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This Week in Science
Daily Kos —
... Speaking of the environment and alternative energy, Real Climate sets the record straight for putative policy experts who fall hook, line, and sinker for the latest hoax promulgated by fossil fuel front group known as the "Competitive Enterprise Institute." ...
Inhofe Calls For Criminal Investigation Into Why EPA ‘Suppressed’ A Global Warming Denier
Wonk Room —
... Monckton, Fred Singer, and Roy Spencer — all of whom worked with Sen. Inhofe’s former aide Marc Morano to disseminate denials of climate science. Carlin’s references come from denier blogs such as ICECAP.us and Watts Up With That, as well as publications from the Heartland Institute, the Science & Environmental Policy Project, and the Friends of Science Society, all conservative front groups. RealClimate’s Gavin Schmidt summarizes the paper as “a ragbag collection of un-peer reviewed web pages, an unhealthy dose of sunstroke, a dash of ...
Climate Skeptic: "I Was Hoping People At EPA Would Pay Attention" To My Work
TPMMuckraker —
... to blame EPA for not paying much attention to the study. And it's more than a little ironic that DC Republicans have chosen its author as their new standard-bearer in the defense of pure science against politics. Because the author, EPA veteran Al Carlin, is an economist, not a climate scientist. EPA says no one at the agency solicited the report. And Carlin appears to have taken up the global warming topic largely as a hobby on his own time. In fact, a NASA climatologist has called the report -- whose existence was ...
The EPA's far-right cause celebre
Political Animal —
... "a hodgepodge of widely discredited pseudoscience," and "a ragbag collection of un-peer reviewed web pages, an unhealthy dose of sunstroke, a dash of astrology and more cherries than you can poke a cocktail stick at." Zachary Roth ...
'Green News Report' - July 2, 2009
The BRAD BLOG —
... passes, GOP parties like it's 1993 (Greenwire)
Ailing Henry Waxman said to be improving (LA Times)
EPA ‘suppression’ story grows, despite shoddy science in report (Grist.org)
Shock: Hobby Report Deep-Sixed at EPA! (Talking Points Memo)
Climate Skeptic: "I Was Hoping People At EPA Would Pay Attention" To My Work (TPMMuckraker.com)
NASA Climate Scientist Gavin Schmidt - a real climate scientist ...
Pondering What Secret Beliefs Drive Wingnuttia
Library Grape —
... This morning’s Wall Street Journal opinion section contains a lot of what one expects to see. There’s an opinion piece making a big fuss over the fake scandal at the EPA. There’s an editorial claiming that the latest job figures prove the failure of Obama’s economic plan — something I dealt with in the Times. All of this follows on yesterday’s editorial asserting that the Minnesota senatorial election was stolen. All of this is par for the course; the WSJ editorial page has been like this for 35 years. Nonetheless, it ...
Logic only Inhofe could love
Political Animal —
... is Carlin's job. In this case, he went outside of his job to prepare "a ragbag collection of un-peer reviewed web pages, an unhealthy dose of sunstroke, a dash of astrology and more cherries than you can poke a cocktail stick at." Inhofe, in other words, doesn't know what he's talking about. What a surprise. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson is scheduled to speak to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works today, at which point Inhofe intends to throw a fit about Carlin's "report." Here's hoping someone briefed Jackson on the unhinged questions she's likely to ...
Chamber Of Commerce CEO Bill Kovacs Accuses EPA Of ‘Cherry-Picking’ Global Warming Science
Wonk Room —
... that the world’s climate scientists are wrong about global warming. The right-wing Competitive Enterprise Institute promoted Carlin’s report and the false story that his work was being unfairly suppressed. ...
