Sunday, October 04, 2015
Hillary Campaign CAUGHT Breaking Election Law...Using Disturbing Image Of Trump To Register Voters -
Hillary Campaign CAUGHT Breaking Election Law...Using Disturbing Image Of Trump To Register Voters -:
"An undercover video has caught a Clinton campaign worker appearing to commit a felony and using a Donald Trump photo as part of the alleged crime.
Hidden camera footage captured by Project Veritas shows a campaign “fellow,” identified as Henry Engelstein, attracting Spanish-speaking Nevadans in Las Vegas with a meme of Donald Trump that reads, "
"An undercover video has caught a Clinton campaign worker appearing to commit a felony and using a Donald Trump photo as part of the alleged crime.
Hidden camera footage captured by Project Veritas shows a campaign “fellow,” identified as Henry Engelstein, attracting Spanish-speaking Nevadans in Las Vegas with a meme of Donald Trump that reads, "
Yes. They lie. Endlessly-----The Hole in Tapper’s Ozone Tale
The Hole in Tapper’s Ozone Tale - WSJ:
"The recent Republican presidential debate is largely forgotten, but before the next one we thought at least one question is worth correcting:
Moderator Jake Tapper’s effort to conscript Ronald Reagan into the ranks of climate-change activists.
Reagan “faced a similar situation to the one that we’re facing now,” the CNN anchor said to Senator Marco Rubio, referring to concerns in the 1980s about a hole that formed each year in the atmosphere’s ozone layer.
Mr. Tapper invoked former Secretary of State George Shultz, who “says Ronald Reagan urged skeptics in industry to come up with a plan.
He said, do it as an insurance policy in case the scientists are right.
The scientists were right.”
The point of Mr. Tapper’s tale:
Why not “approach climate change the Reagan way?”
Messrs. Tapper and Shultz are reminiscing about the Montreal Protocol, a 1987 international treaty that phased out chlorofluorocarbons, then common refrigerants in freezers, air conditioners and other appliances.
The worry was that the stuff eroded the ozone layer.
Montreal is celebrated as the paragon of cooperative climate action, largely because the dire predictions—skin-cancer epidemics, for instance—didn’t materialize.
Scientists say the ozone hole has stopped growing, though it still isn’t clear that the treaty is the reason.
In any case, Montreal is no blueprint for climate change, for several reasons.
Even the Montreal Protocol allowed developing countries more time to weed out chemicals; imagine how long India would need to dump coal.
In the 1980s the DuPont company rolled out chemicals that could replace chlorofluorocarbons at a decent price.
There isn’t a similar elixir for fossil fuels.
Renewable energy sources—wind, solar, biomass—generate 13% of U.S. electricity, says the Energy Information Administration, and half of that comes from hydropower.
Solar energy cranks out less than 1%, even with enormous government subsidies.
...Mr. Tapper is not the first to spin what happened in Montreal, and no question we’ll hear the narrative again.
But Republicans should be prepared to explain how this misapplies history."
"The recent Republican presidential debate is largely forgotten, but before the next one we thought at least one question is worth correcting:
Moderator Jake Tapper’s effort to conscript Ronald Reagan into the ranks of climate-change activists.
Reagan “faced a similar situation to the one that we’re facing now,” the CNN anchor said to Senator Marco Rubio, referring to concerns in the 1980s about a hole that formed each year in the atmosphere’s ozone layer.
Mr. Tapper invoked former Secretary of State George Shultz, who “says Ronald Reagan urged skeptics in industry to come up with a plan.
He said, do it as an insurance policy in case the scientists are right.The scientists were right.”
The point of Mr. Tapper’s tale:
Why not “approach climate change the Reagan way?”
Messrs. Tapper and Shultz are reminiscing about the Montreal Protocol, a 1987 international treaty that phased out chlorofluorocarbons, then common refrigerants in freezers, air conditioners and other appliances.
The worry was that the stuff eroded the ozone layer.
Montreal is celebrated as the paragon of cooperative climate action, largely because the dire predictions—skin-cancer epidemics, for instance—didn’t materialize.
