Penn State investigating professor in Climategate

Penn State is conducting an inquiry into the controversy surrounding a PSU professor whose leaked e-mails have sparked an international debate over whether he and his colleagues distorted data on global warming.

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The inquiry will determine if further investigation is warranted, a university spokeswoman said Sunday.

On Nov. 21, hundreds of e-mails sent between colleagues at England's University of East Anglia were obtained from a server at the university's climate change research center and posted online. One of the researchers involved is Penn State meteorology professor Michael Mann.

The e-mails appeared to indicate that the director of the research unit in question - Phil Jones - contacted his colleagues to request they delete certain exchanges.

In one of the contested e-mails, Jones writes his colleagues to tell them that he had "just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e., from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline."
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