officials, and they actually referred it to further investigation. they cleared him on a few charges but said he needed further investigation. in the case of the u.k., it was run by a fellow named lord oxford who actually had tied, vested interests in the green climate industry. people said it s like track u la guarding the blood bank. it s being trashed even by u.n. sympathizers as a white wash. michael mann is facing serious credibility problems and this is a man who s had problems going back a decade now. by the way, he used tree rings to reconstruct histor cap temperatures to show 20th century warmth but what he failed to do, he compared apples and oranges, the tree rings showed a decline in temperatures after 1960. he hid that decline. and that s what this is all about. he compared he used temperature data with tree rings, very technical, and that sort of phrase came from that he s been supposed as the best science politics can manufacture.