By Ira Mark Egdall <\/p>\n
From Physicsworld.com, Aug. 30, 2011:<\/p>\n
Climate scientist cleared of research misconduct.<\/strong> <\/p>\n \u201cPennsylvania State University (Penn State) climate scientist Michael Mann has been cleared of research misconduct following an inquiry by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) at the National Science Foundation (NSF). The OIG agreed with the conclusions of a previous investigation by the university last year that \u2018cleared [Mann] of any wrongdoing\u2019 and has now closed the case.\u201d<\/p>\n Aha. So Mann has been exonerated, and the so-called \u201cClimategate\u201d issue dispelled. Some sceptics had charged Mann and colleagues with \u201cfalsification and destruction of data.\u201d Feeding on this, some politicians declare human-influenced global warming is a hoax based on climate scientists manipulating data. <\/p>\n This is an old lawyer trick. If you can\u2019t dispute the facts, challenge the integrity of the source. Please don\u2019t fall for it. Will these pundits and politicians now announce that Michael Mann has been cleared of any wrongdoing? I doubt it. <\/p>\n It is all so sad. This should not be a political issue. It is a science issue. CNN reports that 97 percent of climatologists agree that global warming exists and that humans play a role (see link below). I am not a climate expert, but this overwhelming consensus scares the hell out of me. As one of my friends put it, if you were told by 97 out of 100 doctors that you, God forbid, had cancer \u2014 would you do nothing about it?<\/p>\n Link My website: marksmodernphysics.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Ira Mark Egdall From Physicsworld.com, Aug. 30, 2011: Climate scientist cleared of research misconduct. \u201cPennsylvania State University (Penn State) climate scientist Michael Mann has been cleared of research misconduct following an inquiry by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) at the National Science Foundation (NSF). The OIG agreed with the conclusions of a … Continue reading “Global Warming II”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,6],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nhttp:\/\/articles.cnn.com\/2009-01-19\/world\/eco.globalwarmingsurvey_1_global-warming-climate-science-human-activity?_s=PM:WORLD<\/p>\n