Cap and Trade Bill just an excuse to steal taxpayer money, destroy the economy, and ensure Socialism, all to fight Climate Change – which is a hoax anyway!
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Senator Inhofe Calls
For Inquiry Into
‘Suppressed’
Climate Change
Report
By Judson Berger -
contributions by
Major Garrett
June 29th, 2009
FOXNEWS.COM
A top Republican senator
has ordered an investigation
into the Environmental
Protection Agency’s alleged
suppression of a report that
questioned the science
behind global warming.
The 98-page report,
co-authored by EPA
analyst Alan Carlin,
pushed back on the prospect
of regulating gases like carbon
dioxide as a way to reduce
global warming.
Carlin’s report argued that
the information the EPA was
using was out of date,
and that even as atmospheric
carbon dioxide levels have
increased,
global temperatures
have declined.
“He came out
with the truth.
They don’t want
the truth at the EPA,”
Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla,
a global warming skeptic,
told FOX News,
saying he’s ordered
an investigation.
“We’re going to expose it.”
The controversy comes after
the House of Representatives
passed a landmark bill to regulate
greenhouse gas emissions,
one that Inhofe said will be
“dead on arrival”
in the Senate despite
President Obama’s energy
adviser voicing confidence
in the measure.
According to internal e-mails
that have been made public by the
Competitive Enterprise Institute,
Carlin’s boss told him in March
that his material would not be
incorporated into a broader
EPA finding and ordered Carlin
to stop working on the
climate change issue.
The draft EPA finding released in
April lists six greenhouse gases,
including carbon dioxide,
that the EPA says threaten
public health and welfare.
An EPA official told
FOXNews.com on Monday
that Carlin,
who is an economist —
not a scientist —
included “no original research”
in his report.
The official said that Carlin
“has not been muzzled
in the agency at all,”
but stressed that his report
was entirely “unsolicited.”
“It was something
that he did on his own,”
the official said.
“Though he was not qualified,
his manager indulged him
and allowed him on agency
time to draft up …
a set of comments.”
Despite the EPA official’s remarks,
Carlin told FOXNews.com on
Monday that his boss,
National Center for Environmental
Economics Director Al McGartland,
appeared to be pressured into
reassigning him.
Carlin said he doesn’t know
whether the White House
intervened to suppress his
report but claimed it’s clear
“they would not be happy
about it if they knew about it,”
and that McGartland seemed
to be feeling pressure from
somewhere up the chain
of command.
Carlin said McGartland told
him he had to pull him off
the climate change issue.
“It was reassigning you
or losing my job,
and I didn’t want
to lose my job,”
Carlin said,
paraphrasing what he claimed
were McGartland’s comments
to him.
“My inference (was) that he
was receiving some sort of
higher-level pressure.”
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Carlin said he personally does
not think there is a need to
regulate carbon dioxide,
since
“global temperatures
are going down.”
He said his report expressed
a “good bit of doubt” on the
connection between the two.
Specifically,
the report noted that
global temperatures were
on a downward trend over
the past 11 years,
that scientists do not
necessarily believe that
storms will become more
frequent or more intense
due to global warming,
and that the theory that
temperatures will cause
Greenland ice to rapidly
melt has been
“greatly diminished.”
Carlin, in a March 16 e-mail,
argued that his comments are
“valid, significant”
and would be critical
to the EPA finding.
McGartland, though,
wrote back the next day saying
he had decided not to forward
his comments.
“The administrator and the
administration has decided to
move forward on endangerment,
and your comments do not help
the legal or policy case for
this decision,”
he wrote,
according to the e-mails
released by CEI.
“I can only see one impact
of your comments given where
we are in the process,
and that would be a very
negative impact on our office.”
He later wrote an e-mail
urging Carlin to “move on
to other issues and subjects.”
“I don’t want you to spend
any additional EPA time on
climate change.
No papers,
no research, etc.,
at least until we see what EPA
is going to do with climate,”
McGartland wrote.
The EPA said in a written
statement that Carlin’s opinions
were in fact considered,
and that he was not even part of
the working group dealing with
climate change in the first place.
“Claims that this individual’s
opinions were not considered
or studied are entirely false.
This administration and this
EPA administrator are fully
committed to openness,
transparency and science-based
decision making,”
the statement said.
“The individual in question is
not a scientist and was not part
of the working group dealing
with this issue.
Nevertheless the document he
submitted was reviewed by his
peers and agency scientists,
and information from that
report was submitted by his
manager to those responsible
for developing the proposed
endangerment finding.
In fact,
some ideas from that document
are included and addressed in
the endangerment finding.”
The e-mail exchanges and
suggestions of political
interference sparked a backlash
from Republicans in Congress.
Reps. James Sensenbrenner,
R-Wis., and Darrell Issa, R-Calif.,
also wrote a letter last week to
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson
urging the agency to reopen
its comment period
on the finding.
The EPA has since
denied the request.
Citing the internal e-mails,
the Republican congressmen
wrote that the EPA was exhibiting
an “agency culture set in
a predetermined course.”
“It documents at least one
instance in which the public
was denied access to significant
scientific literature and raises
substantial questions about
what additional evidence may
have been suppressed,”
they wrote.
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In a written statement,
Issa said the administration is
“actively seeking to withhold
new data in order to justify
a political conclusion.”
“I’m sure it was very
inconvenient for the EPA
to consider a study that
contradicted the findings
it wanted to reach,”
Sensenbrenner said
in a statement,
adding that the
“repression” of Carlin’s
report casts doubt on
the entire finding.
Carlin said he’s concerned
that he’s seeing “science
being decided at
the presidential level.”
“Now Mr. Obama is in effect
directly or indirectly saying that
CO2 causes global temperatures
to rise and that we have to do
something about it.
… That’s normally a scientific
judgment and he’s in effect
judging what the science says,”
he said.
“We need to look at it harder.”
The controversy is similar
to one under the Bush
administration —
only the administration was
taking the opposite stance.
In that case,
scientist James Hansen
claimed the administration
was trying to keep him from
speaking out and calling
for reductions in
greenhouse gases.
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I hope this is true. I do not believe in global warming and we need something to stop this power grabbing energy bill.
Mary Pientka - June 30, 2009 at 2:29 pm
It definitely is a scary bill and I think the American people had better to their best to get out of debt and start finding safe ways to store their money because the possibilities tax wise of this thing are horrible if you ask me. Even more frightening is that no one has read this thing completely. I saw a video of the Climate Czar Carol Browner where even she admitted that she hadn’t read it.
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