According to an article in the University of Virginia newspaper, Michael Mann returns to his old haunting grounds next week, lecturing at a student-run environment week. I was struck by the comments of the university's dean, James Galloway:
Mike has been an extremely positive force in climate change science for a long time, and it is a pleasure to see that his analytical assessment has prevailed over that period," Galloway said. "It has not only provided a strong foundation for future advances in understanding how humans have altered the global climate, but also provides society with a scientific context to guide how society will address climate change.
This seems to be a different take to that of closer colleagues - men like Ed Cook who, in email 4101, bandies round expressions such as "a bad enemy" and words like "vindictive".