Another half million in ‘stimulus’ tax money to fudge global warming

In the face of rising unemployment and record-breaking deficits, spokesfolk at the National Center for Public Policy Research (www.nationalcenter.org) are criticizing the Obama Administration for awarding a half million dollar grant from the $800 billion “Call It a Stimulus” pork package to Penn State Professor Michael Mann, a key figure in the Climategate “let’s manipulate some data” scandal.

“It’s outrageous that economic stimulus money is being used to support research conducted by Michael Mann at the very time he’s under investigation by Penn State and is one of the key figures in the international Climategate scandal,” said Tom Borelli, Ph.D., director of the National Center’s Free Enterprise Project. “Penn State should immediately return these funds to the U.S. Treasury.”

Professor Mann is currently under investigation by Penn State because of his participation in a closed circle of “climate scientists” who appear to have ginned up evidence of “global warming” to please government grant-writers.

E-mails and documents hacked and mysteriously released from the previously-prestigious Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England -- probably by the Russians -- revealed discussions of manipulation and both manufacture and destruction of research data, as well as efforts to interfere with the peer review process to stifle opposing views -- all to promote vastly costly and heavy-handed steps to cripple the American and European industrial economies (see “Cap and Trade”), on the premise that mankind’s activities are causing “global warming.”

“The stimulus was not sold to the public ... as a way to promote the Obama administration’s position on the global warming theory,” points out Deneen Borelli, a fellow with the National Center’s Project 21.

Mann is a central and controversial figure in the “man-made global warming” scam. His so-called “hockey stick” graph depicting temperature changes over a 1,000-year period was used as evidence in the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2001 report to conclude carbon dioxide from industrial activity is causing global warming. Mimicking the shape of a hockey stick, the graph showed a long period of stable temperatures (the shaft) followed by a rapid rise in temperatures (the blade) during the last hundred years.

Critics of the hockey stick claim Mann manipulated data to eliminate the medieval warming period and the little ice age to create the impressive “visual” he was looking for. The hacked e-mails indicate that’s precisely what he did, and that even the inner circle of Chicken Little climate scientists expressed concern over the methods he used to produce the graph.

And no, The National Center for Public Policy Research receives less than 1 percent of its funding from corporate sources -- as though “corporate sources” somehow corrupt research results any more than “political sources.”