Here’s how the stimulus money is being used:
The latest example of this is a $500,000 grant to Michael Mann, Professor at Penn State University and unintended c0-star of the ClimateGate e-mail scandal. The leaked e-mails revealed collaboration among scientists to stifle dissenting views on the extent of man-made global warming.
Mann is also the creator of the “Hockey Stick” graph, which purported to show a sharp increase in recent temperatures. That work has been thoroughly discredited by researcher Stephen McIntyre. Yet, in June 2009, the National Science Foundation awarded Mann a three-year $500,000 to further study the climate’s response to human activity.
I heard another well respected weather guru tell of how the global warming opponents of today. Were the same ones predicting a Ice age a decade or so ago. As he pointed out. Even today its hard to predict anything much more then a week in advance with any accuracy. Yes, you can see patterns emerge. But one thing is for certain. Their will be cycles of warming and cooling and blaming man does not explain the cause of those cycles before man existed or that man is to blame now. Its just another theory of which junk science is being used to support global warming.
Wouldn’t this money be better spent cleaning up a park or stream?
So he deosn’t get any monetary compensation from that grant? Really? Just another sheeple.
Is that what I wrote? No. I don’t know the details of the grant. Som grants basically replace the professor’s salary for the year. Others aren’t and none of the money goes into the person’s pocket. So either the guy is getting basically the same ammount of money that he would get from the university — in which case the university is using that money to pay for something else or the guy is not using any of the money on himself.
Sorry if logic and facts make me a sheeple…
#23 Is not logic, which your statement has barely of. If your attempt to rationalize this episode that not only is being used to something other than science, but comes from a source that was destined to help people economically.
So unless this “professor” (and we hope he had a team of several dozen people) was unemployed, your barely functioning argument does not apply.
Is not logic, which your statement has barely of. If your attempt to rationalize this episode that not only is being used to something other than science, but comes from a source that was destined to help people economically.
So unless this “professor” (and we hope he had a team of several dozen people) was unemployed, your barely functioning argument does not apply.
That’s fine but that’s not what you were calling me a “sheeple” about. You were calling me a “sheeple” because you were asserting that I asserted that he wasn’t going to make money off of the grant. The logic and facts are that your assertion that he is profiting from this is not backed up by logic or facts.
Whether or not someone with a job should get grant money meant to stimulate the economy is another issue. Sorry if my “sheeple” status means that I won’t just attack someone blindly because I don’t like science.
#15, Denier,
Where are the “cooked numbers”? Simply complaining about Mann’s graph (he never called it a “hockey stick”) is not proof. The second graph is not sourced so we have no idea where it came from. Finally, a blog is not a very credible source. Are these your “cooked numbers”?
Mann et al have been acknowledged as accurate by several scientific communities (National Academies of Science, the American Geophysical Union, the American Institute of Physics, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the American Meteorological Society, NASA, and others). Who has recognized your “phony graph”?
Mann, Hansen, Gore and a few others should be tried for crimes against humanity, then executed.
The mean high tide mark has risen 8 inches over the last 100 years.Its safe to say that that’s either because of precipitation rain snow ie. or both polar caps melting.With the droughts in the USA the desertification of Africa one can assume its polar cap melting.I have posted various links to photographic space imagery, temperature , and ice core samples.IF you dont want to look at it John and just obsess that its all jive so be it I am not going to post any more rebuttal here.I agree the carbon tax credit is a scam for money in a way.The forces that want to keep the status quo are fabulously rich in order to force a change to green power that has to be fueled with money, cap and trade is a way to force that to happen its either that or total government funding on green and restriction of fossil fuels.I am sure the green side is open to any other better system. We are very near the 50 percent marker on oil reserves and we will never know for sure because the oil companies wont tell you the truth until its too late.As oil runs out the race to the bottom of the barrel will be a very sharp parabolic curve.Where the militarys of the world realize they haven’t converted their oil guzzlers over and civilians are rationed to a trickle.So wether its global warming ,oil shortages, USA National Security ,or pollution its time to convert now and faster.Which I might add should be a big boom to silicon valley.
#27, lower case,
And people like you should be dropped off at the Churchill Manitoba garbage dump and told to fend for yourself.