People send me stuff.
Just last week we heard that Dr. Robert Carter had been blackballed at his own university where he served as department chair, and now we have this from Dr. Murray Salby, sent via email.
Between John Cook, Stephan Lewandowsky, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, plus Mike Marriot and his idiotic ideas, I’m beginning to think Australia is ground zero for AGW crackpottery.
This email’s accusations (if true I have independent confirmation now, title changed to reflect this – Anthony) is quite something, it illustrates the disturbing lengths a university will go to suppress ideas they don’t agree with. So much for academic freedom at Macquarie University.
From: [redacted]
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 2:25 PM
To: [redacted]
Subject: From Murry Salby
Thanks for your interest in the research presented during my recent lecture tour in Europe.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/06/another-nail-in-the-climate-change-coffin.php
Remarks from several make it clear that Macquarie University
is comfortable with openly disclosing the state of affairs,
if not distorting them to its convenience. So be it.
Macquarie’s liberal disclosure makes continued reticence unfeasible.
In response to queries is the following, a matter of record:
1. In 2008, I was recruited from the US by “Macquarie University”,
with appointment as Professor, under a national employment contract with
regulatory oversight, and with written agreement that Macquarie would provide
specified resources to enable me to rebuild my research program in Australia.
Included was technical support to convert several hundred thousand lines of computer code,
comprising numerical models and analyses (the tools of my research),
to enable those computer programs to operate in Australia.
2. With those contractual arrangements, I relocated to Australia.
Upon attempting to rebuild my research program, Macquarie advised that
the resources it had agreed to provide were unavailable. I was given an excuse for why.
Half a year later, I was given another excuse. Then another.
Requests to release the committed resources were ignored.
3. Three years passed before Macquarie produced even the first major component
of the resources it had agreed to provide. After five years of cat-and-mouse,
Macquarie has continued to withhold the resources that it had committed.
As a result, my computer models and analyses remain inoperative.
4. A bright student from Russia came to Macquarie to work with me.
Macquarie required her to abandon her PhD scholarship in Russia.
Her PhD research, approved by Macquarie, relied upon the same computer
models and analyses, which Macquarie agreed to have converted but did not.
5. To remedy the situation, I petitioned Macquarie through several avenues provided
in my contract. Like other contractual provisions, those requests were ignored.
The provisions then required the discrepancy to be forwarded to the Australian employment tribunal,
the government body with regulatory oversight.
The tribunal then informed me that Macquarie had not even registered my contract.
Regulatory oversight, a statutory protection that Macquarie advised would govern
my appointment, was thereby circumvented. Macquarie’s failure to register
rendered my contract under the national employment system null and void.
6. During the protracted delay of resources, I eventually undertook the production
of a new book – all I could do without the committed resources to rebuild my research program.
The endeavor compelled me to gain a better understanding of greenhouse gases
and how they evolve. Preliminary findings from this study are familiar to many.
http://www.thesydneyinstitute.com.au/speaker/murry-salby/ Refer to the vodcast of July 24, 2012.
Insight from this research contradicts many of the reckless claims surrounding greenhouse gases.
More than a few originate from staff at Macquarie, which benefits from such claims.
7. The preliminary findings seeded a comprehensive study of greenhouse gases.
Despite adverse circumstances, the wider study was recently completed. It indicates:
(i) Modern changes of atmospheric CO2 and methane are (contrary to popular belief)
not unprecedented.
(ii) The same physical law that governs ancient changes of atmospheric CO2 and methane
also governs modern changes.
These new findings are entirely consistent with the preliminary findings,
which evaluated the increase of 20th century CO2 from changes in native emission.
8. Under the resources Macquarie had agreed to provide, arrangements were made
to present this new research at a scientific conference and in a lecture series at
research centers in Europe.
9. Forms for research travel that were lodged with Macquarie included a description
of the findings. Presentation of our research was then blocked by Macquarie.
The obstruction was imposed after arrangements had been made at several venues
(arranged then to conform to other restrictions imposed by Macquarie).
Macquarie’s intervention would have silenced the release of our research.
10. Following the obstruction of research communication, as well as my earlier efforts
to obtain compliance with my contract, Macquarie modified my professional duties.
My role was then reduced to that of a student teaching assistant: Marking student papers
for other staff – junior staff.
