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Title: ClimateGate's Michael Mann Received Stimulus Funds, Media Mum
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Published: Jan 16, 2010
Author: Noel Sheppard
Post Date: 2010-01-16 13:18:50 by farmfriend
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By Noel Sheppard (Bio | Archive) A scientist in the middle of the ClimateGate scandal received economic stimulus funds last June. As NewsBusters reported on November 28, Penn State University is investigating Professor Michael Mann, the creator of the discredited "Hockey Stick Graph," for his involvement in an international attempt to exaggerate and manipulate climate data in order to advance the myth of manmade global warming. According to the conservative think tank the National Center for Public Policy Research, Mann received $541,184 in economic stimulus funds last June to conduct climate change research. With this in mind, NCPPR issued a press release Thursday asking for these funds to be returned: "It's outrageous that economic stimulus money is being used to support research conducted by Michael Mann at the very time he’s under investigation by Penn State and is one of the key figures in the international Climategate scandal. Penn State should immediately return these funds to the U.S. Treasury," said Tom Borelli, Ph.D., director of the National Center's Free Enterprise Project. Professor Mann is currently under investigation by Penn State University because of activities related to a closed circle of climate scientists who appear to have been engaged in agenda-driven science. Emails and documents mysteriously released from the previously-prestigious Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom revealed discussions of manipulation and destruction of research data, as well as efforts to interfere with the peer review process to stifle opposing views. The motivation underlying these efforts appears to be a coordinated strategy to support the belief that mankind's activities are causing global warming. [...] The $541,184 grant is for three years and was initiated in June 2009. Potentially adding insult to injury, Penn State received additional stimulus funds to investigate the impact of climate change last week: This grant appears to have nothing to do with Mann's department. However, given the high-profile the university is currently under as a result of his involvement in ClimateGate, it seems absurd that any federal funds involving climate change would be going to this school while it is investigating its chief proponent of this myth. Maybe more importantly, why are economic stimulus funds being given to a university for scientific research in the first place, especially one with such political overtones? As NCPPR noted in its release: Despite the obviously controversial nature of this funding and its recipient, I can identify absolutely no media coverage concerning the matter. I'm sure now that NCPPR has exposed this hypocrisy, press outlets across the fruited plain will be aggressively investigating economic stimulus grants to Mann and others involved in the ClimateGate scandal in order to inform the public about how their tax dollars are being spent. Of course, I'm not holding my breath.
ClimateGate's Michael Mann Received Stimulus Funds, Media Mum
January 14, 2010 - 09:44 ET In the face of rising unemployment and record-breaking deficits, policy experts at the National Center for Public Policy Research are criticizing the Obama Administration for awarding a half million dollar grant from the economic stimulus package to Penn State Professor Michael Mann, a key figure in the Climategate controversy.
A nearly $1.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation is enabling a Penn State-led group of researchers to continue studies on the potential effects of climate change on the spread of infectious diseases, such as malaria and dengue. The grant is part of federal stimulus funding authorized under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
"It's no wonder that Obama's stimulus plan is failing to produce jobs. Taxpayer dollars aren't being used in the ways most likely to spur job creation. The stimulus was not sold to the public as a way to reward a loyalist in the climate change debate. Nor was the stimulus sold as a way to promote the Obama Administration's position on the global warming theory...As is often the case, political considerations corrupt the distribution of government funds," said Deneen Borelli, a fellow with the National Center's Project 21 black leadership network.
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#121. To: Rotara (#112)
At this point investments in Glowbull Warming related scams are on the edge of Cheech and Chong territory - up in smoke.
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
I did but what are the odds I'll get an answer?
"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy." ~ unknown
I did but you won't answer my posts on the science. Why not? Why don't you tell us all about the physics! Give us something to support your hypothesis.
"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy." ~ unknown
See, now there you go. You demand that a poster here answer your query, one that demands a rigorously well grounded reply. Anyone who has mastered forensics knows that the questioner in a debate should damn well know the answer to a question placed to his opponent before he asks it. Now we get "probably" 100 ppm. This why you get no credence here. I sincerely suspect that you don't know a damned thing.
Well, not me. As I've always told the depoppers: "depopulation begins with YOU and RIGHT NOW...show me your FAITH !"...
are co2 and methane warming gases? how many billion tons are humans putting in the atmosphere every year?
He gets no credence because it is not ppm, parts per million. It is ppmv, parts per million by volume! If he knew what he was talking about he would know that!
"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy." ~ unknown
Incredible ... you forgot to mention Robert Heinlein again.
