University of Virginia is hiding Climate research documents of Profs. Michael Mann and Pat Michaels

University of Virginia is hiding Climate research documents of Profs. Michael Mann and Pat Michaels Scotty Starnes | February 1, 2011 at 4:10 PM | Tags: Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, Bob Marshall, climate change, climate research, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, global warming, Greenpeace, Michael Mann, Pat Michaels, University of Virgina | Categories: Political Issues | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-4jJ

Now why would the University of Virginia refuse to release climate research documents of a known climate fraud such as Michael Mann. Mann is the global warming alarmist who used fraudulent data to produce his fraudulent hockey-stick graph. The University of Virginia eventually turned over the documents for Prof. Pat Michaels but claimed the documents of Prof. Michael Mann were burned.

You see, Prof. Michaels was a climate change denier while Prof. Michael Mann was a climate change alarmist. The university doesn't want to show the world Mann's fraudulent research.

The Daily Caller reports:

For months, the University of Virginia has been involved in a legal battle with state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli over an investigation into government grants given to a university professor who allegedly used the money to falsify research supporting climate change. Now, some are also accusing the university of treating a professor whose views do not exactly accept the mainstream view of man-made global warming unfavorably.

At issue are the documents and research materials of two former university professors: Pat Michaels and Michael Mann. The university received Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for research materials from both professors, but its response to the respective requests has left some accusing the school of bias.

When Virginia Delegate Bob Marshall submitted a request for the research materials of Mann, he was told by university officials that the documents had been destroyed because the professor was no longer an employee.

When Greenpeace, a national environmental advocacy organization, requested the same materials for Michaels, university officials promptly began the process of complying with the FOIA and told the organization how much the fee would be.

But in an interview with The Daily Caller, Michaels said that when he found out about the disparate treatment, he called the school but it “became pretty obvious they did not want to talk to me.â€

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