The Telegraph reports that Michael Mann of climategate's Hockey Stick fame, received a surprise today, a notice to all his colleagues that there's an effort to collect data on misuse of federal funds in his operation in an effort to mount a Federal False Claims Act suit:Michael Mann - creator of the incredible Hockey Stick curve and one of the scientists most heavily implicated in the Climategate scandal - is about to get a very nasty shock. When he turns up to work on Monday, he'll find that all 27 of his colleagues at the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University have received a rather tempting email inviting them to blow the whistle on anyone they know who may have been fraudulently misusing federal grant funds for climate research.Under US law, regardless of whether or not a prosecution results, the whistleblower stands to make very large sums of money: it is based on a percentage of the total  government funds  which have been misused, in this case perhaps...(Read Full Post)