Global Warming Grafters Wound Respected Institutions

This man-made global warming scam will go down as one of the biggest frauds perpetuated in world history.  No one will come away clean in this scandal.  Institutions will be discredited as nothing more than grafters looking for an easy buck from government agencies that have an agenda.  Science will be the biggest casualty of them all.

However, there are a few who have the integrity to stand up to the global warming bullies.

  “A 2008 survey by two German scientists, Dennis Bray and Hans von Storch, found that a significant number of scientists were skeptical of the ability of existing global climate models to accurately predict global temperatures, precipitation, sea-level changes, or extreme weather events even over a decade; they were far more skeptical as the time horizon increased.”

Other mainstream news sources besides the National Review have also been courageous enough to speak out against the global warming propaganda – even the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed piece in 2015 challenging the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) pseudoscience being promulgated by global warming proponents.

 And, of course, there are the more than 31,000 American scientists (to date) who have signed a petition challenging the climate change narrative and 9,029 of them hold PhDs in their respective fields. But hey, Al Gore and his cronies have also ignored that inconvenient truth, as well.

Many of those scientists who signed the petition were likely encouraged to speak out in favor of the truth after retired senior NASA atmospheric scientist John L. Casey revealed that solar cycles are largely responsible for warming periods on Earth – not human activity

I find this laughable.  I remember making the same arguments around 2004 and I’m by no means a scientist.  One can only shake his head at the destruction these grafters have wrought upon the world.

Source:

http://yournewswire.com/tens-of-thousands-of-scientists-declare-climate-change-a-hoax/

Duke University's Epic $200 Million Fraud Lawsuit

Duke University is in big trouble.  A whistleblower exposed a culture of academic corruption.  The federal suit accuses researchers William Foster and Erin Potts-Kants of fabricating data and falsifying reports as a means to collect grant money from various government agencies.  This investigation began when Potts-Kants pled guilty to embezzlement.

Then Potts-Kant’s troubles got worse. Duke officials took a closer look at her work and didn’t like what they saw. Fifteen of her papers, mostly dealing with pulmonary biology, have now been retracted, with many notices citing “unreliable” data. Several others have been modified with either partial retractions, expressions of concern, or corrections. And last month, a U.S. district court unsealed a whistleblower lawsuit filed by a former colleague of Potts-Kant. It accuses the researcher, her former supervisor, and the university of including fraudulent data in applications and reports involving more than 60 grants worth some $200 million. If successful, the suit—brought under the federal False Claims Act (FCA)—could force Duke to return to the government up to three times the amount of any ill-gotten funds, and produce a multimillion-dollar payout to the whistleblower.

 This is just the tip of the iceberg.  Can you imagine how many government grants have financed fraudulent papers propelling this man-made global warming nonsense?  However, if you believe public universities will pay for their malfeasance, think again.

Relatively few of these cases have targeted research universities (see box, below); many allege fraud in health care or military programs. But that's changing. The FCA "is increasingly being used to target alleged fraud in a diverse array of industries, including research and academia," says attorney Suzanne Jaffe Bloom of Winston & Strawn LLP in New York City. Although recent court rulings suggest public universities may have some protection from qui tam suits because they are government entities, private institutions do not. Eleven private universities, including Duke, are among the top 25 recipients of federal funding for academic science over the past decade.

It’s good to be the government. 

Source:

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/09/03/two-hundred-million-dollar-scientific-grant-fraud-case/

http://retractionwatch.com/2016/06/06/another-paper-by-duke-pair-with-12-retractions-is-flagged/

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/whistleblower-sues-duke-claims-doctored-data-helped-win-200-million-grants

http://retractionwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/19112726351.pdf

Theoretical Physicist Questions Light-Eating Black Holes

The science is settled!  How many times have we heard that from consensus grafters?  Global warmers refuse to provide their data, and when they do, their assertions have been refuted.  Their whole premise is based on computer models that have never been right.  These same scientists have stooped so low as to fabricate real temperature data to manipulate world opinion.

Consensus is not science.  The global warming debate will continue as long as honest brokers aren’t censored.  Even well established theories, like black holes, are disputed to this day.  The News and Observer reported:

CHAPEL HILL — A theoretical physicist at UNC believes she has found a rather large hole in the popular scientific conception of the universe.

The university’s press office states flatly that Dr. Laura Mersini-Houghton has shown that “black holes do not exist,” and that, as a result, scientists are going to have to “reimagine the fabric of space-time, but also rethink the origins of the universe.”

Those cosmic claims may be slightly hyperbolic, but Mersini-Houghton herself believes that her paper published last week will disrupt our entire understanding of the light-eating, infinitely dense objects that supposedly haunt the universe. She says black holes likely can’t exist in the way they’ve been previously conceived.

Her conclusion, in short, is that collapsing stars should slow their self destruction before they truly become bottomless gravity well.

 If physicist can still debate the existence of black holes without recriminations can’t climatologist?

Source:

http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/09/30/4196212_unc-professor-pokes-theoretical.html?sp=/99/100/&rh=1#storylink=cpy

The Earth Revolves Around the Sun? Who Knew!

Is this study for real?  I thought this was a universal truth.  Not one built on consensus.

Source: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2395697