EPA analyst Alan Carlin raised questions about the impact of global warming on areas like Greenland. Shown here is an iceberg off Ammassalik Island, Greenland. (AP Photo) Sen. Inhofe Calls for Inquiry Into 'Suppressed' Climate Change Report -- FOX News
Republicans are raising questions about why the EPA apparently dismissed an analyst's report questioning the science behind global warming.
A top Republican senator has ordered an investigation into the Environmental Protection Agency's alleged suppression of a report that questioned the science behind 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 a way to reduce global warming. Carlin's report argued that the information the EPA was using was out of date, and that even as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have increased, global temperatures have declined.
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My Comment: News like this only reinforces the perception that climate change is driven more by politics than by science.
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Re your comment on climate change being driven by politics: The so called controversy in the field of climate research has been driven by forces of greed. Big companies and men with big salaries do not want to face the terrible facts. They do not want to change their ways no matter how much damage is done to the environment or Humankind. Briefly, the strategy of the Deniers has been to claim we should “do nothing because the Science is not clear, we don’t understand everything so we should delay action” Etc.
This news bit that you are focusing on is from a Boneheaded Republican spewing on Fox News. This is politics not science.
I refer you to an article in the June 29, 2009 of The New Yorker- “The Catastrophist” by Elizabeth Kolbert. It very clearly goes over the politics and the climate change science. It's worth reading.
(You may be able to find it on New Yorker’s web site.)
The science of climate change is big and can be messy; but Humankind’s denial of facts will more than likely lead to our ruination.
Old Dude
I am not making an argument for or against climate change. My argument is that information should not be buried or suppressed. In this case, the EPA is suppressing.
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