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.