“Gold is the money of kings; silver is the money of gentlemen; barter is the money of peasants; but debt is the money of slaves.”
The Death Blow to Climate Science By Dr. Tim Ball Saturday, November 21, 2009 Global Warming is often called a hoax. I disagree because a hoax has a humorous intent to puncture pomposity. In science, such as with the Piltdown Man hoax, it was done to expose those with fervent but blind belief. The argument that global warming is due to humans, known as the anthropogenic global warming theory (AGW) is a deliberate fraud. I can now make that statement without fear of contradiction because of a remarkable hacking of files that provided not just a smoking gun, but an entire battery of machine guns. Someone hacked in to the files of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) based at the University of East Anglia. A very large file (61 mb) was downloaded and posted to the web. Phil Jones Director of the CRU has acknowledged the files are theirs. They contain papers, documents letters and emails. The latter are the most damaging and contain blunt information about the degree of manipulation of climate science in general and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in particular. Climate science hijacked and corrupted by this small group of scientists Dominant names involved are ones I have followed throughout my career including, Phil Jones, Benjamin Santer, Michael Mann, Kevin Trenberth, Jonathan Overpeck, Ken Briffa and Tom Wigley. I have watched climate science hijacked and corrupted by this small group of scientists. This small, elite, community was named by Professor Wegman in his report to the National Academy of Science (NAS). I had the pleasure of meeting the founder of CRU Professor Hubert Lamb, considered the Father of Modern Climatology, on a couple of occasions. He also peer reviewed one of my early publications. I know he would be mortified with what was disclosed in the last couple of days. Jones claims the files were obtained illegally as if that absolves the content. It doesn’t and it is enough to destroy all their careers. Jones gave a foretaste of his behavior in 2005. Warwick Hughes asked for the data and method he used for his claim of a 0.6°C temperature rise since the end of the nineteenth century. Jones responded, “We have 25 years or so invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it?” He has stonewalled ever since. The main reason was because it was used as a key argument in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Reports to convince the world humans caused rapid warming in the 20th century. The emails obtained are a frightening record of arrogance, and deception far beyond his 2005 effort. Another glimpse into what the files and emails reveal was the report by Professor Deming. He wrote, “ With publication of an article in Science (in 1995) I gained sufficient credibility in the community of scientists working on climate change. They thought I was one of them someone who would pervert science in the service of social and political causes. So one of them let his guard down. A major person working in the area of climate change and global warming sent me an astonishing email that said. “We must get rid of the Medieval Warm Period.” The person in question was Jonathan Overpeck and his even more revealing emails are part of those exposed by the hacker. It is now very clear that Deming’s charge was precise. They have perverted science in the service of social and political causes. Professor Wegman showed how this “community of scientists” published together and peer reviewed each other’s work. I was always suspicious about why peer review was such a big deal. Now all my suspicions are confirmed. The emails reveal how they controlled the process, including manipulating some of the major journals like Science and Nature. We know the editor of the Journal of Climate, Andrew Weaver, was one of the “community”. They organized lists of reviewers when required making sure they gave the editor only favorable names. They threatened to isolate and marginalize one editor who they believed was recalcitrant. Total Control These people controlled the global weather data used by the IPCC through the joint Hadley and CRU and produced the HadCRUT data. They controlled the IPCC, especially crucial chapters and especially preparation of the Summary for PolicyMakers (SPM). Stephen Schneider was a prime mover there from the earliest reports to the most influential in 2001. They also had a left wing conduit to the New York Times. The emails between Andy Revkin and the community are very revealing and must place his journalistic integrity in serious jeopardy. Of course the IPCC Reports and especially the SPM Reports are the basis for Kyoto and the Copenhagen Accord, but now we know they are based on completely falsified and manipulated data and science. It is no longer a suspicion. Surely this is the death knell for the CRU, the IPCC, Kyoto and Copenhagen and the Carbon Credits shell game. CO2 never was a problem and all the machinations and deceptions exposed by these files prove that it was the greatest deception in history, but nobody is laughing. It is a very sad day for science and especially my chosen area of climate science. As I expected now it is all exposed I find there is no pleasure in “I told you so.”
You notice he/she/it hasn't answered my science once! Science? They don't need no steenking Science! They've got Al. (And Al is heavily invested in "Carbon Trading". Gee, I wonder if there's a connection?)
