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| US DOE Halts Funding For East Anglia Over Climategate Scandal | |
| 2010-07-18 | |
| The American government has suspended its funding of the University of East Anglia's climate research unit (CRU), citing the scientific doubts raised by last November's leak of hundreds of stolen emails. The US Department of Energy (DoE) was one of the unit's main sources of funding for its work assembling a database of global temperatures.
This should have been renewed automatically in April, but the department has suspended all payments since May pending a scientific peer review of the unit's work. The leaked emails caused a global furore. They appeared to suggest that CRU scientists were using "tricks" to strengthen the case for man-made climate change and suppressing dissent. A spokesman for the DoE said: "The renewal application was placed on hold pending the conclusion of the inquiry into scientific misconduct by Sir Alastair Muir Russell." Muir Russell published his report earlier this month. It said that the rigour and honesty of the CRU scientists were not in doubt but criticised them for "a consistent pattern of failing to display the proper degree of openness". The DoE peer review panel will now sift through the report and decide if American taxpayers should continue to fund the unit. A spokesman for the university said: "We are still waiting to hear if the latest bid for funding to the US Department of Energy has been successful and would not comment or speculate in the meantime." | |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #11 The US had repor cut back on its foreign aid to JORDAN + other ME Hovts oer concerns as per their local Nucprogs. * ION DER SPEIGEL > MORE THAN SIXTEEN MILYUHN GERMANS HAVE IMMIGRANT ROOTS [Rise to 20% of Germany's tote population of 82.0 Milyuhn, up from 18.6% in previous]. * RENSE > EU IS NOW A STATE UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW, + [Independent.UK] UZBEK WOMEN ACCUSE STATE OF [deliberate + non-consensual] MASS STERILIZATIONS, of women as part of Muslim Uzbekistan's Govt's decisions + policies in suppor of COVERT "FORCED FAMILY PLANNING" IN RESPONSE TO PROTRACTIVE, COMPLEMENTARY SERIOUS NATIONAL PROBLEMS. * Poor Economy = National Poverty. * Lack of Govt-led revenues for Public Welfare programs. * High rates of unemployment among Males, espec Young Men. * Islamist-led Militant Threat to Govt-State. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-07-18 22:59 |
| #10 addition to the DoE being overseen by socialists and Lysenkoists DOE's research is done at their Los Alamos, Sandia and Pacific Northwest labs where the same supercomputers used for nuclear weapons design and effects modeling and the like are used for climate modeling. I have some contact with each of those labs and have yet to encounter socialism or Lsyenkoist sentiments coloring research. FWIW |
| Posted by: lotp 2010-07-18 20:23 |
| #9 No problem, Ricky dear. Had it been Anonymoose, the comment would also have reflected a much wider lifetime of experience as well. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-07-18 18:44 |
| #8 My bad, TW...the color code totally slipped my mind. |
| Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2010-07-18 17:51 |
| #7 Ima hope Papa Joe and Joe! kick his ass. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2010-07-18 17:20 |
| #6 haven't you heard? The CRU was cleared by a |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-07-18 16:04 |
| #5 I dunno, Moose... 'Twas I made that comment, Ricky bin Ricardo, not Anonymoose. Anonymoose is much too masculine to go about clad in periwinkle highlighter. ;-) Had it been his comment, as the article poster, it would have been in yellow. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-07-18 15:52 |
| #4 Funding will be restored by order of an Obama appointee in 5... 4... 3... |
| Posted by: Free Radical 2010-07-18 14:48 |
| #3 US DOE Halts Funding For East Anglia Over Climategate Scandal (till the negative publicity blows over) FIFY |
| Posted by: DMFD 2010-07-18 13:34 |
| #2 It appears the DoE have actual standards for scientific research. Good for them. And us, if they can continue to stick to their guns against the idealists running the current administration. I dunno, Moose...seems to me that in addition to the DoE being overseen by socialists and Lysenkoists, there are waaaay too many people with a vested interest in keeping the AGW gravy train rolling (*cough* Congress *cough*). Doing so helps preserve their own job security and provides lucrative external opportunities (both legitimate employment and good old-fashioned graft). So therefore... "The DoE peer review panel will now There. Fixed it. |
| Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2010-07-18 12:59 |
| #1 Michael Mann has to be waiting for the other shoe to drop. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-07-18 11:39 |