'ClimateGate' Inquiry Findings Due for Release

Bob McCarty Writes ^ | 2-03-10 | Bob McCarty

[BobMcCartyWrites]

The Penn State University Collegian newspaper reported Monday that a panel of university faculty and staff had concluded its inquiry of Penn State meteorology professor Michael Mann and would release its "ClimateGate" findings later in the week.

[BobMcCartyWrites]

The Penn State University Collegian newspaper reported Monday that a panel of university faculty and staff had concluded its inquiry of Penn State meteorology professor Michael Mann (above) and would release its "ClimateGate" findings later in the week.

The “ClimateGate” e-mails scandal surfaced in early December and seemed to show evidence of fraud and conspiracy among the research scientists and others whose work formed much of the basis of calls for extreme climate change regulation. Smack dab in the middle of the scandal was Mann, the inventor of the famous “hockey stick” graph which, 10 years ago, claimed to show that, after 1,000 years of decline, global temperatures had shot up to their highest level in recorded history. It was made famous in Al Gore’s Academy Award®-winning documentary on global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth.”

Mann's name graced the virtual pages of this blog for the first time in a Dec. 7, 2009, post in which I asked the question, Will EPA List of Most-Wanted Eco-Fugitives Soon Include Gore, Jones, Mann, Hansen and Others?

As soon as news breaks from State College, Pa., you can count on me to share it here.

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[a fool in paradise]

The Penn State University Collegian newspaper reported Monday that a panel of university faculty and staff had concluded its inquiry of Penn State meteorology professor Michael Mann

Is this like the internal "investigation" that "cleared" ACORN?

[tsmith130]

Let me quess, “He did nothing wrong.” End of press release.

[Kansas58]

This will be a win for our side, no matter what!

Either they cover up again, causing more out rage -— or they admit that it is a bunch of BS!

[hometoroost]

He won’t even be put on double-secret probation.

[Matchett-PI]

bttt

From Comment section from Climategate article below:
igi (01:03:23) wrote: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/02/03/guardian-climategate-exposes-the-real-process-of-science-its-jealousies-and-tribalism/

Breaking! news:

Climate skeptic Ron Armstrong of Hoquiam, Washington has today learned from Penn State University that they are exempt from the Freedom Of Information Act and Pennsylvania’ s Right To Know Law

http://www.climategate.com/breaking-penn-state-says-they-are-exempt-from-freedom-of-information-act

Guardian: Climategate “…exposes the real process of science, its jealousies and tribalism”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/02/03/guardian-climategate-exposes-the-real-process-of-science-its-jealousies-and-tribalism/

For the Guardian, it has been a week of finally coming to terms with what we’ve known here at WUWT for months now. The issues of Climategate are finally getting full sunlight in the UK, and it’s white hot light. Even Monbiot is calling for resignations beyond that of Phil Jones. .... [snip]

Another comment:
LeonardYoung (01:07:55) wrote::

The Guardian, despite its own reports, is STILL clinging to its default position that warming theories are sound. Monbiot in particular is seeing recent revelations as failures in Public Relations rather than core dishonesty or flawed data per se. The Guardian is also being very cheeky in implying that it is somehow revealing stuff that wasn’t already on this blog, and many others, for a long time.

Unfortunately the average Guardian reader will accept everything it says. I would expect a gradual winding down of its fervent, almost religious adherence to official science over the next few months, because admitting they got it wrong in one fell swoop would be a humiliating climb down.

The damage the Guardian has done in disseminating faith based theories for the many years it took this stance is considerable, because its vast readership of middle class professionals who are intelligent though gullible, has been so brainwashed that it is now regarded as a socially outcast thing to question ANY conventional wisdom regarding climate.

That position is not going to be overthrown in a few days. My Guardian reading friends if anything are even more entrenched in a defensive position and are in what can only be described as a denial stage. They still believe Polar Bears are all but extinct and still confuse pollution and carbon dioxide. They are among the most mis-informed of the UK electorate exactly because they are subscribed to a closed-loop of disinformation which they genuinely believe is true, and never bother to look outside that loop.

[cake_crumb]

Prediction: The findings will be on the order of, “the importance of the message is more important than the truth.” (Penn State is very leftist now)

[refermech]

I tend to agree with you, but let’s wait and see. We may be surprised.

[Brett66]

That position is not going to be overthrown in a few days.

Yes, people rarely come out and admit their belief system is a fraud, it will take time for them to back away gradually while saving face.

Others have to wait long enough so it won't affect their careers or put them in jail, but the point has been reached where people that want to be taken seriously can not be on the AGW bandwagon.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Name a school in the Big Ten that ain’t.

