P.Wm. climate change case takes center stage - The State of NoVa - The Washington Post Now that Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s investigation <http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/va-supreme-court-rejects-cuccinellis-bid-for-u-va-documents/2012/03/02/gIQAmo8inR_story.html>into climate research has been tossed out of court, a similar case in Prince William County<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-state-of-nova/post/prince-william-hosts-important-global-warming-case/2011/11/01/gIQAn6TcfM_blog.html>targeting the same ex-University of Virginia scientist moves into the spotlight. If the point of all this is to analyze and disseminate some 12,000 emails sent and received by scientist Michael E. Mann, then this case, using the Freedom of Information Act, has a far greater chance of success. That’s because U.Va. apparently has already given the 12,000 e-mails to Mann himself, though he left Charlottesville years ago. The American Tradition Institute, the conservative group hoping to show that climate change scientists like Mann manipulated their data, argues that U.Va. can’t give the e-mails to one person and not another. By giving the emails to Mann, the university has waived any exemptions they’re claiming to the state Freedom of Information Act, ATI says. http://wapo.st/GFF7jb Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-state-of-nova/post/pwm-climate-change-case-takes-center-stage/2012/03/19/gIQA1vLGQS_blog.html#pagebreak See if people are clicking on this link: http://wapo.st/GFF7jb+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]
