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Mann’s Fate in Climategate
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
Michael Mann, the climatologist from Pennsylvania State University who has been under attack by foes of restrictions on greenhouse gases and critics of the dominant view that human-driven warming is occurring and dangerous, has been cleared on three points of inquiry by a faculty review panel at the university, John Broder of The Times reports. A fourth question will be investigated further.
The investigation unfolded after a large batch of e-mail messages and files from a British climate research center was distributed on the Web, exposing years of exchanges among climate scientists, with Dr. Mann prominently featured.
The full findings (a pdf file) are posted at the university Web site. Dr. Mann posted his reaction. Here are the questions he was cleared on.
1. Did you engage in, or participate in, directly or indirectly, any actions with the intent to suppress or falsify data?
2. Did you engage in, or participate in, directly or indirectly, any actions with the intent to delete, conceal or otherwise destroy emails, information and/or data, related to AR4, as suggested by Phil Jones?
3. Did you engage in, or participate in, directly or indirectly, any misuse of privileged or confidential information available to you in your capacity as an academic scholar?
Here’s the point still under examination:
4. Did you engage in, or participate in, directly or indirectly, any actions that seriously
deviated from accepted practices within the academic community for proposing, conducting, or reporting research or other scholarly activities?
Poor judgement choice by the Professor regarding his words against climate skeptics. But it's great to see the science being absolved in this case. I guess we can put that to rest, it is now about his personal viewpoints and his expression of those.
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I guess climate gate only deserves a response when it's from fox news and it's packed full of misunderstanding and outright lies.
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bump for answers.
So his own fellow faculty cleared him. Yeah that is a real unbiased crowd. ::) ::)
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So his own fellow faculty cleared him. Yeah that is a real unbiased crowd. ::) ::)
Yeah okay. You know nothing about the process and it's all outlined in the open for you to understand it. These things are not taken lightly. To absolve someone without full investigation would be academic suicide for a university.
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LMAOOOOO
Gee golly whiz! It would be academic suicide.
So, the University has a vested interest in clearing the guys name (obviously)- and in this case, the University cleared his name.
Amazing development!
The reason why there are no responses is because this thread is a waste of bandwidth.
Also, if you take the time to read these "questions", you can see there is plenty of wiggle room to weasel your way out of admitting guilt. Some catch phrases that should be immediate red flags are "With the intent" and, Any actions that "seriously deviated from accepted practices"
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Oh georgie boy still can't see the light huh? Must be all that pollution in the air hahahaha :D