More odd stuff from warmist Michael Tobis: Although Mann's flawed paleo data allegedly "sealed the deal" on AGW, Tobis thinks that attempting to look at Mann's data is "harassment"

Cuccinelli’s Defeat Against U Va and Mann is Not Enough | Planet3.0

1) The graph was targeted by climate naysayers as a suitable target for doubt – after all, the image it presented was compelling. I myself presented the figure at an internal meeting at the Department of Energy in 1999 saying “the scientific debate about detection of anthropogenic warming is over” and saying that this work sealed the deal. In fact though it is a strong claim, I think that remains fair.

...4) Scientific tradition as it currently stands does not require publication of data. This is a consequence of a competitive environment which traces to the idea that science should run “more like a business”. Expensive data may be collected in an expectation that a given lab’s ownership of the data may give it a competitive advantage in later grant competitions. Although this is an unfortunate turn of the scientific culture, Steve McIntyre seeks to overturn it retroactively by harassment. Starting in 2005, building on a sequence of events seeking to obtain raw data, leading ultimately to the FOIA events central to the CRU controversy, McIntyre builds an iconoclastic website which at least implicitly supports the false propositions  that climate change concerns rest primarily on paleoclimate evidence and that paleoclimate evidence is systematically skewed. Mann is a particular bete noir of this endeavor.