Re: Warmies begin to sweat at Penn State and East Anglia...
Andre Jute
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> Think 'Climate-Gate' Is a Nonevent? Think Again!
>
> By John Lott - FOXNews.com
>
> The big question is whether universities have too much at
> stake, both ideologically and financially, to impartially
> investigate what has happened with Climate-gate
>
> President Obama's climate czar, Carol M. Browner, and
> White House spokesman Robert Gibbs might think that
> Climate-gate is a nonevent, but on Monday Pennsylvania
> State University announced that it was launching an
> investigation into the academic conduct of Michael Mann,
> the school's Director of the Earth System Science Center.
Several years too late. They wouldn't be in this appalling position if
Mann's prior university had done what they should have, and launched
an investigation and disciplined Mann when he refused to share data
with McIntyre and McKitrick. By the time the Senate investigated
Mann's unscientific conduct, it was already too late for the
universities. Penn State should not have appointed Mann with that
hanging over him. They should have investigated Mann when the Wegman
Panel constituted from members of the National Academy of Science to
advise Senator Barton declared Mann an incompetent and said pointedly
that Mann's research did not support his conclusion (the hockey stick
which makes "global warming" possible). They should have investigated
Mann when the North Panel, constituted *by* the NAS to "defend" Mann,
instead found him to be incompetent and under oath before the US
Senate agreed with every particular of the Wegman Panel's condemnation
of Mann and his conclusion. They should have investigated Mann when
McIntyre and McKitrick repeatedly proved that he deliberately cooked
the numbers to give the result his political masters at the IPCC
wanted. All of these are high crimes against science. Climategate
isn't any new revelation, it is merely the signed confession of these
scientific criminals: everyone has known for years what was going on,
while the universities blew smoke and brushed off investigators and
complainants. The universities, plural, not just Penn State, are
complicit in this grant-grab, politically correct cover-up. To start
investigating Michael Mann's crimes at this late date is an appalling
hypocrisy and an admission that the universities no longer care about
truth (if they cared about truth, they would have acted long since)
but only about appearances.
> And Tuesday, Phil Jones, the director of the Climatic
> Research Unit at Britain's University of East Anglia,
> announced that he would stand aside as director while
> his university conducted an investigation.
The University of East Anglia cannot even claim they didn't know about
Jones cooking the data, Phil "hide the decline" Jones criminally
destroying data and e-mails subject to Freedom of Information, Jones
covering up for another crook, Wang in Albany: the UAE must have
conducted a review of these very same e-mails -- now leaked -- before
they warned Jones not to destroy materials subject to FoI requests.
> Dozens of researchers at other institutions could soon
> face similar investigations. While Dr. Jones has been
> the center of much of the discussion because the e-mails
> were obtained from the server at his university, Mann is
> named in about 270 of the over 1,000 e-mails, many of
> which detail disturbing and improper academic behavior.
And the most disturbing thing is the arrogant general attitude that
anything goes in global warming, regardless of scientific ethics or
the recommended practice of for instance the NAS, which one tried to
defend Mann against democratic enquiry, thereby tarnishing itself.
This affair smeared the reputation of the entire scientific community
and undermined the credibility of all scientists, including the honest
ones.
> Last week, Mann told USA Today that the controversy over
> the leaked e-mails was simply a "smear campaign to
> distract the public from the reality of the problem and
> the need to confront it head-on in Copenhagen" next week
> at the climate summit.
Quite. The entire matter of "global warming" was manufactured by Mann,
Jones, Wang, Hansen and a few others out of thin air as a political
club. It has buggerall to do with nature or the future of Planet
Earth. And above Mann tells us that having his lies exposed doesn't
matter, because it was never about science but about politics.
> Take one of Mann's e-mail exchanges with Jones. In an
> e-mail entitled "IPCC & FOI" (referring to the United
> Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and
> Freedom of Information Act) Jones, head of the Climatic
> Research Unit of the University of East Anglia, wrote
> Dr. Mann: "Mike: Can you delete any e-mails you may
> have had with Keith [Briffa] re [the IPCC's Fourth
> Assessment Report]? Keith will do likewise. . . . Can
> you also e-mail Gene and get him to do the same? I
> don't have his new e-mail address. We will be getting
> Caspar to do likewise."
Caspar Amman, one of the clique of intimately connected "peer
reviewers" who were all co-authors; this group was named by Wegman
years before Climategate as they core group in the distortion of
climate science.
> Mann acknowledges that he received the e-mail, but he
> claims that neither he nor anyone else actually deleted
> any e-mails to hide information from a Freedom of
> Information Act request on how the U.N.'s IPCC report
> was written. Yet, his response is quite damning as it
> seems that he goes along with Dr. Jones. Far from
> criticizing the request, Dr. Mann wrote back: "I'll
> contact Gene about this ASAP. His new e-mail is:
> generw...@yahoo.com. talk to you later, Mike."
Nor did Mann or anyone else condemn plans to cook data, tips on how to
cook data ("hide the decline" with a "trick"), or blow the whistle on
Wang, about whose invented data they all knew. Well, of course they
knew. Jones was Wang's co-author!
