Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Is The EPA Supressing Or Witholding Information On global warming

Top Republican leader Sen. James Inhofe has asked for a investigation into the EPA alleged suppression of a report that questioned the Science of global warming. The 98 page report co-authored by EPA analyst Alan Carlin pushed back on the prospect of regulating gases like carbon dioxide as way way of reducing global warming. Carlin's report said the information the EPA was using was out of date, and that even atmospheric carbon dioxide level have decreased, global temperatures are declining. "He came out with the truth". They don't want the truth at the EPA. Sen. James Inhofe, a global warming skeptic, told FOX News.com he has ordered a investigation. "We are going to expose it". The controversy comes after the House Of Representatives passed a landmark bill to regulate greenhouse emissions, one that Inhofe said will be "Dead on Arrival" in the Senate despite President Obama Energy Adviser voicing confidence in the measure. A EPA official told Fox News.com that Carlin who is a economist not a scientist included no original research in his report. The official said that Carlin has not been muzzled in the agency at all "but stressed that his report was entirely "unsolicited". Dispite the EPA official remarks Carlin told Fox News.com on Monday that his boss National Center Of Environmental Economics Directors Al McGartland, appeared to be under pressure to reassign him. Carlin said the he does not know if the White House intervened to suppress his report but it is clear "they would not be happy about it if they knew about it, and McGartland seemed to be feeling the pressure from somewhere up in the chain of command. Carlin said McGartland told him he had to pull him off the climate change issue. Carlin said he, personally does not think there is a 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. The report noted that global temperatures was on a downward trend for the last 11 years, that scientist 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". Finally, Carlin said that he is concerned that science is being decided at the Presidential level.

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