Damn it. Just as ClimateGate was getting into high gear, along comes a new global warming scandal – NASAgate.
Damn it. Just as ClimateGate was getting into high gear, along comes a new global warming scandal – NASAgate.
Texas Republican Congressman Ted Poe goes off on NASA because they’re following in the footsteps of the CRU and refusing to release their global warming data as requested under a Freedom of Information Act request.
Let’s give Poe credit: This is the first time we’ve heard the term “NASAgate.” But we suspect it won’t be the last.
Source: Bluegrass Pundit
All the former Vice President’s Men in Climategate: Where are Woodward and Bernstein when we need them?
Where are Woodward and Bernstein when we need them?
Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute
No one has mastered the scam of getting global warming funding better than Penn State’s Michael Mann, one of the prime players in the East Anglia CRU email revelations.
Here’s how the global warming scam works:
Announce that you’ve discovered something called “global warming” that will destroy the earth. Make up statistics “proving” that it’s true. Apply for lots of government grants that allow you to research the problem even further.
No one has mastered this scam better than Penn State’s Michael Mann, one of the prime players in the East Anglia CRU email revelations.
American Spectator discovered that Mann is so proud of all his government grants that he actually lists them on his online resume. Here’s a list of Mann’s funded proposals:
2009-2013 Quantifying the influence of environmental temperature on transmission of vector-borne diseases, NSF-EF [Principal Investigator: M. Thomas; Co-Investigators: R.G. Crane, M.E. Mann, A. Read, T. Scott (Penn State Univ.)] $1,884,991
2009-2012 Toward Improved Projections of the Climate Response to Anthropogenic Forcing: Combining Paleoclimate Proxy and Instrumental Observations with an Earth System Model, NSF-ATM [Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann; Co-Investigators: K. Keller (Penn State Univ.), A. Timmermann (Univ. of Hawaii)] $541,184
2008-2011 A Framework for Probabilistic Projections of Energy-Relevant Streamflow Indices, DOE [Principal Investigator: T. Wagener; Co-Investigators: M. Mann, R. Crane, K. Freeman (Penn State Univ.)] $330,000
2008-2009 AMS Industry/Government Graduate Fellowship (Anthony Sabbatelli), American Meteorological Society [Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann (Penn State Univ.)] $23,000
2006-2009 Climate Change Collective Learning and Observatory Network in Ghana, USAID [Principal Investigator: P. Tschakert; Co-Investigators: M.E. Mann, W. Easterling (Penn State Univ.)] $759,928
2006-2009 Analysis and testing of proxy-based climate reconstructions, NSF-ATM [Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann (Penn State Univ.)] $459,000
2006-2009 Constraining the Tropical Pacific’s Role in Low-Frequency Climate Change of the Last Millennium, NOAA-Climate Change Data & Detection (CCDD) Program [Principal Investigators: K. Cobb (Georgia Tech Univ.), N. Graham (Hydro. Res. Center), M.E. Mann (Penn State Univ.), Hoerling (NOAA Clim. Dyn. Center), Alexander (NOAA Clim. Dyn. Center)] PSU award (M.E. Mann): $68,065
2006-2007 Acquisition of high-performance computing cluster for the Penn State Earth System Science Center (ESSC), NSF-EAR [Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann, Co-Investigators: R. Alley, M. Arthur, J. Evans, D. Pollard (Penn State Univ.)] $100,000
2003-2006 Decadal Variability in the Tropical Indo-Pacific: Integrating Paleo & Coupled Model Results, NOAA-Climate Change Data & Detection (CCDD) Program [Principal Investigators: M.E. Mann (U.Va), J. Cole (U. Arizona), V. Mehta (CRCES)] U.Va award (M.E. Mann): $102,000
2002-2005 Reconstruction and Analysis of Patterns of Climate Variability Over the Last One to Two Millennia, NOAA-Climate Change Data & Detection (CCDD) Program [Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann, Co-Investigators: S. Rutherford, R.S. Bradley, M.K. Hughes] $315,000
