EPA Quashed Report Skeptical of Global Warming 1057
theodp writes "CNET reports that less than two weeks before the EPA formally submitted its pro-carbon dioxide regulation recommendation to the White House, an EPA center director quashed a 98-page report that warned against making hasty 'decisions based on a scientific hypothesis that does not appear to explain most of the available data.' In an e-mail message (pdf) to a staff researcher on March 17, the EPA official wrote: 'The administrator and the administration has decided to move forward...and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision.' The employee was also ordered not to 'have any direct communication' with anyone outside his small group at EPA on the topic of climate change, and was informed his report would not be shared with the agency group working on the topic. In a statement, the EPA took aim at the credentials of the report's author, Alan Carlin (BS Physics-Caltech, PhD Econ-MIT), describing him as 'not a scientist.' BTW, the official who chastised Carlin also found himself caught up in a 2005 brouhaha over mercury emissions after top EPA officials ordered the findings of a Harvard University study stripped from public records."
the seven words you can't say in an EPA report (Score:2, Funny)
"There is no reason to regulate CO2".
- Carlin
Hope and Change? (Score:4, Funny)
They told me if I voted for McCain that science would be subservient to policy goals. And they were right!
Thx Instapundit.
Re:The Administration modded this guy troll too! (Score:2, Funny)
Well color me convinced.
Re:News Flash! Civil Servants Corrupt! News @ 11:0 (Score:5, Funny)
Physics degree qualifies you to report on whatever the hell you like as far as I'm concerned.
Re:Old adage (Score:5, Funny)
Be fair. No real scientist would be seen dead with a degree in economics. It makes it impossible to write grant proposals with a straight face.
Re:News Flash! Civil Servants Corrupt! News @ 11:0 (Score:2, Funny)
But Al Gore's movie made money, so therefore global warming is real. The market has spoken.
(Courtesy Stephen Colbert)
Re:News Flash! Civil Servants Corrupt! News @ 11:0 (Score:4, Funny)
On target, gandhi. Global warming is nothing more than the religion of the 21st century. Either you are a believer, or you are a blasphemer. By definition, a blasphemer is NOT qualified to have an opinion. To make things clear, I am a blasphemer, and I think that Al Gore goes down on little children and baby goats.
Re:News Flash! Civil Servants Corrupt! News @ 11:0 (Score:2, Funny)
Re:News Flash! Civil Servants Corrupt! News @ 11:0 (Score:5, Funny)
To summarize your post:
1. I'm a reasonable person. I think massive increases in the earth's Methane/CO2 levels are probably-to-possibly going to induce massive changes in the biosphere, thus placing large numbers of human beings (including myself and my offspring) in harm's way.
2. But here's a personal anecdote about some crunchy tree-huggers I hung out with.
Ergo,
3. On balance, I think it would be valuable to take an unsubstantiated swipe at the scientists who are qualified to researching this incredibly complicated subject. And even though I haven't read his report, I place more faith in this guy's undergrad BS degree than in real scientists in the area.
If you really want to stand by this guy's BS in physics, I urge you to read this [slashdot.org] comment --- from someone who actually read his report (or better, read the report). Post back to me if you still think the guy is making a strong, scientific argument.
Re:He has shown forty years of bias (Score:2, Funny)
...but we can be certain that humans are driving CO2...
Not all of us. I drive a golf cart powered by my own sense of self-satisfaction.