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Virginia AG Probing Michael Mann For Fraud
eldavojohn writes "Republican Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has requested receipts and research documents relating to nearly half a million dollars in state taxpayer money used to conduct climate change research at the University of Virginia while under direction of Michael Mann, originator of the famous 2001 IPCC Hockey Stick graph depicting rapid climate change. Mann appears to be a prime target for Cuccinelli — who has also requested hearings with the EPA to contest the grounds of their carbon dioxide studies. Mann's expenditures of taxpayer money may become problematic if Cuccinelli finds violations of Virginia's Fraud Against Taxpayers Act. Cuccinelli has been active in pushing conservative views in the past, including an effort to remove the titillating mammary from the beloved Great Seal of Virginia. No end in sight for the politicizing of the science and research surrounding climate change."
Mann has credibly been accused (with evidence) of publishing fraudulent results (see also "hockey stick"). While I neither agree or disagree with your assertion, a more precise listing of what political reasons you think may be present would be nice.
The reason I ask is simple: any political officeholder can be accused of acting on political reasons. The thing lies in what those reasons may or may not be.
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
The greater the Implications of your Discovery, the Greater Burden of Proof there is. The fact that the Climate Scientists came out and said that we are doomed unless we change now, with so many unanswered questions, is bad science.
You do realize that there is a large population of people who don't support the idea of climate change? And if its not able to stand up against political pressure, those people Will Never be coerced.