Top University Stole Millions From Taxpayers By Faking Global Warming Research
Andrew Follett
Energy and Science Reporter
11:54 AM 10/24/2016
http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/24/to...ming-research/
A global warming research center at the London School of Economics got
millions of dollars from UK taxpayers by taking credit for research it didn't perform, an investigation by The Daily Mail revealed.
The UK government gave $11 million dollars to the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) in exchange for research that the organization reportedly never actually did.
Many papers CCCEP claimed to have published to get government money weren't about global warming, were written before the organization was even founded, or were written by researchers unaffiliated with CCCEP. The government never checked CCCEP's supposed publication lists, saying they were "taken on trust," according to the report...
...Government and private grants have made CCCEP
one of the most lavishly funded institutions of its kind in the world, as it has raised and spent about
$37 million since 2008.
Studies that receive financial support from the public sector don't have to disclose it as an ethical conflict of interest, even when that support is in the millions of dollars. Recent studies in the U.S. — which the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) uses to support the scientific case for its Clean Power Plan — saw the agency give $31.2 million, $9.5 million, and $3.65 million in public funds to lead authors, according to EPA public disclosures.
The author who received $3.65 million, Charles Driscoll,
even admitted to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that the result of his study was predetermined, saying "in doing this study we wanted to bring attention to the additional benefits from
carbon controls."...