XM MLB Chat: US tax dollars went to ClimateGate unit

Information in emails released 2 weeks ago show CRU Phil Jones endeavors received 13 million pounds over time from various sources including the US Dept. of Energy. No wonder the White House is rushing to have EPA declare CO2 a 'public danger.' Trillions of dollars are at stake.

Telegraph: "The spreadsheet listing all successful grant applications made by Professor Jones was part of the batch of leaked documents. It shows Professor Jones, along with other academics at the university, received more than 50 separate grants with a value of £13.7 million from a number of funding bodies including the European Union, Nato,

and the US department of energy....

Prof Jones' name appears alongside all the grants, which range in value from as little as £730 for work carried out on Scottish temperature indices for the Scottish Environment Protection Agency to £6.6 million given by the Higher Education Funding Council for England for the establishment of the Zuckerman Institute for Connective Environmental Research at UEA, an award winning research facility which includes the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change.

According to the spreadsheet, Prof Jones's first successful grant application was made in 1991 to the Department of Environment and was worth £179,484 for 'climate change detection'."...

"Professor Ross McKitrick, visiting professor of environmental economics at the University of Buckingham and an arch sceptic who was subject of some of the leaked emails, said: "Climate sceptics are always accused of taking money from industry

but it is now clear the money is on the other side.

"There is a huge amount of money on the global warming side. Institutions like the CRU have a

very large budget but that would disappear if global warming ceased to exist.

"Scientists are enjoying a funding gravy train; there is so much money in climate research. Lots of areas of science are short of money but not climate change."

from UK Telegraph, "'ClimateGate' Professor Phil Jones Awarded 13 million pounds in research grants," 12/5/09, by Robert Mendick

US congressman seeks response from White House:

12/3/09: "Describe the nature and amount of all funding provided by DOE in whole or part to Dr. Phil Jones, the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit, and other researchers at that institution, including funding for climate change related research and assessments.

What oversight, if any, has been conducted by DOE, NNSA, and LLNL relating to the work of Dr. Phil Jones and any other grantees associated with CRU?"...

US lab, part of Dept. of Energy, donated to ClimateGate group and were key contributors to 2007 UN IPCC report. Each kept the other in business, felt they shared in Gore/IPCC Nobel Prize. 10/13/07, Seattle Times.