Happening in Antarctica : Very Easy Degrees! Top Support!

We all believe in being competitive, and in earning what we obtain, like positions and degrees.
Some people, though, do not. For some reason Antarctica is a magnet for some of these
people.
Take these two characters. Both are from the Chicago area.

The guy on the left is the infamous Clarence Darrow. Clarence staged the "Scopes monkey trial" to demonstrate that scientific evidence for evolution was being impeded in schools because religious groups wanted their children to believe the bible instead. So he made a name for himself. Actually, this was part of his Communist agenda - the suppression of religion.

What has this to do with Antarctica? Well, the guy on the right is Donald Blankenship. He is in the Antarctic glaciology program as a geophysicist, having gone through his academic program as a privileged person. He was allowed to fudge data, plagiarize, misrepresent facts, misinterpret results, and still he obtained his PhD degree.

Darrow is less well known for his organizing the US Communist Party. He was constantly on the move, traveling by train throughout the US, spreading his message in the pre-television era; going forth from his office at the University of Chicago, he seemed to spend little time at the University and more time scheduling, populating, and attending Party meetings. He established two primary socialist's routes: one extending from Chicago to Los Angeles, and another from Chicago to New York City. In New York he established the Communist school at Columbia. It was there that the US Communist Party joined together with a cell of the Soviet Secret police, thus linking east and west. At Columbia Darrow's brother Everett, was a law professor. His responsibility was to streamline as many Communists into law as possible for Clarence claimed that the Party required them. The Communists were so influential at Columbia that one had trouble getting a degree if you had not taken classes at the Communist school and declared yourself a loyal member of the Party. People were abused and forced out who did not follow the Communist leadership. Many would-be lawyers who were in these programs found themselves to be practicing courtroom attorneys before they knew they had even been in law school. The Party had really corrupted the academic program at Columbia,though popular with fresh immigrants who knew no one in America.

Some see Darrow as a hero, others see him as crook and a thug. He defended murderers and thugs who supported the Party. If murderers were found guilty, he raised the issue of the inhumanity of the death penalty. People in New York claimed they did not know the difference between Communists and the Mafia.

Donald Blankenship is in the Antarctic glaciology program as a geophysicist, having gone through the academic program as a privileged person. He was allowed to fudge data, plagiarize, misrepresent facts, misinterpret results, and still he obtained his PhD degree. In all his years as a graduate student, he only did one seismic wide-angle experiment, and tha the did badly. Despite this, he was given several grants and he picked out the ones he liked the best although at his prelim-exam he could not solve for the field of a dipole. He was allowed to abuse other students with impunity. At his defense, only his advisor Bentley supported him; Bentley having claimed he needed to catch a plane to subvert any questioning. For some reason people were calling Bentley "Uncle Charley". If, as a member of the academic community, you got in Bentley's way somehow, or diminished "his nephew", he would threaten to destroy you.

This is germane to the climate debate because Charles Bentley, Donald Blankenship and Richard Alley were responsible for intentionally misrepresenting the glaciology in West Antarctica circa 1987. Bentley was the their graduate advisor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. West Antarctic glaciology is now claimed to simply have been badly misinterpreted by Richard Alley who says more study is necessary. He is now looking for long-term grant money to supposedly improve upon the b**it they spread around earlier.

Alley, who also obtained an extremely streamlined academic degree (he claimed to be promised a faculty position as an undergraduate (from a person who was already dead), was/is publishing papers by plagiarizing without doing any research. He is one of the main US proponents of Man-Induced Global Warming (MIGW).

One might note that what happened in these academic programs at Wisconsin and Columbia were similar to what is purported to be happening to people who oppose MIGW - easy degrees for the academic faithful, with exploitation and abuse for outsiders. You could not be bright if you did not go along with them. When they made up stories about West Antarctica, one was forced to go along with it, or your career was threatened. They harassed you by following you around, interfering with your neighbors and coworkers. Professors felt they owned you if they gave you a degree.

Are these two men related? Look at their photos and judge for yourself.

Why did these people lie about Antarctica? It is a long story and so I will present it in parts.
One reason though, was that they were totally willing to take license and make up stuff for its effect. In fact for years, Bentley used his research program as a front for his politics.