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Monday, 07 December 2009 05:32 |
U.N. to Investigate Climategate While Obama Administration Turns Blind Eye to Corrupted Science
“We have several concerns with a binding emissions reduction scheme for the
Earlier today, Issa called on the Administration and Congress to launch an immediate investigation into Climategate and the leaked e-mails that call into the question the validity of conclusions reached in the U.N.’s IPCC assessment, which the Obama Administration has relied on to shape and validate its Climate Change public policy agenda.
“The U.N.’s decision to investigate Climategate is a direct rebuke of the Obama Administration’s refusal to pursue an investigation into the possible manipulation of scientific data to generate predetermined results,” said Rep. Issa. “The very integrity of the report that the Obama Administration has predicated much of its Climate Change policy upon has been called into question and it is unconscionable that this Administration and Congress is willing to abdicate responsibility of uncovering the truth to the United Nations. The Administration’s Climategate denials and refusal to acknowledge the need for a Congressional investigation are a sad abdication of their responsibility to ensure that
This followed a letter that was sent earlier in the week by Reps. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and Sens. John Barrasso (R-WY), and David Vitter (R-LA) to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson calling for a “thorough and transparent investigation into the questions raised by the disclosure of emails from Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia (CRU)” and called on EPA to “withdraw the Proposed Endangerment Finding, as well as the Light Duty Vehicle Rule, and the Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule until the Agency can demonstrate that the science underlying these regulatory decisions has not been compromised.”
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