I objected, pursuant to my appointment and provisions of my contract.
11. In February 2013, Macquarie then accused me of “misconduct”,
cancelling my salary. It blocked access to my office, computer resources,
even to personal equipment I had transferred from the US.
My Russian student was prohibited from speaking with me.
She was isolated – left without competent supervision
and the resources necessary to complete her PhD investigation,
research that Macquarie approved when it lured her from Russia.
12. Obligations to present our new research on greenhouse gases (previously arranged),
had to be fulfilled at personal expense.
13. In April, The Australian (the national newspaper), published an article which
grounded reckless claims by the so-called Australian Climate Commission:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/opinion/last-summer-was-not-actually-angrier-than-other-summers/story-e6frgd0x-1226611988057 (Open access via Google News)
To promote the Climate Commission’s newest report is the latest sobering claim:
“one in two chance that by 2100 there’ll be no human beings left on this planet”
Two of the six-member Australian Climate Commission are Macquarie staff.
Included is its Chief Commissioner.
14. While I was in Europe presenting our new research on greenhouse gases,
Macquarie undertook its misconduct proceedings – with me in absentia.
Macquarie was well informed of the circumstances. It was more than informed.
15. Upon arriving at Paris airport for my return to Australia, I was advised that
my return ticket (among the resources Macquarie agreed to provide) had been cancelled.
The latest chapter in a pattern, this action left me stranded in Europe,
with no arrangements for lodging or return travel.
The ticket that had been cancelled was non-refundable.
16. The action ensured my absence during Macquarie’s misconduct proceedings.
17. When I eventually returned to Australia, I lodged a complaint with the
Australian employment tribunal, under statutes that prohibit retaliatory conduct.
18. In May 2013, while the matter was pending before the employment tribunal,
Macquarie terminated my appointment.
19. Like the Australian Climate Commission, Macquarie is a publically-funded enterprise.
It holds a responsibility to act in the interests of the public.
20. The recent events come with curious timing, disrupting publication of our research
on greenhouse gases. With correspondence, files, and computer equipment confiscated,
that research will now have to be pursued by Macquarie University’s “Climate Experts”.
http://www.science.mq.edu.au/news_and_events/news/climate_change_commision
Murry Salby
Thomas says:
“This is one side of the story, it would be interesting to hear what Macquarie University has to say…”
Lewis P Buckingham says:
“This looks really bad but may not be. Perhaps Macquarie Uni Admin would like to comment.
An opinion from a QC and straight to equity would be a path. This would ensure the examination of all the claims in a fair and honest manner.”
If there is anything in Professor Salby’s email that is false one would expect Macquarie to sue him for defamation. He has accused Macquarie of breach of contract, obstructing research, lying, harassment and acting with malice. Since the university is a publicly funded body he has also effectively accused those responsible of malfeasance in public office.
No university with aspirations to be considered in the top 1,000 let alone the top 100 can afford to have its reputation sullied in this manner without recourse to the courts. If, as I expect, Macquarie takes no legal action against Professor Salby this will amount to an admission of guilt and whatever reputation the university previously enjoyed will be permanently damaged.
If true then the “No win, no fee” lawyers must be queuing up. On the face of it this is unbelievable.
I was contemplating relocating to Australia.
Actually, I am having second thoughts about that….
Anthony, your question as to whether downunder is ground zero for crackpottery understates the situation.
Suggest you check page 13 of my review of a report by taxpayer-funded national ‘science’ agency, CSIRO. It’ll give you a feel for the linkages of the Aussie climate ‘industry’.
Note that David Karoly is arguably the most senior UN IPCC academic pushing the unfounded and unscientific claim that HUMAN CO2 controls Earth’s global climate.
Four common characteristics among these people:
1. None have any empirical scientific evidence for their claim;
2. None have any logical scientific reasoning for their claim;
3. They all contradict empirical scientific evidence;
4. ALL are government funded.
More here on the two academics at Macquarie University who are members of the highly discredited government-funded Climate Commission to which Prof Murry Salby’s purported email refers:
http://www.conscious.com.au/docs/new/9_appendix.pdf pages 26-41 (Tim Flannery) and pages 48-53 (Lesley Hughes)
and
http://www.conscious.com.au/docs/new/10_appendix.pdf
Both appendices are part of my review of CSIRO including main report of 25 pages together with 780 pages of supporting details in 32 appendices:
http://www.conscious.com.au/CSIROh!.html
Note that this reaches into senior levels of UN IPCC. Or should I say, it extends from senior reaches of the UN IPCC?
