Nice One, National Review. Nice One!

Michael “Hockey Stick” Mann took a great deal of ribbing, not all of it good-natured, for his recent display of ego: he claimed that he had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, when in fact no such thing had occurred.  What did happen is that the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the IPCC and Al Gore for their work on global warming climate change – and Mann was one of several thousand people that contributed to the IPCC report who got a certificate from the IPCC lauding them for their work.

Now, personally, I have no desire to be recognized by the committee that selects the Nobel Peace Prize winner.  It's hard to imagine a group of people I'd be less interested in being associated with – Yasser Arafat, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, etc., etc.  But Mann apparently has other feelings about that association, and his efforts at self-promotion have rightly earned him scorn from just about every direction.

The National Review outdid all his critics, though.  They took out a full page ad on Halloween in the Penn State (where Mann works) student newspaper.  It's reproduced below.  Via Watts Up With That:

Awesome, National Review. Just awesome!