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Rich Stewart posted on 7/3/2010 1:40:00 PM
Certainly no surprises in the results of their investigation. Just a further waste of taxpayer dollars to have a gaggle of professors sit around and drink coffee for the requisite amount of time and then file the report they wrote within a few days of receiving their charter to "investigate" the matter.
Consensus, “everyone” agrees being a couple dozen yahoos (Prof Mann being one of the yahoos) rather than 2500 “scientists” makes a big difference. The IPCC and all of their minions have been totally discredited in Europe and these PSU knuckleheads expect us to buy their report? No way, no how.
Mike Hulme is Professor of Climate Change in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia – of Climategate email fame — founding Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and one of the UK’s most prominent climate scientists. If he can conclude the following about the IPCC in his recent article “Climate Change: what do we know about the IPCC?” surely the Penn State review team could have found a little something just a little bit smelly had they bothered to look.
“Wthout a careful explanation about what it means, this drive for consensus can leave the IPCC vulnerable to outside criticism. Claims such as ‘2,500 of the world’s leading scientists have reached a consensus that human activities are having a significant influence on the climate’ are disingenuous. That particular consensus judgement, as are many others in the IPCC reports, is reached by only a few dozen experts in the specific field of detection and attribution studies; other IPCC authors are experts in other fields.”
Bruce posted on 1/26/2010 10:49:00 AM
It would be like asking congress to investigate themselves. First they would have a committee,$5 Million,pick members,$2 Million,get staff for members $2 Million,get members to meet $1 Million,time and money lost,who knows.What was this committee for? Who knows,OK meeting over,and disband committee.The only thing to come out of it,a lot of money will be spent,and nothing done.
We-Need-A-PSU-Whistleblower posted on 1/17/2010 6:32:00 PM
I imagine that Penn State has policies in place regarding the proper use of its email systems. Promoting falsified research and defaming other technical professionals can’t be proper use. If Professor Mann did these things with the Penn State email system, what would be the ramifications? Or does it also depend on the amount of research money obtained?
John Dillinger posted on 1/14/2010 5:21:00 PM
I certainly don't expect the Penn State investigation to turn up any wrong doing. PSU likes the money, too.
Scott Ott posted on 1/12/2010 1:53:00 PM
See related story posted today at DailyCaller.com
http://dailycaller.com/2010/01/12/climategate-professor-michael-mann-protected-to-maximum-extent-by-penn-state-policy/
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