In Sunday’s edition of the cartoon strip, Dilbert savages climate change scientist Michael Mann, who in response has been throwing a fit on Twitter for several days.
The climate scientist depicted in the strip bears a striking resemblance to Mann, who developed the disputed “hockey stick” graph, which he claims proves global warming is imminently upon us.
After the strip was published, Mann threw a fit on Twitter.
Scott Adams ("Dilbert") is an equal-opportunity science denier: Evolution https://t.co/Uz4P1nZvMJ & #ClimateChange https://t.co/v4hzBqbThC
— Prof Michael E. Mann (@MichaelEMann) May 15, 2017
Honored to be featured (?) in Scott Adams ("Dilbert") expression of climate ignorance. Via @Pharyngula: https://t.co/v4hzBqbThC
— Prof Michael E. Mann (@MichaelEMann) May 14, 2017
A proper editing of @Dilbert_Daily's new climate denial cartoon, by Russell Seitz of #VVattsUpWithThat: https://t.co/DJNXfFcMC8 pic.twitter.com/4aMqk6k7LS
— Prof Michael E. Mann (@MichaelEMann) May 14, 2017
In the days following the strip’s publication, Mann has retweeted many tweets expressing critical sentiments towards Dilbert and its creator Scott Adams.
Adams tried out climate denial first in his blog some weeks ago and I tried to answer him thus: https://t.co/53P7dz6YJh https://t.co/wEfTj7FUjf
— Christopher Schrader (@cschrader_eu) May 15, 2017
https://twitter.com/bridoc/status/864121051978113024
Sigh… I used to find #Dilbert intermittently amusing, but today's strip is just stupid. https://t.co/mlWe7bMS0R
— Ingeniero Dilbert (@Dilbert_ING) May 15, 2017
Good lord. I knew that I didn't like Dilbert, but I didn't realize how much. https://t.co/IIU8JPZUid
— David =Black Lives Matter= Jose (@Tweetmare) May 15, 2017
What is comical is deniers who say "we're just asking questions" then proceed to make claims w/o evidence, e.g. "you manipulate data!" https://t.co/jYxVV22QiY
— Mark Boslough @boslough.bsky.social (@MarkBoslough) May 15, 2017
https://twitter.com/gregladen/status/864558076900278272
#Dilbert goes full #climate denial in latest strip. Some fans of cartoonist @ScottAdamsSays not happy to say the least. @Dilbert_Daily pic.twitter.com/W48Hw5Xs2S
— Daily Climate (@TheDailyClimate) May 15, 2017
A trump cult member, Adams jumped the shark here. Not just wrong, preachy is not funny. #climate https://t.co/Fh5tJoj9ob
— Peter Louwe (@peterlouwe) May 15, 2017
There are too many similar tweets to include in this post, but scrolling through Mann’s timeline, I would estimate there are about 50 other tweets similar to the ones above that he has retweeted over the course of several days.
Mann is currently embroiled in a defamation lawsuit against the Competitive Enterprise Institute and National Review for publishing blog posts that were critical of Mann’s hockey stick graph.
