Monthly Archives: July 2010

Isaiah 38: 17-18—“Lo, for my own welfare I had great bitterness; it is You who has kept my soul from the pit of nothingness, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back. For Sheol cannot thank You, death cannot praise You; those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.”

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Isaiah 38: 17-18—“Lo, for my own welfare I had great bitterness; it is You who has kept my soul from the pit of nothingness, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.  For Sheol cannot thank You, death cannot praise You; those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.”

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Fraud may have contributed to the global warming hoax.  Don’t be afraid of the truth.


  • “Hockeystick fraud?”, Letter to the Editor, Richmond Times-Dispatch, July 28, 2010, by S. Fred Singer

The Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Kenneth Cuccinelli, is currently engaged in extracting from the University of Virginia (where Prof Michael Mann was a faculty member from 1999 to 2005) the e-mail records and other material relating to Mann. The University is fighting this demand in court but is unlikely to prevail since they had already agreed some months ago to deliver the e-mail records of Prof Patrick Michaels to Greenpeace. I note that at that time, no cries about ‘academic freedom’ were raised by the usual suspects, thus exposing the hypocrisy of the Faculty Senate, the AAUP, and the Union of Concerned Scientists. I was sorry to see the Times-Dispatch go along with this (Barton Hinkle, July 23).

There is a serious matter which bears discussion: Did Mann commit fraud? I would give him the benefit of the doubt and suggest that his initial publication in 1998 contained many errors, including major statistical ones, which he might not have been aware of. But certainly, after these errors had been pointed out to him in no uncertain terms, how could he maintain his original posture and claim that the hockey stick truly represented the global temperature record of the last 1000 years? All this in spite of many publications, both before and after 1998, that clearly told a different story.

It is quite likely that Cuccinelli will discover a smoking gun. Perhaps some of the e-mails that British researcher Prof Phil Jones admitted to having deleted will tell us just when Mann became aware that the hockey stick was bogus and a fraud.

S. Fred Singer is Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia

  • SnyderTalk Commentary from July 11, 2010:

It’s time for the University of Virginia to release the information demanded by Virginia’s attorney general.  To do otherwise flies in the face of one of the University’s founding principles: “For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.” (Thomas Jefferson)

UVA’s current president, John Casteen, has been unwilling to comply with the attorney general’s request, but he steps down on August 1, 2010.  UVA’s new president, Teresa Sullivan, will have the opportunity to do what Mr. Casteen should have done.

Good science demands the release of complete and accurate information so that other scientists can confirm or refute findings.  Deliberately withholding data and methods is bad science, but in this case, it may be fraud as well.  Since public money funded much of Professor Mann’s research, that’s what Virginia’s attorney general wants to find out.

From UVA’s perspective, the possibility that one of its faculty members engaged in fraud is a compelling reason to cooperate with the attorney general.  Honor is a hallmark of UVA.  The Honor Code is straightforward and simple.  Lying, cheating, and stealing aren’t permitted.  Not working with the attorney general will make UVA complicit if fraud did occur.

Mrs. Sullivan should also consider opening an internal investigation.  Conditions that permit fraud and its cover-up can’t be allowed to exist, especially at schools like UVA.  Fraud does to universities what termites do to houses.  It destroys by undermining structural integrity.  If Professor Mann committed fraud, other faculty and administrators should have known about it.  If they did, they were complicit.  If they didn’t, that’s another problem that deserves attention.  Have other schools and colleges at UVA experienced fraud and abuse?  After all, if you see one termite, you can bet there are many more.

Mrs. Sullivan needs to know the whole truth.  There is no better time to conduct an investigation of this sort than following a changing of the guard.

Full Disclosure:  Neil Snyder is the Ralph A. Beeton Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia.

  • Background Material:
  1. Oh, Mann: Cuccinelli targets UVA papers in Climategate salvo
  2. The Politicization of Science
  3. U.Va. says Cuccinelli subpoena a sweeping demand that will imperil academia
  4. Attorney General Cuccinelli Under Investigation for Climate Probe—By Greenpeace

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