Don’t spread this around, but global warming is really . . .
June 29th, 2009, 3:25 pm · 3 Comments · posted by Mark Landsbaum
We know you’ll find this just too difficult to believe (ha!), but it seems that the EPA may have suppressed an internal analysis that questioned the science behind global warming alarmism.
Altogether now: That’s too incredible to believe!
So much for sarcasm. The fact is, an administration that bullies congress into rushing through a 1,000-plus pages of global warming fix-it legislation before anyone in the building could even read everything it says probably isn’t beyond bullying mid-level bureaucrats into silence if they don’t toe the party line.
This from FOXNews.com:
“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 Carlin’s report argued that the information the EPA was using was out of date, and that even as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have increased, global temperatures have declined.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.”
Don’t government public servants get a long leash in pursuit of the truth? Says the story:
“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. . .
“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.”
Gee, we’re shocked, shocked to find the Obama Administration playing hardball when someone dares dispute the holy alarmism.
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Before the OC register makes such an accusation about alarmism, it should present the views of the majority of scientists qualified to speak about the subject of global warming. Since most members of the public have no time or the expertise to read the scientific articles on the subject, then the OC should show more responsibility by presenting a more balanced view.
You do your readers an injustice when your report is so lopsided.
I can tell you (from first hand knowledge) that the liberals are suppressing the science to better their agenda. Anyone who does not know that most of the scientists are liberally biased is living in denial.
The bureaucrats in government has identified AGW as a review stream, science be damned. The agencies created to fight a false threat have nothing but self interest at heart. Politicians see it as a way to wield more power. What puzzles me is how the EPA can have an endangerment finding for a compound (CO2) we exhale. It seems they cannot tell the difference between a toxic substance and one that is not.
Opposition to the green mantra will not be allowed! All will bow to the political will! Only when political pockets are lined with enough of our cash will we Al Gore mention he forgot to say “political science” when saying the science has been decided.