Looks like they took lessons from Briffa.
The seven experts who advised President Obama on how to deal with offshore drilling safety after the Deepwater Horizon explosion are accusing his administration of misrepresenting their views to make it appear that they supported a six-month drilling moratorium — something they actually oppose.
The experts, recommended by the National Academy of Engineering, say Interior Secretary Ken Salazar modified their report last month, after they signed it, to include two paragraphs calling for the moratorium on existing drilling and new permits.
Salazar’s report to Obama said a panel of seven experts “peer reviewed” his recommendations, which included a six-month moratorium on permits for new wells being drilled using floating rigs and an immediate halt to drilling operations.
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Wasn’t that the reason John Christy left the IPCC after the first report? His work was edited/modified by the bureaucrats without his knowledge, review, or approval and published as if it represented the scientific opinion.
Remember when the so-called “truthers” were running around screaming that it was an “inside job” ? One of their main lines of ‘reasoning’ was to look at who purportedly ‘benefitted’ from 911. Shouldn’t these troofer types be applying the same ‘logic’ to the oil spill at least for consistency’s sake as administration is certainly exploiting the spill to further their kookie energy policy agenda.
Ahhhhhh! yes!! – The same old smoke and mirrors technique so beloved of the manipulators.
What a shame the likes of the various “…..gates” have left the spin merchants under much more rigorous scrutiny than they are used to.
18 months ago – I doubt if anyone would have raised an eyebrow at this – let alone actually QUESTION the lies
The “trick” for cap’n tax…
Forgery of changes after a document is signed is actually a criminal event. He is a corruptocrat.
Waiting for the usual pseudointellectual crowd to point out this is from Fox News so we can immediately ignore this report.
A second source (Times-Picayune)
A third.
So who’s job will it be to pour oil on troubled waters?
At least they apologized about adding the 6mos moratorium recomendation after the scientest signed off on the report. Now if only another news agency besides FOX would report the apology…I’m not holding my breath.
The significant thing in that report was that the deep water drilling rigs will leave the gulf and go elsewhere, i.e. follow the money.
Where will that leave the US over the next five years in their bid for energy independence. If I was a nuclear plant builder I would view this Obama decision to suspend deep water drilling a godsend to expedite and clear the way for a new generation of nuclear power plants.
Oh and a few wind and wave electrical generating systems as a sop for the green environmental vote to charge the batteries of all those electric cars you just must have in the USA.
Why do these despicable deniers/sceptics hold so firmly to their convictions and ideals and do not accept any “reasons” whatsoever from us, even cash money?
Simply because they are noble men and women.
Noble is who can not EVER abandon his or her ideals, who fights for them, and who can not even imagine or figure out to exchange his/her ideals for a retribution. It´s really impossible for them such a thing.
This is why, under the perspective of the evil ones, a nobel being will always seem like Don Quixote of La Mancha, a madman running after phantoms.
Science blog, Watts, science…
There are 900+ comments on that Fox article! Even allowing for the multiple posting of the same comment time and again by some of the contributors thats some impressive numbers.
Oh and in and amongst all the shouting I noted one interesting assertion that the oil from that very field could have been accessed by shallow water drilling but that “environmental” concerns forced all drilling out into the deep sea where, as we have seen, the engineering difficulties are far more pronounced.
Can anyone confirm or refute this? Is that field so geographically spread as to be both in deep and shallow water?
dogs?, think you got confused about mammals, these being smaller and having long tails…
Is anyone really surprised by this? What is disheartening is that I don’t see a ground swell of demands that Salazar step down. Not that it would matter, he’d be replaced with another jobs hating, energy loathing anti-capitalist that doesn’t give a damn about the state of this nation nor the people of this nation, nor its needs of energy and jobs. What really gets me, is in the same breath, people of his ilk will babble about the need to ween ourselves from foreign produced energy. So, obviously, the answer is to destroy off-shore drilling near the U.S. The despicable b****rds will be held accountable at some point. God help them when the American people wake from their slumber and realize the intentional harm done to the American people by people that are suppose to be working for us.
I heard golden sacks sold 44% of its bp shares two weeks before the spill.They also shorted the well supply and service companies.Their also saying the pres. of BP sold 33% of his shares about the same time…just sayin???
A friend tells me he was sitting with his 4-year-old granddaughter, watching Saturday AM cartoons on TV.
In our day, he says, the villains were various critturs or badmen. Now, it’s “The Carbon Footprint Monster”!
“We’ve lost!” says my friend. “They’ve got the kids.”
Does the average parent know or care what the IPCC is, and what chicanery it has practiced in the name of promoting the mythos of Anthropogenic Global Warming?
Maybe if the MSM pick up on this homegrown scandal, the connection to the wider enviro-whacko agenda will begin to penetrate.
In the meantime, tear your 4-year-olds away from the TV!
/Mr Lynn
A standard trick by the propagandists is to repeat an assertion so often it becomes accepted. An example involves Arctic ice. Ed Struzik claims that until recently the Arctic has been locked in ice year-round, and quotes WWF as saying that few seriously question that the Arctic meltdown has become irreversible. And the true believers believe it.
http://www.e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2281
Obama administration caught lying and fixing the evidence to suit their agenda.
Next on, Bears seen taking toilet paper into woods….
Political opportunism is ugly wherever it appears.
Justa Joe said:
Remember when the so-called “truthers” were running around screaming that it was an “inside job” ? One of their main lines of ‘reasoning’ was to look at who purportedly ‘benefitted’ from 911. Shouldn’t these troofer types be applying the same ‘logic’ to the oil spill at least for consistency’s sake as administration is certainly exploiting the spill to further their kookie energy policy agenda.
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There are some out there following up on that line of thought, but they’re naturally not getting any MSM coverage. Here’s just one example:
http://deadlinelive.info/2010/04/30/10-suspects-and-motives-as-to-why-the-gulf-oil-spill-was-an-inside-job/
Obama has his own agenda – socialist/green. You’re all going back to five acres and a cow (maybe a pig if you’re lucky).
It gets even worse; it further appears he’s going to use this as an excuse to push his climate change legislation garbage, recently saying: “One of the biggest leadership challenges for me going forward is going to be to make sure that we draw the right lessons from this disaster.” Yeah, we all know what those “right lessons” are.
He also compares the environmental disaster in the Gulf to the terrorist attack of 9/11. So, I suppose now “Big Oil” and its supposed defenders (like skeptics) are to be compared to terrorists.
And believe it was Arthur C clarke who inspired the idea of carbon credits and carbon trading, except he called it energy trading and thought that a universal currency called a Watt would replace all currencies.
It’s all in a day’s Agenda.
Global Warming causes everything, and every activity causes Global Warming.
The logical Agenda is to ban everything.
This Gulf Gusher business has had an air of ulterior motive since day #1.
There seems to be a thing called the “Greenpeacejugend”.
http://www.myspace.com/greenpeacejugend
http://www.greenpeace-jugend.de/
Well it’s just German for Greenpeace youth. Probably i shouldn’t think much of it. After all, there were other organizations before them with “Jugend” in their name…