are the ones they’re trying to push.

Fourth: From what I’ve read, this seems much ado about nothing.

I haven’t kept up with the climate blogs/news recently, so maybe my assessment is wrong. But it seems like the email conversations you’d expect scientists to have.

My two cents.