The leaker (s) released an additional 5,000 emails involving the same cast of characters, notably Phil Jones of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, and Michael Mann, creator of
the discredited Hockey Stick reconstruction of Northern Hemisphere temperature history.
A year ago, I first identified scholarship issues in the 2006 Wegman report, the contrarian touchstone commissioned by Republican congressman Joe Barton as part of his concerted campaign to
discredit the «
hockey stick» temperature
reconstruction and the scientists behind it, especially Michael Mann.