The tentacles of the climate change fraud, the current poster boy in the department of socialist stalking horses, are long. Even the National Science Foundation declares that Mr. Hockey Stick, Penn State’s Michael Mann, has violated no standards of scientific conduct – none – while publishing papers that see a worsening warming of Earth due to CO2 and other greenhouse gases.
Either that or Mann, a scientist of high standing, really has been an honorable and sensible scientist all along. Bingo. When the Virginia Attorney General ordered up all his files so he could check for fraud, looks like he was wasting his time and his taxpayer’s money.
The news this week is that the NSF’s inspector general released the conclusion of its inquiry into allegations against Mann regarding research misconduct. The five page summary is below in Grist. It says it could find, on its own and in files of a university-based team that did a previous inspection, nothing that constitutes research misconduct. It also said subsidiary allegations of failure at proper data sharing have no discernible merit. That makes it a clean sweep for Mann – a series of investigations found nothing worth a hoot. Strangely, investigations in the UK into the behavior of researchers at the Climatic Research Unit at East Anglia University found the same thing. That’s a pattern, I think. The Himalaya glacier melting thing, however – for that IPCC will twist in the wind a while.
Stories:
- Atlantic Monthly – James Fallows: Michael Mann Cleared (Again) ;
- Bloomberg – Jim Efstathiou Jr. : Climate-Change Scientist Cleared in Closing of US Data-Altering Inquiry ;
- NYTimes DotEarth blog- Andrew C. Revkin: Federal Inquiry is Latest to Clear Assailed Climate Scientist ;
- USA Today – Michael Winter : Feds clear Penn State researcher in ‘Climategate’ flap ; That’s what it was? A flap? A flap that damned near derailed climate policy action worldwide? One could only wish. The only organized, colossal scam in greenhouse research lately was the concoction of Climategate itself, no flap.
- Grist – Joseph Romm: “Hockey stick” climate scientist quietly vindicated for the umpteenth time ; More rant (surprise) than news account from this prominent blogger and agitator for stiff anti-global warming actions right now. He gets a swell angle – after an earlier vindication, Fox News declared that the “final say” would be the NSF’s report.
Grist for the Mill: NSF AG Closeout Memorandum ;
– Charlie Petit
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