The Virginia Supreme Court has ordered the American Tradition Institute to pay $250 to the University of Virginia and former professor Michael Mann for filing a lawsuit that sought his emails and other documents on the grounds that his climate research constituted academic fraud -- a charge repeatedly found to be without merit.
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Climate scientist Michael Mann with a cross section of a tree showing its rings, which have been a focus of his research on climate change. (Photo from the <a href="http://www.meteo.psu.edu/holocene/public_html/Mann/about/index.php">Penn State website</a>.)