A conservative group granted access to controversial climate change research documents from the University of Virginia on Wednesday says it will post those documents on the Internet, a move that Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said wouldn’t necessarily lead him to drop legal action seeking similar documents. “Anything we get we are going to post,” said David Schnare, an attorney for the American Tradition Institute, which filed a Freedom of Information Act request in January seeking documents related to former U.Va. professor Michael Mann, whose research on climate change has drawn the ire of global warming skeptics.
A Prince William County judge this week ordered the university to turn over documents the university believes are subject to public disclosure by Aug. 22. A separate order requires the university to allow the group to review documents it believes are exempt from public disclosure by Sept. 21.