Malcolm Roberts
http://www.conscious.com.au
and
http://www.galileomovement.com.au
Carter and Salby need jobs on the Climate Change Authority, so they can advise the PM that CO2 doesn’t actually cause global warming.
At the moment the CCA is full of dills.
For what reason should one believe a single word that comes out of the mouth of Salby?
[wouldn’t your keyboard time be better spent pointing out his lies rather than asking, even rhetorically, for others to prove he is telling the truth? . . . mod]
Having totally caved into their governmental overseers’ decrees, once proud universities in Australia have become just another tier of mass education to delay young people entering an ever-shrinking labour market.
That vice chancellors have no shame in bruiting their graduates’ ‘generic attibutes’ in their absurd mission statements proves that universities have indeed passed their use-by dates because they should be ashamed they produce well-schooled clones instead of educated individuals!
I used to think that at least the hard sciences were still pure in their search for knowledge unlike the Yarts which are almost totally corrupted by the ideologies of feminism, queer studies, deep green environmentalism, Marxism, etc.
But no. Dr. Bob Carter recently got the boot from James Cook University though he is in his intellectual prime. And now we have this story about Murray Salby’s appalling treatment at Macquarie University in Sydney.
Like so many Australians here, I’m ashamed.
I knew Macquarie was on my radar already and I thought it was where the promoter of the Big History, Marxist Interp of World History without using the M word, had relocated. http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/6.3/christian.html shows that David Christian is there. The Big History Project globally is a big deal. Not only with Gates and MS sponsorship but also Moscow State. It is to be the new way history is to be taught all over the world. Reinterpreting the past around the perceived problems of the present. And the desire for a paradigm shift to a differently structured society in the future.
I have written this before but the perception of an AGW crisis is vital for the Metamorphosis of the State (as Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens call it) that has always been the post Berlin Wall plan for the West. US, UK, Australia. China obviously is already there. These political scientists and historians and sociologists may admit in their writings that it doesn’t matter if AGW is true or not, the political and cultural and economic changes are the real point, but it will not do for that to now become well known. Before the transformation has occurred.
The Big History Project, just like what are being called Understandings of Consequence about other complex systems that also has NSF financial backing, are designed to create what I call influential guiding beliefs. They are to impact daily behavior in the future. The fact that they are false is irrelevant to the planners and funders.
But none of these carefully laid plans over decades, that are well documented if you know where to look, can come to fruition once a large segment of the voting public knows the crisis does not factually exist.
Salby’s research, like the no warming for 17 years that is still not widely enough known, threaten the fundamental Transformation excuse. Big History is a high priority for this University now. This is an important angle to this story.
This is what climate science is all about now.
It should come as no surprise to anyone no matter how outrageous it actually is. It has already happened in thousands of individual cases which you have not heard of and dozens of cases you might have heard of.
The scientists, academics and the followers think they are acting from the moral high ground. They are more than convinced of this fact. But it is clearly against everything humanity and science and academia stands for. It is also simply irreconcilable with being a proper person.
This movement has to destroy itself eventually as the contradictions in science and fact and uncivilized behavior mount. Will they turn on each other? They have already shown a history of being vindictive people. Will it just slowly fade away? More likely.
Ian W says:
July 9, 2013 at 3:09 am
CO2 diffusion in polar ice: observations from naturally formed CO2 spikes in the Siple Dome (Antarctica) ice core
The theoretical result of this research is an increase of the resolution from 20 to 22 years at medium depth and from 20 to 40 years for full depth (70 kyrs back in time). Not a big deal at all. That is for a relative “warm” (-23°C) coastal ice core. The migration in the much colder (-40°C) inland ice cores like Vostok and Dome C is orders of magnitude slower and unmeasurable. If there was substantial migration, then the glacial/interglacial ratio of 8 ppmv/°C would fade for each 100 kyrs step back in time.
I have commented on Prof. Salby’s speach in Hamburg at:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/21/nzclimate-truth-newsletter-no-313/
June 25, 2013 at 5:35 am and following.
