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Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on January 14, 2010

Dr. Michael Mann, disgraced global warming scientist, was awarded a half million dollars by Team Obama, using economic stimulus money

Only in Pres. Barack Obama’s fiscally irresponsible world would taxpayers’ economic stimulus package money (of which, millions of dollars are still being sent to non-existent zip codes and other millions are still unaccounted for, despite Obama’s lavish $18 million software/Internet setup), approved for and meant to “create or save American jobs,” instead be diverted to Dr. Michael Mann.

Who’s that? you may ask.

You remember Dr. Mann. He’s that weaselly “let me fudge the numbers to make a bogus hockey stick graph” global-warming-hoax-spewing, snake-oil-selling scientist that was exposed a few months back.

Dr. Mann, to prove that global warming existed when it didn’t, had to hunker down and do a lot of unscientific chicanery to perpetuate the AGW fraud: he messed around with data and models, destroyed original raw data, worked with others to discredit and humiliate respected scientists and climate experts who suspected AGW was a hoax, was possibly a henchman in helping to hide global temperatures’ decline, and is one of the key players at the heart of the ClimateGate fraud debacle.

Michael Mann is under investigation by Penn State for his dubious role in pushing manipulated, junk science, leading to the ClimateGate scandal. He’s the “King of AGW Junk Science” himself, even more so than millionaire global warming head enchilada, Al Gore.

$500,000. Hopenchange for who? Well, definitely for Obama crony Michael Mann… This is yet another tiresome, reckless mismanagement and misuse of the stimulus package… another pet earmark for Team Obama.

Record unemployment, economic crisis still not out of the woods, borrowing heavily from China… giving taxpayers’ money to Dr. Mann is an outrage.

Audacious, yes, but it’s not surprising. It’s just another day in the life of Team Obama taking the statist’s elitist road of frivolously spending Americans’ tax dollars on something it wasn’t intended to be spent on. We’re back again to Obama’s broken campaign promise to use that mythical scalpel to precisely cut every bit of waste and fat out.

Here’s the press release that’s coming from the National Center for Public Research exposing this crapolla… read it thoroughly, and then CALL CONGRESS:

Economic Stimulus Funds Went to Climategate Scientist – Funds Should be Returned to U.S. Treasury, Says National Center for Public Policy Research:

In the face of rising unemployment and record-breaking deficits, policy experts at the National Center for Public Policy Research are criticizing the Obama Administration for awarding a half million dollar grant from the economic stimulus package to Penn State Professor Michael Mann, a key figure in the Climategate controversy.

“It’s outrageous that economic stimulus money is being used to support research conducted by Michael Mann at the very time he’s under investigation by Penn State and is one of the key figures in the international Climategate scandal. Penn State should immediately return these funds to the U.S. Treasury,” said Tom Borelli, Ph.D., director of the National Center’s Free Enterprise Project.

Professor Mann is currently under investigation by Penn State University because of activities related to a closed circle of climate scientists who appear to have been engaged in agenda-driven science. Emails and documents mysteriously released from the previously-prestigious Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom revealed discussions of manipulation and destruction of research data, as well as efforts to interfere with the peer review process to stifle opposing views. The motivation underlying these efforts appears to be a coordinated strategy to support the belief that mankind’s activities are causing global warming.

“It’s no wonder that Obama’s stimulus plan is failing to produce jobs. Taxpayer dollars aren’t being used in the ways most likely to spur job creation. The stimulus was not sold to the public as a way to reward a loyalist in the climate change debate. Nor was the stimulus sold as a way to promote the Obama Administration’s position on the global warming theory. This misuse of stimulus money illustrates why tax cuts are a better way to stimulate the economy than letting the government decide where to spend taxpayer dollars. As is often the case, political considerations corrupt the distribution of government funds,” said Deneen Borelli, a fellow with the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network.

“Mann’s credentials as a climate change alarmist seems to fit the political criteria for stimulus funds sometimes known as ‘Obama money’,” added Deneen Borelli.

