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)
Here’s that email in full:
Hi,
Greetings and best wishes for a prosperous New Year.
National Search
After the recent whistleblower revelations of emails between climate researchers and data from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, there are on-going investigations into potential fraudulent use of grant funds in Climate Research in the US. I am assisting interested parties who may have details of fraud in climate research to make contact with the proper authorities, and to share in the rewards paid when the funds are recovered.
Whistleblower Rewards Program
The federal government has established vigorous programs to identify and prosecute fraudulent grant applications and administration. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) administers the False Claims Act. It allows rewards for those who come forward with details of grant fraud to share in the recovery of federal funds. This reward can be as much as 30% of the total amount reclaimed. The program is almost completely reliant on insiders to report their knowledge of the fraud in their institutions.
Attorney Literally “Wrote the Book” on Fraud Recovery Lawsuits
Joel Hesch, Esq., of Hesch and Associates, literally wrote the book on how to report federal fraud. He has an extensive background in representing whistleblowers in all types of federal funding fraud cases, including Educational/ Research Grant Fraud. According to Mr Hesch: “Many institutions receive grants, whether for research or educational purposes. When they lie to get the grant or keep the grant or if they use the funds for purposes outside the grant, they are liable under the DOJ program. There have been many grant cases brought by whistleblowers. ”
If you know of anyone who might have details about fraudulent statements or actions by recipients of federal grant funds for climate research, please have them contact me immediately at the below email or cell phone. Alternatively, they may also contact Mr Hersch directly, and let him know that they were referred by me. All communications are completely confidential. They may want to consider using a third party email service (Yahoo, Hotmail, or other) instead of work email to communicate.
30% of $50 million is more than $12 million. Ask your friends to do the right thing, and be rewarded for doing it.
Our country, and in fact, the entire world is counting on someone to stand up and tell the truth about climate research. The effects of moving forward with taxes and policies based on fraudulent science could potentially cripple the US economy and cost lives and jobs for generations.
Look forward to hearing from you.
All the best
Kent Clizbe
Happy New Year, Climategaters.
Read original story here with comments.
If nothing else, it will make him sweat, and further sow the seeds of distrust and paranoia amongst the climategaters. The more nervous they get, the more apt they are to make mistakes, or turn on each other, or quit.
I wouldn’t get your hopes up. Bureaucracies hate whistle blowers. It never turns out well for the person blowing the whistle.
It would also take an impartial Justice department to prosecute. The Justice department is lead by the Attorney General who is appointed by the President. I doubt very much that this POTUS cares that much about truth, scientific or otherwise.
After the November Congressional elections, maybe all kinds of illegal activities will get additional scrutiny. Time will tell.
Michael (15:58:53) :
If next winter follows this winter in lockstep, it will be late, but better late than never. Three cheers for the Great Whistleblower.
Who was that masked man?
Michael In Sydney (15:49:33) :
“He’s right, 30% of $50m is more than $12m…it is exactly $15m, how hard is that math to get right?”
It is ‘right’.
15 – legal fees = 12.
Easy
Polar Brown Bear: A brown bear that adapted to sea-ice environment and, as a result, grew larger and more formidable than the brown bears it come from.
And if there is no ice and it bears (Pun) it’s young on land, they turn brown.
It really doesn’t matter (I think) whether the email sent to mad professor by proxy Mann’s (infamous now due to his emails leaked/obtained from the East Anglia University server and for his so called climate research) collegues, produces a result or not. What does matter is that an increasing number of people gets involved and it will put focus on this monumental hogwash and flush out the AGW crap
Video Diary of Shivering Britain:
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/149760
tarpon, from a 2007 article :
Polar Bears. Polar bears are not becoming endangered. A leading Canadian polar bear biologist wrote recently, “Climate change is having an effect on the west Hudson population of polar bears, but really, there is no need to panic. Of the 13 populations of polar bears in Canada, 11 are stable or increasing in number. They are not going extinct, or even appear (sic) to be affected at present.”
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YmFiZDAyMWFhMGIxNTgwNGIyMjVkZjQ4OGFiZjFlNjc=
The argument seems to be : Polar bears swim out to floating ice. If the floating ice is not there they will drown.
The question is : WHY do polar bears swim out to floating ice? To catch seals. If there is less floating ice where do the seals go? To the shore, where the polar bears are!
This seems insignificant, possibly unproductive, in itself. But remember, this is only one facet of a much larger situation. And there’s no statute of limitations for fraud.