> After the first week of revelations of academic fraud
> and intellectual wrongdoing, the University of East
> Anglia denied there was a problem. Professor Trevor
> Davies, the school's pro vice chancellor for research,
> issued a statement on Tuesday claiming: "The
> publication of a selection of the e-mails and data
> stolen from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) has led
> to some questioning of the climate science research
> published by CRU and others. There is nothing in the
> stolen material which indicates that peer-reviewed
> publications by CRU, and others, on the nature of
> global warming and related climate change are not
> of the highest-quality of scientific investigation
> and interpretation."
If that is truly the quality of current science, we're all in deep,
deep shit!
> The move to investigate the destruction of
> information requested under the Freedom of
> Information Act is a big change. In Britain,
> the destruction of such documents is a criminal
> offense and the e-mails indicate that Jones had
> been warned at least once against destroying such
> information.
Yes, and this is also an admission that the University of East Anglia
knew the content of the e-mails (all kinds of conduct unbecoming a
scientist: thugging on dissenters, trying to prevent freedom of
speech, cooking the data, covering up for scientific crooks, etc, etc,
etc) because they could not give an opinion without reviewing the e-
mails. Every time the university refused a FoI request, they damned
themselves further as complicit in Jones's crimes, for each time they
had to conduct a review. By the same mechanism they made themselves
complicit in the crimes of every other crooked "scientist" in the
Climategate papers.
> On Monday, Mann tried to justify the damaging
> e-mails by telling the Penn State college newspaper:
> "Someone being constantly under attack could be what
> causes them to make a poor decision."
Oh yes, climate science should be above falsifiability; that's for
lesser sciences and scientists. Dr Mann and Dr Jones and the rest of
the climatologists are above such mundane ethics of their profession.
Their refusal to release the raw data, their destruction of base data,
is each by itself enough to drum them out of the profession, and in
Jones's case, since destroying data rather than release it under FoI
is a criminal offence, enough reason to jail him for the crime to
which he has already confessed.
I wonder whether, once the climate "scientists" who lied to us so
arrogantly are jailbirds, the global warmies will accept at last that
they've been led around by the nose, that there is no global warming
at all, never mind manmade global warming, and that CO2 is a
beneficial gas, not the Big Satan.
>On the one hand,
> he denies that anything improper happened, but he then
> seems to accept that improper actions did occur.
> Regarding pressure, possibly, Mann should ask what the
> academics, who Mann and others involved in Climate-gate
> tried to prevent them from publishing in academic
> journals, think about these events.
I think a lot of dissenting scientists have cause for class-action
cases against Mann, Jones and a whole scad of other climatologists,
against their employers the universities, against a great many
journals who rode the bandwagon, even against government departments
influenced by these scientific criminals into not giving research
grants to dissenting researchers. I can see juries giving very big
damages for the unfairly stunted careers of those honest scientists
who refused to jump on the global warming bandwagon.
>The e-mails
> discussed above involve the United Nations
> Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's
> controversial assessment report and raise additional
> questions about what subterfuge might have been
> involved in its production.
The IPCC cannot give up Trevor Jones, Michael Mann and Keith Briffa,
the leading "hockey stick" liars. The moment the IPCC gives them up,
global warming is dead because, with the hockey stick gone into the
dustbin of exposed cheats, the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice
Age give the lie to "global warming". Without global warming, the
farcical suggestion that CO2 is responsible for an event that never
happened also is exposed to the harsh light of scientific reality
(falsifiability, proof, cost-benefit analysis, none of which has so
far applied to climatology) -- and suddenly the IPCC has no reason to
exist. Ever hear of a committee of bureaucrats who voted themselves
out of existence? One can only hope that the involved governments in a
fit of rage at being made into public fools will shut down the IPCC.
> The big question is whether universities have too much
> at stake, both ideologically and financially, to
> impartially investigate what has happened with
> Climate-gate.
Silly question. But, since it is on the table, the answer is: They'll
weasel and blow smoke and hope it goes away; their knowing complicity
is described above. This will damage the universities for a very long
time, because it exposes them as less interested in scientific truth
than in policy-making power and grant money and prestige.
>Given the amount of taxpayer money at
> stake, Congress should follow Sen. Inofe's suggestion
> and investigate these charges, issues of destroyed
> documents and data as well as the general unwillingness
> to share the raw data paid for by taxpayers.
Fraud in federal grant applications is a criminal matter. Any time any
of the US researchers used a paper in which he had used these
fraudulent methods to present cooked data as a reference in a grant
application, he was committing defrauding the US Government. Albany's
Wang is already under investigation and I expect the incriminating
evidence of his co-conspirators exposed in the Climategate papers to
hasten the announcement of criminal charges. (Oh yes, Wang has already
been declared Persil after a closed-doors investigation by his own
university which has been shown to break the university's own rules
about the conduct of investigations into charges of ethical misconduct
-- a clear case of a cover-up. Egg all over someone's face!)
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>
> John R. Lott, Jr. is a FOXNews.com contributor. He is
> an economist and author of "Freedomnomics."
Yo, John Lott, you don't know the half of it yet!
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For people who claim to be interested in a clean environment, the
global warmies commit an inordinate amount of well-poisoning.
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LOL.
Andre Jute
Global Warming is like Scientology, only with less science -- and I
said it long before the Climategate exposed those clowns as crooks