Paul Chesser at the American Spectator tips me via email to a TV news report from WHTM-TV in Harrisburg, PA. WHTM is the TV station whose DMA covers State College.
Chesser writes:
Following up from yesterday, the ABC news station in Harrisburg did a fair-and-balanced story about the Commonwealth Foundation‘s call for an outside, independent investigation of Penn State’s Climategate scientist, Michael Mann.
Here’s the video news report:
Transcript here:
ABC27: Penn State at Center of Global Warming Debate
So this makes “Mann made global warming” a genuine technical term?
Lisa Powers,
When exactly will Penn State’s review of the case be complete?
It’s really not that complicated.
Let us here at WUWT clustersource any difficulties you may be having and delaying the report on your investigation.
Please submit all e-mail and data you have concerning the investigation immediately so we can help you expedite the investigation in a timely manner.
Thank You
MJN
How refreshing. An investigation that doesn’t drag on for years. We will know what they’ve learned by the end of the month. I hope the university understands that it’s best interests are not necessarily served by bowing to the huge amounts of research funding that have been awarded in this particular case.
or is that Man(n) made global warming tb? 🙂
Penn State has just as much invested in Airports Globally Warming as Mann. Odds favor a white-wash.
Anyone know why he left UVa? Looks like it was in the fall of 2005 around the time he was defending the hockey stick in front of the US Congress. As an alumnus of Virginia, I’m glad he’s not there!
The spokesman for the Commonwealth Foundation accused Mann of destroying data. I’m not sure there was any evidence of that in the emails. Anyone recall anything like that being discussed in the emails? Or Mann being accused of that in other circumstances?
@ur momisugly Michael (19:08:33) : the video stated that the investigation was due to be completed by the end of the month.
No Hockey Stick here………400 years of accurate records in Central England…..Shows no influence from Co2……..John…..
http://c3headlines.typepad.com/.a/6a010536b58035970c0120a7c87805970b-pi
“The truth will come out” she says. I hope so, but do not expect Penn State to be the organization responsible.
Commonwealth Foundation? Would that be:
http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/about/
or
http://www.commonwealthfoundation.org/about/
I didn’t even know there was a commonwealth associated with the USA
I really have come to HATE the smirk Michael Mann has on his face.
It is a similar smirk to that of Gavin Schmidt…..and Phil Jones…..and Kevin Trenberth….and Ben Santer….etc…..et al…..ad nauseum.
Anyone else ever notice that pattern?
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
Tokyoboy… I have a feeling that Mann-made global warming won’t translate into Japanese… of course I could be wrong… 🙂
This exchange was in the emails:
May 29, 2008: email 1212063122
Phil Jones writes to Mike Mann the email that will provide his prosecutors with their easiest conviction:
“Mike,
Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith regarding the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report? Keith will do likewise. He’s not in at the moment—minor family crisis.
Can you also email Gene and get him to do the same? I don’t have his new email address.
We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.”
Mike Mann’s response provides similar assistance to his prosecutors: “I’ll contact Gene about this as soon as possible.”
My post above was supposed to be in reply to theduke’s questions at 19:22:46.
Penn State will white wash. There is no reason they will do otherwise.
tfp (19:27:23) :
Massachussetts, Pennsylvania, and I believe Virginia were all originally commonwealths before the Revolution and continue to use that term to describe themselves.
Mike Bryant (19:32:00) :
“Tokyoboy… I have a feeling that Mann-made global warming won’t translate into Japanese… of course I could be wrong… :)”
Well it’s not very easy, but I’ll try.
“savethesharks (19:31:43) :
I really have come to HATE the smirk Michael Mann has on his face.
It is a similar smirk to that of Gavin Schmidt…..and Phil Jones…..and Kevin Trenberth….and Ben Santer….etc…..et al…..ad nauseum.
Anyone else ever notice that pattern?
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA”
Yes I have, and it too annoys me. You just know the lies behind the grins.
I too smell a whitewash here as with Jones and the CRU. Too few people and too many politicians have too much invested in this lie (Revenue stream) to change anything, even in the long term.
See link for reference to email sent to Mann regarding destroying information. Mann acknowledged the request, confirmed that he forwarded it on to another person.
The Title of the item is as follows and the link is below:
Details emerge on PSU investigation of Mann
November 30, 10:03 AMEssex County Conservative ExaminerTerry Hurlbut
http://tinyurl.com/yk3rrlp
“Massachussetts, Pennsylvania, and I believe Virginia were all originally commonwealths before the Revolution and continue to use that term to describe themselves.”
Kentucky is also a commonwealth. The correct answer to ‘how many states are there in the US?’ is 46.
I have a suspision that the elections in November might have a great deal to do with the status of any investigation performed both concerning Dr. Mann and very possibly one that might be aimed at Dr. Schmidt. (I hope that is spelled correctly). There may very well be a new “consensus” that truly makes a difference after November. We shall have to wait and see.
Bill Derryberry
For reference, the TV station in question covers perhaps the largest concentration of Penn State fans/alums, who are in the Harrisburg area.
Of course Harrisburg is also the PA capital city, so the legislator who is head of the Education Committee is also shown. He has already sent word to Penn State that if a satisfactory review is not made, the legislators may take action.
Also for what it is worth – WHTM is the local Harrisburg, PA ABC TV station. It has traditionally had strong coverage of Penn State sports in South Central PA.
The individual delivering that news has been a long time sports reporter and has covered Penn State. WHTM’s broadcast range does not however extend to the main Penn State campus, which is farther north in University Park, PA. Just to clarify the comment about PSU and Harrisburg being in the same DMA. Maybe so, but the TV broadcast signal does not extend from Harrisburg to the main campus and PSU broadcasts do not reach Harrisburg.
Although Michael Mann should be held accountable for his actions, the real culprits are those politicians and NAS members who used their control over federal research funds to train literally thousands of scientists to respond to promises of research grants the way that Pavlov’s dogs responded to promises of dog biscuits.
Michael Mann is one of many puppets in the climate scam.
The climate scam is but one of many science scams
Who spends our tax funds for flawed research?
That is the $10,000 question.
With kind regards,
Oliver K. Manuel
Former NASA PI for Apollo
Ethics, integrity and their good reputation?
Bill in Vigo (20:11:55) :
I have a suspision that the elections in November might have a great deal to do with the status of any investigation performed both concerning Dr. Mann and very possibly one that might be aimed at Dr. Schmidt. (I hope that is spelled correctly). There may very well be a new “consensus” that truly makes a difference after November. We shall have to wait and see.
Bill Derryberry
One should always hope for the best and expect the worst.
If climategate still exists as an issue in November, I will be very pleasantly surprised.