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This story first appeared on CampusReform.org:

Last week, PSU Young Americans for Freedom Chairman Samuel Settle railed against a flimsy internal investigation by the Penn State administration into climate professor Michael Mann’s involvement in the Climategate scandal. Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Foundation, an independent public policy institute,reported on Mann’s involvement in mid-January and called for an independent investigation into Mann’s research.

Following a string of unflattering headlines, including reports of fudged data by the IPCCand a revelation by a British climateologist that there has been no significant warming in over 15 years, Penn State University students decided to act swiftly.

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Ok, so these commercials are a little cheesy, but they make a valid point.

You may have noticed that the blog looks a bit different than the last time you visited. After some time with the previous theme (a pseudo-political campaign-style look), I thought it was time for a change and wanted to move away from the campaign look in exchange for a more minimalist approach. You want content, not clutter. That’s what I’ve tried to do here. I’m also tweaking a few minor things, as well.

Additionally, I am re-evaluating the content and asking a few questions: For whom am I writing? What am I trying to accomplish? I’ll continue to explore these questions as I seek to better serve those who read this.

On a similar note, it appears as though a certain State Representative has changed the layout of his site. Joe Carr, who represents the 48th House District, recently upgraded his website, and it looks pretty good. Check out the header below.

As the scientific community recoils from the embarassment of Climategate, one U.S. Senator is less concerned with the scam that is Anthropogenic Global Warming and more concerned with those who hacked the e-mails. That’s right, California Senator Barbara Boxer, the Chairman of Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and a committed envirozealot, doesn’t want to hear it.

From The Hill:

Leaked e-mails allegedly undermining climate change science should be treated as a criminal matter, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said Wednesday afternoon.

Boxer, the top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said that the recently released e-mails, showing scientists allegedly overstating the case for climate change, should be treated as a crime.

“You call it ‘Climategate’; I call it ‘E-mail-theft-gate,’” she said during a committee meeting. “Whatever it is, the main issue is, Are we facing global warming or are we not? I’m looking at these e-mails, that, even though they were stolen, are now out in the public.”

There has been little discussion over the nature by which these e-mails made it into the public discourse. I won’t attempt to address that issue here, either. What we know is that these e-mails were exchanged by scientists, who do not now deny that the exchanges took place. The issue of how the e-mails became public knowledge, I don’t think, is important in the debate.

These scientists lied to us. They withheld information. They falsified numbers. And what does Barbara Boxer want to do? She wants to kill the messenger. I don’t think so, ma’am.