What if we applied corporate standards to the “science” that is driving global warming policy?
Imagine the reaction if investment companies provided only rosy stock and economic data to prospective investors; manufacturers withheld chemical spill statistics from government regulators; or medical device and pharmaceutical companies doctored data on patients injured by their products.
Media frenzies, congressional hearings, regulatory investigations, fines and jail sentences would come faster than you can say Henry Waxman. If those same standards were applied to global warming alarmists,…
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by Marlo Lewis
October 15, 2009 @ 6:03 pm
Updated 10/16/09
Today [Oct. 15, 2009], Rep. Darrell Isa (R-CA), ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. James Sensenbrenner, ranking member of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, released a joint minority staff report titled, The Politics of EPA’s Endangerment Finding.
I’ll say more about the report after reading the 146-page document. Key findings include:
EPA prejudged the outcome of its endangerment finding to advance the Obama administration’s policy agenda.
EPA’s effort to control greenhouse gas emissions…
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by Marlo Lewis
September 25, 2009 @ 5:39 pm
In today’s New York Times, John Broder strains to belittle Alan Carlin, the “whistle blower” whose skeptical comments on EPA’s proposed endangerment finding the Agency tried to suppress. Most of the piece is larded with innuendo and spin.
Below is the text of Broder’s article and my running commentary in bold italics.
Behind the Furor Over a Climate Change Skeptic
By JOHN M. BRODER
WASHINGTON — Alan Carlin, a 72-year-old analyst and economist, had labored in obscurity in a little-known office at the Environmental Protection Agency since the Nixon…
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by William Yeatman
September 08, 2009 @ 2:28 pm
Announcements
The Science and Public Policy Institute invites Congressional staff to a briefing with the Viscount Monckton of Benchley on Wednesday, September 9th, from Noon-1:30 PM, in Dirksen 215 Senate Office Building. Lord Monckton is one of the world’s most sought-after public speakers, and a formidable international expert on the science and economics of “global warming.” Lunch will be served. To RSVP, email Bob Ferguson at bferguson@sppinstitute.org.
Freedom Action is a new political advocacy organization that aims to create a gathering of…
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by Sam Kazman
August 27, 2009 @ 6:27 pm
The EPA whistleblower saga took a new turn this week with a report that EPA was considering shutting down the agency unit in which Dr. Alan Carlin works. Dr. Carlin is the senior EPA analyst who authored a 100-page study last March, which severely criticized the scientific basis for the agency’s position on global warming. CEI broke the story in late June, when it unveiled a series of emails to Dr. Carlin from his boss, stating that his study would not be…
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by Sam Kazman
July 17, 2009 @ 12:23 pm
CEI’s Exposure of the EPA Cover-Up-the Saga Continues
On June 23d, the last day for public comment in EPA’s Endangerment Docket, CEI unveiled a series of amazing EPA emails which demonstrated that the agency had squelched an internal report critical of its position on global warming. We sent out our first news release on this the next morning. A day later, Rep. Joe Barton and other Republicans held a press conference on the issue, and Reps. Sensenbrenner and Issa issued statements decrying…
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In the News
Congress Gives Your Money to T Boone Pickens
Tim Carney, Washington Examiner, 10 July 2009
Warming Debate Simmers While Obama Poses in Europe
The Oklahoman editorial, 10 July 2009
Global Warming Alarmism Enriches Al Gore, Bankrupts the Rest of Us
Ron Smith, Baltimore Sun, 10 July 2009
Democrats Walk a Fine Line on Tariffs
Zack Hale, National Journal, 9 July 2009
Greenpeace Defaces Abe Lincoln with Alarmist Banner
News Wire Services, 9 July 2009
Smart Grid or Strong Grid?
Robert Michaels, MasterResource.org, 8 July 2009
Climate Czarina Tells GM,…
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by Ivan Osorio
July 03, 2009 @ 4:48 pm
Today in her column, The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley Strassel explains the Obama EPA’s censoring of an internal study that questioned the scientific foundation for the administration’s climate change policies. The report, written by Alan Carlin, a senior analyst at the EPA’s National Center for Environmental Economics, was released last week by CEI last week.
Mr. Carlin and a colleague presented a 98-page analysis arguing the agency should take another look, as the science behind man-made global warming is inconclusive at best.…
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President Barack Obama rode into the White House promising open and honest government. So why did his administration bully a career official at the Environmental Protection Agency into silence?
Last week, the Competitive Enterprise Institute released a 98 page report written by Alan Carlin, a 38 year veteran of the EPA, on the shaky science employed by global warming alarmists. Mr. Carlin had submitted the report to his superiors for the EPA to consider as it deliberated whether or not carbon…
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