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 Carlin’s report argued that the information the EPA was using was out of date, and that even as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have increased, global temperatures have declined.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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The Carlin report was comprised mostly of internet-based reports, some out of date and some plain wrong. However, this is understandable because he was only allowed 5 days to compile and submit his report. 5 days, to rebut what is argueably the most far-reaching and contentious legislation ever written (but not read by the congresscritters)..
If you surf the various alarmist blogs, you’ll see a great deal of comments deriding the scientific inaccuracies and limited source/scope of the Carlin document, essentially endorsing the EPA’s Orwellian actions. What you won’t see is a fair look at the suppressive nature of the process. That is the issue, not the inconsistent science in the document. The EPA is suppressing dissent by providing inadequate time and resources, and then further relegating a dissenter to the basement.
Gee, big surprise. This administration is going to make the Bush administration look like Camelot.
Obama said that the average American would not bear the brunt of this historic tax-increase… claiming instead that “It is paid for by the polluters who currently emit dangerous carbon emissions.”
Just compare this outrageous falsehood to Ronald Reagans’ timeless wisdom:
“The most dangerous myth is the demagoguery that business can be made to pay a larger share, thus relieving the individual. Politicians preaching this are either deliberately dishonest, or economically illiterate, and either one should scare us.
…Only people pay taxes, and people pay as consumers every tax that is assessed against a business.”
And after the way they rammed this through the House with little debate, without legislators even reading it… and while quarantining the GOP from any meaningful input whatsoever, any foolhardy individuals who still believe Obama’s threadbare “bipartisanship” spiel ought to have their head examined.
Way up at the top of the page, Mr. Landsbaum says, “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!”
Well, it’s not difficult at all for me to believe. Remember the
establishment of Antismokerism as the national Religion?
I was a paralegal assistant on TWO - count’em - TWO of those tobacco litigations. My NDA expired years ago. But
a couple of inconvenient facts jumped out at me at the time, that either never came out at trial, or were suppressed.
First, the EPA _VIOLATED THEIR OWN RULES_ so they could fudge the figures _just to show an alleged CORRELATION of cancer with smoking_. They couldn’t do it, so they broke the rules.
BTW, even if there were a valid correlation, correlation does
not imply causality.
Another study that I read did a comparison of personality
type with cancer rates.
By an overwhelming majority, the most cancers occur in
type A people. Such a strong correlation, in fact, that the
“correlation” with smoking was below the noise level.
And Waxman was their high priest.
No, I don’t find that kind of malfeasance surprising at all.