Virginia AG Probing Michael Mann For Fraud 617
eldavojohn writes "Republican Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has requested receipts and research documents relating to nearly half a million dollars in state taxpayer money used to conduct climate change research at the University of Virginia while under direction of Michael Mann, originator of the famous 2001 IPCC Hockey Stick graph depicting rapid climate change. Mann appears to be a prime target for Cuccinelli — who has also requested hearings with the EPA to contest the grounds of their carbon dioxide studies. Mann's expenditures of taxpayer money may become problematic if Cuccinelli finds violations of Virginia's Fraud Against Taxpayers Act. Cuccinelli has been active in pushing conservative views in the past, including an effort to remove the titillating mammary from the beloved Great Seal of Virginia. No end in sight for the politicizing of the science and research surrounding climate change."
Re:Fuck yeah! (Score:2, Funny)
He deserves jail for Transformers 2 alone!
You're thinking of Michael Bay. This is the guy who produced Miami Vice [wikipedia.org]. Now quit spreading misinformation!
Re:It is very serious (Score:2, Funny)
Hey chicks! Look at me! I'm a badass motherfucking climate scientist that get's in trouble with the LAW! I'm STICK'N IT TO THE MAN!
That's right! And climate scientist will be getting motor cycles and leather jackets with HOT CHICKS on the back!
Yep. This will INCREASE science enrollment!
Another Carpetbagger (Score:4, Funny)
He is just another Republican carpetbagger (from New Jersey). These grifters evidently think that everyone in the South is an easy mark.
Re: Politicizing science? (Score:5, Funny)
'Global warming' -- sorry, I forgot, it became 'climate change' when the planet stopped warming
I guess the glaciers in Glacier National Park are disappearing because we don't allow enough logging to keep the trees in check, and a northwest passage is opening up because we tolerate too many whales.
Mann Should Have Stayed In Florida (Score:3, Funny)
He didn't have all these problems when he was doing Miami Vice.
Re:Not the only conservative views he's pushed (Score:3, Funny)
Do pheromones travel in JPEG files?
Re:Not the only conservative views he's pushed (Score:1, Funny)
I think you got the analogy wrong: Homo- and xenophobia are actually correspondent with religious activity, unlike being bad at math and dealing drugs, which have absolutely no relationship with sexual orientation. You were too generous in calling the zealots things they actually are.
Re:Woo, witchhunts! (Score:2, Funny)
So, basically, we have some ignorant Southern politician with a fear of homosexuals who wants to "probe" a "Mann"? Did I get that right?
=P
Re:Not Appointed (Score:4, Funny)
The pope counts as a liberal by US standards.
Re:Not the only conservative views he's pushed (Score:1, Funny)
You don't think bald people have genes that define what their hair color would be? Retard.
Of course they do. If "invisible" is a colour...