UPDATE: The cumulative total is over 2 million USD, the $200k yearly number is generally correct, but varies year to year, see more below. Also, a list of funders to CRU has been added. – Anthony
In the story DOE Funding For CRU Placed On Hold it was reported about the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) that:
It has supported the CRU financially since 1990 and gives the unit about £131,000 ($200,000 USD) 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.
Some enterprising commenters at WUWT have found evidence in the Climategate emails that the $200K figure may be low, or just one part of a multi-part contract. See below.
UPDATE: Excel file from CRU tells the story and cumulative total, see below:
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Kforestcat says:
July 20, 2010 at 9:36 pm
Gentlemen
On closer inspection, it looks like the DOE was to supply far more in grant funds than the $200,000/year the DOE indicated it suspended. So your $4.0 million estimate is probably too low. A review of the climate gate e-mails shows the Department of Energy Office of Science – Chicago Office – supplyed $1.5 to $1.7 million in FY 2007/2008 alone.
As evidence see the May 7 12:42:32 2008 e-mail (File Name 1210178552.text) entitled “Request for Cost Date for DOE Grant”.
In this e-mail, the UEA’s Office Supervisor for Finance Research, Mrs. Sandra Carter, indicates to Dr. Jones that the EAU had, to 7 May 2008, received for the DOE $1,589,632 in FY 2007/2008 grant money. Against what appears to be a total spent of $1,744,130 as of 30 April 2008.
An additional $58,880 was expected to be spent in April to June 08 time frame and an additional $47,190 to be spent in the July to September 2008 time frame.
The amounts of DOE grant money the EAU spent on staff and travel is frankly astonishing – see details in the e-mail. At a typical $100,000/yr for a full time equivalent (FTE) for each employee, this level of funding is enough to support 15-17 full time employees for a full fiscal year.
My review of the climate gate e-mails also showed that Dr. Jones wasn’t too eager for the U.S. Congress to know that both he and Tom Wigley had been receiving substantial amounts of DOE grant money for 25 years. See Filename 1120676865.txt where it states:
xxxxxxxxx
From: Phil Jones
To: “Neville Nicholls”
Subject: RE: Misc
Date: Wed Jul 6 15:07:45 2005
Neville,
Mike’s response could do with a little work, but as you say he’s got the tone
almost dead on. I hope I don’t get a call from congress ! I’m hoping that no-one
there realizes I have a US DoE grant and have had this (with Tom W.) for the last 25
years.
I’ll send on one other email received for interest.
Cheers
Phil
xxxxxxxxx
h/t to WUWT reader Eric Dailey
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From Verity Jones in comments:
From an Excel file released with the emails in November. US DOE Funding only:
Funding Source, Investigators, Grant Title, Funding, Start Date, End Date
US DEPT OF ENERGY Prof PD JONES, Prof TML WIGLEY Detection of CO2 induced climate change (Suppl.) – cum. total £540,956, original start date 01/12/90 £128,000 01/03/1995 29/02/1996
US DEPT OF ENERGY Prof PD JONES, Prof TML WIGLEY Detection of greenhouse gas induced climate change (Suppl.) – cum. total £672,956, original start date 01/12/90 £132,000 01/03/1996 28/02/1997
US DEPT OF ENERGY Prof PD JONES, Prof TML WIGLEY Detection of greenhouse gas induced climate change (Suppl.) – cum. total £797,956, original start date 01/12/90 £125,000 01/03/1997 28/02/1998
US DEPT OF ENERGY Prof PD JONES, Prof TML WIGLEY Climate data analysis and models for the study of natural variability and anthropogenic change £99,555 01/05/1998 30/04/1999
US DEPT OF ENERGY Prof PD JONES, Prof TML WIGLEY Climate data analysis and models for the study of natural variability and anthropogenic change (Suppl.) £102,752 01/05/1999 30/04/2000
US DEPT OF ENERGY Prof PD JONES Climate data analysis and models for the study of natural variability and anthropogenic change £106,151 01/05/2000 30/04/2001
US DEPT OF ENERGY Prof PD JONES, Prof TML WIGLEY Climate data and analysis from the study of natural variability and anthropogenic change £212,500 01/05/2001 30/04/2003
US DEPT OF ENERGY Prof PD JONES, Prof TML WIGLEY Climate Data and Analysis – Study of Natural Variability and Anthropogenic Change. – Supp awarded £88,756 – 30.3.06 £262,629 01/05/2004 30/05/2006
Yep – including the ‘Cum total’ from 1990 figures that’s about £1.5M. Graph of total funding in this blog post:
http://diggingintheclay.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/fellowship-of-the-tree-rings-an-immoral-tale/
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Note: £1.5M is 2.278 million U.S. dollars
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UPDATE:
Partial list of CRU funders
Source: CRU
Below is a partial list of funders for the Climatic Research Unit of climategate fame. These organizations and companies funded Phil Jones and the CRU division of the “hockey stick team.” Notice all the major international oil companies, leftist NGOs and self-interested governments — none of which climate alarmists mention when questioning funding of climate realists.
