John O'Sullivan is a principle founder and pusher of "Principia Scientific International" a group of AGW deniers intent on spreading misinformation and furthering the echo-chamber's crazy-making regarding the scientific knowledge surrounding our planet's climate.
And since I don't have the time to devote to helping expose the various nonsense around this group I can at least share the efforts of others.
At
http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.co.uk/ Pete Ridley is doing a fine job of examining the details of PSI's beautifully worded 'mission statement' compared to the reality of what they do.
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" .. advocates of transparency and accountability .. "
1.0 INTRODUCTION
In the spirit of the quotation above this article aims to provide as much transparency as possible about Principia Scientific
International (PSI)’s origins as well as the motives, methods and
ambitions of those whose vision PSI was. Anyone having little or no
knowledge of PSI should find it worthwhile initially referring to the
promotional material published on various pages on the PSI Web-site (
http://principia-scientific.org/).
It presents a picture of what PSI purports to be and relevant quotes
will be made in this article as necessary when considering whether or
not PSI lives up to those praiseworthy claims.
Comments in
this article are based upon the facts collected since my first
involvement during 2010 with the significant participants in PSI. I will
concentrate initially on those individuals who played a major role in
founding the organisation. " .. British legal analyst and science
writer, John O’Sullivan pursued a vision to form a large body of experts
united in opposing the worst excesses of government-funded science. ..
From the outset PSI was driven by retired Dutch Analytical Chemist, Hans
Schreuder, Texan engineer and science writer, Joseph A. Olson and
Canada's most popular climatologist, Dr. Tim Ball .. Tom Richard .. the
driving force behind Neveu Design .. has made the PSI website ..
adaptive to the growing demands of an ambitious and globally-expanding
science publishing and communications hub .. " (http://principia-scientific.org/about/principles-of-association). After that I propose to take a look at each of the other individuals involved.
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As for Dr. Michael Mann and all the claims of the data he is supposedly hiding please consider this post over at Legend of Pine Ridge.
Dr. Michael Mann's Data is Available on the Internet
"My
research is all based on data sets regarding the Earth’s climate that
are freely and widely available to all researchers. Whether I make
available my computer programs is irrelevant to whether our results can be reproduced...
My computer program is a piece of private, intellectual property, as the National Science Foundation and its lawyers recognize. It is a bedrock principle of American law that the government may not take private property “without [a] public use,” and “without just compensation.”"---Dr. Michael Mann's letter to Congressman Joe Barton (7-15-05)
Mendacious
people who spread falsehoods on the Internet about the alleged
fabrications of climate scientists often claim that the famous Penn
State climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann
has kept his data secret. Actually, as Dr. Mann's 1995 letter to
Congressman Barton states, Dr. Mann's data is available on Internet at
government and university sites.
Dr.
Mann's computer programs are a secret because they are his private
intellectual property; still, researchers can develop their own computer
codes and use Mann's data to verify his results. Scholars have
replicated Dr. Mann's results by using his data with their own computer
programs.
Researchers
need not have access to exactly the same computer programs (or “code”)
as Dr. Mann developed. Dr. Mann's results can be replicated using his
underlying data and methodologies. See the letter (7-15-05)
that Dr. Mann sent to the corrupt Congressman Joe Barton explaining the
true facts and listing the Internet sites where his data was stored in
2005.
The
MBH [Mann-Bradley-Hughes] data have been publicly available for more
than a decade now! When Dr. Mann moved from U.Va, the same information
and data were maintained through his Penn State research site.
Here are some links where the data can be found:
posted by Snapple
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Dr. Michael Mann also has his own Facebook Page that is a valuable source of information coming from the man himself, along with many informative comments as proven in my previous post.
https://www.facebook.com/MichaelMannScientist
Affidavits in Michael Mann Libel Suit Reveal Astonishing Facts About Tim Ball Associate John O'Sullivan (via Desmogblog)
