I KNOW THIS WON'T MATTER TO THE TRUE DENIALISTS

but another review of the scientific work behind global warming exonerates the researcher from any wrongdoing.

Climate-Change Scientist Cleared in Closing of U.S. Data-Altering Inquiry
By Jim Efstathiou Jr. - Aug 22, 2011 4:44 PM MT
BLOOMBERG

Michael Mann, a Pennsylvania researcher who’s been a target of climate-change skeptics, was cleared of wrongdoing by U.S. investigators in the flap surrounding e-mails hacked from a U.K. university.

Finding no “evidence of research misconduct,” the Arlington, Virginia-based National Science Foundation closed its inquiry into Mann, according to an Aug. 15 report from the inspector general for the U.S. agency. Pennsylvania State University, where Mann is a professor of meteorology, exonerated him in February of suppressing or falsifying data, deleting e- mails and misusing privileged information.

The report confirms findings from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s inspector general and a separate panel of seven scientists based at universities in the U.K., U.S. and Switzerland.