This is rich, really rich. What a laugh, and the joke is on us. Big time.
Any Republican who signs off on the bankrupting of America vis a vis junk science climate change legislation is a traitor. Lindsey Graham is an asshat. ("Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., co-authored an op-ed with Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.,
in The New York Times calling for action on climate change legislation....Graham is breaking with other top Republicans, many of whom warn that the
Kerry-Boxer bill amounts to a 'national energy tax.' The House passed its
version months ago, but the Senate sat on language for the bill until two weeks
ago." START WRITING or calling.
Govt-Funded Research Unit Destroyed Original Climate Data:
CEI Petitions EPA to Reopen Global Warming Rulemaking CEI Hat tip Laura
Washington, D.C., October 6, 2009―In the wake of a revelation by a key research institution that it destroyed its original climate data, the Competitive Enterprise Institute petitioned EPA to reopen a major global warming proceeding.
In mid-August the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) disclosed that it had destroyed the raw data for its global surface temperature data set because of an alleged lack of storage space. The CRU data have been the basis for several of the major international studies that claim we face a global warming crisis. CRU’s destruction of data, however, severely undercuts the credibility of those studies.
In a declaration filed with CEI’s petition, Cato Institute scholar and climate scientist Patrick Michaels calls CRU’s revelation “a totally new element” that “violates basic scientific principles, and “throws even more doubt” on the claims of global warming alarmists.
CEI’s petition, filed late Monday with EPA, argues that CRU’s disclosure casts a new cloud of doubt on the science behind EPA’s proposal to regulate carbon dioxide. EPA stopped accepting public comments in late June but has not yet issued its final decision. As CEI’s petition argues, court rulings make it clear that agencies must consider new facts when those facts change the underlying issues.
