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Climate "expert" in the eye of an integrity storm | Philadelphia Inquirer | 01/09/2010

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Michael Mann switched from physics to climate science back in graduate school because he thought climate offered a better chance to work "on a frontier."

He got his wish, and now, as the director of Pennsylvania State University's Earth System Science Center, he has experienced an aspect of frontier life more like the Wild West - a bounty on his head.

After dozens of Mann's personal e-mails were hacked in November, the tenured professor has been called a fraud, a clown, and worse by columnists and bloggers.
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"My suspicion is, this has been orchestrated at a high level," he said of the hacking.
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Mann points out that the hockey stick is not widely seen as a smoking gun implicating human activity in global warming. And it was not the giant graph used in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. That was a graph of the carbon dioxide component of our atmosphere - which also is rising sharply.

As the son of a math professor, Mann said, he was more of a computer geek than a weather weenie while growing up in Amherst, Mass. At the University of California, Berkeley, he double-majored in applied math and physics, and then went to Yale University to study condensed matter physics - which involves the complicated behavior of atoms, molecules, and electrons in semiconductors and other materials.