ClydeR
05-04-2010, 11:10 AM
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli "has demanded that the University of Virginia turn over documents related to a former UVa climatology professor," reports the Charlottesville Daily Progress. The documents involve five federal grants received by Mann, who taught at the University of Virginia from 1999 to 2005.
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Mann is best known for a 1999 Nature study he co-authored finding average surface temperatures in the 20th century higher than past centuries, leaping dramatically upwards in a "hockey stick" shape, resembling an "L" lying on its back. Following 2005 Congressional hearings over the "hockey stick" results, a 2006 National Research Council report found the Mann paper's conclusion, "has subsequently been supported by an array of evidence."
However, this has never satisfied his critics, such as Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who in a February letter to the National Science Foundation cited e-mails purloined last year from the United Kingdom's University of East Anglia climate research team to suggest Mann and colleagues "manipulate data and research." (In his challenge to the EPA finding, Cuccinelli similarly cited the e-mails.)
This is exactly the kind of thing Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli should be doing. Since coming to office, he's been focusing on one good cause after another. I've written about a few of them in this forum.
More... (http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/04/climate-science-witch-hunt-reprised-in-virginia-/1)
Mann is best known for a 1999 Nature study he co-authored finding average surface temperatures in the 20th century higher than past centuries, leaping dramatically upwards in a "hockey stick" shape, resembling an "L" lying on its back. Following 2005 Congressional hearings over the "hockey stick" results, a 2006 National Research Council report found the Mann paper's conclusion, "has subsequently been supported by an array of evidence."
However, this has never satisfied his critics, such as Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who in a February letter to the National Science Foundation cited e-mails purloined last year from the United Kingdom's University of East Anglia climate research team to suggest Mann and colleagues "manipulate data and research." (In his challenge to the EPA finding, Cuccinelli similarly cited the e-mails.)
This is exactly the kind of thing Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli should be doing. Since coming to office, he's been focusing on one good cause after another. I've written about a few of them in this forum.