The University of Virginia has been ordered to turn over documents produced by a former scientist studying climate change so a state judge can decide which documents are exempt from the state's Freedom of Information Act.
The American Tradition Institute requested 9,000 pages of documents, but the university turned over only about one-fifth of it. The conservative group disputes climate science showing manmade pollution is warming the globe.
A Prince William Circuit Court on Tuesday gave UVa until Aug. 22 to supply documents sought by ATI and conservative Del. Robert G. Marshall, R-Prince William four months ago. The order allows the university to file under seal any documents it considers exempt from FOIA while they're reviewed by lawyers from both sides.
The case is separate from Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's probe into UVa's climate research by Michael Mann, who left Virginia six years ago to continue his work at Penn State University.
ATI and Cuccinelli both reject the dominant assertion by scientists that decades of heat-trapping carbon gas emissions into the atmosphere have increased the overall temperature of the globe.
Both are seeking files and correspondence between Mann and other scientists who, ATI says, "represent the climate alarmist perspective."
Universities and organizations of scientists have condemned the inquiries as efforts by oil and energy interests and the political right to intimidate climate researchers and stifle free academic inquiry into the issue.
4 comments:
Finally, maybe this corruption and fraud of global warming will be exposed, and maybe Michael Mann will be shown for what he is.
Don't forget about Al Gore who's grades in Science were D's.
Ignore science. smart move gang.don't even CONSIDER the consequences when you're proven wrong.
Anon 0918 -
Let's assume that global warming is proven to be true. Why does that justify hiding documents? I thought science was all about free and open inquiry.
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