Dr. Michael Mann, Penn State Scientist Guilty of Bad Science

In spite of all the press Climategate has had over the last couple of months, most people in the United States are either ignoring it, or haven’t heard about it.  That’s a shame, because the truth is coming out about how some of the world’s most prominent climate scientists have lied about their studies, and have withheld important data and documents from the public.

We all learn in high school that for a scientific experiment to be considered valid, others must be able to replicate the experiment and the results.  This is where the British climate scientists at the world famous Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University have stuck it to the British and American taxpayers.  Yes, some of their work was funded by American taxpayers!

Thanks to a “theft” of emails and computer code documents from the CRU computer servers, there is now an investigative hearing in progress.  Thanks to Anthony Watts’ blog, WattsUpWithThat?, you can read a running account of the hearing.

Several scientific and mathematical societies have sent comments to the investigative committee, all recommending that scientific data and computer codes from scientific studies be made available to the interested public, and that Dr. Phil Jones, Director of the Climate Research Unit, is guilty of promoting bad science practice, and hiding the results of his data.

You may think this is a United Kindom problem, but, the CRU science criminals are joined by some equally objectionable scientists in the United States.  You see, they are all part of the same clique that cosponsor and review their own studies.

One such scientist guilty of participating in the climate frauds is Dr. Michael Mann of Penn State University.  There is an inquiry into Dr. Mann’s questionable activities, and it looks like Penn State is giving him a complete white-wash.  Dr. Mann wrote one of the early studies generating the fraudulent “Hockey Stick” graph that purports that current climate warming is without precedent.  He has been proven wrong on many occasions, yet, keeps producing phony studies.

So, be aware of the garbage science being perpetuated by scientists like Dr. Mann.  There is lots of good science out there about climate, but, his is not in that category.

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Note: Photo from Watts Up With That?

Yep!  It’s snowing in Atlanta.  It is one of those globby, wet snows that piles up on cars, but melts as soon as it hits the streets.  Yards are getting a covering of white punctuated by yawning black crevasses channeling melt water to storm sewers.

This is not the pretty snow seen in northern climes.  This is sloppy, ugly, wet, pneumonia breeding Southern rebel-yell snow. To add to the local misery, the kids won’t even get out of school.

Bummer!

Last night, I went to the grocery store to pick up a few items for our dinner.  There was hardly any bread on the shelves, and there was no milk at all.  You see, it is a tradition in Atlanta that whenever “SNOW” is mentioned in the local weather forecast, everybody runs to the grocery store and stocks up on milk, bread, and other important items just in case.

Now, hoarding perishable food items is not as irresponsible as you may think.  A couple of times per decade, we get an ICE STORM.

Ice storms are terrible things, and ice storms love pine trees.  Atlanta, Georgia is cursed to be covered in pine trees.  Pine trees are the worst kind of tree you can have.  They are the weeds of the tree family.

If only all those weirdo environmental, tree-hugging idiots knew the real worth of these criminal conifers. The darned things are not even worth burning as firewood, and you can’t kill them fast enough to keep them out of you yard.

Pine trees will fall over in a heavy rain. Put a quarter of an inch of ice on their limbs, and you will have them crashing on power lines all over the Southern United States. Millions of people will be out of power, and heat, for weeks. That’s why we hoard milk and bread.

Beer works pretty good, too.  If only we were shut in for a while, and I could work down this supply of beer I have laid in for the bad times.

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