What? The EPA suppressed a report they did not want released because Obama wanted to go ahead and impose the largest tax on us ever? And for nothing? Yup.
You know he (Obama) will keep trying. The hell with the truth! He got it through and by the idiots in the House, but luckily, the Senate (and Jim Inhofe) are smarter.
According to this report, the earth is actually cooling, not warming. So crank up those cars and have fun!
Sen Inhofe has called for an investigation – like who will be investigating? Do you really think anyone has the guts to tell the truth?
Anyway, this 98-page report, co-authored by EPA analyst Alan Carlin, says that the data the EPA was using was out of date, and that even as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have increased, global temperatures have declined.
The Email Trail
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 or be fired. The draft EPA finding released in April lists six greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, that the EPA says threaten public health and welfare.
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 his boss seemed to be feeling pressure from somewhere up the chain of command.
Carlin said his boss, National Center for Environmental Economics Director Al McGartland, told him after pulling him off the climate change issue that he had to do it.
"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."
Carlin said he personally does not think there is a current 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. WHY? Cover up the truth. Who needs the truth?
"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." …and… "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.
He later wrote an e-mail urging Carlin to "move on to other issues and subjects."
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.
"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 is "dead on arrival" in the Senate despite Obama’s energy adviser voicing confidence in the measure.
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.
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."