Scientists say the ozone hole has stopped growing, though it still isn’t clear that the treaty is the reason.
In any case, Montreal is no blueprint for climate change, for several reasons.
- One is scale: Changing the refrigerant in home appliances is hardly the same as phasing out fossil fuels, a foundation for global economic growth, especially in developing countries.
Even the Montreal Protocol allowed developing countries more time to weed out chemicals; imagine how long India would need to dump coal.
- Then there are the alternatives.
In the 1980s the DuPont company rolled out chemicals that could replace chlorofluorocarbons at a decent price.
There isn’t a similar elixir for fossil fuels.
Renewable energy sources—wind, solar, biomass—generate 13% of U.S. electricity, says the Energy Information Administration, and half of that comes from hydropower.
Solar energy cranks out less than 1%, even with enormous government subsidies.
...Mr. Tapper is not the first to spin what happened in Montreal, and no question we’ll hear the narrative again.
But Republicans should be prepared to explain how this misapplies history."
Sweden is shifting to a 6-hour work day
Sweden is shifting to a 6-hour work day - ScienceAlert:
"..."The Svartedalens experiment is inspiring others around Sweden: at Gothenburg’s Sahlgrenska University hospital, orthopaedic surgery has moved to a 6-hour day, as have doctors and nurses in two hospital departments in Umeå to the north," The Guardian reports.
While impressions of staff being happier and full of energy aren’t exactly scientific basis for declaring 6-hour work days as 'better' than the 8.7-hour work day endured by the average American, we do have evidence that what we’re doing right now isn’t working.
A study published in The Lancet last month analysed data from 25 studies that monitored health of over 600,000 people from the US, Europe, and Australia for up to 8.5 years found that people who worked 55 hours a week had a 33 percent greater risk of having a stroke than people who worked a 35 - 40 hour week, and a 13 percent increased risk of developing coronary heart disease, while a separate study found that working 49-hour weeks was associated with lower mental health, particularly in women.
And as we reported earlier this month, we probably shouldn’t even be forced to clock on at 9am anyway, with expert Paul Kelley from Oxford University’s Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute saying that society is in the midst of a sleep-deprivation crisis, because our 9-5 working hours are at odds with our internal body clocks.
"Staff should start at 10am… Staff are usually sleep-deprived," Kelley said.
"Everybody is suffering and they don’t have to.
We cannot change out 24-hour rhythms."
Hear that?
Everybody is suffering and we don't have to.
I guess until the rest of the world catches up with Sweden - which btw is also making moves to become the world's first fossil fuel-free nation - we'll all just have to move there... "
"..."The Svartedalens experiment is inspiring others around Sweden: at Gothenburg’s Sahlgrenska University hospital, orthopaedic surgery has moved to a 6-hour day, as have doctors and nurses in two hospital departments in Umeå to the north," The Guardian reports.
A study published in The Lancet last month analysed data from 25 studies that monitored health of over 600,000 people from the US, Europe, and Australia for up to 8.5 years found that people who worked 55 hours a week had a 33 percent greater risk of having a stroke than people who worked a 35 - 40 hour week, and a 13 percent increased risk of developing coronary heart disease, while a separate study found that working 49-hour weeks was associated with lower mental health, particularly in women.
And as we reported earlier this month, we probably shouldn’t even be forced to clock on at 9am anyway, with expert Paul Kelley from Oxford University’s Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute saying that society is in the midst of a sleep-deprivation crisis, because our 9-5 working hours are at odds with our internal body clocks.
"Staff should start at 10am… Staff are usually sleep-deprived," Kelley said.
"Everybody is suffering and they don’t have to.
We cannot change out 24-hour rhythms."
Hear that?
Everybody is suffering and we don't have to.
I guess until the rest of the world catches up with Sweden - which btw is also making moves to become the world's first fossil fuel-free nation - we'll all just have to move there... "
Conservative Actor James Woods Asks Scathing Question About Obama’s Response to Oregon Shooting | Video | TheBlaze.com
Conservative Actor James Woods Asks Scathing Question About Obama’s Response to Oregon Shooting | Video | TheBlaze.com:"Once reports emerged that the gunman in the Oregon community college massacre targeted Christians, conservative actor James Woods asked a scathing question about President Obama’s response in light of this detail."
