The climate change e-mails EPA doesn’t want you to see
Another day, another Obama cover-up.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute has obtained internal EPA e-mails that show the agency willfully and recklessly disregarded scientific data that undermined the bureaucracy’s global warming zealotry.
This information is especially relevant as Congress rushes to pass the cap-and-trade nightmare on Friday.
CEI general counsel Sam Kazman has notified the EPA and requested that the internal communications and suppressed study be released to the public and added to the public record. Will another whistleblower be disappeared? Note especially this warning to the dissenting scientist: “The time for such discussion of fundamental issues has passed for this round. The administrator and the administration has decided to move forward on endangerment, and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision… I can only see one impact of your comments given where we are in the process, and that would be a very negative impact on our office.”
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CEI is submitting a set of four EPA emails, dated March 12-17, 2009, which indicate that a significant internal critique of EPA’s position on Endangerment was essentially put under wraps and concealed. The study was barred from being circulated within EPA, it was never disclosed to the public, and it was not placed in the docket of this proceeding. The emails further show that the study was treated in this manner not because of any problem with its quality, but for political reasons.
CEI hereby requests that EPA make this study public, place it into the docket, and either extend or reopen the comment period to allow public response to this new study. We also request that EPA publicly declare that it will engage in no reprisals against the author of the study, who has worked at EPA for over 35 years.
The emails, attached hereto, consist of the following:
1) a March 12 email from Al McGartland, Office Director of EPA’s National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE), to Alan Carlin, Senior Operations Research Analyst at NCEE, forbidding him from speaking to anyone outside NCEE on endangerment issues;
2) a March 16 email from Mr. Carlin to another NCEE economist, with a cc to Mr. McGartland and two other NCEE staffers, requesting that his study be forwarded to EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, which directs EPA’s climate change program. The email notes the quantity of peer-reviewed references in the study, and defends its inclusion of new research as well. It states Mr. Carlin’s view that “the critical attribute of good science is its correspondence to observable data rather than where it appears in
the technical literature.” It goes on to point out that the new studies “explain much of the observational data that have been collected which cannot be explained by the IPCC models.” (Emphases added);
3) a March 17 email from Mr. McGartland to Mr. Carlin, stating that he will not forward Mr. Carlin’s study. “The time for such discussion of fundamental issues has passed for this round. The administrator and the administration has decided to move forward on endangerment, and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision… I can only see one impact of your comments given where we are in the process, and that would be a very negative impact on our office.” (Emphasis added);
4) a second March 17 email from Mr. McGartland to Mr. Carlin, dated eight minutes later, stating “ I don’t want you to spend any additional EPA time on climate change.”
Mr. McGartland’s emails demonstrate that he was rejecting Mr. Carlin’s study because its conclusions ran counter to EPA’s proposed position. This raises several major issues.
A. Incompleteness of the Rulemaking Record: The end result of withholding Mr. Carlin’s study was to taint the Endangerment Proceeding by denying the public access to important agency information. Court rulings have made it abundantly clear that a rulemaking record should include both “the evidence relied upon [by the agency] and the evidence discarded.” Ethyl Corp. v. EPA, 541 F.2d 1, 36 (D.C. Cir. 1976), cert. denied, 426 U.S. 941 (1976).
B. Prejudgment of the Outcome of the Endangerment Proceeding: The emails also suggest that EPA has prejudged the outcome of this proceeding, to the point where it arguably cannot be trusted to fairly evaluate the record before it. Courts have recognized “the danger that an agency, having reached a particular result, may become so committed to that result as to resist engaging in any genuine reconsideration of the issues.” Food Marketing Institute v. ICC, 587 F.2d 1285, 1290 (D.C. Cir. 1978).
C. Violations of EPA’s Commitment to Transparency and Scientific Honesty: Finally, the emails suggest that EPA’s extensive pronouncements about transparency and scientific honesty may just be rhetoric. Shortly before assuming office, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson declared: “As Administrator, I will ensure EPA’s efforts to address the environmental crises of today are rooted in three fundamental values: science-based policies and programs, adherence to the rule of law, and overwhelming transparency.” Jan. 23, 2009, link. See also Administrator Jackson’s April 23 Memo to EPA Employees, “Transparency in EPA’s Operations”. These follow the President’s own January 21 memo to agency heads on “Transparency and Open Government”. And in an April 27 speech to the National Academy of Sciences, the President declared that, “under my administration, the days of science taking a back seat to ideology are over.”
