Backfire on the #RICO20 and Jagadish Shukla is imminent; wagon circling, climbdown, dissolution begins
Anthony Watts / 1 hour ago September 30, 2015
This story has legs now, as I predicted in this piece yesterday “ The ‘RICO 20 letter’ to Obama asking for prosecution of climate skeptics disappears from Shukla’s IGES website amid financial concerns” the Streisand Effect has been unleashed. Now, instead of explaining why the RICO 20 letter was mysteriously withdrawn from the IGES website after questions began to be asked about the millions of dollars that George Mason’s Jagadish Shukla apparently has received, some of it while apparently “double dipping” against university policy, all the while claiming climate skeptics are the recipients of money that should be prosecuted under the RICO act, we find this curious missive posted in place of the RICO20 letter at the URL where it previously resided:
Source: http://www.iges.org/letter/LetterPresidentAG.pdf
“Inadvertently placed on this web site”? I think not, especially since that URL was the “go to” given in their press release about the letter and referenced in numerous news outlets, without so much as a peep of a correction for over a month while that story ran wild. All of the sudden it was posted in the wrong place?
I call that explanation “BS of the highest order”. He got caught with his pants down, tables have turned, and now its damage control, and badly done damage control at that, since the actions are making the situation with Shukla even more suspect.
Then there’s the apparent nepotism going on with all that public money used to fund Shukla’s climate dreams:
IGES Personnel:
President Shukla, Jagadish
Business Manager Shukla, Anastasia (wife)
Assistant Business Manager Shukla, Sonia (daughter)
Director, COLA Kinter, James
Assistant to the President Shukla, Sonia (two jobs for the daughter)
Source: iges.org
And, Steve McIntyre had called out one of the signatories, Barry Klinger, over untrue claims in Reckless Misinformation from Barry Klinger and the RICO 20
Klinger has now started a climbdown, screencap of http://mason.gmu.edu/~bklinger/ricoDebate.html below:
Popcorn futures are climbing, and this episode, along with all the many many “follow the money” tentacles it has, may very well become the takedown of organized climate science. The RICO20 has opened a Pandora’s box upon themselves.
As Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. Tweeted:
People that live in Greenhouses shouldn’t cast stones.
Note: shortly after publication this article was edited to include a missing comma, a misplaced “to” instead of “the”, and to fix a text formatting problem
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Paul Homewood says:
September 30, 2015 at 9:31 am
Anne (or Anastasia, as she is sometimes referred to) earns $160,000 plus as “Business Manager”.
As IGES as a “business” does not trade, sell, or produce in any shape or fashion, and only employs a handful of people, and simply collects govt funding to produce reports, it is difficult to see what could possibly justify payment of such a large amount of money to the manager.
It seems she can do little other than a bit of admin/bookkeeping, which could probably be contracted out for a few thousand dollars a year.
The conclusion is clear – that this is a “made up” position, used simply as an excuse to cream off govt funding.
[ Shukla was caught double dipping himself, his wife and daughter on the payroll for made up jobs makes it triple dipping. Amazing, he had this scheme that was making his family rich. He goes all fascist publicly and the skeptic blogosphere starts looking at him and finds these financial shenanigans and he WITHDRAWS the letter, says it was a mistake to post it, and is shutting down his moneymaker. Hooray for the good guys. ] |
