Was climate science the real reason the strategic dynamos on the UVA board wanted president Teresa Sullivan gone? The fund manager behind the coup is "very, very angry" that I would even ask… In a three-part series (1, 2, 3) of muckraking blog posts, journalist Moe Tkacik investigates the possibility that the failed ouster of President Teresa Sullivan from the University of Virginia (previously) might have been motivated not by vague conflicts over Internet-based distance learning, as had been speculated — but instead by global-warming-denial politics, with the coup plotters on the Board opposing Sullivan over the hire of climate scientist Michael Mann (previously).
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And for your froth files - referring to the link in the paragraph snippet below. Wow those republicans sure hate science - or maybe they just love the 5 trillion a year made by the fossil carbon corps.
"last week the Competitive Enterprise Institute dubbed him the “Jerry Sandusky o