Just sent a missive to the Dean of Science at Macquarie, with a cc to peter.nelson@mq.edu.au
Anthony, your computer acumen greatly exceeds mine, however, I have several clues as to how to contact people from Macabre (Not misspelled) University and the Germans. Even with my shabby ability I shall do so.
Ban “Thomas” from WUWT!
He is a lying militant internet troll only spreading smearing desinformation about sceptical individuals and smears and is funded by Green Peace and extreme militant swedish socialists groups. He has no moral compassion or honour at all. Hes gone to far and this is a picture of Mr Thomas Palm. Hes also been active trying to pressure universities not to invite sceptic scientist in Sweden. Picture:
Ps.
Sorry, it should be Murry Salby, not Murray.
This is from the propagandistic The Conversation on Christian. It shows how Macquarie recruited him back from San Diego. Which is where Cultural Historical Activity Theory is based now in the West.
http://theconversation.com/profiles/david-christian-15282/profile_bio
This shows how important the Big History Project is to Macquarie http://mq.edu.au/about_us/faculties_and_departments/faculty_of_arts/mhpir/modern_history/
And the Big History Project needs a perceived Climate Crisis.
Sue, sue, sue and sue some more.
Climate extremists are like other extremists.
msadesign says: July 9, 2013 at 4:21 am
“..Gotta be more to this story. ……[…]…In fact, the behavior of the University, as reported by the Professor, is so egregious one wonders if there aren’t some facts missing…”
The answer is probably in this reply above:
King of Cool says: July 9, 2013 at 3:51 am
“…One of the two staff of Macquarie University who are members of the 6 member Australian Climate Commission is Tim Flannery. Professor Flannery holds the Panasonic Chair in Environmental Sustainability at Macquarie University. He is also the chairman of the Copenhagen Climate Council.
In February 2011 he was appointed Commissioner of the Australian Climate Commission on a salary of $180,000 a year for his part time participation. …”
and
The Australian Climate Commission according to The Australian Newspaper:
“…is part of a $1.6 billion-a-year climate change behemoth in place to administer the government’s carbon tax. It also includes the Clean Energy Regulator, the Climate Change Authority and the Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator. ..”
“mogamboguru says:
July 9, 2013 at 4:35 am”
Where were you thinking of going? NZ? Nope! The EU? Nope! The USA? Soon to be a nope! So that leaves the BRIC countries, Brazil (Nope. Too worried about bus fares and the world cup). Russia? Maybe, if you speak, drink and drive like a Russian. That leaves India and China. Africa is not even in contention!
jimmi_the_dalek says:
July 9, 2013 at 12:43 am
Professor Salby will have to take this up with MacQuarie University. There are procedures in any University for handling grievances….
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Did’t you read the entire post? He has been following those “procedures” for FIVE (self-snip) YEARS and they INTENTIONALLY stranded him in the EU while the tribunal met!
After my run-ins (multiple thefts) with the US law system, I have nothing but contempt for law enforcement and the DA’s office here in the USA. The Rule of Law is a myth for the naive.
This article explains the actual system here and the USA and elsewhere. If you are not one of the favored few or a brown noser, there is no ‘justice’ for you.
Some people wonder what Salby was doing at Macquarie in the first place. Looking at this publications list, I find Trenberth there. Maybe he used to be one of the guys so to speak who had the time to think things over. An epiphany of sorts which brought him over to the “dark” side and he became excommunicated. Bill Maher will often ridicule people calling climate science a religion. Though I’m on the other side of the political fence, I often listen to him, his not all wrong but it is amazing now he could fail to see the log in his own eye.
“Gail Combs says:
July 9, 2013 at 5:26 am”
There is no rule of law, or justice. Just a legal system, whoever pays (The most), wins.
I’ll reserve judgement until I see all the evidence. Hang around academia long enough and you will find as many misbehaving professors as there are misbehaving administrators. This post lists a string of offenses with little explanation of why they occurred, especially at the beginning of employment. Universities rarely if ever recruit people only to ignore them. What’s the rest of the story?
The System Is Broken: Incompetent Science and Insane Politics
I rest my case.
And while Australia is being distracted with various issues such as boat arrivals, the political pantomime going on in Canberra and a looming election, all eyes seem to be turned away from the ensuing situation in Egypt (Not wanting to hijack the thread). Watch what happens with Suez Australia!