Because of ideology, however, it was this back seat to which Mr. Carlin’s study was relegated; more precisely, it was booted out of the car entirely.
For these reasons, we submit that EPA should immediately make Mr. Carlin’s study public by entering it into the Endangerment docket, and that it should either extend or reopen the comment period in this proceeding to allow public responses to that study. It should do so, moreover, while publicly pledging that Mr. Carlin will suffer no adverse repercussions from agency personnel. Mr. Carlin is guilty of no wrongdoing, but the tenor of the emails described above suggests he may well have reason to fear reprisals.
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That’s a change Obama can’t believe in!
This never gets beyond the patriotic blogosphere.
It might leak a little if Rush or Beck pick up on it, but we have the media now of the USSR Pravda
WOW, someone in the EPA has thier head OUT of thier ass.
I’m pretty sure the Second Amendment will be in the crosshairs pretty soon. They need to get all of these smoking guns off the street.
How long till he’s out of the EPA. TEH ONE doesn’t allow dissenters on the payroll.
‘do your congressional reps know about this’
If they do, they’ve gone mute. I have no more faith in my elected congresscritters than I would place in a 3 grader making end of life decisions for me. They are liars, cheats, and thieves with the IQ of stale bread.
so what do we need to do to get the media to pick up on this?
OT
8 Tranzi Senators (5 of whom must be challenged and defeated)
This country will have riots in the streets where we shout “death to the dictator” if they go after the second amendment. Will Obama or Rahm shoot us down in the streets like animals like in Iran?
We are restoring science to its rightful place. – Barry Soetoro
The usual suspects for the most part:
The
RepublicansRINOS are: Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), Mel Martinez (R-Fla.), Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and George Voinovich (R-Ohio).The EPA has lost all credibility with this one. I don’t believe a word they say and I am a scientist. What should we expect from their leader, a confessed card carrying commie.
I can’t argue your point EXCEPT to say if you do not act – do not complain about the outcome. This is too important.
Great work Michelle. You are on fire today!!!
Haweye,
You forgot about the pride of SC, Lindsey Graham.
On June 24th, 2009 at 1:34 pm, hawkeye54 said:
The usual suspects for the most part:
The RepublicansRINOS are:… Mel Martinez (R-Fla.)…
I hate the idea I ever voted for this turd. He is a sell-out. I sent an emial and fired him.
Shoot, missed him. Although pride is’t the pronoun I’d use for him.
If you’ll pardon my nonPC, they are already dumb and often deaf to their responsible constiuents. Mute completes the picture of a typical congresscritter, especially the dems.
Yes, the documents should be released. Not only because the law requires it but because we paid for it. Like it or not, public work product is paid for with our tax dollars. Any study paid for with the taxpayer dime, including commissioned outside studies, and research grants must be made available to the public.
Whatever it is, it goes to the GPO (Government Printing Office), save National Security type documents.
Didn’t we have this discussion several years ago? It primarily concerned Government financed medical research and private companies who were concerned about proprietary data. If you don’t want the release of proprietary data, don’t take the research money. OK, that is more of an aside.
The truly sad thing is that the emails included the actual study that is in question. Too bad the actual emails weren’t available, vice photo copies, because then the document would have become public knowledge.
Note to ‘Leakers’ – accidentally send the emails globally (hit the ‘reply all key’) in the future. Ooopsies happen.
When did Hatch go completely squishy RINO?
This is the kind of conduct that you get when the press is in bed with the government.
Hundreds of billions of dollars and our economy is expendable, becasue the press places their politics ahead of integrity and professionalism.
Thank heaven for people like MM and the CEI.
B-b-b-b-b-b-b-but I thought Hope-a-Dope promised us that he’d remove ideology from science!
He didn’t lie to us, did he? Say it ain’t so!