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
how many billion tons are humans putting in the atmosphere every year? How does that compare to natural sources of CO2? Are you going to even acknowledge the science I have posted? Go read Dr. Gerlicks study I posted and tell us where he is wrong. Go read Dr. Niroma's studies and tell use where he is wrong. Can you even cite studies that would counter these excellent physicists?
"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy." ~ unknown
Now we get "probably" 100 ppm. This why you get no credence here. the logic runs like this: we've supposedly burned about a trillion barrels of oil, and coal and gas on top of that. since the hydrocarbon age began, the co2 ppm has increased from 280 ppm to 380 ppm. there's supposed to be a trillion barrels of recoverable oil left, which we will burn. which leads to an inescapable conclusion, rough, but inescapable, that if we burn the rest of the coal and oil, we'll produce another trillion tons of co2. but again, the methane is the wild card, and nobody seems to know when the methane will get loose, and plunge us into a full-tilt warming cycle. but like i said before, it's all good, because a warming cycle will grow more oil.
You swear ? Swear it ! LOL
I did but you won't answer my posts on the science. Why not? Why don't you tell us all about the physics! Give us something to support your hypothesis. It took me a while before I recognized the posting style but our "buddy" groundresonance is a retread bannee.
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
which doesnt explain, at all, why you are unable to refute my posts.
There it is, O_I. You lost this match.
“Gold is the money of kings; silver is the money of gentlemen; barter is the money of peasants; but debt is the money of slaves.”
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
One does not refute smoke. One turns on the fan.
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
I always love that one...(our MN friend might be a morning A.M. fan of The Star / KFAN and can appreciate this...)
You obviously don't know what you are talking about. Let's talk real figures here. You know, actual science. Not your back pocket numbers. Taken from Dr. Engelbeen's site. His paper shows the increase in CO2 is anthropogenic but he doesn't not believe in AGW. The natural seasonal exchange between vegetation and oceans at one side and the atmosphere at the other side is estimated at about 150 GtC/yr "The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy." ~ unknown
the fact remains: co2 and methane are greenhouse gases, and we're putting about 30 billion tons per year of those gases into the atmosphere. you can repeal the laws of physics, or you can confess to being an idiot.
In your case, you publish plagiarized pictures randomly grappled off the Internet.
“Gold is the money of kings; silver is the money of gentlemen; barter is the money of peasants; but debt is the money of slaves.”
Do you have something against the V? It's ppmv, ppmv, ppmv.
"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy." ~ unknown
why are you demonstrating debate tactics that hitler ascribed to jews?
LOL there you go, win by personal attack rather than refute the science.
"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy." ~ unknown
farmfriend seems determined to prove hitler was right about jews. pitiful
Do you think I'm a Jew? LOL Now that is funny.
"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy." ~ unknown
Global warming is a fact.
“Gold is the money of kings; silver is the money of gentlemen; barter is the money of peasants; but debt is the money of slaves.”
well, i dont think hitler said that jewish debate tactics were confined to jews, alone. on the other hand, since israelis and israeli americans have such a big motive to deny global warming, it's best to take you with a grain of salt.
you can repeal the laws of physics, or you can confess to being an idiot. Another logical fallacy the "False Dilemma" a.k.a. Black or White Fallacy. And of course there are other possibilities such as the physics does not support Glowbull Warming which as expostulated, as opposed to expustulated, violates the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. Which of course by showing a third it proves the either/or fallacy to be what it is - false.
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
Hasn't the "greenhouse effect" kind of gone the way of the phlogiston theory since up-to-date satellite measurements of irradiance from the upper atmosphere have vacated the levels of heat trapped which is predicted by that effect?
It's AGW that violates the laws of physics or do you think Dr. Gerlick got it wrong?
"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy." ~ unknown
so original intent is intent on repealing well-established laws of physics. good luck to him.
So I post evidence and papers supporting my position, you post nothing but personal attacks and false accusations and I'm the one using "Jewish debating tactics"? You'll have to explain that one.
"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy." ~ unknown
Do you realize that you just summed up "Why Chemtrails? For Dummies" I love it when the truth comes together...
so co2 and methane are not greenhouse gases. you have successfully repealed a hundred years of physics. congratulations.
You have been asked several times and by several people to explain these laws you keep talking about. You have yet to do so.
"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy." ~ unknown
sorry amigo
you have successfully repealed a hundred years of physics. congratulations. You have successfully proven you have no idea what you are talking about.