Must read of the day!!!-----An Instance of Warmist Corruption
An Instance of Warmist Corruption | Power Line:
"We have often written about the fact that the world’s governments pour billions of dollars annually into the global warming project, the object of which is to increase the powers of government.
And yet governments, the main parties that stand to benefit from the warmists’ campaign, pretend that their money is somehow innocent, while any private entity that supports climate research is suspect.
Alarmist scientists have gone so far as to urge the Obama administration to prosecute criminally scientists who disagree with them.
The premise for this proposed RICO investigation was that “corporations in the fossil fuel industry and their supporters”–i.e., scientists who don’t buy the global warming hype–are deceiving the public for financial gain.
This despicable effort, which we wrote about here, is led by Jagadish Shukla of George Mason University and several of his colleagues.
...There’s apparently an $800,000 annual salary and an organization full of Shukla family members that has produced next to no results for the millions received.
Even NSF on their own web page acknowledges that only one paper has been produced out of a 4.2 million dollar grant.
If someone paid me a million dollars a year, I would at least produce some bogus, government-serving science once in a while.
...Perhaps a congressional investigation of Jagadish Shukla’s million dollar a year slush fund–and that’s just what we know about so far–will begin to lift the lid on the worst scientific scandal of all time.
In the meantime, ponder the fact that Shukla wants to send the scientists who rebut his vacuous theories to jail.
With a million dollars a year (at least) at stake, it’s no wonder."
"We have often written about the fact that the world’s governments pour billions of dollars annually into the global warming project, the object of which is to increase the powers of government.
And yet governments, the main parties that stand to benefit from the warmists’ campaign, pretend that their money is somehow innocent, while any private entity that supports climate research is suspect.
Alarmist scientists have gone so far as to urge the Obama administration to prosecute criminally scientists who disagree with them.The premise for this proposed RICO investigation was that “corporations in the fossil fuel industry and their supporters”–i.e., scientists who don’t buy the global warming hype–are deceiving the public for financial gain.
This despicable effort, which we wrote about here, is led by Jagadish Shukla of George Mason University and several of his colleagues.
...There’s apparently an $800,000 annual salary and an organization full of Shukla family members that has produced next to no results for the millions received.
Even NSF on their own web page acknowledges that only one paper has been produced out of a 4.2 million dollar grant.
If someone paid me a million dollars a year, I would at least produce some bogus, government-serving science once in a while.
...Perhaps a congressional investigation of Jagadish Shukla’s million dollar a year slush fund–and that’s just what we know about so far–will begin to lift the lid on the worst scientific scandal of all time.
In the meantime, ponder the fact that Shukla wants to send the scientists who rebut his vacuous theories to jail.
With a million dollars a year (at least) at stake, it’s no wonder."
Only India? There are 193 UN members!-----State Dept to Spend $49,083 to Create a Network to Support the LGBT Community in India
State Dept to Spend $49,083 to Create a Network to Support the LGBT Community in India:
"(CNSNews.com) - The State Department is planning to spend $49,083 in taxpayer funds for a one-time grant to establish a network to support the LGBT community in India.
The U.S. Embassy in New Delhi is soliciting proposals for the grant titled, “Creating a Network to Support the LGBT Community in India,” which will create a “national network focused on LGBT issues in India.”
The grant will pay for “leadership development programs for existing LGBT organizations with the goal of providing them the tools to establish capabilities to advance LGBT access to services available to all Indian citizens including health care and government public services.”
The grant is intended to change the public perception of LGBT Indians..."
"(CNSNews.com) - The State Department is planning to spend $49,083 in taxpayer funds for a one-time grant to establish a network to support the LGBT community in India.
The grant will pay for “leadership development programs for existing LGBT organizations with the goal of providing them the tools to establish capabilities to advance LGBT access to services available to all Indian citizens including health care and government public services.”
The grant is intended to change the public perception of LGBT Indians..."
