{"id":396983,"date":"2025-08-22T11:22:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T09:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=396983"},"modified":"2025-08-22T11:22:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T09:22:31","slug":"angry-michael-mann-isolates-himself-climate-exaggeration-backfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=396983","title":{"rendered":"Angry Michael Mann Isolates Himself (climate exaggeration backfires)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"723\" data-attachment-id=\"396986\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=396986\" 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href=\"https:\/\/www.masterresource.org\/climate-extremism\/michael-mann-nutty-latest\/\">Master Resource<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Robert Bradley Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnd yes, there is empirical, peer-reviewed support for the conclusion that climate deniers, in general, are truly awful human beings.\u201d (- Michael Mann, below<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelEMann\/status\/1711445094681735185\">)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michael \u201cClimategate\u201d Mann cannot get out of his own way. His arrogant, condescending social tweets speak for themselves\u2013just as the words, sentences, and paragraphs of the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/commentary\/climategate-whitewash-continues\">East Anglia emails did<\/a>. He is not the kind of person you would want in just about any endeavor, much less as a climate scientist trying to present a case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This post traces Mann\u2019s angst on X and then at BlueSky, his successor to X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is my final post on this platform (aside from my social media team\u2019s pro forma posts noted below) until it is no longer owned by Elon Musk. \u201cBut on X, my social media team is reposting things\u201d [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.masterresource.org\/romm-joseph-climate-progress\/romm-soldiers-on-failed-crusade\/\">Joe Romm<\/a>?]. The idea is to make twitter truly \u201cex\u201d with BlueSky emerging as the medium of choice for all but the trolls &amp; bots, who are then left barking into the ether. Jan 20 [2024] is the date for my&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelEMann\/status\/1878201209133162945\">X-odus<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And how has that gone Michael?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are a sampling of Mann\u2019s anger and despair at his critics, and even the Left that is weakening in the face of utter rejection from the political majority. Start with this one:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA note to trolls who comment on my posts: I hide your comment so nobody sees it, then I block you, mute you, and report you appropriately (e.g. \u201chateful entities\u201d), which is a 4x hit to your account based on twitter\u2019s algorithm.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelEMann\/status\/1877839425222140195\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then his&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/x.com\/MichaelEMann\">headlines<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cScientists brace \u2018for the worst\u2019 as trump purges climate mentions from website\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe keys to the car have been given to the polluters and fossil fuel plutocrats and they intend to drive it off the climate cliff.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cConservative and Concerned about Climate Change? You\u2019re Not Alone \u2013 A Conversation with Bob Inglis and Michael Mann\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHumans brought the heat. Earth says we pay the price\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u2018They Know They\u2019re Lying\u2019: The Fossil Fueled War on Science, Humanity: Latest&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/BradCast?src=hashtag_click\">#BradCast<\/a>\u201c\u201dThe US is poised to become an authoritarian state ruled by plutocrats and fossil fuel interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The US withdrawing from the Paris Agreement is unfortunate, but multilateral climate action has proven resilient and is stronger than any single countries politics and policies.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI just reported [X] as a \u2018violent &amp; hateful entity\u2019. You can too.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mad at Allies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HuffPost\">@HuffPost<\/a>&nbsp;has offered no explanation of why it has chosen to act as an enabler of fascism, racism, bigotry, misogyny, and authoritarianism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe sad irony of an account that purports to speak for science (a) referring to the overwhelming evidence for human-caused climate change as a matter of \u201cbelief\u201d while (b) ignoring what the science actually says&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/aaas:%20https\/\/sciline.org\/climate\/climate-change\/%E2%80%A6\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTo save the planet, stop reading The [Washington] Post.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNote to journalists: If you are writing about these wildfires and not mentioning climate change at all, you are complicit w\/ an agenda-driven campaign of misinformation by the right.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cone of the more dangerous forms of trollbot, the \u2018divider\u2019. They pose as climate activists but they are actually \u2018agent provocateurs\u2019, whose m.o. is to create conflict, discredit experts, and divide the community of climate advocates. Make sure to report and block!\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelEMann\/status\/1878281067548872745\">January 11, 2025 on X<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA reminder, Bjorn Lomborg &amp; the WSJ editorial page habitually team up to promote disinformation about climate change and extreme weather events, especially wildfire.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMAGA is everything that is evil in this world. And they must be viewed and dealt with as such.