by Lawrence Solomon4th May 2010
The State of Virginia has decided to investigate possible wrong-doing by Michael Mann of Climategate fame. Michael Mann is best known as the scientist, associated with the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, who came up with the controversial Hockey Stick Graph that became the icon of the global warming movement. Virginia's investigation is the first by a government on this side of the Atlantic.
In the investigation, Virginia's Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II, has demanded that the University of Virginia, where Mann was a professor until five years ago, produce documents to determine whether Mann defrauded taxpayers in obtaining climate change research grants.
Cuccinelli's investigation, he explained, directly flowed from the Climategate emails, which raised reasonable doubts about whether any wrong-doing had occurred. If Mann knowingly presented inconsistencies in obtaining government research funds, Cuccinelli explained, Mann would be civiliy liable.
Article courtesy of Probe International
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