I am not overly familiar with the inner workings of a politically driven campus, got my BS and was done, but am a bit familiar with Fed LEO’s.
Mann and co had better watch their cya and internal threats against any whistleblowers as the DoJ loves that type of behavior.
It allows them to use not only the whistleblower protection laws, but also RICO statutes. Once they have shown that the RICO statutes are applicable; which a long term threat to others’ livelihood, unless they do (publish) what you want them to, does qualify as, Mann is toast.
They will go through his entire history and suddenly the threats that were made to not give someone tenure, or to quash a publication all will be added to the piles of indictments. 200+ count indictments are not unheard of once the dogs are on the scent.
This can happen even without a whistleblower, beyond the initial leaker, should Mann’s behavior put a dangerous context to a phrase in a 5 year old email.
This could potentially have a huge impact on Penn State. Indirect costs vary by school, but average around 45%. Thus, for $50m, the school might have to repay $23m or so. Ouch.
Michael In Sydney (15:49:33) :
He’s right, 30% of $50m is more than $12m…it is exactly $15m, how hard is that math to get right?
Clizbe’s math prowess is sure to give Mann cause for trepidation.
If these guys can be trusted, you decide, stock up on everything
Some people are trying to say that people who would not tell without money are bad people. But one thing that the money may do, as well as the whistle blower protections, is to press people who do not now know of fraud to actually look into databases and find out if there in fact was fraud. Basically, it is not their job to keep track of what these potential fraudsters are doing, but with a monetary incentive, they may be willing to spend a few minutes looking to see if there is any.
“AdderW (17:14:00) :
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The Met Office said it would get colder with more snow forecast.”
They ALWAYS get their forecast wrong, that means it’ll get warmer, no?
As much as I like the idea, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. The CRU whistle blower did it for the right reason. Truth and honesty. Both seem to have gone out of fashion, so I was incredibly gob-stopped when the leak happened. Part of me still has to shake my head when I wake up to make sure I am not dreaming. Truth and honesty, the world needs more.
The ‘scientists’ and colleagues might not turn, but what about the grad students and assistants? They handle the data, set up and often do the raw research, and compile a lot of the information. They also make bubkus. Let some of these young idealist believers start see people freezing across the land while their bosses are of in copenhagen swilling champagne and munching caviar and some interesting things might start popping out of the woodwork…..such as e-mail archive files and the like?
DirkH (16:04:32) :
How about ‘Climate Modeller – Will Prove Anything for a bag of Coal!
D. King (17:07:29) :
Michael In Sydney (15:49:33) :
He’s right, 30% of $50m is more than $12m…it is exactly $15m, how hard is that math to get right?
Clizbe’s math prowess is sure to give Mann cause for trepidation.
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Math prowess isn’t much of a requirement at a jury trial. In fact, it’s probably a negative.
Jim Carson (14:10:02) :
“Lovely thought, but the money’s gone. And the only reward is based on what recoverable. Which is nothing.”
I’m not writing off the importance of the money that was lost, but getting the truth out is the important part.
Dennis (15:54:20) : Challenge: Can anyone name something of valuable that has come out of academic research?
Insulin – discovered at U of Toronto in 1921 by Banting, Best, Collip and McLeod.
Penicillin -medical uses discovered by Florey and Chain 1939-40 at Oxford University.
Speaking of the weather. Rockford, Illinois is expected to get 2 to 4 inches of global warming tonight. A low of 13F is predicted. According to the weather bug on my computer it is already 13F. I have noticed of late that the predicted temps seem about 4F higher than actuals. But of course without keeping records that could just be expectation bias.
There’s no doubt that some day, hopefully in the not too distant future, people of influence who are deeply involved in the hoax of the century will be charged and taken to court. I can’t wait for that day. I bet many are hoping not only for global warming to return but to return with a vengeance. However, they are dreaming since there’s no evidence that it will happen. So, time will catch up with them. They can run but they can’t hide. Their careers will end with a big bang soon.
I don’t know… The letter comes off as something I’d get from an ambulance chaser.
The Met Office said it would get colder with more snow forecast.”
They ALWAYS get their forecast wrong, that means it’ll get warmer, no?
No, it’s just the Met Office looks so stupid now that they have to say soemthing that agrees with what’s actually happening. To do otherwise would put their very survival at risk as more and more people start asking questions as to why continue to waste millions of taxpayers money for such an incompetent service.