A list explaining why Michael Mann is the gatekeeper, power broker, media star, anonymous judge, and scientific advisor to the US government

2/4/12, "Don't miss this undated writeup by the late, great John Daly on the power and reach of key climate hoax promoter Michael Mann," Tom Nelson

"Mann is also now on the editorial board of the `Journal of Climate' and was a guest editor for a special issue of `Climatic Change'. He is also a `referee' for the journals Nature, Science, Climatic Change, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Climate, JGR-Oceans, JGR-Atmospheres, Paleo oceanography, Eos, International Journal of Climatology, and NSF, NOAA, and DOE grant programs. (In the `peer review' system of science, the role of

• anonymous referee confers the power to reject papers

that are deemed, in the opinion of the referee, not to meet scientific standards).

He was appointed as a `Scientific Adviser' to the U.S. Government (White House OSTP) on climate change issues.

Mann lists his `popular media exposure' as including -

• "CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, CNN headline news, BBC, NPR, PBS (NOVA/FRONTLINE), WCBS, Time,
  

• Newsweek, Life, US News & World Report, Economist, Scientific American, Science News, Science,
  

• Rolling Stone, Popular Science, USA Today, New York Times, New York Times (Science Times),
  

• Washington Post, Boston Globe, London Times, Irish Times, AP, UPI, Reuters,
  

and numerous other television/print media" [17].

Mann's career highlights a serious problem with the modern climate sciences, namely the `star' system where high-profile scientists are

• promoted swiftly to influential positions in the industry.
  

• Such a star system
  

• reduces a science to the level of Hollywood."

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