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| EPA Quashed Report Skeptical of Global Warming |
| from the just-some-random-nutjob dept. |
| posted by timothy on Saturday June 27, @19:50 (Censorship) |
| http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/27/2314213 |
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[0]theodp writes "CNET reports that less than two weeks before the EPA
formally submitted its pro-carbon dioxide regulation recommendation to
the White House, [1]an EPA center director quashed a 98-page report that
warned against making hasty 'decisions based on a scientific hypothesis
that does not appear to explain most of the available data.' In an
[2]e-mail message (pdf) to a staff researcher on March 17, the EPA
official wrote: 'The administrator and the administration has decided to
move forward...and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for
this decision.' The employee was also ordered not to 'have any direct
communication' with anyone outside his small group at EPA on the topic of
climate change, and was informed his report would not be shared with the
agency group working on the topic. In a statement, the EPA took aim at
the credentials of the [3]report's author, Alan Carlin (BS
Physics-Caltech, PhD Econ-MIT), describing him as 'not a scientist.' BTW,
the official who chastised Carlin also found himself caught up in a
[4]2005 brouhaha over mercury emissions after top EPA officials ordered
the findings of a Harvard University study stripped from public records."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/06/27/2314213
Links:
0. mailto:[email protected]
1. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10274412-38.html
2.
http://cei.org/cei_files/fm/active/0/Endangerment%20Comments%206-23-09.pdf
3. http://carlineconomics.googlepages.com/
4. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55268-2005Mar21.html
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