Mann is a central and controversial figure in climate change research. Mann’s so-called “hockey stick” graph depicting temperature changes over a 1000 year period was used as evidence in the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2001 report to conclude carbon dioxide from industrial activity is causing global warming. Mimicking the shape of a hockey stick, the graph showed a long period of stable temperatures (the shaft) followed by a rapid rise in temperatures (the blade) during the last hundred years.

Critics of the hockey stick claim Mann manipulated data to eliminate the medieval warming period and the little ice age to eradicate the visual impact of natural global temperature variation. The emails from Climategate reveal that the inner circle of climate scientists were troubled by the methods Mann used to produce the graph.

“It’s shocking that taxpayer money is being used to support a researcher who seemingly showed little regard to the basic tenets of science – a dispassionate search for the truth,” said Tom Borelli.

The $541,184 grant is for three years and was initiated in June 2009.

The National Center for Public Policy Research is a conservative, free-market think-tank established in 1982. It receives less than 1% of its revenue from corporations.

More reading on the disaster the Democrats and Team Obama have created:
Gateway Pundit: Unreal. Climategate Junk Scientist Michael Mann Awarded Half a Million in Stimulus Cash and Crony Capitalism: Obama’s Example of Stimulus Success- $100 Million For 15 Jobs Created at Dem Donor’s Company and Climategate: Mann Throws Jones Under the Bus and Obama Disaster Continues… Unemployment Holds at 10.0% and White House Still Believes In Non-Existent Global Warming and “Hockey Stick” Graph Creator Mann to Be Investigated by Penn State and Evil. Dem’s Nationalized Health Care Plan Raises Taxes on Special Needs Children and How’s That Hopenchange Feel Now? Youth Unemployment Surges to Record High and Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Execs Get Up to $6 Million in Pay and Thanks Barack. Hunger and Homelessness Spread In US Under Obama and Obama Administration Approves of ACORN Funding and Stimulus Cash Went to Nonexistent Zip Code Areas, Too and Jobs, Jobs, Jobs… Obama’s Biggest Failure in 2009 (Video) and Change! Obama’s Monthly Deficit Tops Bush’s Yearly Deficit and An Honest Appraisal- Hannity Gives Obama 3 F’s and an A+ and Liberal Politics at Its Best… Nearly Half of Detroit Is Unemployed
Greg Knapp, Big Government: Stimulus Wasted and Most Americans Know It
Mcnorman’s Weblog: Majority Would Vote Against Obama
Noel Sheppard, NewsBusters: ClimateGate’s Michael Mann Being Investigated By Penn State
Pierre Legrand’s Pink Flamingo Bar: Is The Government Misrepresenting Unemployment By 32%?
Blue Crab Boulevard: Imagining Or Inventing New Jobs Isn’t Working
Burt Prelutsky, Big Hollywood: Burt’s Eye View: It Used to Be A Wonderful Life
Veronique de Rugy, Big Government: The Communist States of America: The New Stimulus ‘Math’
Greg Knapp, Big Government: Obama’s Found a Villain to Distract the Angry Voter
Michelle Malkin: Darkness reigns: Obama and the Vampire Congress and Let the cameras in: Calling Pelosi’s blinky bluff
Patterico’s Pontifications: Unemployment Still at 10%
The Powers That Be: IPCC Will Retract Report of Himalayan Glaciers Melting By 2035 If They Haven’t Melted By Then and Distraction: Why the Obama Administration Can’t Connect the Dots
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Freedom: Taking Our Country Back… America Rising: Open Letter to Democrat Politicians (video) and Mark Levin: More of “Us” Than There Are of “Them” – Gallup Proves Him Right, Conservatives the Majority in All 50 States and Homes Selling for a Dollar in Chicago? No Thanks, Not Interested and Darrell Issa to Rahm Emanuel on Stimulus/Porkulus Criticism: “Back Off! This Isn’t Chicago…” and Majority of Americans Demand ‘Cancel the Porkulus Package Now’ and Polls: Majority of Americans Prefer Free Market Economy, Rank Obama Lowest of All Presidents in Job Approval (video) and Obama’s Strategy of Lying about His Failing Economic Policies Is Backfiring

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