People send me stuff.

Just last week we heard that Dr. Robert Carter had been blackballed at his own university where he served as department chair, and now we have this from Dr. Murray Salby, sent via email.

Between John Cook, Stephan Lewandowsky, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, plus Mike Marriot and his idiotic ideas, I’m beginning to think Australia is ground zero for AGW crackpottery.

This email’s accusations (if true I have independent confirmation now, title changed to reflect this – Anthony) is quite something, it illustrates the disturbing lengths a university will go to suppress ideas they don’t agree with. So much for academic freedom at Macquarie University.

From: [redacted]

Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 2:25 PM

To: [redacted]

Subject: From Murry Salby

Thanks for your interest in the research presented during my recent lecture tour in Europe.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/06/another-nail-in-the-climate-change-coffin.php

Remarks from several make it clear that Macquarie University

is comfortable with openly disclosing the state of affairs,

if not distorting them to its convenience. So be it.

Macquarie’s liberal disclosure makes continued reticence unfeasible.

In response to queries is the following, a matter of record:

1. In 2008, I was recruited from the US by “Macquarie University”,

with appointment as Professor, under a national employment contract with

regulatory oversight, and with written agreement that Macquarie would provide

specified resources to enable me to rebuild my research program in Australia.

Included was technical support to convert several hundred thousand lines of computer code,

comprising numerical models and analyses (the tools of my research),

to enable those computer programs to operate in Australia.

2. With those contractual arrangements, I relocated to Australia.

Upon attempting to rebuild my research program, Macquarie advised that

the resources it had agreed to provide were unavailable. I was given an excuse for why.

Half a year later, I was given another excuse. Then another.

Requests to release the committed resources were ignored.

3. Three years passed before Macquarie produced even the first major component

of the resources it had agreed to provide. After five years of cat-and-mouse,

Macquarie has continued to withhold the resources that it had committed.

As a result, my computer models and analyses remain inoperative.

4. A bright student from Russia came to Macquarie to work with me.

Macquarie required her to abandon her PhD scholarship in Russia.

Her PhD research, approved by Macquarie, relied upon the same computer

models and analyses, which Macquarie agreed to have converted but did not.

5. To remedy the situation, I petitioned Macquarie through several avenues provided

in my contract. Like other contractual provisions, those requests were ignored.

The provisions then required the discrepancy to be forwarded to the Australian employment tribunal,

the government body with regulatory oversight.

The tribunal then informed me that Macquarie had not even registered my contract.

Regulatory oversight, a statutory protection that Macquarie advised would govern

my appointment, was thereby circumvented. Macquarie’s failure to register

rendered my contract under the national employment system null and void.

6. During the protracted delay of resources, I eventually undertook the production

of a new book – all I could do without the committed resources to rebuild my research program.

The endeavor compelled me to gain a better understanding of greenhouse gases

and how they evolve. Preliminary findings from this study are familiar to many.

http://www.thesydneyinstitute.com.au/speaker/murry-salby/ Refer to the vodcast of July 24, 2012.

Insight from this research contradicts many of the reckless claims surrounding greenhouse gases.

More than a few originate from staff at Macquarie, which benefits from such claims.

7. The preliminary findings seeded a comprehensive study of greenhouse gases.

Despite adverse circumstances, the wider study was recently completed. It indicates:

(i) Modern changes of atmospheric CO2 and methane are (contrary to popular belief)

not unprecedented.

(ii) The same physical law that governs ancient changes of atmospheric CO2 and methane

also governs modern changes.

These new findings are entirely consistent with the preliminary findings,

which evaluated the increase of 20th century CO2 from changes in native emission.

http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/07/02/swedish-scientist-replicates-dr-murry-salbys-work-finding-man-made-co2-does-not-drive-climate-change/

8. Under the resources Macquarie had agreed to provide, arrangements were made

to present this new research at a scientific conference and in a lecture series at

research centers in Europe.

9. Forms for research travel that were lodged with Macquarie included a description

of the findings. Presentation of our research was then blocked by Macquarie.

The obstruction was imposed after arrangements had been made at several venues

(arranged then to conform to other restrictions imposed by Macquarie).

Macquarie’s intervention would have silenced the release of our research.

10. Following the obstruction of research communication, as well as my earlier efforts

to obtain compliance with my contract, Macquarie modified my professional duties.

My role was then reduced to that of a student teaching assistant: Marking student papers

for other staff – junior staff.

I objected, pursuant to my appointment and provisions of my contract.

11. In February 2013, Macquarie then accused me of “misconduct”,

cancelling my salary. It blocked access to my office, computer resources,

even to personal equipment I had transferred from the US.

My Russian student was prohibited from speaking with me.

She was isolated – left without competent supervision

and the resources necessary to complete her PhD investigation,

research that Macquarie approved when it lured her from Russia.

12. Obligations to present our new research on greenhouse gases (previously arranged),

had to be fulfilled at personal expense.

13. In April, The Australian (the national newspaper), published an article which

grounded reckless claims by the so-called Australian Climate Commission:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/opinion/last-summer-was-not-actually-angrier-than-other-summers/story-e6frgd0x-1226611988057 (Open access via Google News)

To promote the Climate Commission’s newest report is the latest sobering claim:

“one in two chance that by 2100 there’ll be no human beings left on this planet”

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/if-you-want-to-know-about-climate-ask-the-right-questions/story-fni0ffxg-1226666505528

Two of the six-member Australian Climate Commission are Macquarie staff.

Included is its Chief Commissioner.

14. While I was in Europe presenting our new research on greenhouse gases,

Macquarie undertook its misconduct proceedings – with me in absentia.

Macquarie was well informed of the circumstances. It was more than informed.

15. Upon arriving at Paris airport for my return to Australia, I was advised that

my return ticket (among the resources Macquarie agreed to provide) had been cancelled.

The latest chapter in a pattern, this action left me stranded in Europe,

with no arrangements for lodging or return travel.

The ticket that had been cancelled was non-refundable.

16. The action ensured my absence during Macquarie’s misconduct proceedings.

17. When I eventually returned to Australia, I lodged a complaint with the

Australian employment tribunal, under statutes that prohibit retaliatory conduct.

18. In May 2013, while the matter was pending before the employment tribunal,

Macquarie terminated my appointment.

19. Like the Australian Climate Commission, Macquarie is a publically-funded enterprise.

It holds a responsibility to act in the interests of the public.

20. The recent events come with curious timing, disrupting publication of our research

on greenhouse gases. With correspondence, files, and computer equipment confiscated,

that research will now have to be pursued by Macquarie University’s “Climate Experts”.

http://www.science.mq.edu.au/news_and_events/news/climate_change_commision

Murry Salby

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