2002-2005 Remote Observations of Ice Sheet Surface Temperature: Toward Multi-Proxy Reconstruction of Antarctic Climate Variability, NSF-Office of Polar Programs, Antarctic Oceans and Climate System [Principal Investigators: M.E. Mann (U. Va), E. Steig (U. Wash.), D. Weinbrenner (U. Wash)] U.Va award (M.E. Mann): $133,000
2002-2003 Paleoclimatic Reconstructions of the Arctic Oscillation, NOAA-Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research (CIFAR) Program [Principal Investigators: Rosanne D’Arrigo, Ed Cook (Lamont/Columbia); Co-Investigator: M.E. Mann] U.Va subcontract (M.E. Mann): $14,400
2002-2003 Global Multidecadal-to-Century-Scale Oscillations During the Last 1000 years, NOAA-Climate Change Data & Detection (CCDD) Program [Principal Investigator: Malcolm Hughes (Univ. of Arizona); Co-Investigators: M.E. Mann; J. Park (Yale University)] U.Va subcontract (M.E. Mann): $20,775
2001-2003 Resolving the Scale-wise Sensitivities in the Dynamical Coupling Between Climate and the Biosphere, University of Virginia-Fund for Excellence in Science and Technology (FEST) [Principal Investigator: J.D. Albertson; Co-Investigators: H. Epstein, M.E. Mann] U.Va internal award: $214,700
2001-2002 Advancing predictive models of marine sediment transport, Office of Naval Research [Principal Investigator: P. Wiberg (U.Va), Co-Investigator: M.E. Mann] $20,775
1999-2002 Multiproxy Climate Reconstruction: Extension in Space and Time, and Model/Data Intercomparison, NOAA-Earth Systems History [Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann (U.Va), Co-Investigators: R.S. Bradley, M.K. Hughes] $381,647
1998-2000 Validation of Decadal-to-Multi-century climate predictions, DOE [Principal Investigator: R.S. Bradley (U. Mass); Co-Investigators: H.F. Diaz, M.E. Mann]
1998-2000 The changing seasons? Detecting and understanding climatic change, NSF-Hydrological Science [Principal Investigator U. Lall (U. Utah); Co-investigators: M.E. Mann, B. Rajagopalan, M. Cane] $266,235K
1996-1999 Patterns of Organized Climatic Variability: Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Globally Distributed Climate Proxy Records and Long-term Model Integrations, NSF-Earth Systems History [Principal Investigator: R.S. Bradley (U. Mass); Co-Investigators: M.E. Mann, M.K. Hughes] $270,000
1996-1998 Investigation of Patterns of Organized Large-Scale Climatic Variability During the Last Millennium, DOE, Alexander Hollaender Postdoctoral Fellowship [M.E. Mann] $78,000
That’s almost $6 million you’ve paid for Mann’s models, reconstructions and tricks over the last 13 years.
The earth has a fever! And Michael Mann has 6,000,000 reasons to diagnose it.
Source: American Spectator via PlanetGore
Two warnings about this video: For our readers: Contains language that you may be consider objectionable. For Al Gore: Contains truths that you may consider objectionable.
Two warnings about this video:
For our readers: Contains language that you may be consider objectionable.
For Al Gore: Contains truths that you may consider objectionable.
Sadly, Gore’s credibility peaked in 2005 and so did hurricanes. The Atlantic hurricane season ended today after producing the fewest named storms in 12 years. It was the first time in three years that no hurricane struck the U.S. mainland.
An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore’s Academy Award-winning science fiction movie, attempted to scare the bejeebers out of you by claiming that global warming would inevitably lead to increased frequency and intensity of hurricanes.
Sadly, Gore’s credibility peaked in 2005 and so did hurricanes.
As Bloomberg reported on December 1:
Atlantic Hurricane Season Has Fewest Named Storms in 12 Years
The Atlantic hurricane season ended today after producing the fewest named storms in 12 years. It was the first time in three years that no hurricane struck the U.S. mainland.
The story continued:
The calmer season was expected and reflected the development of a mid-year eastern Pacific warming pattern called El Nino, said Gerry Bell, lead seasonal hurricane forecaster at NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, in Camp Springs, Maryland.
