Top lawmaker rebutted on climate study accusation

Source: Washington Post

Federal Eye

Top lawmaker rebutted on climate study accusation

By Lisa Rein November 23 at 7:00 AM
@Reinlwapo

The escalating struggle between an influential House Republican and government scientists over their pivotal study of global warming now turns on accusations that they rushed to publish their findings to advance President Obama’s agenda on climate change.

But a spokeswoman for Science, the prestigious peer-reviewed journal that in June published the paper by climate scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said in an interview that their research was subject to a longer, more intensive review than is customary.

“This paper went through as rigorous a review as it could have received,” said Ginger Pinholster, chief of communications for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which publishes Science. “Any suggestion that the review was ‘rushed’ is baseless and without merit.”

{Congressman now threatens to subpoena commerce secretary over global warming report}
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The study is widely considered to be a bombshell in the climate change world because it contradicted the notion of a “pause” in global warming and thus undercut the arguments of global warming skeptics. Among them is Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), who chairs the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. NOAA’s data sets are used by climate scientists to take temperature measurements worldwide.

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Ordinarily, if I had anything to say about climate change, I'd put it over in the forum for that topic. When an article contains the words "threatens" and "subpoena," I think that maybe it should go in LBN.