Climate expert in the eye of an integrity storm (Michael Mann interview re: “Climategate.”)

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Posted on Sat, Jan. 9, 2010

Climate expert in the eye of an integrity storm

By Faye Flam

Inquirer Staff Writer

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Michael Mann switched from physics to climate science back in graduate school because he thought climate offered a better chance to work "on a frontier."

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After dozens of Mann's personal e-mails were hacked in November, the tenured professor has been called a fraud, a clown, and worse by columnists and bloggers.

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And last week, a message went around his department at the university, notifying everyone that a whistle-blower could make up to $12 million by uncovering fraudulent use of federal grants. One blogger gloated that the offer would lead to Mann's having "a very unhappy new year."

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"My suspicion is, this has been orchestrated at a high level," he said of the hacking.

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