Like Sixties rockers, climate alarmists seem comfortable with women as adoring groupies, but don't appear to have much use for them in any other capacity.
In my introduction to the aforementioned "A Disgrace to the Profession", I say en passant that I had trouble finding female scientists to quote:
There are fewer women than one might wish [in the book], but it seems to be a male-dominated field and indeed there is a palpable misogyny in the way some of Mann's defenders attack his female critics.
On the general point that's true, and a bit surprising.
I've spent most of my adult life around the arts and the media, and I would be surprised to find myself on a project with as few women as climate science.
The editorial director at Faber & Faber, my publishers on Broadway Babies Say Goodnight, is Belinda Matthews; my publisher at Regnery, for The [Un]documented Mark Steyn et al, is Marji Ross.
But it was very hard to find prominent female climate scientists.
The Climatic Research Unit in East Anglia is a boys' club, and so is Michael Mann, Gavin Schmidt and Kevin Trenberth's equivalent coterie across the Atlantic.
My book includes, as I've mentioned, Dr Judith Curry of Georgia Tech, as well as her compatriot Rosanne D'Arrigo, Australia's Jennifer Marohasy, and Welsh lukewarmer Tamsin Edwards.
Others turn up along the way, including Sallie Baliunas, who co-authored one of the first papers critical of the hockey stick, was promptly clubbed to a pulp by the Big Climate enforcers, and has mostly kept her down since.
I've spent most of my adult life around the arts and the media, and I would be surprised to find myself on a project with as few women as climate science.
The editorial director at Faber & Faber, my publishers on Broadway Babies Say Goodnight, is Belinda Matthews; my publisher at Regnery, for The [Un]documented Mark Steyn et al, is Marji Ross.But it was very hard to find prominent female climate scientists.
The Climatic Research Unit in East Anglia is a boys' club, and so is Michael Mann, Gavin Schmidt and Kevin Trenberth's equivalent coterie across the Atlantic.
My book includes, as I've mentioned, Dr Judith Curry of Georgia Tech, as well as her compatriot Rosanne D'Arrigo, Australia's Jennifer Marohasy, and Welsh lukewarmer Tamsin Edwards.
Others turn up along the way, including Sallie Baliunas, who co-authored one of the first papers critical of the hockey stick, was promptly clubbed to a pulp by the Big Climate enforcers, and has mostly kept her down since.
Perhaps climate science is not a field in which women excel, or perhaps there is a real glass ceiling.
Whichever it is, as I said in my book, there is "a palpable misogyny in the way some of Mann's defenders attack his female critics".
And at that point I included a footnote:
Whichever it is, as I said in my book, there is "a palpable misogyny in the way some of Mann's defenders attack his female critics".
And at that point I included a footnote:
Diehard Manniac blogger "Tamino", for example, condescendingly refers to the aforementioned and distinguished Dr Judith Curry as "Aunt Judy" (see https://nigguraths.wordpress.com/2014/05/23/biotech-biostitutes/), which appears to be a derogatory porno term for an older woman one would be willing to have sex with if no one younger was to hand. Given that Mann enthusiastically facilitated the reduction of scientific dispute to name-calling, it would be unreasonable to expect his Mannboys to confine themselves to merely the Holocaust echoes of "denier".
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