The Hockey Stick Trick Legal Troubles
This is from Climategate: Michael Mann’s Very Unhappy New Year by James Delingpole writing the U.K. Telegraph:
As I said yesterday, one of our jobs this year is to wipe the complacent smiles off the smug faces of the lobbyists, “experts”, “scientists”, politicians and activists pushing AGW.
This is why I am so glad to report that Michael Mann – creator of the incredible Hockey Stick curve and one of the scientists most heavily implicated in the Climategate scandal – is about to get a very nasty shock. When he turns up to work on Monday, he’ll find that all 27 of his colleagues at the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University have received a rather tempting email inviting them to blow the whistle on anyone they know who may have been fraudulently misusing federal grant funds for climate research.
Under US law, regardless of whether or not a prosecution results, the whistleblower stands to make very large sums of money: it is based on a percentage of the total government funds which have been misused, in this case perhaps as much as $50 million. (Hat tip: John O’Sullivan of the wonderful new campaigning site www.climategate.com)
See my previous post: The Amazing Hockey Stick Trick
See also: Attention Penn State: Top Fraud Attorney Seeks Climategate Whistleblowers
[...] PDRTJS_settings_947749_post_2507 = { "id" : "947749", "unique_id" : "wp-post-2507", "title" : "More+Troubles+For+Hockey-Stick-Trick+Man+Michael+Mann", "item_id" : "_post_2507", "permalink" : "http%3A%2F%2Fteejaw.com%2F2010%2F02%2F12%2Fmore-troubles-for-hockey-stick-trick-man-michael-mann%2F" } I outlined some possible legal troubles for Michael Mann of Penn State University stemming from his “hide the decline” manipulations to his climate research data in an earlier post, The Hockey Stick Trick Legal Troubles. [...]
[...] The first involves Penn State’s Michael Mann, the creator of the infamous Hockey Stick graph which purports to show relatively stable global temperatures until the 20th Century. The graph was constructed by trickery and deceit to bolster Mann’s argument that man-made global warming is occurring. The graph exaggerates actual warming and isolates it to recent years to lend credence to the theory that human activity is the cause. In reality the earth has warmed and cooled in the past and during periods when no human activity could possibly have contributed to it. I also said that Mann may be facing legal problems if he used taxpayer funds derived through Government grants to perpetrate a hoax. See Penn State Students Call For Independent Investigation of Michael Piltdown Mann and The Hockey Stick Legal Troubles. [...]