The title says it all

Stimulating Fraud

Hoaxes: With double-digit unemployment in a jobless recovery, half-a-million stimulus dollars have saved a ClimateGate scientist whose work could lead to economic disaster. To save this job, we'd lose millions of others.
As we've gone from jobs saved or created to jobs funded in ZIP codes and congressional districts that don't exist except in galaxies far, far away, many interesting nuggets have been mined from the government's recovery.gov, which tracks the administration's lack of progress.
It's one thing to fail to create real jobs. It is quite another to fund the jobs of people who would put millions of Americans out of work. This is what the administration has done by awarding $541,184 in economic stimulus funds to Penn State University to save, recovery.gov says, 1.62 jobs so that professor Michael Mann can continue his tree-ring circus fraudulently advancing the myth of man-made global warming.
Mann and Penn State received the money shortly before the unearthing of e-mails from Britain's Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia revealed Mann as a participant in a massive campaign of manipulation, suppression and destruction of climate data to advance the bogus claims of the warm-mongers.
"It's outrageous that economic stimulus money is being used to support research conducted by Michael Mann at the very same time he's under investigation by Penn State and is one of the key figures in the international Climate-gate scandal," says Tom Borelli, director of the Free Enterprise Project for the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank. "Penn State should immediately return these funds to the U.S. Treasury."
We agree. Stimulus funds should go to entrepreneurs and other job creators, not those whose research — and we use the word loosely — has been the basis for international redistribution-of-wealth schemes such as Kyoto, Copenhagen and our own job-killing versions of cap-and-trade, Waxman-Markey and Kerry-Boxer.
Even after Mann's role in Climate-gate was exposed, Penn State announced additional stimulus funds to investigate the impact of supposed climate change. A nearly $1.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation was awarded to "a Penn State-led group of researchers to continue studies on the potential effects of climate change on the spread of infectious diseases, such as malaria and dengue. The grant is part of federal stimulus funding authorized under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act."
Can we guess the results? If you work in the vanishing energy or manufacturing sectors, or are among the 10% unemployed, you're entitled to wonder why the government is funding research used to justify job-destroying treaties and legislation. The only shovel in this "shovel ready" job is the one used to bury the truth about earth's climate.
Climate Research Unit e-mails revealed one from director Phil Jones to colleagues talking of Mann's "nature trick" of manipulating temperature data that were used to "hide the decline" in global temperatures. It was Mann's now discredited hockey-stick graph that showed relatively minor fluctuations in temperature over the first 900 years, then a sharp and continuous rise in the past century.
His graph ignored the Medieval Warm Period (800 to 1400) and the Little Ice Age (1600 to 1850). It appeared no less than five times in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's landmark 2001 report on global warming, which paved the way to the failed Kyoto Protocol and its successors.
According to a study by the National Association of Manufacturers and the American Council for Capital Formation, Waxman-Markey could cost GDP $3.1 trillion from 2012 to 2030. By 2030, the report says, job losses could total 2.4 million, residential electricity prices could jump 50%, and the price of gasoline could escalate 26%.
If Waxman-Markey or Kerry-Boxer passes, we may be paying for this $500,000 stimulus grant for a very long time.