Cuccinelli reissues global warming subpoena to the University of Virginia

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Cuccinelli reissues global warming subpoena to U-Va.

By Rosalind Helderman | October 4, 2010; 1:31 PM ET

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has sent a new civil subpoena to the University of Virginia, renewing a demand for documents related to a work of a former university climate scientist that was stymied when a judge blocked his previous request in August.

The new Civil Investigative Demand revives a contentious fight between Cuccinelli and the university over documents related to the work of Michael Mann, a prominent climate scientist whose research concluded that the earth has experienced a rapid, recent warming. Mann worked at U-Va. until 2005; he is now employed by Penn State University.
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... Cuccinelli has limited his demand to the e-mails and documents related to one state grant Mann received. The attorney general dropped requests for paperwork related to four other federal grants. But he expanded a section explaining why he sought the records, laying out in writing that he seeks the documents because Mann wrote two papers on global warming that "have come under significant criticism" and that Mann "knew or should have known contained false information, unsubstantiated claims and/or were otherwise misleading."

"Specifically, but without limitation, some of the conclusions of the papers demonstrate a complete lack of rigor regarding the statistical analysis of the alleged data, meaning that the result reported lacked statistical significance without a specific statement to that effect," the CID alleges.

[marmar]

1. Do you think Cuccinelli has carpet burns on his knuckles?

nt

[flakey_foont]

2. how is this a function of the Virginia AG?

just because he personally disagrees ideologically with climate change, I just do not see how this is something that the AG needs to be involved with

doesn't this plonker have better things to do?