Posted on 11/25/2009 3:02:15 PM PST by PhiKapMom
Press Release Email from Senator Inhofe (R-OK)
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Contact: Matt Dempsey matt_dempsey@epw.senate.gov
202-224-9797
Inhofe Begins Hadley Center "Climategate" Investigation
Warns Participants to Retain Documents
Washington, D.C.-Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today sent letters to several scientists, some of whom allegedly manipulated data to prove the scientific "consensus" of global warming, as well as to the inspectors general of several federal agencies, notifying them to retain documents related to the release of emails from the Hadley Center's Climate Research Unit.
"The stakes in this controversy are significant, as it appears that the basis of federal programs, pending EPA rulemakings, and cap-and-trade legislation was contrived and fabricated," Sen. Inhofe said. "Moreover, it appears that, in an attempt to conceal the manipulation of climate data, information disclosure laws may have been violated.
"I certainly don't condone the manner in which these emails were released; however, now that they are in the public domain, lawmakers have an obligation to determine the extent to which the so-called ‘consensus' of global warming, formed with billions of taxpayer dollars, was contrived in the biased minds of the world's leading climate scientists."
The letters are the first step in the investigation of the Hadley Center climate scandal. Last week, emails released by a computer hacker revealed that several leading climate scientists allegedly manipulated climate data and research used by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). These scientists also appear to have refused outside access to their raw data, obstructed freedom of information requests, and plotted ways to prevent the publication of papers in peer-reviewed journals by scientists who question global warming alarmism.
Links to Letters:
Letter to Dr. Wigley
Letter to Dr. Santer
Letter to Dr. Mann
Letter to Ms. Wood
Letter to Ms. McClellan
Letter to Ms. Heatwole
Letter to Mr. Forch
Letter to Mr. Ehlenbach
Letter to Dr. Courtney
Letter to Professor Bradley
Letter to Dr. Wigley
Letter to Dr. Santer
Letter to Dr. Mann
Letter to Dr. Hughes
Letter to Dr. Ammann
Letter to EPA IG
Letter to Dept. of Interior
Letter to Dept. of Energy
Letter to CEQ
Letter to OMB IG
Letter to Commerce IG
Related:
Washington Times Editorial: Hiding Evidence of Global Cooling
Wall Street Journal Editorial: Global Warming With the Lid Off
IBD Editorial: The Day Global Warming Stood Still
Listen: Inhofe Says He Will Call for Investigation on "Climategate" on Washington Times Americas Morning Show
Inhofe Talks with Hot Air's Ed Morrissey about "ClimateGate"
Inhofe Floor Speech: Inhofe Calls 2009 "The Year of the Skeptic"
Link to 2005 Inhofe Senate Floor Speech: "Today, I will discuss something else - scientific integrity and how to improve it. Specifically, I will discuss the systematic and documented abuse of the scientific process by an international body that claims it provides the most complete and objective scientific assessment in the world on the subject of climate change - the United Nations-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC. I will conclude with a series of recommendations as to the minimum changes the IPCC must make if it is to restore its credibility."
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Nov 25, 2009
Washington, D.C.-Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today commented on the news that President Obama will travel to Copenhagen, Denmark for the United Nations Climate Conference.
"I suspect President Obama is making the trip to Copenhagen in order to ‘save' the climate conference," Sen. Inhofe said. "Yet no amount of lofty rhetoric or promises of future commitments can save it. This is due in large part to the fact cap-and-trade legislation in the Senate is dying on the vine, and, as important, recent revelations of leading climate scientists who appear to have manufactured the climate ‘consensus'-revelations that cast doubt over the entire global warming enterprise.
"Moreover, it's clear that China, India, and the developing world, which will soon be responsible for the vast bulk of greenhouse gas emissions, will not accept mandatory cuts in emissions-despite entreaties from President Obama. The U.S. Senate has made clear on numerous occasions that unilateral action by the United States is unacceptable, because it will harm our economy and have virtually no effect on climate change."
Note: Links on all the letters are to a pdf file that contains a picture of the letter with the letterhead so that no one can miss that it is an official letter.
We need to look further into the EPA. I hope this is where he is leading.
FYI! These are the original press releases sent out by Sen Inhofe’s office with all the links included. All those times some of us have heard him call the Global Warming ‘Junk Science” and was ridiculed by the Democrats, Sen Inhofe has the last laugh. Now our Senator wants answers from the scientific community.
That is an awesome name for the conference! I love it
You can take that to the bank. Senators from OK have been taking on the EPA for years and Sen Inhofe will have a field day with that one after the EPA tried to shut up some of their people.
As a member of the minority party, what can he do? Can he initiate investigations, call witnesses and demand their attendance? What if the dems object?
It warms my heart to know that we have a few intelligent and honest senators in the Roman senate.
Go, Sen Inhofe, make our day...please.
Don’t fret the pseudo-scientists in the climate change gang. Were they talented physicists, they’d be working on models that actually modeled something.
HeE NEEDS A LETTER TO: Grene Walh, NOAA scientist!!!!!
In the emails, Phil Jones of Hadley CRU [U.K.] asks Michael Mann of Penn State:
“Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4? Keith will do likewise. He’s not in at the moment – minor family crisis.
Can you also email Gene and get him to do the same? I don’t
have his new email address.
We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.”
Michael Mann replies:
“I’ll contact Gene about this ASAP. His new email is: gene r wahl@xxx”
Gene R Walh is:
Eugen R Wahl
Physical Scientist,
NOAA Paleoclimatology Program,
National Climatic Data Center
Boulder, CO
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/cv/cv-wahl.html
Heree are the complete emails[note: ther is time zone difference between U.K. and U.S. A]
From: Phil Jones p.jones@x
To: “Michael E. Mann” mann@xxx
Subject: IPCC & FOI
Date: Thu May 29 11:04:11 2008
Mike,
Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4? Keith will do likewise. He’s not in at the moment – minor family crisis.
Can you also email Gene and get him to do the same? I don’t
have his new email address.
We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.
I see that CA claim they discovered the 1945 problem in the Nature paper!!
Cheers
Phil
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From: Michael Mann mann@xxx
To: Phil Jones p.jones@xx
Subject: Re: IPCC & FOI
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 08:12:02 -0400
Reply-to: mann@xxx
Hi Phil,
laughable that CA would claim to have discovered the problem. They would have run off to the Wall Street Journal for an exclusive were that to have been true.
I’ll contact Gene about this ASAP. His new email is: generwahl@xxx
talk to you later,
mike
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God Bless this good Senator
Please let some of these “climatologists” end up in jail. And this is another example of a Nobel Peace Proze winner that is a mockery— the IPCC.
Reminds me that we Oklahomans have much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving—we have some pretty darned good senators and representatives (Boren excluded) for the most part.
The head if the subcommittee is Sen Max Baucus who is on board with all of this. Most of the subcommittee is made up of Senators who come from energy producing states that would be hurt the worst.
If anyone has anything Senator Inhofe should know, please contact Matt.
We sure do and they are not afraid to stand up and be counted! Best move ever was the one our family made to Oklahoma!
Hopeless-hagen
thanks - Baucus is a “skeptic”? He would buck BHO and the rest of the dems to demonstrate that AGW is a hoax, when BHO and the libs say no? How do you know this?
SENT!
That reminds me of the funny f-—ingruven stickers in the eighties.
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