(Republican) Lawmakers Probe Climate Emails

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125902685372961609.html

U.S. NEWS | NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Lawmakers Probe Climate Emails

By KEITH JOHNSON and GAUTAM NAIK

Congressional Republicans have started investigating climate scientists whose hacked emails suggest they tried to squelch dissenting views about global warming.

An aide to Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.), the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said investigators are studying the documents, which unknown hackers stole last week from the computer of a prominent British climate-research center.

Investigators are focusing on the correspondence of White House Science Adviser John Holdren, he said. Dr. Holdren, a point man for the Obama administration on climate change, sent one of the hacked emails. In the 2003 email, Dr. Holdren, then at the Woods Hole Research Center in Woods Hole, Mass., defended research by Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University, a scientist who believes global warming is man-made and who also sent some of the hacked emails.

On Monday, Dr. Holden said: "I'm happy to stand by my contribution to this exchange. I think anybody who reads what I wrote in its entirety will find it a serious and balanced treatment of the question of 'burden of proof' in situations where science germane to public policy is in dispute."

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[asjr]

1. That is what Republicans do best--probe.

[JohnWxy]

2. Let us not forget the Cheney WH had that climate report 'edited' by a former lobbyist for Petr Ind

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/08/politics/08climate.html

In handwritten notes on drafts of several reports issued in 2002 and 2003, the official, Philip A. Cooney, removed or adjusted descriptions of climate research that government scientists and their supervisors, including some senior Bush administration officials, had already approved. In many cases, the changes appeared in the final reports.

The dozens of changes, while sometimes as subtle as the insertion of the phrase "significant and fundamental" before the word "uncertainties," tend to produce an air of doubt about findings that most climate experts say are robust.

Mr. Cooney is chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the office that helps devise and promote administration policies on environmental issues.

Before going to the White House in 2001, he was the "climate team leader" and a lobbyist at the American Petroleum Institute, the largest trade group representing the interests of the oil industry. A lawyer with a bachelor's degree in economics, he has no scientific training.

[tom_paine]

3. One has to admire the coordination of the RW Lie Machine.

The can literally legitimize ANY lie in the eyes of a minimum of 60% of the people.

Like the Nazis, their spiritual antecedents, they now have their own "fake media" and are using the increasing degenration of all the mechanisms that once protected the American People from Nazification/Bushification (just as it happened in Weimer) to create their own legitimacy out of thin air using self-referential bubbles of falsity which there are fewere and fewer cracks to peek through.

Impressive.

Luckily, I don't think it will be quite as murderous when the full transformation comes around during the time of President Palin (God Forbid, but it's looking nearer and nearer every day) as the nazis were.

That would be bad PR. I expect it to be "kinder and gentler" Nazism, though with the current state of the RW in America, perhaps I am being overly optimistic since they all sound (adjusting for the use of more codewords) like the same KKK jerks in the 50s and 60s.