[Revkin continues to defend fraudster Michael Mann] - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

The unauthorized release of folders of e-mail messages and other documents from the University of East Anglia, which is still being investigated as a possible crime (but with no final conclusion yet), intensified scrutiny of his work. But months of sifting of those files by an army of passionate critics have revealed little more than signs he is a prickly, competitive, defensive scientist — hardly a rare species.