What’s especially ironic about this matter is how the “science” of
The Coming Ice AgeGlobal Warming“Climate Change” works in perfect reverse of what has for centuries been the scientific model: instead of gathering all evidence and following it where it leads, they begin with the Cherished Preconclusion then filter and manipulate the evidence to “support” what they just “knew all along.”Then, just like donks do when they’ve ginned up enough fake votes to overtake a Republican with a slim lead on election day, they’ll declare a “Consensus” to have been reached and spend their remaining efforts on squelching further debate by silencing those who still haven’t got with the narrative.
Under the Hope-a-Dope regime, one by one every instrument of the state is being turned into a political club with which to bludgeon the American People into “correct” ways of thinking, talking and behaving. If they are ultimately successful in their efforts, this Republic will die not with a bang, but by the “Death of a Thousand Cuts.”
Turning the EPA into a pseudo-science propaganda ministry is just one more slice.
Calculate what you would owe if this passes.
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FWIW, I sent messages to both by senators (both Ds…ptooey!) and my congressman (one of the good guys). I urged all to vote NO on Cap & Trade, and to push for an investigation of the politically motivated suppression of scientific studies that don’t support their agenda.
thetoysurgeon asked:
umm…
yes.
by proxy….
Sigh, it’ll come to the point where we’ll just be required to have our income directly pass to TEH ONE’s government, and he’ll let us have back only what his Personal Spending Czar will allow us to live on using an OBAMACard to control where and what we CAN spend.
Before reading of the latest EPA outrage, a letter was already composing itself to the Fresno Bee, stirred up by the most recently posted gasoline prices. Here in CA we pay on average 30 cents more per gallon than the other 48 states, adding up to a significant sum for drivers like me who average 27-28,000 miles per year. This price differential is apparently due to the unique “environmentally friendly” blend brewed only by CA refiners. The point I was planning to make in my letter was that if CA sheeple enjoyed paying that much more for our cleaner gasoline, they will be ecstatic when the obamanation gets their Cap & Trade and carbon emission plans passed so we can pay MUCH more for utilities winter and summer forever and ever, amen. Few believe me when I shout that the whole global warming scam is just politics and a means to get and consolidate power. Science has little or nothing to do with it.
Regulus #21 It’s called Procrustean logic. “If the facts don’t fit your arguement, change the facts.”
Absolutely. Everything coming out of TEH ONE’s administration is a scam for power and enriching a select group of his supporters.
Do these documents fall under the Freedom of Information Act?
How do you file a request?
Concressman Bill Posey(R) FL has a ton of info on his site. He does not support one of the biggest tax burdens in history.
Senator Mel Martinez(RINO)FL – nada.
Thanked Bill and fired Mel (again).
Transparency is to the Obama Administration, as illumination is to cockroaches. Both are disease carrying vermin who do their damage in the dark.
If Barium Oblah-blah maintains his brilliant foreign policy with Iran and North Korea, we’ll see if he and his ilk are as resilient as are cockroaches after the mushrooms bloom (God forbid!)
Obama said in one of his books that a 100% tax is possible, if people’s basic needs are met.
So don’t be surprised.
They’ll pretend to pay people, and people will pretend to work…
The rest of us will be in gulags.
Uh, yeah…now tell us something we don’t know.
Obama’s EPA is still sitting on a number of mining permits – permits that may well mean the difference in determining how much of an increase (minimal or max) each of us pays for electricity this winter – with no clue as to when they might move on them.
Oh, I’m not suprised by any of TEH ONE’s actions. Just expecting them. As for as a 100% tax, just google “imputed income taxation” and see what you discover for what some in CONgress hope for and just may have planned for us in the not-too-distant future on the way to the 100% tax.
actually I hope this passes…along with the rest of obama and the democRAT’s wretched agenda. I think its time for the liberal chickens to come home to roost..
I’m afraid the country needs to collapse for people to learn the government cannot take care of people.
just saw on drudge a cigar factory in tampa closed down, another 500 or so jobs lost…hope they were good obama supporters..now thats change they can believe in!
Somehow, if our country collapses, the press will blame Bush.
Anyone that has worked with any governmental agencies (FDA, EPA etc) knows that if your studies are skewed in any way, or if you’re found out to omitted crossing a T, your study equals sh!t and you don’t get no money or go-ahead.
These emails need attention. This is absolute bollocks!
