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Source inside EPA confirms claims of science being ignored, suppressed, by top EPA management
by Richard Morrison, Competitive Enterprise Institute
Washington, D.C., June 26, 2009—The Competitive Enterprise Institute is today making public an internal study on climate science which was suppressed by the Environmental Protection Agency. Internal EPA email messages, released by CEI earlier in the week, indicate that the report was kept under wraps and its author silenced because of pressure to support the Administration’s agenda of regulating carbon dioxide.
The report finds that EPA, by adopting the United Nations’ 2007 “Fourth Assessment” report, is relying on outdated research and is ignoring major new developments. Those developments include a continued decline in global temperatures, a new consensus that future hurricanes will not be more frequent or intense, and new findings that water vapor will moderate, rather than exacerbate, temperature.
New data also indicate that ocean cycles are probably the most important single factor in explaining temperature fluctuations, though solar cycles may play a role as well, and that reliable satellite data undercut the likelihood of endangerment from greenhouse gases. All of this demonstrates EPA should independently analyze the science, rather than just adopt the conclusions of outside organizations.
The released report is a draft version, prepared under EPA’s unusually short internal review schedule, and thus may contain inaccuracies which were corrected in the final report.
“While we hoped that EPA would release the final report, we’re tired of waiting for this agency to become transparent, even though its Administrator has been talking transparency since she took office. So we are releasing a draft version of the report ourselves, today,” said CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman.
Read the censored report here:
http://cei.org/cei_files/fm/active/0/DOC062509-004.pdf
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Great stuff.
This will shake them up.It would be great to have this report in Congress asap as CO2 regulation by EPA is used as a sword of damocles in case the Waxman Bill does not make it.
It really would be a great help.
The WUWT condributor, Robert, suggested the name “CARBONGATE” on the previous thread (Source inside EPA confirms claims of science being ignored, suppressed, by top EPA management) and I thought it was brilliant.
This thing is snowballing!
Hi all,
As the Examiner who wrote the story up, I need to apologise for not crediting this blog for doing so much of the original work. I’ve amended my story to start, Update: Because I was on deadline (no excuse) I didn’t credit Anthony Watts and his weblog Watts Up With That for a) alerting me to this issue in the first place, b) providing adequate background to help my understanding enough of the issue to proceed and c) facilitating contact with the source interviewed below. I have mentioned Mr. Watts and his weblog on numerous occasions (I’m not affiliated with them, by the way), but certainly not enough on this occasion. Watts Up With That, winner of the Science Blog of the Year, has once again provided an invaluable service to those interested in issues surrounding global warming.
REPLY: Thanks Tom, no worries. As a broadcaster, I understand deadlines. You are always welcome here. – Anthony
OT: Meanwhile: Gore a No-Show at Capitol Hill Thursday
Outstanding!! Very nice work!
Could this bring the Supreme Court back into play?
Ignore the science, ignore the constitution, ignore that some numbers show C & T crippling the country by cutting GDP in almost half. None of that matters, it is all about the graft money and getting well positioned in the new regime or market, and jamming it through while the dems are in power and before the global cooling becomes too obvious.
Energy=prosperity
Tax=to impede
Tax energy=impede prosperity
Carbongate, I love it.
Spread the word.
This will shake our politicians up.
Brilliant Work. Hopefully this will be picked up on MSM in Aus.
re: Jimmy Haigh (19:33:59)
Love the thought:
Global Warming being Snowballed by Carbongate.
Love the irony.
I had the pleasure of approving anonymous’ initial post. But it was jeez and the R . . . er, Anthony that carried all the water.
Sitting on the sidelines, I have had a fine old time watching this unfold . . .
P.S. Good Old Tom! Thanks!
Oh, is this ever juicy! CEI has timed this release very well.
Read this news story and report into the record tomorrow.
What is going on here is that a shoddy United Nations work product is now infecting the federal government of the United States.
As Shakespeare’s stage directions once said, “Alarum to the Battle.” (Henry the IV, Part 1.)
Hey, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, you’re in the table of contents on p. vii! Basil, too. Can’t wait to read that section! (p. 56).
REPLY: I hate it when that happens! – A
And on page 73, one of my UAH graphs from last year.
I place the source of the use of outdated information by the EPA squarely on Al Gore who told us all that “the science was settled.”
Amazingly, these “comments” read like the author spent a lot of time visiting this web site.
Frankly, I think his comments about EPA being painted as the bad guy should AGW be discredited are spot on. EPA has set itself up as a future “village idiot,” which will help the politicians to no end should they need to unwind the politics of AGW if facts on the ground create AGW “quicksand.”.
WOW. It will be fun to watch the expert spin doctors in the Administration address this. I’m sure they will find a way to sweep it under the rug. They will follow the Clinton Doctrine: I mean, like, what does the word “truth” mean, anyway. It’s all relative, if you are a liberal.
I place the source of the use of outdated information by the EPA squarely on Al Gore who told us all that “the science was settled.”
Amazingly, these “comments” read like the author spent a lot of time visiting this web site.
Frankly, I think his comments about EPA being painted as the bad guy should AGW be discredited are spot on. EPA has set itself up as a future “village idiot,” which will help the politicians to no end should they need to unwind the politics of AGW if facts on the ground create AGW “quicksand.”
Hell, I just invented the term “Carbongate” in a previous thread only minutes ago. …Darn, those electro-telecommunication thingies just run too fast…:-)
REPLY: And a fine term it is. – Anthony
The EPA has been involved in fraudulent regulation for years – Polar Bears, owls, the list goes on. It is a political organization, not scientific, so there should be no surprise here.
This is stunning! Well done Anthony, Tom and anyone else involved. It’s good to see corrupt administrations and coverups being exposed this way. All we get here in Australia is more and more politically motivated lies (And more and more BS ads on TV).
But how long before the CEI becomes “tainted”?
What!?!
Sloth and dishonesty uncovered within the Klimate Kommissariat?
Oh the horrors! Quick! Somebody notify the Carbon Kommissar!
Oh, wait. We don’t have one of those…yet.
And that’s a good thing.
And when will the mainstream media (ABCNNBCBS or even Drudge) start reporting on this? Let me guess – after supoenas are served.
Drat – as soon as I hit submit I saw the typo – subpoenas.
Hey, Anthony, you’re cited on p. 5 re. the 2005 solar magnetic drop. Quite an extensive footnote.
Is there an Inspector General for the EPA?
Regardless, Senator Grassley is a strong proponent of whistleblowers and oversight types of things. http://grassley.senate.gov/contact.cfm
He’s got quite a bit on his plate, but he might well be interested in this.