"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy." ~ unknown
you have successfully repealed a hundred years of physics. congratulations. No, just twenty five years of twaddle.
it seems to me you'd have more pride than to confirm hitler's description of jewish debate tactics.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latesti wonder how many of these world kommie clowns put their 'money where their pie hole is' and bought heavily into the world kommie, global governance, subsidized Green Scam...i thought about a guy, maybe pickle boy, who mentioned buying a LOT of 'green stuff' type investments knowing the scam was Rockefeller sanctioned.
#122. To: randge, groundresonance (#110)
Please lay out the physics and cut the corn.
#123. To: groundresonance (#120)
the main problem being: none of these people are willing to challenge the physics (warming properties) of the co2 and methane molecules.
#124. To: groundresonance (#111)
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we'll probably get another 100 ppm of co2 concentration
#125. To: Original_Intent (#116)
True, but I fear it is not good for their "mental health" (whatever that vague and undefined term means).
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
#126. To: farmfriend (#122)
I did but what are the odds I'll get an answer?
#127. To: randge, groundresonance (#124)
Now we get "probably" 100 ppm. This why you get no credence here.
#128. To: Original_Intent (#121)
At this point investments in Glowbull Warming related scams are on the edge of Cheech and Chong territory - up in smoke.
#129. To: farmfriend, Original_Intent, ALL (#119)
You notice he/she/it hasn't answered my science once!
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#130. To: farmfriend (#119)
and then you go and run over them AGAIN !
#131. To: groundresonance (#126)
are co2 and methane warming gases?
#132. To: randge (#124)
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You demand that a poster here answer your query, one that demands a rigorously well grounded reply. Anyone who has mastered forensics knows that the questioner in a debate should damn well know the answer to a question placed to his opponent before he asks it.
#133. To: Original_Intent (#121)
At this point investments in Glowbull Warming related scams are on the edge of Cheech and Chong territory - up in smoke.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#134. To: farmfriend, christine, groundresonance (#123)
the main problem being: none of these people are willing to challenge the physics (warming properties) of the co2 and methane molecules.
#135. To: Original_Intent (#134)
our "buddy"
#136. To: Original_Intent (#134)
It took me a while before I recognized the posting style but our "buddy" groundresonance is a retread bannee.
#137. To: Rotara (#133)
#138. To: groundresonance (#135)
which doesnt explain, at all, why you are unable to refute my posts.
#139. To: Original_Intent, TommyTheMadArtist (#137)
LOL !
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#140. To: groundresonance (#132)
The amount of CO2 emitted by humans nowadays is about 7 GtC/yr (CO2 counted as carbon). The increase in the atmosphere is about 4 GtC/yr.
#141. To: Original_Intent (#138)
#142. To: Original_Intent (#138)
One does not refute smoke. One turns on the fan
#143. To: groundresonance (#132)
since the hydrocarbon age began, the co2 ppm has increased from 280 ppm to 380 ppm.
#144. To: farmfriend (#140)
The amount of CO2 emitted by humans nowadays is about 7 GtC/yr
#145. To: groundresonance (#144)
why are you demonstrating debate tactics that hitler ascribed to jews?
#146. To: farmfriend (#143)
#147. To: groundresonance (#146)
farmfriend seems determined to prove hitler was right about jews.
#148. To: farmfriend (#145)
...refute the science.
#149. To: farmfriend (#147)
Do you think I'm a Jew? LOL Now that is funny.
#150. To: groundresonance (#141)
the fact remains: co2 and methane are greenhouse gases, and we're putting about 30 billion tons per year of those gases into the atmosphere.
#151. To: groundresonance (#141)
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the fact remains: co2 and methane are greenhouse gases
#152. To: groundresonance, Original_Intent (#141)
you can repeal the laws of physics, or you can confess to being an idiot.
#153. To: Original_Intent (#150)
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#154. To: groundresonance (#149)
well, i dont think hitler said that jewish debate tactics were confined to jews, alone.
#155. To: randge, farmfriend, wudidiz, Original_Intent, TwentyTwelve, christine, JethroTull, phantom patriot, ALL (#151)
Hasn't the "greenhouse effect" kind of gone the way of the phlogiston theory since up-to-date satellite measurements of irradiance from the upper atmosphere have vacated the levels of heat trapped which is predicted by that effect?
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#156. To: farmfriend (#152)
#157. To: groundresonance, Original_Intent (#153)
so original intent is intent on repealing well-established laws of physics.
#158. To: JamesDeffenbach (#155)
forgot to ping you to 155
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#159. To: groundresonance (#156)
so co2 and methane are not greenhouse gases.
#160. To: groundresonance (#156)
so co2 and methane are not greenhouse gases.
#161. To: farmfriend (#159)
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