The Truth About Gun Ownership in America Isn’t What Liberals Think
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"The truth? The number of guns in the United States has increased by 62% since 1994 but gun violence has decreased by 49% since 1993: "
"The truth? The number of guns in the United States has increased by 62% since 1994 but gun violence has decreased by 49% since 1993: "
Obama Pauses During News Conference, Makes ‘Last Point’ on Tension With Russia That Goes Directly After Putin | Video | TheBlaze.com
Obama Pauses During News Conference, Makes ‘Last Point’ on Tension With Russia That Goes Directly After Putin | Video | TheBlaze.com:"President Barack Obama went after Russian President Vladimir Putin during a Friday press conference, contending the Kremlin intervened in Syria out of a position of “weakness.”
The Curious Case of Oregon Shooter Chris Harper-Mercer – A Social Media Profile Shaped, Modified and Deleted…
The Curious Case of Oregon Shooter Chris Harper-Mercer – A Social Media Profile Shaped, Modified and Deleted… | The Last Refuge:
REAL IMAGE (left) – CNN IMAGE (right)
"...On the left is the selfie Christopher Mercer uploaded to his social media. On the right is how CNN presented the same selfie in broadcast stories about him.
Why did CNN need to change the complexion (color) of their broadcast?
Why is no-one showing pictures of mom, Laurel Margaret Harper.
Why did CNN need to change the complexion (color) of their broadcast?
Why is no-one showing pictures of mom, Laurel Margaret Harper.
Why change to hyphenated name?
Real name is Christopher Sean Mercer.
Media using Christopher Harper-Mercer and Chris Harper-Mercer..."
Real name is Christopher Sean Mercer.
Media using Christopher Harper-Mercer and Chris Harper-Mercer..."
History for October 4
History for October 4 - On-This-Day.com:
Rutherford B. Hayes (U.S.) 1822, Frederic S. Remington 1861, Buster Keaton 1895
Charlton Heston 1924, Anne Rice 1941, Jackie Collins 1941
Susan Sarandon 1946, Armand Assante 1949, Alicia Silverstone 1976
1895 - The first U.S. Open golf tournament took place in Newport, RI. Horace Rawlins, 19 years old, won the tournament.
1931 - The comic strip "Dick Tracy" made its debut in the Detroit Daily Mirror. The strip was created by Chester Gould.
1933 - "Esquire" magazine was published for the first time.
1940 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met in the Alps at Brenner Pass. Hitler was seeking help from Italy to fight the British.
1953 - "I Led Three Lives" was first seen in syndication. The TV show was never on network.
1954 - "December Bride" debuted on CBS-TV.
1956 - "Playhouse 90" debuted on CBS-TV.
1957 - "Leave it to Beaver" debuted on CBS-TV.
1957 - The Soviet Union launched Sputnik I into orbit around the Earth. Sputnik was the first manmade satellite to enter space. Sputnik I fell out of orbit on January 4, 1958.
1993 - Dozens of Somalis dragged an American soldier through the streets of Mogadishu. A videotape showed Michael Durant being taken prisoner by Somali militants.
1998 - The Vincent Van Gogh exhibit opened in Washington, DC. The exhibit featured 70 paintings.
Rutherford B. Hayes (U.S.) 1822, Frederic S. Remington 1861, Buster Keaton 1895
Charlton Heston 1924, Anne Rice 1941, Jackie Collins 1941
Susan Sarandon 1946, Armand Assante 1949, Alicia Silverstone 1976
1895 - The first U.S. Open golf tournament took place in Newport, RI. Horace Rawlins, 19 years old, won the tournament.
1931 - The comic strip "Dick Tracy" made its debut in the Detroit Daily Mirror. The strip was created by Chester Gould.
1933 - "Esquire" magazine was published for the first time.
1940 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met in the Alps at Brenner Pass. Hitler was seeking help from Italy to fight the British.
1953 - "I Led Three Lives" was first seen in syndication. The TV show was never on network.
1954 - "December Bride" debuted on CBS-TV.
