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applegrove

(118,767 posts)
Thu Nov 26, 2015, 08:48 PM Nov 2015

Standoff over government climate study provokes national uproar by scientists

Standoff over government climate study provokes national uproar by scientists

by Lisa Rein at the Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/federal-eye/wp/2015/11/24/standoff-over-government-climate-study-provokes-national-uproar-by-scientists/?tid=sm_fb

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A top House lawmaker’s confrontation with government researchers over a groundbreaking climate change study is provoking a national backlash from scientists, who say his campaign represents the most serious threat Congress has posed to scientific freedom.

Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, has subpoenaed scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and demanded that they turn over internal e-mails related to their research. Their findings contradicted earlier work showing that global warming had paused, and Smith, a climate change skeptic, has accused them of altering global temperature data and rushing to publish their research in the June issue of the journal Science

So far, NOAA officials have resisted Smith’s demands, and the showdown has escalated.

The lawmaker has threatened to subpoena Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, while scientists have rallied in solidarity with the researchers



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Standoff over government climate study provokes national uproar by scientists (Original Post) applegrove Nov 2015 OP
Pretty Sure That HRC Will Back Big Business On This Matter - Anything To Serve Wall Street cantbeserious Nov 2015 #1
She's not anti climate change. Surely you can't..... applegrove Nov 2015 #2
This Citizen Does Not Believe One Word That Utters From The Lips Of HRC cantbeserious Nov 2015 #4
Ah fer fucks sake sharp_stick Nov 2015 #5
Her understanding of climate change was ranked highest of all candidates, by scientists muriel_volestrangler Nov 2015 #7
Only Proves To This Citizen That Fast Talking Politicians Can Fool Anyone cantbeserious Nov 2015 #8
Nothing is going to happen... deathrind Nov 2015 #3
Message auto-removed Name removed Nov 2015 #6

muriel_volestrangler

(101,355 posts)
7. Her understanding of climate change was ranked highest of all candidates, by scientists
Fri Nov 27, 2015, 06:55 AM
Nov 2015
At the request of The Associated Press, eight climate and biological scientists graded for scientific accuracy what a dozen top candidates said in debates, interviews and tweets, using a 0 to 100 scale.

To try to eliminate possible bias, the candidates’ comments were stripped of names and given randomly generated numbers, so the professors would not know who made each statement they were grading. Also, the scientists who did the grading were chosen by professional scientific societies.
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Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, with an 87, had the lowest score among the Democrats, dinged for an exaggeration when he said global warming could make Earth uninhabitable. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush scored the highest among Republicans, 64, but one grader gave him a perfect 100. Bush was the only Republican candidate who got a passing grade on climate in the exercise.

Below Clinton’s 94 were O’Malley with 91; Sanders, 87; Bush, 64; Christie, 54; Ohio Gov. John Kasich, 47; Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, 38; Fiorina, 28; Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, 21; businessman Donald Trump, 15; retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, 13; and Cruz with 6.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/fact-checking-the-presidential-candidates-on-climate-science/


Bonus:

“This individual understands less about science (and climate change) than the average kindergartner,” Michael Mann, a Pennsylvania State University meteorology professor, wrote of Cruz’s statements. “That sort of ignorance would be dangerous in a doorman, let alone a president.”

deathrind

(1,786 posts)
3. Nothing is going to happen...
Thu Nov 26, 2015, 09:04 PM
Nov 2015

On this issue until it has too. Once large chunks of Greenland slide into the sea and Miami / NY is several feet under water something on the political front will begin to happen...but it will be too late. In fact it already is too late. My condolences to the next couple of generations your world is going to be vastly different then what it is today. The stupid won on this issue.


So at this point all the posturing on this issue is moot.

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