Did Two Federal Agencies Fraudulently Cook Global Warming Data?
Oversight: A federal agency keeps stonewalling congressional efforts to access its internal communications.
What's the problem here?
If the agency's global warming claim was honestly arrived at, just turn over the documents.
The global warming community and its allies are accusing Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, the Republican chairman of the Science, Space and Technology Committee, of conducting a witch hunt.
Several scientific organizations joined forces and told Smith in a letter Tuesday that they have a "grave concern regarding the committee's inquiry into a scientific paper prepared by" National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) researchers. They fear Smith's actions will establish "a practice of inquests."
The committee's ranking member, Democratic Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas (South Dallas career very liberal black congresswoman), got in her shots last week. She complained in a letter to Smith that he was conducting "hyper aggressive oversight," going on a "fishing expedition" and an "ideological crusade."
Smith is not looking for communists under the bed. He is merely seeking internal communications between the researchers who said in a June report that there has not been a hiatus in the warming, as other accounts have told us. NOAA's study says the warming has continued without ceasing.
Smith is within his authority to demand the government employees turn over their communications, and it is his duty to perform oversight on the federal researchers.
Taxpayers are funding the research and policy that would hurt most of us financially might be developed based on NOAA's conclusion. It's imperative that the work conforms to the highest standards.
History shows that scientists are not above doctoring data to further an agenda. Smith likely recalls the ClimateGate scandal at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. Hacked emails from there disclosed that climate researchers discussed hiding "the decline" in temperatures and performing a "trick" with the data to keep the warming scare alive.
A probe into the researchers' behavior found no wrong doing, but it was a whitewash from the beginning. The man-made global warming narrative must go on, even if that means sacrificing the truth.
Of course, truth doesn't matter when propagandists are at work. For this, just look north to Canada where new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has changed the name of the country's Ministry of the Environment to the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change.
And if that were not enough, Canadian columnist Emma Teitel is urging Trudeau to "scare us and scare us good" about global warming because "the only way world leaders and activists can change human perception of climate change, in addition to public policy, is through a healthy dose of fear mongering."
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