Unreal. Climategate Junk Scientist Michael Mann Awarded Half a Million in Stimulus Cash
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, January 14, 2010, 5:20 AM
Dr. Michael Mann co-authored the famous graph of temperature trends dubbed the “hockey stick graph.”
Mann was implicated in the global warming email and document conspiracy in 2009.
Mann’s controversial work has been challenged in the past.
Dr. Mann was implicated in the global warming email conspiracy. It was reported on several websites that classified emails and files prove that the junk scientists behind the global warming movement knowingly perpetrated a fraud on the global community. Mann’s name came up in several of the emails. The posted material, which includes e-mails allegedly sent by the CRU’s director Phil Jones to fellow climate researchers, including Michael Mann at Pennsylvania State University in University Park. Mann is under investigation at Penn State over this controversy.
Now we find out that this same dangerous junk scientist is receiving a half million dollars in Stimulus cash.
The National Center for Public Research reported:
In the face of rising unemployment and record-breaking deficits, policy experts at the National Center for Public Policy Research are criticizing the Obama Administration for awarding a half million dollar grant from the economic stimulus package to Penn State Professor Michael Mann, a key figure in the Climategate controversy.
“It’s outrageous that economic stimulus money is being used to support research conducted by Michael Mann at the very time he’s under investigation by Penn State and is one of the key figures in the international Climategate scandal. Penn State should immediately return these funds to the U.S. Treasury,” said Tom Borelli, Ph.D., director of the National Center’s Free Enterprise Project.
Professor Mann is currently under investigation by Penn State University because of activities related to a closed circle of climate scientists who appear to have been engaged in agenda-driven science. Emails and documents mysteriously released from the previously-prestigious Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom revealed discussions of manipulation and destruction of research data, as well as efforts to interfere with the peer review process to stifle opposing views. The motivation underlying these efforts appears to be a coordinated strategy to support the belief that mankind’s activities are causing global warming.
“It’s no wonder that Obama’s stimulus plan is failing to produce jobs. Taxpayer dollars aren’t being used in the ways most likely to spur job creation. The stimulus was not sold to the public as a way to reward a loyalist in the climate change debate. Nor was the stimulus sold as a way to promote the Obama Administration’s position on the global warming theory. This misuse of stimulus money illustrates why tax cuts are a better way to stimulate the economy than letting the government decide where to spend taxpayer dollars. As is often the case, political considerations corrupt the distribution of government funds,” said Deneen Borelli, a fellow with the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network.
“Mann’s credentials as a climate change alarmist seems to fit the political criteria for stimulus funds sometimes known as ‘Obama money’,” added Deneen Borelli.
Mann is a central and controversial figure in climate change research. Mann’s so-called “hockey stick” graph depicting temperature changes over a 1000 year period was used as evidence in the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2001 report to conclude carbon dioxide from industrial activity is causing global warming. Mimicking the shape of a hockey stick, the graph showed a long period of stable temperatures (the shaft) followed by a rapid rise in temperatures (the blade) during the last hundred years.
Critics of the hockey stick claim Mann manipulated data to eliminate the medieval warming period and the little ice age to eradicate the visual impact of natural global temperature variation. The emails from Climategate reveal that the inner circle of climate scientists were troubled by the methods Mann used to produce the graph.
So how many jobs do you suppose Dr. Mann will create or save with this heap of cash… besides his own?
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CassieP commented:
Actually, I think it may be much more than half a million. According to M. Mann’s CV, he received a multi-year grant this past spring from NSF totalling close to $2 million:
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
http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~mann/Mann/cv/cv_pdf.pdf
Penn State receives 20% administrative overhead from each grant. I wonder how anyone can expect their investigation to be objective?
LimoLibsSuk commented:
0bama:
Sure, I helped Climatologist Conman Michael Mann get $500K in stimulus cash from the taxpayers. Experts are expensive and I thought it best to empty the taxpayer’s wallets before they lost their homes. Smart move ha!
