A little whitewash and Pennsylvania's taxpayer's connection to Climategate has disappeared. At least that's what the Penn State University administrators are hoping. Penn State, which uses state appropriations for about 10 percent of its $2.5 billion budget, cleared Dr. Michael Mann of any scientific misconduct relating to the scandal. Mann heads the university's Earth System Science Center. (SNIP) The reasons it cited for coming to this conclusion were -- what you are about to read is not a joke remember -- "This level of success in proposing research, and obtaining funding to conduct it, clearly places Mann among the most...