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Who’s CRU’s Daddy?
Oh, that Anthony Watts! He beat me to the punch (wouldn’t be surprised if others did too — at this point it’s almost impossible to track all the bloggers working this) on the “Big Oil funds alarmism” theme that shows up in several of the Climategate emails.
Oh, that Anthony Watts! He beat me to the punch (wouldn’t be surprised if others did too — at this point it’s almost impossible to track all the bloggers working this) on the “Big Oil funds alarmism” theme that shows up in several of the Climategate emails. As he notes:
One of the favorite put-downs from people who think they have the moral high ground in the climate debate is to accuse skeptics with this phrase: “You are nothing but a shill for Big Oil.” Who amongst us hasn’t seen variants of that pointed finger repeated thousands of times? The paradigm has shifted. Now it appears CRU is the one looking for “big oil” money.
Watts — the wonderful manager of the Surfacestations.org project which shows heat bias in the positioning of many weather stations — then reproduces three of the emails in which alarmist scientists nearly wet themselves over the prospect of getting money from Shell, BP, and Esso (Exxon).
Here’s a portion of another one that I also found in which the University of Edinburgh’s Simon Shackley gets excited about BP dollars (and the CRU’s Mike Hulme shows interest also):
From: Mike Hulme <m.hulme@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>Shackley
To: barker,vira
Subject: Fwd: BP funding
Date: Sat Nov 4 16:45:25 2000Any idea who at Cambridge has been benefitting from this BP money?
MikeFrom: “Simon J Shackley” <Mcysssjs@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Organization: umist
To: m.hulme@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 14:44:09 GMT
Subject: BP funding
Reply-to: Simon.Shackley@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
CC: robin.smith@xxxxxxxxx.xxx,
brian.launder@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
Priority: normal
X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a)
dear TC colleagues looks like BP have their cheque books out! How can TC benefit from
this largesse? I wonder who has received this money within Cambridge University?
Cheers, Simon
17) BP, FORD GIVE $20 MILLION FOR PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
EMISSIONS
STUDY
Auto.com/Bloomberg News
October 26, 2000
Internet: [1]http://www.auto.com/industry/iwirc26_20001026.htm
LONDON — BP Amoco Plc, the world’s No. 3 publicly traded oil
company, and Ford Motor Co. said they will give Princeton
University $20 million over 10 years to study ways to reduce
carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil fuels. BP said it will give
$15 million. Ford, the world’s second-biggest automaker, is
donating $5 million. The gift is part of a partnership between the
companies aimed at addressing concerns about climate change.
Carbon dioxide is the most common of the greenhouse gases believed
to contribute to global warming.
London-based BP said it plans to give $85 million in the next
decade to universities in the U.S. and U.K. to study environmental
and energy issues. In the past two years, the company has pledged
$40 million to Cambridge University, $20 million to the University
of California at Berkeley and $10 million to the University of
Colorado at Boulder.
“TC” in the message is the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, a collective effort among global warmists to promote their cause. Several from CRU were among its founders. With Climategate, the alarmists have neutered themselves from employing this strategy any longer against the climate realists.
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Russell C| 12.4.09 @ 6:41PM
Hilarious - From the CRU files, http://www.eastangliaemails.co.....206624.txt it appears Michael Mann discourages a UK(?) reporter named Robert Matthews by characterizing the Idsos' CO2Science.org reference as "...the comments you refer to are scurrilous. These comments have not been made by scientists in the peer-reviewed literature, but rather, on a website that, according to published accounts, is run by individuals sponsored by ExxonMobile corportation [sic]...".
And from the 12/1/09 UK Times http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t.....938298.ece
"Dr Pachauri, speaking to The Times on Saturday before travelling to Paris to brief President Sarkozy, suggested that the fossil fuel lobby could be behind a hacking incident last month that led to the publication of thousands of leaked e-mails between climate scientists..."
Richard Baker| 12.4.09 @ 6:43PM
These "Scientists" are nothing but grant whores. Trolling for dollars, quietly, and vocally biting the hand that feeds them. These guys give the word "disreputable" a bad name.
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Here is what this Climate Issue boils down to for me
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Does this mean that the oil companies are now simply shills for Big Science?
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Its about crony capitalism--fascism in action. Like AARP and the AMA supporting Health Care. Big business in bed with big government.
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