Some of you may ask why I have not been kick out of office. It’s quite simple. I pay-off my cronies – and I have never been caught. Catch me if you can!
My limousine is running and I have some more stimulus money to hand out to George Soros. I must look busy. Good day.
NeoKong commented:
Of course he is getting money. That is the main purpose of stimulus money. Obama and Geithner raid the treasury and give out all the money to people with connections and to those who share their ideology.
Acorn gets stimulus money and so do auto worker unions and the SEIU. Van Jone was going to be in charge of tens of billions of dollars of stimulus money before he got exposed. How much money does the brother of Russ Carnahan get to build his wind farm….?
The money is definitely to stimulate something but it ain’t jobs.
It is a gigantic slush fund that will return to Obama and those in Congress in the form of lobbyist cash and donations come election time.
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Lynn B commented:
I thought the number bandied about was 13 million.
Mope commented:
I thought this ‘science’ was ‘settled’ by the ‘consensus’. What’s he need more research for?
Sidh Vicious commented:
Did Bernie Madoff get anything?
manateespirit commented:
For you readers in the St. Louis area:
There will be a panel of four university professors talking about climate change at Kirkwood High School, 7 PM tonight in the Keating Room. These professors are from Wash U, St Louis University and SIEU. Based on where they are from, I imagine it won’t be fair and balanced.
engineer commented:
You should be looking in your own backyard. Missouri S&T is getting a lot of this stimulus money for CO2 research and the mandate is pretty clear. In fact, on researcher indicated that Steven Chu (sec of energy) was reviewing the geothermal proposal himself! In academia, CO2 is about the only money. And the TARP funds have “special” reporting requirements…..yes I think it’s pretty clear our tax money has been hijacked for this political agenda and the academics all of the US are buying into this.
Dell commented:
Meanwhile, our representatives fail to represent us and our senators fail to even listen to us, so why should we even bother?
Because it’s taxation without representation being violated by the vast majority of the above mentioned scum bags. This won’t end well.
Texmom commented:
Yes, and ACORN is still getting their funding as well. An administration that continues to fund those who are liars and scammers, decided on by tax evaders and communists.
Robert commented:
So I wonder how President Transparent decides who gets this money?
Do you know that he has not held a press conference in over six months?
JPL17 commented:
This is naked corruption, pure and simple.
Can we say “high crimes and misdemaenors” yet?
BertoGem commented:
This is just the tip of the iceverg, so to speak. Billions of taxpayer dollars are spent each year by government on “reseach.” Most of these tax dollars go to support salaries of faculty and staff at universities across the country. Despite what the universities tell us, there is very little oversight as to how the funds are actually spent.
Buffalobob commented:
The despots of the third world countries raid their treasuries and pay off their friends, relatives and themselves. Welcome to Obama’s third world.
bg commented:
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money for nothing & notoriety..
can you think of a better reason for LYING??
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John Bacon commented:
I’m a graduate of Penn State and I wrote an Email about this subject. I was told that Dr. Mann was under investigation.
After receiving this grant I wonder if it’ll be objective. If I was in charge of the Investigation, I’d suspend Dr. Mann until a decision was made. I think the School should return the money and lock Dr. Mann out of the school computers until the investigation is over.
John Bacon EMS class of ’88
Ed Darrell commented:
If Borelli has some information that there is anything wrong here, he has a duty to report it to the U.S. attorney and the IG for NSF.
Of course, filing a false report could cause trouble for Borelli.
Dollars to doughnuts Borelli hasn’t filed a report and will not.
Why is Borelli upset that Mann was in on the team to add in actual temperature data in place of a calculated set that was known to be in error? Under Borelli’s plan, Mann could have been implicated in a crime, reporting false data.
Borelli’s just a bad sport with bad intentions, it seems to me.
robertsgt40 commented:
Let no high crime go unrewarded