“This list is not fully exhaustive, but we would like to acknowledge the support of the following funders (in alphabetical order):” 
British Council, British Petroleum, Broom’s Barn Sugar Beet Research Centre, Central Electricity Generating Board, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), Commercial Union, Commission of European Communities (CEC, often referred to now as EU), Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC), Department of Energy, Department of the Environment (DETR, now DEFRA), Department of Health, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Eastern Electricity, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Environment Agency, Forestry Commission, Greenpeace International, International Institute of Environmental Development (IIED), Irish Electricity Supply Board, KFA Germany, Leverhulme Trust, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF), National Power, National Rivers Authority, Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC), Norwich Union, Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, Overseas Development Administration (ODA), Reinsurance Underwriters and Syndicates, Royal Society, Scientific Consultants, Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC), Scottish and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research, Shell, Stockholm Environment Agency, Sultanate of Oman, Tate and Lyle, UK Met. Office, UK Nirex Ltd., United Nations Environment Plan (UNEP), United States Department of Energy, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Wolfson Foundation and the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF).
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CRU couldn’t find enough money to buy a decent archive system or even a little bit of quality control. All that first class travel to expensive locations like Tahiti soon empties the coffers.
They had a high burn rate for funding. I notice they were drawn to Big Oil funding also.
It is expensive for the Climate ruling class to attend Copenhagen, parties and new friends etc. Obama says let them ride bikes.
Someone get us a link to the investigation and the grant application. Mosh will do the temperature indexes for 50K/year
I remember some one who was asking *me* (of all people ) very specifically whether I was willing to donate money to the CRU to provide for archiving data that the skeptics were clamoring after.
I’ve hosted some scraps of html on free servers on the Internet from the late 90s and it cost me the simple annoyance of running some ads on those pages. They are still around.
The Virginia AG is doing a financial review. Mis appropriation of funds is very common where there are other mis deeds and short comings in business practices. All the trips to Siberia to harvest all the trees ads up.
Sadly this conspicous consumption leaves a huge carbon footprint. alGore has 2 more incidents of unfriending come forward. These things happen when there is heavy travel and speaking is in great demand.
The DOE also buys a lot of bandwidth since all the busy bees also watch a lot of porn in their cube farms.
Jones is afraid for his safety. Does he need a limo, driver and body guard? Mucho expensive.
I can’t believe he said:
“I hope I don’t get a call from congress ! I’m hoping that no-one there realizes I have a US DoE grant and have had this (with Tom W.) for the last 25 years.”
This is an outrageous.
No wonder UAE wants to keep Jones if he brings in that sort of money. The Vice-chancellor probably makes Jones’ coffee every moring and polishes his shoes!
Nice find, Anthony. Sure am glad I found your site.
The relevancy of this request might be the following statement by Phil Jones, then Director of the CRU, to his friend Neville Nicholls of Australia, regarding his relationship with the DOE (File No. 1120676865.txt, dated July 6, 2005):
I hope I don’t get a call from [the United States C]ongress ! I’m hoping that no-one there realizes I have a US DoE grant and have had this (with Tom W.) for the last 25 years.
http://www.examiner.com/x-28973-Essex-County-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m12d15-Significance-of-DOE-litigation-hold
Sen Inhofe is trying to get reports also. Didn’t Mark Morano work there?
Jones got a buyout ?
Can’t all of this be determined with an FOIA request to CRU asking “show us the money?”
And a second one to the U.S. DoE Office of Biological & Environmental Research asking “Show us anything about funding given to CRU from 1980 to current.”
Naive question here.
Why is the US Department of Energy sending money to foreign universities?
AGW = “IT’S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY BOYS!!!!”
Up to now I’ve been charitable and assumed that the climate catastrophe perception was simply caused by altruistic and concerned individuals allowing their imaginations to run away with them as a side effect of their professional enthusiasm.
This points to something rather more venal.
After Climategate.
Endeavors to fleece the flock have become more fragile after the Climategate incident. Had Jones been found in error or guilty of bad efferts, this revenuue stream was in great danger.
Dave Springer says:
July 21, 2010 at 11:44 am
“Naive question here.
Why is the US Department of Energy sending money to foreign universities?”
I asked a similar question on the first article. Can’t the Brits pay for their own propaganda machine? Maybe the Brits are funding GISS as payback? I don’t know what smells, but it stinks to high heavens. I don’t know how or why this is significant, but when people start doing unusual things with money and state they don’t want people to find out about their sources of income, illegal activity is nearby. As has been stated often, follow the money, only this time, it really needs checked by real investigators.
I am so sorry , but AGW stands nowadays for Absolute Greedy Whores .
The more I think of this, the more miffed I get. Calling congressman to demand full accounting.
Well, well, well. No wonder Jones didn’t want to share the data. It had already been bought and paid for…
Dirka dirka – Jihad! Follow the money!
Am I wrong that CRUTem is a “value added” product that commercial clients have been paying for?
John from CA @ur momisugly July 21, 2010 at 11:18 am
I can’t believe he said:
“I hope I don’t get a call from congress ! I’m hoping that no-one there realizes I have a US DoE grant and have had this (with Tom W.) for the last 25 years.”
I hope he gets a call from theVirgina AG 🙂
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hehe, plus travel expenses
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