Good news for Professor of Meteorology Dr. Michael Mann, who was cleared by a panel of his peers in the "Climategate" scandal. In case you don't remember, Mann became involved in a global controversy when hackers broke into a colleague's email account and published correspondance between climate researchers, including Mann, that suggested a potential cover up of data refuting the theory of man-made global warming. The scandal resulted in the resignation of a professor at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom.


Read on to see what the panel had to say, and why its conclusion is not without controversy...