1956 - "Playhouse 90" debuted on CBS-TV.
1957 - "Leave it to Beaver" debuted on CBS-TV.
1957 - The Soviet Union launched Sputnik I into orbit around the Earth. Sputnik was the first manmade satellite to enter space. Sputnik I fell out of orbit on January 4, 1958.
1993 - Dozens of Somalis dragged an American soldier through the streets of Mogadishu. A videotape showed Michael Durant being taken prisoner by Somali militants.
1998 - The Vincent Van Gogh exhibit opened in Washington, DC. The exhibit featured 70 paintings.
Saturday, October 03, 2015
In One Photo, Ben Carson Makes Powerful Statement Amid Reports Oregon Shooter Targeted Christians | TheBlaze.com
In One Photo, Ben Carson Makes Powerful Statement Amid Reports Oregon Shooter Targeted Christians | TheBlaze.com:"Presidential candidate Ben Carson posted a photo Friday to Facebook that shows him holding a sign with a simple, four-word message:"
Sweden: 'No Apartments, No Jobs, No Shopping Without a Gun'
Sweden: 'No Apartments, No Jobs, No Shopping Without a Gun':
- The Swedes see the welfare systems failing them. Swedes have had to get used to the government prioritizing refugees and migrants above native Swedes.
- "There are no apartments, no jobs, we don't dare go shopping anymore [without a gun], but we're supposed to think everything's great. ... Women and girls are raped by these non-European men, who come here claiming they are unaccompanied children, even though they are grown men. ... You Cabinet Ministers live in your fancy residential neighborhoods, with only Swedish neighbors. It should be obligatory for all politicians to live for at least three months in an area consisting mostly of immigrants... [and] have to use public transport." -- Laila, to the Prime Minister.
- "Instead of torchlight processions against racism, we need a Prime Minister who speaks out against the violence... Unite everyone. ... Do not make it a racism thing." -- Anders, to the Prime Minister.
- "In all honesty, I don't even feel they [government ministers] see the problems... There is no one in those meetings who can tell them what real life looks like." – Laila, on the response she received from the government
JUDGE, JURY, EXECUTIONER WITH SHARIA LAW: Father Murders Daughter For "Dishonoring" Family » 100percentfedUp.com
JUDGE, JURY, EXECUTIONER WITH SHARIA LAW: Father Murders Daughter For "Dishonoring" Family » 100percentfedUp.com:
"Those open-border liberals cheering the way Germany is accepting hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria and Afghanistan better get used to hearing stories like this.
A Muslim immigrant from Pakistan who strangled his daughter and hid her body in a forest told a courtroom he killed her because he was enraged that she’d been caught stealing condoms."
"Those open-border liberals cheering the way Germany is accepting hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria and Afghanistan better get used to hearing stories like this.A Muslim immigrant from Pakistan who strangled his daughter and hid her body in a forest told a courtroom he killed her because he was enraged that she’d been caught stealing condoms."
Hillary: Illegal Immigrants Could Elect Clinton
Hillary: Illegal Immigrants Could Elect Clinton - POLITICO Magazine:
"Illegal immigrants—along with other noncitizens without the right to vote—may pick the 2016 presidential winner.
Thanks to the unique math undergirding the Electoral College, the mere presence of 11-12 million illegal immigrants and other noncitizens here legally may enable them to swing the election from Republicans to Democrats.
The right to vote is intended to be a singular privilege of citizenship.
But the 1787 Constitutional Convention rejected allowing the people to directly elect their President.
The delegates chose instead our Electoral College system, under which 538 electoral votes distributed amongst the states determine the presidential victor.
The Electoral College awards one elector for each U.S. Senator, thus 100 of the total, and D.C. gets three electors pursuant to the 23rd Amendment.
Those electoral numbers are unaffected by the size of the noncitizen population.
The same cannot be said for the remaining 435, more than 80 percent of the total, which represent the members elected to the House..."
"Illegal immigrants—along with other noncitizens without the right to vote—may pick the 2016 presidential winner.
The right to vote is intended to be a singular privilege of citizenship.
