Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/28/2009 8:15:40 AM PST by Titus-Maximus
November 23, 2009
Dear Dr. Spanier:
In recent days, nearly a thousand emails from the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit have been released for public scrutiny. They were obtained either through the actions of a hacker, or an inside whistleblower. While not condoning any illegal activities, I have read most of the emails and have found a good number of them to be very disturbing due to the participation of Dr. Michael Mann of Penn State’s Earth System Science Center. Based on the content of the emails, Dr. Mann, whose scientific methodologies have already been discredited with respect to his “hockey stick” temperature graph, seems to have been involved in an ongoing pattern of data manipulation, intimidation of scientific journal editors, constraint of the peer review process, and attempted avoidance of compliance with the Freedom of Information Act. As a Penn State meteorologist who has been active in the public discussion of climate change for more than ten years, I can attest to the fact that Dr. Mann’s reputation, and by extension that of Penn State, has been significantly sullied in recent years. These new revelations of Dr. Mann’s methods and actions will only exacerbate the situation and serve to darken the shade of the black eye currently sported by the University’s Earth Sciences Department.
In my opinion, Dr. Mann should be relieved of his duties based solely on the deceptive methods used in the creation of the hockey stick. If any of the matters seemingly revealed in the CRU emails have a shred of truth to them, then your course of action should be very simple...Dr. Mann must be terminated from his contract with The Pennsylvania State University.
I sincerely request that you look into this matter, recognizing that Dr. Mann’s presence on the faculty is undoubtedly responsible for a sizable amount of grant money. The money be damned. I would hope that you hold the members of the faculty to the standard so eloquently stated in the 4th verse of our Alma Mater..."May no act of ours bring shame, to ONE heart that loves thy name...May our lives but swell thy fame, Dear old State, dear old State.”
Thank you for your consideration of this matter.
Respectfully,
Herbert E. Stevens North Kingstown, RI Meteorology-197
This ugly dishonesty will bring down their house of cards.
Al Gore, call your office - the Nobel Prize people want their medal back.
I sent Graham Spanier an email of my own Tuesday night, demanding to know how he’s addressing this. I’ll be curious as to the response.
I don't think they want their medal back...that would assume they're smart enough to know they were duped. Also, remember who they recently gave the Peace Prize too? (Hint: He wrote a book about himself before he actually did anything notable.)
You can almost hear the whiplash.
Damn All Leftist, everything they have created is built on a lie.
I am not a Penn State graduate but hope that this becomes a flood never-the-less!
Meanwhile....the Greenies are all over the am cable talk shows poo pooing it all as little more than a few rogue scientists...citing that data goes back to the 80s and 90s.
Considering a British Judge ordered that algores propaganda piece can NOT be shown to British Children, they might want to rethink the NBP.
I hope all this...inspires?...the AAUP to rethink the stranglehold tenure has on the universities in this country.
Kudos to this gentleman for speaking his mind.
I think it comes with about $1 mill...Give the damn money back.
Mann must be fired along with any others implicated in this farce. The scientific community is a laughingstock!
MIKES NATURE TRICK
Can’t be repeated enough times.
And I also bet not one person pointed out that the scientests doing the so called "Peer Reviews" are the same ones at the center and involved in this scandle of lies!
That’s exactly what they were saying!!
I think part of the problem with FOX news, is they aren’t educated enough about the subject to ask the right questions...i.e., Aren’t the scientists in question the same scientists doing the “Peer Review”?
I was looking through some of the FOIA documents and wondered if anyone can open this all the way.
http://junkscience.com/FOIA/documents/marooned.jpg
Outstanding! What a great letter from a true scientist/alumnus.
A couple of checks at that youtube shows the counter at 277,369 and it hasn’t moved.
What does it show when you check?
Thx
Tenure is not binding when a professor oversteps the bounds of the Faculty Code of Conduct. I know of several professors who were “let go” despite having tenure. I also know of some who were forced into early retirement when the university decided that they were no longer productive. Tenure has lost a lot of its meaning in the last 10 years.
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