Unfortunately, the Insurance Journal reported a different reality: In its December (2008) forecast, the Colorado State University team predicted 14 named storms. That included seven hurricanes and three big ass major hurricanes.
Ahhh, but alas. It was not to be.
In reality, the 2009 season that ended as December began saw storms that barely qualified as storms. It featured storms that formed and dissipated so quickly that it’s almost surprising they were even noticed. We even had a couple oddball storms that formed far north of the typical hurricane track. It was the first time in several years in which no hurricanes hit the United States. And we even had a late hurricane that barely qualified as one. To sum it all up, 2009 was one of the quietest hurricane seasons in decades.
And so we simultaneously bid a fond adieu to the 2009 hurricane season and to Albert Gore’s tattered credibility.
We know there will be another hurricane season in 2010, but the return of Gore’s credibility is far less certain.
Source: Bloomberg, Insurance Journal
“Next time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting, I’ll be tempted to beat the crap out of him.” So says one of the now infamous global warming emails.
“Next time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting, I’ll be tempted to beat the crap out of him.” So says one of the now infamous global warming emails.
So what does CATO Institute scientist Michaels have to say about that? Stuart Varney interviews him to find out. Then, just for good measure, Varney makes Ben Weiss of the Center for American Progress look foolish.
Correction: Weiss makes himself look foolish.
Global warming emails? What global warming emails? White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is sticking with the scientists. Even if the scientists are lying sacks of excrement.
Global warming emails? What global warming emails? White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is sticking with the scientists. Even if the scientists are lying sacks of excrement.
Michael Mann’s famous “hockey stick” global warming graph is discredited an dhere’s how it looks without his “fiddling.”
Despite the fact that Penn State professor Michael Mann’s famous “hockey stick” graph was long ago discredited, it still continues to be cited in study after study. In fact, it’s still the basis for the IPCC’s global warming hysteria.
Unfortunately, there’s a damning comment in one of the ClimateGate emails that says: “I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.”
What does that mean? Well, here are two graphs that demonstrate the results of that “trick.” The top one shows Michael Mann’s original “hockey stick” chart complete with his tricks that hide the decline. The bottom one, known as the Briffa Reconstruction, removes the tricks and shows that global warming is, in fact, global cooling.
From now on, let’s just refer to it as “Mann-made” global warming.
Source: BluegrassPundit.com
The left likes to laugh at Glenn Beck’s histrionics, but the guy has a knack for simplifying the incredibly complex.
The left likes to laugh at Glenn Beck’s histrionics, but the guy has a knack for simplifying the incredibly complex.
In this clip, he explains all the collusion and all the conspiracy revealed in the emails that were “liberated” from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University.
Just a guess, but we doubt that Al Gore’s laughing right now.
Source: The Big Feed
Welcome to the light of day, Michael Mann. We enjoyed your emails.
H/T: Minnesotans for Global Warming
Life imitates the Simpsons: email scandal reveals global warming fraud
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George Monbiot, the Grand Poobah of British global warming society, is horrified by the growing email scandal.
George Monbiot, the Grand Poobah of British global warming society, is horrified by the growing email scandal.
Just a few months ago he warned that global warming denial was spreading like a contagious disease. Now he appears to have come down with a mild case of it himself.
It’s no use pretending this isn’t a major blow. The emails extracted by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia could scarcely be more damaging. I am now convinced that they are genuine, and I’m dismayed and deeply shaken by them.
Yes, the messages were obtained illegally. Yes, all of us say things in emails that would be excruciating if made public. Yes, some of the comments have been taken out of context. But there are some messages that require no spin to make them look bad. There appears to be evidence here of attempts to prevent scientific data from being released, and even to destroy material that was subject to a freedom of information request.
Worse still, some of the emails suggest efforts to prevent the publication of work by climate sceptics, or to keep it out of a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I believe that the head of the unit, Phil Jones, should now resign.
Now we’re waiting to hear something as honest from Al Gore. (Please forgive us for using the mutually exclusive words “honest” and “Gore” in the same sentence.)
Source: Tim Blair
