{"id":29514,"date":"2016-10-24T20:54:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T00:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29514"},"modified":"2016-10-24T20:54:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T00:54:09","slug":"science-for-fun-and-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29514","title":{"rendered":"Science For Fun And Profit"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Daily Caller<\/a> posted a story about climate research at the global warming<\/a> research center at the London School of Economics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The UK government<\/a> gave $11 million dollars to the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy<\/a> (CCCEP) in exchange for research that the organization reportedly never actually did.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many papers CCCEP claimed to have published to get government money weren\u2019t about global warming, were written before the organization was even founded, or were written by researchers<\/a> unaffiliated with CCCEP. The government never checked CCCEP\u2019s supposed publication lists, saying they were \u201ctaken on trust,\u201d according to the report.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…\u201cIt is serious misconduct to claim credit for a paper you haven\u2019t supported, and it\u2019s fraud to use that in a bid to renew a grant,\u201d Professor Richard Tol<\/a>, a climate economics expert from Sussex University<\/a> whose research was reportedly stolen by CCCEP, told The Daily Mail<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ve never come across anything like it before. It stinks.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the CCCEP was attempting to get another $5.4 million from the government to pay for operations until 2018.<\/p>\n

The article also reports:<\/p>\n

The author who received $3.65 million, Charles\u00a0Driscoll, even admitted\u00a0to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/a>\u00a0that the result of his\u00a0study was predetermined, saying \u201cin doing this study we wanted to bring attention to the additional benefits from carbon controls.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now think about that for a minute. If the results of the study were predetermined, why did they do the study? Also, what does that tell us about the scientific aspect of the studies on climate control–are those results predetermined also? Even with my limited knowledge of the Scientific Method, I know there is something wrong with reaching the conclusion before you do the research (or without doing the research).<\/p>\n

In case you are a new reader of this blog, I would like to recommend wattsupwiththat.com<\/a> as the best, most honest website on the Internet dealing with climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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