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The A.G. uses little discretion in going after a former U.Va. professor Date published: 5/9/2010
FIT, confident, and eager, Virginia "In light of the Climategate e-mails"--intercepted messages at East Anglia University's Climate Research Unit revealing that global-warming researchers suppressed data counterindicative of human-caused climate change--"there does seem to at least be an argument to be made that a course was undertaken by some of the individuals involved, including potentially Michael Mann, where they were steering a course to reach a conclusion." "Does seem." "At least." "An argument to be made." "Potentially Michael Mann." On this hey-it's-not-impossible basis, Mr. Cuccinelli launches an expensive and disruptive fishing expedition at U.Va. to harpoon the great white whale of global-warming deception? At least the first Captain Ahab had actually seen Moby Dick. No one disputes that the A.G. is acting lawfully. The 2002 Fraud Against Taxpayers Act can assess civil penalties on state employees who stoop to funny business to secure public funds. Mr. Mann, who got almost a half-million dollars in state research grants while on the U.Va. payroll from 1999 to 2005, helped create the dramatic 1,000-year "hockey stick graph," which shows a sudden jump in global temperatures starting in the mid-20th century. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change cited the graph in its U.N. report warning of planetary calamity. East Anglia is a bank of IPCC data--some now tainted, and some supplied by Mr. Mann while at U.Va. Those connections were all the wind Mr. Cuccinelli needed to fill his investigatory sails. A FATEFUL INCURSION Did Mr. Mann cook data to secure Virginia taxpayer funding, with which he produced more climate-change hooey? That evidently is Mr. Cuccinelli's hunch. But there are two arguments against his demand that U.Va. turn over voluminous e-mails between Mr. Mann and more than 40 other scientists, supporting materials for the grant requests, and other documents.
dare investigate a scientist who received .5 million taxpayer dollars in his quest to prove that the earth's (climate) temperature is increasing. (Now it is called "changing" hehe).
Everybody knows it is changing and everybody also knows that it laways has changed and alwats will until it blows up or a black hole eats it.
All the AG asked for is some emails...go ahead..humor the man and let him too see the porn the professors were trading. I mean the SEC honchos were distracted too right?
Richmond -- Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli today announced that his office has launched an investigation into the non-payment of personal property taxes by UFO's landing in Virginia. "This could be a large loss of revenue for the State," AG Cuccinelli stated during a press conference. "The people -- and the NRA -- called for this effort, and I will honor that call. I'll bet Science is involved here" The plan calls for the AG to stay up late on Tuesday nights and scan the sky with binoculars."
Any public funding going to promote global warming alarmism is AT LEAST bad policy. Given the record of fraud in that part of academia promoting global warming alarmism, it is fair game for the state attorney general to perform basic due diligence into public funding going to the public university in the person of Michael Mann. I applaud Ken Cuccinelli for this and other actions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf-fzVH6v_U&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqUHM2gf5g4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAlMomLvu_4
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