[Oldpuppymax]

The Guardian cheerfully promoting the “phony but true” argument of our former favorite lib reporter.

[The_Victor]

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Penn State’s credibility is at stake. It is a choice between their institutional honor and the reputation of a professor engaged in questionable practices under the color of their authority.

While they might initially support this individual, despite misgivings about his conduct, they must also weigh this against the loss of millions of dollars of academic support and greater difficulty in recruiting faculty and students who do not wish to inherit this shadow of scandal.

In addition, there might soon be calls for a return of substantial funds received by the university on the grounds that they were misused in the furtherance of scientific fraud.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Prostitute "Scientist",
Son of Log Lady !

[beethovenfan]

He’ll probably get promoted. (He looks like an arrogant ba$tard.)

[Texas resident]

Mother nature has a hell of a sense of humor.
There is a big ass snow storm due to hit the mid Atlantic area later this week, just in time for the release of this information. Wonder what al bore is up to?

[cake_crumb]

Good point. The worst part is that professors encourage students to use the same kind of number fudging on their research results in all areas in order to get grants. Makes me sick.

[Matchett-PI]

“This will be a win for our side, no matter what! Either they cover up again, causing more out rage -— or they admit that it is a bunch of BS!” ~ Kansas58

Exactly. They can’t put that science fraud / hoax genie back in the bottle.

01/19/2010
IBD: Stimulating [Mann’s] Fraud

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=518486

Hoaxes:

With double-digit unemployment in a jobless recovery, half-a-million stimulus dollars have saved a ClimateGate scientist whose work could lead to economic disaster.

To save this job, we’d lose millions of others.

As we’ve gone from jobs saved or created to jobs funded in ZIP codes and congressional districts that don’t exist except in galaxies far, far away, many interesting nuggets have been mined from the government’s recovery.gov, which tracks the administration’s lack of progress.

It’s one thing to fail to create real jobs.

It is quite another to fund the jobs of people who would put millions of Americans out of work.

This is what the administration has done by awarding $541,184 in economic stimulus funds to Penn State University to save, recovery.gov says, 1.62 jobs so that professor Michael Mann can continue his tree-ring circus fraudulently advancing the myth of man-made global warming.

Mann and Penn State received the money shortly before the unearthing of e-mails from Britain’s Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia revealed Mann as a participant in a massive campaign of manipulation, suppression and destruction of climate data to advance the bogus claims of the warm-mongers.

“It’s outrageous that economic stimulus money is being used to support research conducted by Michael Mann at the very same time he’s under investigation by Penn State and is one of the key figures in the international Climate-gate scandal,” says Tom Borelli, director of the Free Enterprise Project for the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank. “Penn State should immediately return these funds to the U.S. Treasury.”

We agree.

Stimulus funds should go to entrepreneurs and other job creators, not those whose research ­ and we use the word loosely ­ has been the basis for international redistribution-of-wealth schemes such as Kyoto, Copenhagen and our own job-killing versions of cap-and-trade, Waxman-Markey and Kerry-Boxer.

Even after Mann’s role in Climate-gate was exposed, Penn State announced additional stimulus funds to investigate the impact of supposed climate change.

A nearly $1.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation was awarded to “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.”

Can we guess the results? If you work in the vanishing energy or manufacturing sectors, or are among the 10% unemployed, you’re entitled to wonder why the government is funding research used to justify job-destroying treaties and legislation.

The only shovel in this “shovel ready” job is the one used to bury the truth about earth’s climate.

Climate Research Unit e-mails revealed one from director Phil Jones to colleagues talking of Mann’s “nature trick” of manipulating temperature data that were used to “hide the decline” in global temperatures. It was Mann’s now discredited hockey-stick graph that showed relatively minor fluctuations in temperature over the first 900 years, then a sharp and continuous rise in the past century.

His graph ignored the Medieval Warm Period (800 to 1400) and the Little Ice Age (1600 to 1850). It appeared no less than five times in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s landmark 2001 report on global warming, which paved the way to the failed Kyoto Protocol and its successors.

According to a study by the National Association of Manufacturers and the American Council for Capital Formation, Waxman-Markey could cost GDP $3.1 trillion from 2012 to 2030. By 2030, the report says, job losses could total 2.4 million, residential electricity prices could jump 50%, and the price of gasoline could escalate 26%.

If Waxman-Markey or Kerry-Boxer passes, we may be paying for this $500,000 stimulus grant for a very long time.

[Matchett-PI]

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEiLgbBGKVk

[Loyal Buckeye]

Fake, but accurate.

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