But the 1787 Constitutional Convention rejected allowing the people to directly elect their President.
The delegates chose instead our Electoral College system, under which 538 electoral votes distributed amongst the states determine the presidential victor.
The Electoral College awards one elector for each U.S. Senator, thus 100 of the total, and D.C. gets three electors pursuant to the 23rd Amendment.
Those electoral numbers are unaffected by the size of the noncitizen population.
The same cannot be said for the remaining 435, more than 80 percent of the total, which represent the members elected to the House..."
Probe in college slayings peers into Web rants and possible religious rage
Lucianne.com News Forum - Thread:
"Reply 3 - Posted by: Merlin251, 10/3/2015 4:52:40 AM (No. 10480133)
"Even more disturbing is that nearly every one of these tragic events seems to have one common factor that our politicians, pundits, and the corrupt media simply refuse to discuss.
That common factor is a particular category of drugs called Selective Serotonin Re-uptake inhibitors, SSRIs.
The first of these SSRIs to become part of the medical mainstream was Prozac, which entered the market place about 25 years ago.
It seems that these horrific events started to occur with increasing frequency also about 25 years ago. Coincidence?
It should come as no surprise that in nearly every mass shooting in the past 25 years, the shooter was under the age of 20, suffered from depression, and was proscribed an SSRI to treat the condition.
Other drugs in this class include Zoloft, Luvox, Ritalin, Xanax, Trazodone, and Ambien.
The pharmaceutical industry that created these drugs, the doctors who proscribe them like candy, and the parents who choose to medicate a child instead of raising them are equally at fault!!!"
"Reply 3 - Posted by: Merlin251, 10/3/2015 4:52:40 AM (No. 10480133)
"Even more disturbing is that nearly every one of these tragic events seems to have one common factor that our politicians, pundits, and the corrupt media simply refuse to discuss.
That common factor is a particular category of drugs called Selective Serotonin Re-uptake inhibitors, SSRIs.
It seems that these horrific events started to occur with increasing frequency also about 25 years ago. Coincidence?
It should come as no surprise that in nearly every mass shooting in the past 25 years, the shooter was under the age of 20, suffered from depression, and was proscribed an SSRI to treat the condition.
Other drugs in this class include Zoloft, Luvox, Ritalin, Xanax, Trazodone, and Ambien.
The pharmaceutical industry that created these drugs, the doctors who proscribe them like candy, and the parents who choose to medicate a child instead of raising them are equally at fault!!!"
Yes. It's ALL about the money!-----Climate Alarmist 'Largest Science Scandal in U.S. History'
Climate Alarmist 'Largest Science Scandal in U.S. History':
"The plan by climate alarmists to have other scientists imprisoned for their ‘global warming’ skepticism is backfiring horribly, and the chief alarmist is now facing a House investigation into what has been called “the largest science scandal in US history.”
Rep. Lamar Smith, Chairman of the House Committee on Space, Science and Technology, has written to Professor Jagadish Shukla of George Mason University, in Virginia, requesting that he release all relevant documents pertaining to his activities as head of a non-profit organization called the Institute of Global Environment And Society.
Smith has two main areas of concern.
First, the apparent engagement by the institute in “partisan political activity” – which, as a non-profit, it is forbidden by law from doing.
Second, what precisely has the IGES institute done with the $63 million in taxpayer grants which it has received since 2001 and which appears to have resulted in remarkably little published research?
For example, as Watts Up With That? notes, a $4.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to one of the institute’s offshoots appears to have resulted in just one published paper.
...Steve McIntyre, the investigator who shattered Michael Mann’s global-warming ‘Hockey Stick’ claim, has done a detailed breakdown of the sums involved.
He calls it Shukla’s Gold.
...Combined with Shukla’s university salary, the total compensation of Shukla and his wife exceeded $800,000 in both 2013 and 2014.
In addition, as noted above, Shukla’s daughter continued to be employed by IGES in 2014; IGES also distributed $100,000 from its climate grant revenue to support an educational charity in India which Shukla had founded.
