Now we know why they like global warming so much – it’s hot.
Excerpts below of the original story here: Porn surfing rampant at U.S. science foundation
EXCLUSIVE:
Employee misconduct investigations, often involving workers accessing pornography from their government computers, grew sixfold last year inside the taxpayer-funded foundation that doles out billions of dollars of scientific research grants, according to budget documents and other records obtained by The Washington Times.
The problems at the National Science Foundation (NSF) were so pervasive they swamped the agency’s inspector general and forced the internal watchdog to cut back on its primary mission of investigating grant fraud and recovering misspent tax dollars.
“To manage this dramatic increase without an increase in staff required us to significantly reduce our efforts to investigate grant fraud,” the inspector general recently told Congress in a budget request. “We anticipate a significant decline in investigative recoveries and prosecutions in coming years as a direct result.”
The budget request doesn’t state the nature or number of the misconduct cases, but records obtained by The Times through the Freedom of Information Act laid bare the extent of the well-publicized porn problem inside the government-backed foundation.
For instance, one senior executive spent at least 331 days looking at pornography on his government computer and chatting online with nude or partially clad women without being detected, the records show.
When finally caught, the NSF official retired. He even offered, among other explanations, a humanitarian defense, suggesting that he frequented the porn sites to provide a living to the poor overseas women. Investigators put the cost to taxpayers of the senior official’s porn surfing at between $13,800 and about $58,000.
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You have to wonder how widespread the inattention at government offices is.
Well, if the ‘science is settled’ what else do you expect them to do?
Sorry Mr Moderator, couldn’t resist that one.
Here’s hoping that peer reviewing in this extra curricular interest is as romantic as their climate analyses.
Oh hey, gummint bureaucrats wasting taxpayer dollars. That’s not news, that’s olds…
I’ve heard of ‘hardcore’ science, but this?
Every Gov’t agency, et al, that I’ve worked with has very strong router filters in place… w/ user habits monitored and logged~
“…accessing pornography from their government computers, grew sixfold last year.”
Does this mean that heavy breathing by “surfers” at the NSF led to a six fold increase in CO2 emissions?
Are they hiring???????
I wish I had an office private enough to search porn from.
Umm, wait a minute, that didn’t come out quite right. However, people working in glass cubicles can throw commentary!
Clayton Hollowell (08:48:26) :
Oh hey, gummint bureaucrats wasting taxpayer dollars. That’s not news, that’s olds…
At least it is a hell of a lot cheaper than fighting climate-change, and its more fun 😀
They should change their acronym from NSF to NSFW.
CON SCIENCE… No conscience in our science, or our government…
No confidence in them from most people…
Conscience is the awareness of a moral or ethical aspect to one’s conduct together with the urge to prefer right over wrong…
We’ve been conned by science and government.
one senior executive spent at least 331 days looking at pornography on his government computer and chatting online with nude or partially clad women
Although the report doesn’t give us the time period over which this happened, one might wonder when he found time to do any work of any value. In Canada, there are only about 250 work days a year, so either the time epriod was greater than one year, or this senior exec put in a lot of overtime at someone’s expense. In any case, the practice is one better done at home, if one feels so inclined to do it at all.
Could this be a diversion manoueuver?
One group engages in frantic porno-surfing so that the others can keep up the grant fraud (to finance building more hockey sticks)? 😀
The reason for the increase is that Climatologists are bored. This is what happens when the ‘science behind AGW is settled’.
I’m sure that twenty years from now this period will be viewed as the dark-age of science. Sad really that when new technology is allowing us to find out more and more about the universe, science seems incapable of developing new theories to adequately explain what is observed.
Is that a Hockey Stick in your trousers…?
Must have been a study on the effect of Global Warming on Erectile Dysfunction.
Perhaps they’re just collecting data on how the area of clothing worn by the average webcam performer, averaged over the duration of her performance, varies regionally and with respect to time.
Obviously they’ll have to watch a lot of ladies over a lot of sessions, for a really long time, to be sure this represents a valid AGW proxy.
At any rate – it should result in a powerful upturn at some point in the process.
I bet they had no problems archiving their favorite pictures and porn sites.
The only things they were blocked from accessing on the web was data used by climate researchers.
Will WUWT be tagged as a porn site. It “Lays Bare” many “Bodies”
RealClimate and ClimateProgress were my sources for [climate] porn. I’ve since cleaned up my act thanks to WUWT, although still take a peak at the dirty stuff once in while.
Congrats to the Washington Times for their up to date reporting. Are they going to announce as ‘breaking news’ that President McKinley has been assassinated?
This is pretty old news. It was carried by the rest of the press 6-8 months ago.
I’m in IT Security — at the NSF. Fortunately for me, being the agency porn cop has never been considered to be within the IT Security Officers purview. A fact of which I am heartily glad of that.
Yeah, they discovered a long standing problem (because no one was the porn cop) and have cleaned it out. The issue was that NSF has for all of its existence pretty much treated the environment as if it were an open campus environment and did not want to ‘inhibit’ or interfere with the free exchange of ideas. These individuals took advantage of that philosophy to pursue their ‘hobbies’. It was pretty bad. We now have content/URL filtering in place and run checks looking for unacceptable files/pics on computers.
Always amazes me how people think their government issued computers are ‘theirs’ to do with as they will and that the Government has no right to even look at the thing.
There’s really not much difference in doing this and doing their assigned jobs these days, is there?
It’s just a shift from fantasizing about polar bears to polar Bares.
“…discovered a long standing problem ” Over 4 hrs and I think your supposed to call a doc…right?
Nice to know that they’ve so much free time on their hands.