Is Michael Mann a witch?

From greenhellblog.com

If Ken Cuccinelli is on a witch hunt then… October 6, 2010 … Michael Mann is a witch. The Washington Post today editorialized that the Virginia attorney general is on a witch hunt. But even the Post is not too thrillled with Mann’s work, labeling it “not unacceptably poor.” At least now we’re all only debating how “poor” Mann’s hockey stick is. The Post tries to exonerate Mann by claiming that he was exonerated by the National Academy of Sciences and his employer, Penn State. Neither claim is true. First, while the post refers to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, it was actually a panel of the non-prestigious, for-hire National Research Council that actually reviewed Mann’s work. Below is the NRC’s conclusion about the hockey stick:

No part of that conclusion, of course, exonerates Mann or his hockey stick. Where in that conclusion, for example, does it say that the hockey stick appropriately deleted the Medieval Optimum or the Little Ice Age? Where in that conclusion does it say that Mann appropriately grafted late-20th century thermometer data onto the tree ring data (while deleting tree ring data not favorable to his case for warming) to give the impression of dramatic, manmade warming during the 20th century? For more on Mann and his hockey stick, check out JunkScience.com’s “Michael Mann: Defamed or defined by ‘Hide the decline’?“

As to Penn State’s “investigation” into Mann’s hijinks, click here to read about that whitewash. Read more at greenhellblog.com