The story began last month when, as we reported at Breitbart, twenty alarmist scientists – led by Shukla – wrote a letter to President Obama urging him to use RICO laws to crush climate skeptics.
Shukla’s second big mistake was to send the letter not from his university address but from his non-profit, the IGES.
But his first, far bigger mistake, was his hubris in organizing the letter in the first place.
It drew the attention of Shukla’s critics to something which, presumably, he would have preferred to keep secret: that for nearly 14 years, he, his family and his friends have been gorging themselves on taxpayers’ money at IGES; and that this money comes on top of the very generous salary he receives for doing much the same work at George Mason University (GMU).
It’s the latter detail which has led former Virginia State Climatologist Pat Michaels – one of the skeptics who might have been affected by Shukla’s proposed RICO prosecutions – to describe this as “the largest science scandal in US history.”
Under federal law, state employees may not be remunerated for doing work which falls under their state employee remit.
As a Professor at GMU, Shukla is definitely an employee of the state.
And the work for which he has most lavishly been rewarding himself at IGES appears to be remarkably similar to the work he does at GMU as professor of climate dynamics.
If GMU was aware of these extra-curricular payments, then it was in breach of its own policy on “financial conflicts of interest in federally funded research.”
If it wasn’t aware of them, then, Shukla legally may be required to send half of that $63 million in federal grants to his employer, GMU.
For many readers, though, perhaps the biggest take-home message of this extraordinary story is: Who do these climate alarmists think they are?..."
"The plan by climate alarmists to have other scientists imprisoned for their ‘global warming’ skepticism is backfiring horribly, and the chief alarmist is now facing a House investigation into what has been called “the largest science scandal in US history.”
Rep. Lamar Smith, Chairman of the House Committee on Space, Science and Technology, has written to Professor Jagadish Shukla of George Mason University, in Virginia, requesting that he release all relevant documents pertaining to his activities as head of a non-profit organization called the Institute of Global Environment And Society.Smith has two main areas of concern.
First, the apparent engagement by the institute in “partisan political activity” – which, as a non-profit, it is forbidden by law from doing.
Second, what precisely has the IGES institute done with the $63 million in taxpayer grants which it has received since 2001 and which appears to have resulted in remarkably little published research?
For example, as Watts Up With That? notes, a $4.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to one of the institute’s offshoots appears to have resulted in just one published paper.
...Steve McIntyre, the investigator who shattered Michael Mann’s global-warming ‘Hockey Stick’ claim, has done a detailed breakdown of the sums involved.
He calls it Shukla’s Gold.
...Combined with Shukla’s university salary, the total compensation of Shukla and his wife exceeded $800,000 in both 2013 and 2014.
In addition, as noted above, Shukla’s daughter continued to be employed by IGES in 2014; IGES also distributed $100,000 from its climate grant revenue to support an educational charity in India which Shukla had founded.
Shukla’s second big mistake was to send the letter not from his university address but from his non-profit, the IGES.
But his first, far bigger mistake, was his hubris in organizing the letter in the first place.
It drew the attention of Shukla’s critics to something which, presumably, he would have preferred to keep secret: that for nearly 14 years, he, his family and his friends have been gorging themselves on taxpayers’ money at IGES; and that this money comes on top of the very generous salary he receives for doing much the same work at George Mason University (GMU).
It’s the latter detail which has led former Virginia State Climatologist Pat Michaels – one of the skeptics who might have been affected by Shukla’s proposed RICO prosecutions – to describe this as “the largest science scandal in US history.”
Under federal law, state employees may not be remunerated for doing work which falls under their state employee remit.
As a Professor at GMU, Shukla is definitely an employee of the state.
And the work for which he has most lavishly been rewarding himself at IGES appears to be remarkably similar to the work he does at GMU as professor of climate dynamics.
If GMU was aware of these extra-curricular payments, then it was in breach of its own policy on “financial conflicts of interest in federally funded research.”
If it wasn’t aware of them, then, Shukla legally may be required to send half of that $63 million in federal grants to his employer, GMU.
For many readers, though, perhaps the biggest take-home message of this extraordinary story is: Who do these climate alarmists think they are?..."
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