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThese people constitute a threat to us and the planet:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/PeterThiel?src=hashtag_click\">#PeterThiel<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/ElonMusk?src=hashtag_click\">#ElonMusk<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/VladmirPutin?src=hashtag_click\">#VladmirPutin<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/MBS?src=hashtag_click\">#MBS<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/RupertMurdoch?src=hashtag_click\">#RupertMurdoch<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/LeonardLeo?src=hashtag_click\">#LeonardLeo<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/DonaldTrump?src=hashtag_click\">#DonaldTrump<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/CharlesKoch?src=hashtag_click\">#CharlesKoch<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cActually, the greed of a small number of malicious plutocrats &amp; autocrats we can count on the fingers of our hands:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Thiel?src=hashtag_click\">#Thiel<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Musk?src=hashtag_click\">#Musk<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Putin?src=hashtag_click\">#Putin<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/MBS?src=hashtag_click\">#MBS<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Murdoch?src=hashtag_click\">#Murdoch<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/LeonardLeo?src=hashtag_click\">#LeonardLeo<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Trump?src=hashtag_click\">#Trump<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe malicious lies spread by Musk, Putin, Trump &amp; their MAGA parrots represent an existential threat to us and the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSelf-styled climate \u201ccentrists\u201d deflecting attention from the PRIMARY underlying contributor to these disasters (fossil fuel burning and human-caused warming) are a free gift to polluters and petrostates.\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelEMann\/status\/1878212557799833616\">January 11, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018Wildfires will get worse as the planet gets warmer.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTrump&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RyanLMorris\"><\/a>continues to be one of the most despicable people on the planet. He hates America and Americans (unless they bend the knee). An utter disgrace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWell, @WSJ\/Murdoch are a central cog in the fossil fuel disinformation machine, and Lomborg is their chosen liar-for-hire.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnd yes, there is empirical, peer-reviewed support for the conclusion that climate deniers, in general, are truly awful human beings.\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelEMann\/status\/1711445094681735185\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe United States is now poised to become an authoritarian state ruled by plutocrats and fossil fuel interests. It is now, in short, a petrostate.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>More Recently<\/strong>&nbsp;(<a href=\"http:\/\/Michael%20E.%20Mann%E2%80%AC%C2%A0%E2%80%AA@michaelemann.bsky.social%E2%80%AC\/\">BlueSky<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cScientists decry Trump energy chief\u2019s plan to \u2018update\u2019 climate reports: \u2018Exactly what Stalin did\u2019 [yeah, that was me]\u201d (12 days ago)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/michaelemann.bsky.social\"><\/a>Zeldin and EPA doing \u2018opposite\u2019 of protecting Americans from environmental threats with rollbacks. Lee Zeldin parrots discredited fossil fuel industry climate denier talking points.\u201d (5 months ago)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTo be fair, the reputation and credibility of those five individuals [of the DOE science study] was already in tatters.\u201d (17 days ago)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s a reason it\u2019s called the \u201cenDANGERment finding\u201d. Carbon pollution from fossil fuel burning represents a danger to both us and our planet.\u201d (19 days ago)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t understand how any parent could so willingly serve as an enabler of the destruction of our world.\u201d (20 days ago)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI can\u2019t think of anymore more qualified to present antiscientific climate denial propaganda than these five. And I can\u2019t think of anyone more likely to seek out these fossil fuel apologists than Christopher Wright.\u201d (22 days)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s naive and unhelpful to argue this is just about some old man and his grudge against wind turbines. In fact, it\u2019s in service of an agenda promoted by his deep-pocketed plutocrat backers. To ignore that connection is to play into their disinformation campaign. (23 days ago)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWondering why Trump is suddenly spending all his time bashing renewable energy? It\u2019s to placate the petrostate actors &amp; fossil fuel interests who installed him in the first place. He\u2019s begging them to stand by him, knowing the very worst is yet to come\u2026.\u201d (24 days ago)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSadly, it\u2019s young American males who are buying into a really warped sense of masculinity (with plenty of help of course from a full court press by polluters, petrostates, plutocrats, and yes in many cases our press). Don\u2019t simply blame the messenger.\u201d (June 26, 2025)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTrump (and more to the point, the polluters whose decades-old, focus-group-tested climate denial talking points he\u2019s parroting) aren\u2019t this ignorant. They\u2019re banking on the fact that the American public is.\u201d (2 months ago)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Final Comment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is enough to keep a psychologist busy. Mann stepped into his own manhole, and he keep digging down. Like Al Gore, he hurts his cause more than helps it, as 97 percent of his colleagues (just an estimate) are more rational and quieter than he is on the same subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael \u201cClimategate\u201d Mann cannot get out of his own way. His arrogant, condescending social tweets speak for themselves\u2013just as the words, sentences, and paragraphs of the\u00a0East Anglia emails did. He is not the kind of person you would want in just about any endeavor, much less as a climate scientist trying to present a case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":396986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818056,691819959,691837448,691832828,691820528,691819574],"class_list":{"0":"post-396983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-climate-change","9":"tag-climate-denial","10":"tag-fossil-fuel-burning","11":"tag-michael-climategate-mann","12":"tag-misinformation","13":"tag-save-the-planet","15":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0AQNlxnfLotJgB3VjpYoy7y7UwG7K4xVIETU9iqVu-cvBi8YsTTi_c1qGPGses-jod4ONEkNLrdTdWakYLLlL93RjVrgkRe_WCUsIHnywdcGKrwgIVf72NxTqIeHHmGAZsOyh67ft5wJvKfT7bx8EbfZYaWaiSA-1.jpeg?fit=1280%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1FgX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":436567,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=436567","url_meta":{"origin":396983,"position":0},"title":"Michael Mann Praises Paul Ehrlich (for the record)","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"02\/04\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"When it comes to the climate debate, Paul R. 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