On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:26:44 -0500, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

Grants to Michael Mann.

2009-2013 Quantifying the influence of environmental temperature on
transmission of vector-borne diseases, NSF-EF [Principal Investigator:
M. Thomas; Co-Investigators: R.G. Crane, M.E. Mann, A. Read, T. Scott
(Penn State Univ.)] $1,884,991

2009-2012 Toward Improved Projections of the Climate Response to
Anthropogenic Forcing: Combining Paleoclimate Proxy and Instrumental
Observations with an Earth System Model, NSF-ATM [Principal
Investigator: M.E. Mann; Co-Investigators: K. Keller (Penn State
Univ.), A. Timmermann (Univ. of Hawaii)] $541,184

2008-2011 A Framework for Probabilistic Projections of Energy-Relevant
Streamflow Indices, DOE [Principal Investigator: T. Wagener;
Co-Investigators: M. Mann, R. Crane, K. Freeman (Penn State Univ.)]
$330,000

2008-2009 AMS Industry/Government Graduate Fellowship (Anthony
Sabbatelli), American Meteorological Society [Principal Investigator:
M.E. Mann (Penn State Univ.)] $23,000

2006-2009 Climate Change Collective Learning and Observatory Network
in Ghana, USAID [Principal Investigator: P. Tschakert;
Co-Investigators: M.E. Mann, W. Easterling (Penn State Univ.)]
$759,928

2006-2009 Analysis and testing of proxy-based climate reconstructions,
NSF-ATM [Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann (Penn State Univ.)]
$459,000

2006-2009 Constraining the Tropical Pacific’s Role in Low-Frequency
Climate Change of the Last Millennium, NOAA-Climate Change Data &
Detection (CCDD) Program [Principal Investigators: K. Cobb (Georgia
Tech Univ.), N. Graham (Hydro. Res. Center), M.E. Mann (Penn State
Univ.), Hoerling (NOAA Clim. Dyn. Center), Alexander (NOAA Clim. Dyn.
Center)] PSU award (M.E. Mann): $68,065

2006-2007 Acquisition of high-performance computing cluster for the
Penn State Earth System Science Center (ESSC), NSF-EAR [Principal
Investigator: M.E. Mann, Co-Investigators: R. Alley, M. Arthur, J.
Evans, D. Pollard (Penn State Univ.)] $100,000

2003-2006 Decadal Variability in the Tropical Indo-Pacific:
Integrating Paleo & Coupled Model Results, NOAA-Climate Change Data &
Detection (CCDD) Program [Principal Investigators: M.E. Mann (U.Va),
J. Cole (U. Arizona), V. Mehta (CRCES)] U.Va award (M.E. Mann):
$102,000

2002-2005 Reconstruction and Analysis of Patterns of Climate
Variability Over the Last One to Two Millennia, NOAA-Climate Change
Data & Detection (CCDD) Program [Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann,
Co-Investigators: S. Rutherford, R.S. Bradley, M.K. Hughes] $315,000

2002-2005 Remote Observations of Ice Sheet Surface Temperatu Toward
Multi-Proxy Reconstruction of Antarctic Climate Variability,
NSF-Office of Polar Programs, Antarctic Oceans and Climate System
[Principal Investigators: M.E. Mann (U. Va), E. Steig (U. Wash.), D.
Weinbrenner (U. Wash)] U.Va award (M.E. Mann): $133,000

2002-2003 Paleoclimatic Reconstructions of the Arctic Oscillation,
NOAA-Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research (CIFAR) Program
[Principal Investigators: Rosanne D'Arrigo, Ed Cook (Lamont/Columbia);
Co-Investigator: M.E. Mann] U.Va subcontract (M.E. Mann): $14,400

2002-2003 Global Multidecadal-to-Century-Scale Oscillations During the
Last 1000 years, NOAA-Climate Change Data & Detection (CCDD) Program
[Principal Investigator: Malcolm Hughes (Univ. of Arizona);
Co-Investigators: M.E. Mann; J. Park (Yale University)] U.Va
subcontract (M.E. Mann): $20,775

2001-2003 Resolving the Scale-wise Sensitivities in the Dynamical
Coupling Between Climate and the Biosphere, University of
Virginia-Fund for Excellence in Science and Technology (FEST)
[Principal Investigator: J.D. Albertson; Co-Investigators: H. Epstein,
M.E. Mann] U.Va internal award: $214,700

2001-2002 Advancing predictive models of marine sediment transport,
Office of Naval Research [Principal Investigator: P. Wiberg (U.Va),
Co-Investigator: M.E. Mann] $20,775

1999-2002 Multiproxy Climate Reconstruction: Extension in Space and
Time, and Model/Data Intercomparison, NOAA-Earth Systems History
[Principal Investigator: M.E. Mann (U.Va), Co-Investigators: R.S.
Bradley, M.K. Hughes] $381,647

1998-2000 Validation of Decadal-to-Multi-century climate predictions,
DOE [Principal Investigator: R.S. Bradley (U. Mass); Co-Investigators:
H.F. Diaz, M.E. Mann]

1998-2000 The changing seasons? Detecting and understanding climatic
change, NSF-Hydrological Science [Principal Investigator U. Lall (U.
Utah); Co-investigators: M.E. Mann, B. Rajagopalan, M. Cane] $266,235K

1996-1999 Patterns of Organized Climatic Variability: Spatio-Temporal
Analysis of Globally Distributed Climate Proxy Records and Long-term
Model Integrations, NSF-Earth Systems History [Principal Investigator:
R.S. Bradley (U. Mass); Co-Investigators: M.E. Mann, M.K. Hughes]
$270,000

1996-1998 Investigation of Patterns of Organized Large-Scale Climatic
Variability During the Last Millennium, DOE, Alexander Hollaender
Postdoctoral Fellowship [M.E. Mann] $78,000

BUT IT'S ABOUT THE SCIENCE!!!

LMAO! Best joke of the day.

I'll bet there's not a liberal in the world wondering why all the
results of all these 'scientific' studies point the same way.

I'd really like to know how much Algore, 'Bama, and some of the others
are making off this.
--

John H