On and about November 22, 2009, The Pennsylvania State University began to receive numerous
communications (emails, phone calls and letters) accusing Dr. Michael E, Mann of having engaged in acts, beginning in approximately 1998, that included manipulating data, destroying records and colluding to hamper the progress of scientific discourse
around the issue of anthropogenic global warming, These accusations were based on perceptions of the content of the emails stolen from a server at the Climatic Research
Unit of the University of East Anglia in Great Britain as widely reported,