Hockey stick Mann's New Year's Surprise

American Thinker ^ | January 04, 2010 | Clarice Feldman

[neverdem]

The Telegraph reports that Michael Mann of climategate's Hockey Stick fame, received a surprise today, a notice to all his colleagues that there's an effort to collect data on misuse of federal funds in his operation in an effort to mount a Federal False Claims Act suit:

Michael Mann - creator of the incredible Hockey Stick curve and one of the scientists most heavily implicated in the Climategate scandal - is about to get a very nasty shock. When he turns up to work on Monday, he'll find that all 27 of his colleagues at the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University have received a rather tempting email inviting them to blow the whistle on anyone they know who may have been fraudulently misusing federal grant funds for climate research.

Under US law, regardless of whether or not a prosecution results, the whistleblower stands to make very large sums of money: it is based on a percentage of the total  government funds  which have been misused, in this case perhaps as much as $50 million. (Hat tip: John O'Sullivan of the wonderful new campaigning site www.climategate.com)

I wonder what took so long and how many other labs will be getting similar letters.

An online friend reports that the BBC's science section, a former flogger of AGW has not mentioned one word about the subject so far this year--probably because the journos there are freezing as Britain and much of Europe faces bitter cold weather.

The Guardian, however, ignores the freezing cold affecting so much of the globe in a story about how Peru's mountain people are dying out under the cold, reporting risibly that this group stands out in a world which is becoming increasingly warmer. Perhaps those reporters phoned in the story from a sauna in Lima.

In a world growing ever hotter, Huancavelica is an anomaly. These communities, living at the edge of what is possible, face extinction because of increasingly cold conditions in their own microclimate, which may have been altered by the rapid melting of the glaciers.

[neverdem]

This link to http://www.climategate.com/ will open a new window.

[wastedyears]

Hockey is my favorite sport, but that’s irrelevant here.

I really do hope everybody involved in this massive scam is found out, fired and humiliated, not being able to find another job remotely close to another science lab.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Son of Log Lady !

[junta]

In other news severe winter weather in Old Limey has them on the cusp of a natural gas shortage with rationing.

[toomanylaws]

This makes the Bernard Madoff’s scam look like a harmless prank. Everyone involved in the scam should get at least the same treatment that Madoff did and hopefully their bed in prison is 100 feet high and when they fall off they hit the floor really hard.

[y6162]

Mann gets slammed in the letters section of the WSJ today.

Move over Madoff, got a new roomie for you.

[mewzilla]

Related links....

Attention Penn State: Top fraud attorney seeks climategate whistleblowers

Alumni Letters Coming to Penn State Calling for Ouster of Michael Mann

[Nevadan]

re: This makes the Bernard Madoff’s scam look like a harmless prank.

Your comment reminds me of a recent email I received:

“What do you think of this? Congress says they are looking into this Bernard Madoff scandal. The guy who made $50 Billion disappear is being investigated by the people who made $1.5 Trillion disappear!”

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

increasingly cold conditions in their own microclimate, which may have been altered by the rapid melting of the glaciers.

Now, that right there, is some GOOD science journalism.

Well, it MAY be good...

[pabianice]

MSNBC market talker this morning said global warming is a settled fact, I imagine his market advice is as profound.

[neverdem]

Thanks for the links.

[The Comedian]

Friggin-awesome-and-I-hope-he-ends-up-under-a-bridge-holding-a-sign-that-says-Will-Falsify-Data-for-Grants ping.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[lack-of-trust]

I have been waiting for this shoe to drop!

it was the next logical step.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liDLou3Fr4I&feature=related

[antiRepublicrat]

A lake near me iced over for the first time that I’ve ever seen.

Darn that Global Warming.

[steelyourfaith]

LOL. Good grief, how in the world did you find that? And why does anyone make a cartoon about a log?

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“And why does anyone make a cartoon about a log?”

Ya just have to have been a “Ren And Stimpy” fan! It was one of their goofy ads. Here’s another that’s hilarious!
I couldn’t find the whole cartoon though;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0Tux6s7y_g

[happygrl]

They also need to be prosecuted for misuse of funds and fraud.

I want to see some serve time in jail.

[Flying Circus]

I thought Mann's hockey stick was discredited years ago as his algorithm to analyze the data would make even random data look like a hockey stick as an artifact of bad math.

[Dead Corpse]

It’s better than bad it’s good!