[smokinleroy]

Professor Michael Mann, director of Pennsylvania State University's Earth System Science Centre and a regular contributor to the popular climate science blog Real Climate, features in many of the email exchanges.

I once wore my Penn State T-shirt to our family Christian camp. A curmudgeonly gentleman pointed at my shirt and said "That place is a seedbed for communism". I just thought "What a silly old man". Little did I know.

[aloppoct]

I remember taking a course in meteorology at Penn State. It was an elective, useful in learning about the weather and it was fun. Little did I know that this tiny Department in the 60’s would someday become the center of such a giant scam.

The PSU Alumni Association to this day hounds me for donations. After this fiasco, it will be impossible to give them anything. We need to fund our own schools, newspapers and tv stations,- and soon.