CLIMATEGATE - MICHAEL MANN INVESTIGATED

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Penn State’s inquiry into Michael Mann advances to an investigation

Breaking from Penn State Live:

Inquiry into climate scientist moves to next phase

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

University Park, Pa. — An internal inquiry by Penn State into the research and scholarly activities of a well-known climate scientist will move into the investigatory stage, which is the next step in the University’s process for reviewing research conduct.

A University committee has concluded its inquiry into allegations of research impropriety that were leveled in November against Professor Michael Mann, after information contained in a collection of stolen e-mails was revealed. More than a thousand e-mails are reported to have been “hacked” from computer servers at the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in England, one of the main repositories of information about climate change.

During the inquiry, all relevant e-mails pertaining to Mann or his work were reviewed, as well as related journal articles, reports and additional information. The committee followed a well-established University policy during the inquiry (http://guru.psu.edu/policies/ra10.html).

In looking at four possible allegations of research misconduct, the committee determined that further investigation is warranted for one of those allegations. The recommended investigation will focus on determining if Mann “engaged in, directly or indirectly, any actions that seriously deviated from accepted practices within the academic community for proposing, conducting or reporting research or other scholarly activities.” A full report (http://www.research.psu.edu/orp) concerning the allegations and the findings of the inquiry committee has been submitted.

In the investigatory phase, as in the inquiry phase, the committee will not address the science of global climate change, a matter more appropriately left to the profession. The committee is charged with looking at the ethical behavior of the scientist and determining whether he violated professional standards in the course of his work.

The investigatory committee will consist of five tenured full professor faculty members who will assess the evidence in the case and make a determination on Mann’s conduct.

The only part that worries us is this:

The investigatory committee will consist of five tenured full professor faculty members who will assess the evidence in the case and make a determination on Mann’s conduct.

  

But then again, we hear Mann is extremely disliked at Penn State, so you never know.

Source: Penn State Live

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GLOBAL WARMING: THE OTHER SIDE

BREAKING NEWS! CLIMATEGATE COMES TO THE UNITED STATES!  MEET THE TWO MEN WHO HAVE DUG THROUGH SEVERAL LAYERS OF COMPUTER CODES TO UNCOVER MANIPULATION OF THE WORLD TEMPERATURE DATA TO SUPPORT THE CLAIMS OF GLOBAL WARMING. THIS IS A MAJOR CLIMATE SCANDAL INVOLVING UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.
 

by John Coleman, KUSI Meteorologist

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REX MURPHY ON CLIMATEGATE - FROM CBC

Those ferocious Greenies certainly can't accuse this guy of being a fanatical "denier" of their New World "religion"!

Unlike this arrogant, slavering, verbally flatulent twat, Bob Ward!

Is it just me, or would anyone else like to give him a good slap?

ANTI - CLIMATE CHANGE CAMPAIGN #2

CLIMATE CHANGE "FRAUD"

BY JOHN INGHAM

Professor Ian Plimer condemned the climate change lobby as “climate comrades” keeping the “gravy train” going. In a controversial talk just days before the start of a climate summit attended by world leaders in Copenhagen, Prof Plimer said Governments were treating the public like “fools” and using climate change to increase taxes. He said carbon dioxide has had no impact on temperature and that recent warming was part of the natural cycle of climate stretching over ­billions of years.

Prof Plimer - author of Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, The Missing Science - told a London audience: “Climates always change. They always have and they always will. They are driven by a number of factors that are random and cyclical.” He said climate change was caused by natural events such as volcanic eruptions, the shifting of the Earth’s orbit and cosmic radiation and that “Carbon dioxide levels have been up to 1,000 times higher in the past. CO2 cannot be driving global warming now. In the past we have had rapid and significant climate change with temperature changes greater than anything we are measuring today. They are driven by processes that have been going on since the beginning of time.” He cited periods of warming during the Roman Empire and in the Middle Ages – when Vikings grew crops on Greenland – and cooler phases such as the Dark Ages and the Little Ice Age from 1300 to 1850.

Professor Plimer, of Adelaide and Melbourne Universities, said that to stop climate change Governments should find ways to prevent changes to the Earth’s orbit and ocean currents and avoid explosions of supernovae in space. Of the saga of the leaked emails, he said: “If you have to argue your science by using fraud, your science is not valid.”  

FROM THE DAILY EXPRESS 

I've just found this information over at Anti-Citizen One's blog and it really is worth checking out - I'm sure you will have no trouble believing me when I say that Antarctic ice has increased enormously since 1980 - the facts are confirmed HERE.

Thanks, everyone, for doing such a great job of spreading the word  and for those who are not so keen on using the sweary campaign graphics, Grumpy Old Twat has come up with some new clean ones below.

 

 

ALEX JONES ON CLIMATEGATE

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