“It has in fact, a major stake in the IPCC process, as former EPA officials, (non-scientists), have been heavily involved in the IPCC reports, with funding from the EPA. Those former employees are also consultants to EPA and have major input to their regulatory findings, including the endangerment finding.”

The input of the EPA into the IPCC reports is demonstrated by the fact that they provide funding for one of the core climate models, MAGICC/SCENGEN.

The EPA authors of the Endangerment Technical Support Document are mainly economists and environmental policy specialists, with qualifications like Masters in International Affairs or Public Policy and Management, although there are a couple of chemists, engineers and one meteorologist. Some are also IPCC authors and many are involved in the production of the proposed regulations.”

The Endangerment Finding Technical Support Document was reviewed and validated by Thomas Karl, Gavin Schmidt and Susan Solomon. It was edited by Joel Smith, a contractor to EPA and NOAA. Smith worked for the EPA from 1984 to 1992, where he was the deputy director of the Climate Change Division. He was a co-editor of EPA’s Report to Congress: “The Potential Effects of Global Climate Change on the United States,” published in 1989. He has a BA in Political Science and a Masters in Public Policy.

Also check out:
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/originals/lisa_p_jackson_epa_administrator_fulfilling_the_un_mission.html

Sue the EPA – and then work for them
“The revolving door policy has continued and Lisa Jackson boasted at the “40 years of EPA” celebration at Harvard, about the fact that:

“the lead author of Massachusetts vs. EPA, came to work at the agency she once sued – to see through the work she sued it to do. Lisa Heinzerling, who with my colleagues here today including Gina McCarthy, Bob Perciasepe and Bob Sussman helped EPA follow the science and follow the Supreme Court to finalize our endangerment finding on greenhouse gases last year.”

“From January 2009 to July 2009, Heinzerling served as Senior Climate Policy Counsel to Lisa Jackson and then, from July 2009 to December 2010, she served as Associate Administrator of EPA’s Office of Policy. In 2008, she was a member of President Obama’s EPA transition team. A Professor of Law at Georgetown, she was at one time an assistant attorney general in Massachusetts, specializing in environmental law.”

SENTELLE, Circuit Judge:

Petitioners challenge the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) denial of petitions filed by three eastern states under section 126(b) of the Clean Air Act (“the Act”). 42 U.S.C. § 7426(b). We find that the EPA denial of these petitions is based on a reasonable interpretation of the relevant statutes and is not arbitrary or capricious. We therefore deny the petitions, with the exception of the petition of the state of New York which we remand to the Agency for the submission of new data.

Look up and wake up people!
Best regards,

Mike Pyne
Germantown, WI