Each according to his ability, each according to his need.
Hah, at least it’s not Bush doing it … hey wait, Bush didn’t do it.
What’s changed?
Never forget that Bush, Clinton and Bush bear a significant responsibility for the economic chaos that threatens our country. Bush and Bush expanded government at every opportunity. The GOP governed as “socialist-lites” for the 12 years they held power in this nation.
Bush 43 in effect pre-socialized the economy in an incredible manner and degree in the last two to three months of his term. The GOP has become the “other socialist party” in America. This gave Obama plenty of cover to accelerate the socialist nonsense.
This is why I no longer consider myself a Republican. I am tired of big-spending socialists regardless of which party they belong to.
absolutely true!
the bush family has been a plague upon this country.
There’s been more corruption, dishonesty, coverups and other evid deeds in just over 100 days of this Presidency than I believe has occured over the last 2 or 3 Presidency’s combined – maybe more.
This country made one big mistake electing this usurper and his thugs.
This Mr. Al McGartland, (Office Director of EPA’s National Center for Environmental Economics)…. might need to be charged with some sort of crime. I would think that obstructing data that would determine the outcome of national policy is a BIG no no. At the very least, he should be out of a job.
In other words, if you believe in man-made global warming, you believe in the Easter Bunny…
It aint happening, folks! It aint science, its a power grab.
This is the same exact damn thing the left accused the Bush administration of doing regarding the Iraq war. The exact same damn thing. And not a one of them is out there criticizing Obummer on this. Freakin’ hypocrites.
It’s coming no doubt, as fast as this fraud is moving taking over banks, car company’s, health care, talk radio…there will be nothing left but to get in line for what ever you need and just hope like hell your lucky when you get to head of line and there’s something left for you.
52.7% of the voters destroyed America, while millions showed RNC and McCain how wrong they were and didn’t bother to vote. That’s not to say if the non-voters could have produced a different outcome, they surely could have changed things further down the ticket.
If they do, I’ll shoot back as most of us will. It’s coming folks be prepared. keep your power dry.
This just shows the utter stupidity of socialists. If taxes are at 100%, everyone would stop working because they would earn nothing. If no one works, then no tax revenue. So, the government has to stoke up the printing presses and inflate the paper money supply. But no one is working so no one is earning any money. So the government just gives it away so you can buy what you need. But business has folded because no one is working. So the government has to provide for everything. 100% tax = 100% socialism.
It’s obvious that socialists have never understood the Laffer Curve. The B.O. will do anything to turn the U.S. into a 3rd world country.
I think about the time Hillary got ahold of some FBI records.
I suspect if you did it individually, you would get a response saying they were internal deliberations, and exempt from release under FOIA.
You, individually, do not have the horsepower like an ACLU type looking for photos of naked jihadi’s.
What I wonder is where are all the leftist gorebal warming religionists are who were whining a couple years ago about some nefarious plot by Bush to withhold scientific evidence or research…as if there were any.
Didn’t one of the whiny scientists have to admit there was no pressure on him to change his propaganda?
Onbama is not a Christian, Reverend Wright is not a Christian, how much of his rant does one have to hear before figuring that out, and he his a father image to blue lips. He also is a Mooslumb, no matter what crap spews to his disciples.
He is doing his best to turn America into a 3rd world country, and oh by the way, he is a racist just as his wife.
How dumb downed is America, well 30% of the voting public voted for this dolt what does that tell you about NEA, teachers my butt. the other 20 plus % are zombies.
24Klady #6:
At least the 3rd grader would have a 50% chance of making the choice you’d want.
It’s the Obama administration’s lack of transparency that’s been overwhelming.
Do people here follow the Surface Stations project at wattsupwiththat.com? It certainly made a global warming skeptic out of me. I personally feel that it should be a much bigger story than it seems to be. The US temperature record is not reliable. Tell your congress critters.
The Old Garbage In Garbage Out. From what I have seen on tehir stations are in direct sunlight next to a forestation with asphalt, A/C units, etc. among the other locations.
We DON’T KNOW what the temperature is. We cant predict it a few days out how cam we predict it years out?
My Congresscritter will be hearing about this, though I doubt it will change his mind.