Virginia High Court Rejects Case Against Climatologist Michael Mann

ananyo writes "The Virgina Supreme Court on Friday tossed out an investigation by the state's conservative attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli, into Michael Mann, the former University of Virginia climatologist whose work on the now-famous hockey-stick graph has become a lightning rod for climate skeptics. 'In a dense and conflicted 26-page ruling (PDF) covering a century and a half of case law — including references to kings as well as modern "functional incongruities" that divided the judges themselves — Virginia’s high court ruled that the university is not a "person" and thus is not subject to Cuccinelli’s demands under the state’s Fraud Against Taxpayers Act.' The 'climategate' scientist has been cleared of wrongdoing by a number of investigations."

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Re:An agenda

[Barsteward]

"enthusiast" vs "scientist with tons of data" - i know whose word i'd take.

"A lot of what I read is very one-sided" - if it is produced by the real scientists then you can't argue with the data but if its Heartland Inst. derived data then your "Both sides of this argument cherry pick scientific data/evidence to support their opinion." comment is only relevant to the Heartland Inst.

Sounds like you come from a faith-based environment and don't rely on data backed up by facts.