Feb
Senate EPW Minority releases report on CRU controversy
Shows Scientists Violated Ethics, Reveals Major Disagreements on Climate Science
- Link to EPW Minority Report on CRU Controversy
Link to a Sampling of CRU Emails
Link: IPCC Gets the Science Wrong
Link: Endangerment Finding Based on Flawed Science
Washington, D.C.-The Minority Staff of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works released a report today titled, “‘Consensus’ Exposed: The CRU Controversy.” The report covers the controversy surrounding emails and documents released from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU). It examines the extent to which those emails and documents affect the scientific work of the UN’s IPCC, and how revelations of the IPCC’s flawed science impacts the EPA’s endangerment finding for greenhouse gases.
The report finds that some of the scientists involved in the CRU controversy violated ethical principles governing taxpayer-funded research and possibly federal laws. In addition, the Minority Staff believes the emails and accompanying documents seriously compromise the IPCC-based “consensus” and its central conclusion that anthropogenic emissions are inexorably leading to environmental catastrophes.
In its examination of the controversy, the Minority Staff found that the scientists:
- Obstructed release of damaging data and information;
- Manipulated data to reach preconceived conclusions;
- Colluded to pressure journal editors who published work questioning the climate science “consensus”; and
- Assumed activist roles to influence the political process.
“This EPW Minority Report shows that the CRU controversy is about far more than just scientists who lack interpersonal skills, or a little email squabble,” said Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. “It’s about unethical and potentially illegal behavior by some the world’s leading climate scientists.
“The report also shows the world’s leading climate scientists acting like political scientists, with an agenda disconnected from the principles of good science. And it shows that there is no consensus-except that there are significant gaps in what scientists know about the climate system. It’s time for the Obama Administration to recognize this. Its endangerment finding for greenhouse gases rests on bad science. It should throw out that finding and abandon greenhouse gas regulation under the Clean Air Act-a policy that will mean fewer jobs, higher taxes and economic decline.”
Contact:
Matt Dempsey Matt_Dempsey@epw.senate.gov (202) 224-9797
David Lungren David_Lungren@epw.senate.gov (202) 224-5642
Source: US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
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…as much as I loved reading this article, they won’t do it, they will over look the truth and tax the hell out of every one of us!! That’s what it’s all about any way right?
They better not do that. I’ve toiled in the GOP fields for 30 years through thick-and-often-thin. If they fail to deliver on the key issue of our time I will leave them. While the American Left’s ideological idiocy was the driving force behind the mortgage collapse; the Republican’s shared in the feast. I don’t recall the past President telling us we were heading off a financial cliff. It’s the very least he could have done. Climategate is a chance to redeem that lost trust. Fail again to call a swindle a swindle and the marriage is over. Something tells me I’m not alone in the seriousness of my determination.
btw-we have a significant number of known “wets” on this issue beginning with John McCain. That doesn’t bode well but we have time to make them feel our heat on this issue. McCain is up for reelection and his opponent should make him take the ” AGW Is A Hoax” pledge in public. Refusal means voting for somebody elase.
Thank you Sen. James Inhofe, one of the very few men we have on Capital Hill with unswerving integrity.
here’s a face to face interview with the Senator last night (Aust time) http://hotair.com/archives/2010/02/23/exclusive-hot-air-interview-inhofe-to-release-report-blasting-ipcc-on-climategate/
Mann Made Global Warming with plenty of help from Jones, Briffa, Hansen et al, sold to a gullable public by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Cheats) and numerous Socialist Elites (Soros, Gore & Strong come to mind).
Never mind that it is all based on lies deceit & fabrication, and bears NO RESEMBLANCE TO REALITY (Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age come to mind) it will NOT DETER the AGW TAX SCAM PUSHERS….UNLESS WE KEEP THE PRESSURE UP !
I hope the politicians can foresee how history will judge them.
I see it like putting pressure on a dam, and it’s showing cracks already. When it busts, it’ll go big time.
Well done Sen Inhofe, it would have been great to see a President Inhofe someday. Let’s hope he keeps up the pressure, the public at large are furious at the global warming cover up from the present elected administration and rely on the likes of Sen Inhofe to feel the pulse off the people.
I just don’t get the political ‘tags’ that get bandied about.
eg: – http://www.solarnavigator.net/sponsorship/british_petroleum.htm
connections between such as this and Boulton, IPCC, Gore, NOAA, NASA, Fabians, LSE, Rhodes, KRudd and the ‘lucky country’s’ minister for things terribly Wong, etc, etc,… Ya think?
AGW’s just another superb example of how all ‘sides’ and ‘the masses’ are played. ala – from a typically WaPo-esque article – “the ability to regularly influence the lives of millions of people in multiple countries worldwide.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/22/AR2008052203380.html
but cheers to Inhofe and we can hope this will create leverage downunder. but I can’t for a millisecond entertain the notion that budgie smugglers are in any way a solution.
p.s. and the other thing that’s bothering me with this (Inhofe) and lots of other commentaries in the media in the last few days.
‘bad, bad, naughty scientists’ – Monty Python’s Holy Grail
like as Brand Flannery went into action Saturday – http://www.smh.com.au/environment/scientists-not-clear-on-climate-20100219-olyd.html
I hope they do not forget the “OTHERS”.
The CO-CONSPIRITORS at the UN,EU,assorted governments,Greenpeace.WWF,etc
Without the GHOSTLY hand of Global Governance ,this would
have been just a storm in a tea-cup,not the hurricane on the ocean
with THE BIG MONEY,BIG GOVERNMENT,BIG TAX all taking their “share”
The SINS are much deeper,”YOU KNOW WHO”
I hope they do not forget the “OTHERS”.
The CO-CONSPIRITORS at the UN,EU,assorted governments,Greenpease.WWF,etc
Without the GHOSTLY hand of Global Governance ,this would
have been just a storm in a tea-cup,not the hurricane on the ocean
with THE BIG MONEY,BIG GOVERNMENT,BIG TAX all taking their “share”
The SINS are much deeper,”YOU KNOW WHO”
update video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=429xoDtqS-A; John tell us what happens next