US Government Halts Funds For Climate Unit
Sunday, 18 July 2010 08:00 Jonathan Leake, The Sunday Times
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.
It has supported the CRU financially since 1990 and gives the unit about £131,000 a year on a rolling three-year contract.
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.”
The Sunday Times, 18 July 2010
Sunday, 18 July 2010 08:00 Jonathan Leake, The Sunday Times
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.
It has supported the CRU financially since 1990 and gives the unit about £131,000 a year on a rolling three-year contract.
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.”
The Sunday Times, 18 July 2010
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| Maybe the litigious Yanks with their oh-so-clearcut administrative rules will ultimately provide the means to bring this circus to a halt. (I also hold out great hopes for the efforts of Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli who is pursuing the University Virginia and Michael Mann.) ......... This is stuff that came out at the time of the release of the Climategate e-mails, courtesy of the Air Vent and Lubos Motl http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/285693/ "Grant-funded science is a highly competitive business. Only the most skilled at it, not the most capable scientifically, survive for long. This email helps explain the animosity from the CRU Team towards those who threaten to upset their applecart - (like Steve McIntyre, although he only came on the scene later. Filename: 906137836.txt Quote:
http://www.eastangliaemails.com/search.php Sounds like Keith Briffa, Big Daddy of CRU Palaeodendrochronology, was giving himself an ulcer in pursuit of more grant funding for the unit whilst also trying to get on with what he saw as his real work. Climate research is a lucrative little cottage industry in East Anglia that is fully funded by the government and dependent on the continued belief in a man made crisis. Naturally the UEA stands full square behind its CRU milch-cow in this effort to secure funds. Obviously the money doesn’t go the the researchers only, but it funds their “business” and for that business to continue, they must support AGW and fight off the opposition. The Follow-The-Money principle helps to aid navigation through the swamp of climatechaneism. Money, with its concommitant prestige and perks, not least the constant travel to attractive locations, is a powerful motivator. Science should not be held hostage to grant hogs. This nice little graph below shows how CRU's financial worries were sorted in 2001 when Phil Jones landed the money big-time. ![[image]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_uY5iYvKH--_bCV-Ncn6a7rq8Ac4u5IT-W2FCPcS1qr4Px-eq3nnTuKcWeyYGn09beyQxKioO-ZMTYN3ZiykX07IkMi_h8SXLcTOla1O6a3p16eBdR744nUdQwA6A=s0-d "[image]") http://noconsensus.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/image1.jpg Here's a spreadsheet showing individual CRU grants courtesy of Lubos Motl http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0....WUE&hl=en# All this info come to us courtsey of the climategate whistle-blower. I believe it was a whistle-blower, not an outside hacker. Thanks to him. | ||||
I expect this will be a symbolic gesture, myself, and the funds re-instated after a short period.
Still, it's better than a whitewash and triple exoneration from the UK Establishment!
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