Michael Hokey Schtick Mann Jumps On The Covid Bandwagon
The previously outspoken Anthony Fauci may be taking the Fifth and avoiding the limelight, but climate ‘scientist’ Michael Mann is not. He is currently on the road promoting his new literary wonder, Science Under Siege
For anyone who is unaware of Michael Mann, he is the purveyor of the infamous “hockey stick” graph, which got attention at the turn of the century when it was prominently displayed by the IPCC as a harbinger of impending climate doom.
That is until Ross McKitrick got his hands on the data and demolished Mann’s reputation as a scientist.
In 2009, Climategate put the icing on the cake by exposing Mann as the unscrupulous guy we already knew him to be. However, he did not hide his head in disgrace after Climategate, but continued to hold sway with neurotic women sporting signs that state in bold letters that “SCIENCE IS REAL.”
His book tour is a “Hail Mary Pass” to remain relevant with this core constituency.
The following is an excerpt from his book in which he promotes the debunked narrative that a “wet market” was the site of the COVID outbreak in Wuhan:
The EcoHealth Alliance, based in New York City, finds that SARS-like coronaviruses are ubiquitous among bat populations in Asia and estimates that more than sixty thousand humans become infected with these viruses annually, either directly from bats or through other mammals. In terms of twenty-first-century forces, the increased migrations of bats due to a variety of factors, including climate change, deforestation, and urbanization, may lead to more extensive bat and human interactions.
Another important factor for both SARS and SARS-2 is the wholesale or wet markets in China that pack secondary animal hosts in cages and offer additional conduits for these viruses to spread to humans. One specific market, the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market located in Wuhan, China, is generally accepted as the site where vendors sold infected live animals, and two strains of the virus emerged before humans first contracted COVID-19 in December 2019.
Following these events, the SARS-2 coronavirus spread rapidly to ignite a global pandemic. Perhaps the most disturbing pandemic driver was the disinformation campaign to convince Americans to resist COVID-19 vaccines after they became widely available in 2021, causing the deaths to climb even higher—a topic we will revisit throughout this book.
Anyone with knowledge of the Wuhan outbreak would find Mann’s interpretation of events quite humorous. He even mentions EcoHealth Alliance, the organization through which Fauci financed gain-of-function research on the COVID virus at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The book provides a window into Mann’s mind. He seemingly believes that Putin, Trump, and the “manosphere” have teamed up in an unholy alliance to deceive the public, steal elections, ‘deny’ climate and COVID, and defame his reputation.
He follows the Fauci playbook of donning the mantle of ‘science’ and declaring that any disagreement with him is an attack on science.
In his book, he provides a new interpretation of the Climategate scandal. Like Hillary Clinton, he claims that it was the Russians who hacked his email server, because he was somehow a threat to Putin.
The following excerpt from his book drives home the point:
While we’re on the topics of Russia, cyberwarfare, and climate, let’s talk about a defining event at the intersection of these three things: ‘Climategate’—stolen emails that were misrepresented in order to manipulate the proceedings and outcome of the December 2009 Copenhagen climate summit.
The perpetrators hacked into a computer server at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom, stole emails numbering in the thousands between the global community of climate scientists, and cherry-picked words and phrases from a small number of them, taking them out of context and misrepresenting them to suggest nefarious activity on the part of the scientists and to undermine public faith in climate science itself.
Mike was one of the central targets in the attack, along with UK climate scientists Phil Jones and Keith Briffa and US scientists Ben Santer, Kevin Trenberth, and Jonathan Overpeck. The common thread was that each of these scientists has played a prominent role in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. With the hindsight we’ve gained, having witnessed Russia’s tampering in the 2016 election, we can readily see Russia’s fingerprints all over Climategate.
Climategate may well have indeed constituted a test run for Russia’s influence campaign in 2016 to elect Donald Trump. The same key player, Wikileaks, with its now well-established connections to Russian military intelligence, helped disseminate purloined emails in both cases. Russia played a role in hosting and helping distribute the stolen emails, and recent evidence points to the computer hackers as having originated in Russia.
Russia of course had help. The emails were also hosted on Saudi Arabian servers. The Murdoch media—which had ties at the time to the Saudi royal family—helped amplify the various false claims to the point where mainstream print and television media eventually had no choice but to cover the faux scandal.
Both Climategate and the 2016 election hack were based on the same modus operandi—for example, the use of stolen emails (from climate scientists rather than Hillary Clinton) to generate false controversies based on misrepresentations of their contents. The motive behind both Climategate and the 2016 election-influence campaign may have indeed been very much the same.
Like the effort to elect Donald Trump, Climategate advanced Russia’s fossil-fuel agenda. It sought to undermine acceptance by the public and policymakers of the basic scientific evidence for human-caused warming at a critical moment, just days before the start of the all-important 2009 Copenhagen climate summit. The importance at the time of this summit can’t be overstated.
Russia, Russia, Russia, it never loses its charm for Hillary, Fauci, and Mann.
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