{"id":41093,"date":"2018-11-30T15:23:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T20:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41093"},"modified":"2018-11-30T15:23:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T20:23:05","slug":"climate-scientist-michael-mann-releases-emails-ahead-of-university-of-arizona-response-to-ee-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41093","title":{"rendered":"Climate Scientist Michael Mann Releases Emails Ahead of University of Arizona Response to E&E Legal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Climate Scientist Michael Mann Releases Emails Ahead of University of Arizona Response to E&E Legal<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Nearly a decade ago, in late 2009, a server at the University of East Anglia was hacked and thousands of emails from the university\u2019s Climatic Research Unit were subsequently released in the run-up to the Copenhagen climate talks. Within these thousands of emails, climate change deniers attempted to cherry-pick a few sentences to falsely suggest scientific malfeasance. This so-called \u201cClimategate\u201d incident managed to briefly cast doubt on the public\u2019s acceptance of the scientific realities of climate change. But ultimately, numerous investigations found there was no wrongdoing, and the media storm was found to only have a fleeting public\u00a0impact.<\/p>\n

I have discussed the manufactured scandal in the context of the larger industry-funded, bad faith attack on climate science in my book The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

In increasingly desperate attempts to recreate this short-lived machination, there have since been repeated efforts to obtain my and other climate scientists\u2019 emails via fishing expeditions through misuse of the legal system. Led by David Schnare<\/a>, one coal-funded group masquerading as a think tank \u2014 which currently goes by the name of Energy &<\/span> Environment Legal Institute<\/a>(E&E<\/span> Legal<\/a>) \u2014 brought a lawsuit in Virginia seeking to obtain virtually every email I had ever sent or received during the six years I was a professor at the University of\u00a0Virginia.<\/p>\n

The case was struck down by the Virginia Supreme Court, but E&E<\/span> Legal has continued to essentially relitigate the matter in friendlier forums. E&E<\/span> Legal targeted two other prominent climate scientists at the University of Arizona, Jonathan Overpeck and Malcolm Hughes (the latter being one of my longtime co-authors), seeking a total of 13 years of emails from them, including correspondence with or about me or my\u00a0research.<\/p>\n

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Climate Scientist Michael Mann Releases Emails Ahead of University of Arizona Response to E&E Legal Nearly a decade ago, in late 2009, a server at the University of East Anglia was hacked and thousands of emails from the university\u2019s Climatic Research Unit were subsequently released in the run-up to the Copenhagen climate talks. Within these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[141,1517,2956,7377,5317,4871,18786],"class_list":["post-41093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-denial","tag-climate-science","tag-climategate","tag-desmog-blog","tag-emails","tag-michael-mann"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41094,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41093\/revisions\/41094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}