pdj_grant_since1990.xls (Google preview, click)which shows that since 1990, Phil Jones has collected staggering 13.7 million British pounds ($22.6 million) in grants. The major amounts came from HEFCE (6.6 million pounds) and NERC (2.7 million pounds). Later, we will get some idea whether he has used the money to do proper science and whether the truth and objectivity was kept as the key principle, beating a possibility to double the amount. ;-)
“...which shows that since 1990, Phil Jones has collected staggering
13.7 million British pounds ($22.6 million) in grants...”
Assuming the e-mails are authentic (and Jones has no other explanation/excuse),
as far as I’m concerned he shouldn’t have gotten a single pound/US Dollar.
Except maybe it was worth it to spend that money, only to have this
recent event of a rotted log being kicked over, the enviro-maggots
exposed to the santizing effect of sunlight.
After scaring the holy crap out the people of the earth for decades.
AS for the amounts of his grants...
Actually, that’s lower than I would have expected, seeing how it averages
out to just a bit over $1 million per year.
If, like most folks in Professor postings, he probably had some grad
students and/or postdoctoral fellows, needed to pay for some equipment
and/or upkeep, travel to academic meetings, as well as the usual
“overhead” that gets stripped off the top by the university administration
(sometimes, that can reach the 50% of the grant money, more or less
depending on the university).
I suspect for academia he was doing well, but not making out like
a real bandit...which doesn’t suprise me as he was such an evangelical
environmentalist, it was more about his ideology, not about the money.
Even if his junk science wrecked major, vital economies.