The National Science Foundation’s inspector general appears poised to look into Jagadish Shukla’s management of federal grant money, much of it from the science agency itself.
The science agency has its own rules and guidelines governing grants, which would be applicable to the millions Shukla, 71, received from the agency.
“The longstanding cozy relationship between [government] grant-makers and grantees makes them blind to even the most obvious conflict of interest,” Bonner Cohen, a scholar with a free-market think tank in Washington, told The Daily Signal.
Shukla, a professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., led the charge by 20 college professors to urge a federal investigation aimed at scientific skeptics who differ with their views on climate change.
At the same time, Shukla, his wife, and his research center were awash in taxpayers’ money, according to an internal audit by the university on which The Daily Signal previously reported.
But, but… he did it all “for the children”… his children.
LOL
http://joannenova.com.au/2016/01/who-says-scientists-dont-do-it-to-get-rich-queensland-climate-expert-in-court-over-500k-in-false-expenses/
Yes, the scientist has 140 papers published with over 5000 citations, and he was never sending his samples to the US or paying for isotopes. Much of his research was on the GBR
So in short his papers and the citations are no longer credible
The NSF has announced it has cut off further federal grant funding to Jagadish Shukla.
The Department of Energy has just announced a federal grant to Jagadish Shukla.
Just kidding.
I hope.
It appears that http://www.iges.org (Institute of Global Environment and Society) website has vanished.
That may be simply shutting down a DNS entry that goes to the real web host. If you Google |Global Environment and Society|, you’ll instantly find http://www.m.monsoondata.org/ though that may an old home site, not the most recent one.
Don’t forget, IGES had pretty much gone away anyway. Yeah, at the bottom of http://www.m.monsoondata.org/aboutiges.html it says:
2015, that site can’t be very stale.
It is inevitable that criminally minded frauds like Shukla are bound to assume that everyone else is as bent as they themselves are and therefore must be on the take in some way. What apparently has failed to penetrate their weaselly little minds is that skeptics are pretty much by definition as straight as straight can be since they risk their funding and careers and knowingly submit themselves to tsunamis of personal abuse from the ‘establishment’ in order to present the science as they see it while receiving not a penny in recompense.
Never mind, good to see this particularly unpleasant rat hanging himself.
As there is a CPA Consumer Protection Agency, we need a TPA, a tax payer protection agency. These “researchers” are nothing more than looters. We need a watchdog to keep this system honest. There is way way way too comfortable relationship between the researchers and the grant givers. Spending other people’s money simply is a recipe for disaster.
Isn’t that what the Congress is supposed to do but chooses not do?
BTW, this guy is a classic Alynskite, “Blame Others of What You are Guilty” to throw the dogs off the scent. These are the most corrupt and despicable of people.
In his eagerness to throw to the gathering slavering wolves, he’s inadvertently tumbled off the back of the troika’d sleigh. Well, it’s a bit inapt, but glorious in detail.
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Schadenfreude.
Nemesis notes.
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Score one for the Roger Pielke Jr,, Steve McIntryre tag team.
There was at least one other in the RICO 20 also double-dipping through IGES.
I assume George Mason U. will launch an investigation to clear Shukla; it looks like Peter Gleick is available to head this up.
Nothing to report here. No wrong doing found. It was all in support of CAGW.
Unless the Heartland institute persue a private criminal prosecution against Gleick then Gleick will get away with it one month after the election of the next US president. No doubt Shukla is also hoping that the time allowed to bring a prosecution will also expire. May depend on whether a Democrat or a Republican is elected to the White House.
They will not do this job right if they don’t also go after the NSF grants personalities, too. It’s probably legal for Shukla to prepare a grant request with loads of mistakes in it, but not legal for the NSF pals to okay it. If I were Shukla, I would argue that I may have had errors in the request, but they obviously weren’t serious enough for officials to query.
I suspect we will find that Shukla and his family business will be “retiring ” soon and moving back to India
if they haven’t already blown town .
An External Audit of EPA grants to green lobby groups and activists is long over due . Interveners paid to write EPA policy and initiate lawsuits with EPA encouragement is an unethical abuse of public trust . Funds provided and received that are found to be disbursed in breach of the law and the public interest need to be recovered with interest and the parties authorizing any such funds replaced and charged.
Theft by any other name . Recipients who have taken the money under such conditions are equally culpable .
Is there a problem with George Mason University. Perhaps not because they seem to be able to detect detrimental issues (like the 3 students caught with bomb making materials) but because of lax acceptance procedures.
In addition to the targeted groups on the list at IRS, we also need the do-not-target list.