Does these really apply to junk scientist Michael Mann: "your employer pressured by the most powerful people on earth to fire you"; "you helped make one of the most important scientific discoveries in a generation"?

Daily Kos: Book review: The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars

Imagine a place where you and your family are threatened, your employer pressured by the most powerful people on earth to fire you, your email hacked and posted by the usual suspects in accusatory snippets, and where a mysterious letter containing white powder mixed in with tons of traditional hate mail land in your inbox. A suspected communist sympathizer during the McCarthy era, or a Muslim in the wake of 9-11? Nope. All because you helped make one of the most important scientific discoveries in a generation. That's life in the land of the free and the home of the brave for prominent climate scientists these days, which is why I'm personally thrilled to feature one today who not only didn't shrink an inch, he is fighting back, hard.

...Michael Mann is a professor at Penn State University, a founding member of the popular science blog Realclimate, and has appeared on virtually every major news and science cable network. He is active on Twitter @MichaelEMann and available this morning exclusively for registered Kossacks, time permitting, to respond to a few comments below.