Penn State Will Investigate 'Climategate'

Phil Jones has stepped down. Temporarily, supposedly. Now Penn State, in the middle of the climategate tempest because it employs Michael Mann, responsible for the hockey stick fraud and among the scientists shown in the leaked emails to have manipulated data and conspired to silence and discredit skeptics, will supposedly investigate the matter. Will they drop the hammer on these frauds to save the integrity of their illustrious university, or will they cover up this crime to continue to perpetrate the crime? I believe that depends on how vigorous the people push the issue. Eugenics is the religion of the elite. It is a concept beloved by the majority of academia. Will Penn State and UEA be willing to fall on their sword for the good of the cause?

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Among other things, the Watergate scandal of the 1970s gave us a great naming convention for future scandals. Take "Climategate" at Penn State. That's what people are calling the controversy surrounding leaked E-mails among climate change researchers that climate change opponents say expose the researchers' falsification of data. One Penn State professor is involved in the scandal.

The Penn State administration plans to investigate Climategate and determine if it needs to take further action, the Daily Collegian reports. A little more than a week ago, E-mails exchanged among an English university's climate change researchers were illegally obtained from a server and posted online, the report says.

Climate change opponents say the E-mails indicate that climate change researchers—including Penn State Prof. Michael Mann—exaggerated or fabricated global warming data. And, according to the report, some E-mails indicate that the director of the research unit in question may have contacted researchers and asked them to "delete certain E-mails."

Penn State officials, who will not discuss the matter, are investigating the controversy. If anything requires further inspection, the school will handle it, a spokesman tells the Daily Collegian. A panel will read every E-mail leaked and determine if climate change critics have any ground for their accusations, the report says.

"I would be disappointed if the university wasn't doing all [it] can to get as much information as possible" about the controversy, Mann tells the Daily Collegian.