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The Revelle-Gore Story: Attempted Political Suppression of Science
"Politicizing Science" [book], M. Gough, editor, Hoover Institution Press ^ | 2003 | S. Fred Singer

Posted on 04/25/2007 4:20:04 AM PDT by Oeconomicus

This is a personal account linking efforts to suppress scientific publication about climate science and policy by then-Senator (later vice president) Al Gore and his staff.1 In those efforts, an individual working closely with Senator Gore and his staff made false and damaging statements about my behavior as a scientist. I filed a libel suit against the individual. The suit was settled when he issued a retraction and apology to me that included a statement that members of Senator Gore’s staff had made “similar state- ments and insinuations” to those that he retracted.

(Excerpt) Read more at media.hoover.org ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2003; algore; bho44; climatechange; energy; envirowhackos; globalwarming; revelle; science
Al Gore's disgraceful attempts to manipulate climate science and intimidate scientists go back at least to 1992.

Richard Lindzen, Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT, calls attention to the Gore-Revelle controversy in this recent National Post interview, Relax, the planet is fine: Money is partly to blame for the global warming hysteria, Professor Richard Lindzen says.

See also this FR thread: Relax, the planet is fine.

1 posted on 04/25/2007 4:20:05 AM PDT by Oeconomicus
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To: Oeconomicus

Many thanks. I have some very good reading to put in front of my friends now.


2 posted on 04/25/2007 4:56:30 AM PDT by Humble Servant (Keep it simple - do what's right.)
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To: Humble Servant

Science?
“We don’t need no stinking Science!”

(We just take a poll. From a SELECT GROUP of supporters, natch!)


3 posted on 04/25/2007 5:04:28 AM PDT by Flintlock
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To: Oeconomicus

My webtv does not handle pdf. If it is not too long could you mail me text? Singer is my fav denier. He is getting old like a lot of us. When in grad school I was reading his papers on early wea sat use. He has a site which I go to but I do not remember the retraction of gore(did we not do that in 2000 heh heh ?)


4 posted on 04/25/2007 5:06:03 AM PDT by larryjohnson (USAF(Ret))
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To: Oeconomicus

Bump!


5 posted on 04/25/2007 5:06:12 AM PDT by F-117A (Mr. Ahtisaari, give S?pmi it's independence! Free the Sami!!!)
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To: Oeconomicus
Dr. Revelle was not entirely happy with Gore. My impression is that he thought Gore was grandstanding with Revelle’s work and science. Revelle was a great man.
6 posted on 04/25/2007 5:15:46 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Oeconomicus

Enron Gave Big Bucks to Democrats, Backed ‘Global Warming’ Scam
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/1/16/135018.shtml

Phil Brennan, NewsMax.com Thursday, Jan. 17, 2002

Scandal-plagued Enron Corp., cited by Democrats as a big giver to President Bush and the GOP, gave a cool $420,000 to Democrats when the corporation was desperate to get the Clinton administration’s help in having the potentially disastrous Kyoto treaty made the law of the land.

Senate ratification of the treaty, which foes explained would have cost the U.S. billions and had a deadly effect on the U.S. economy, would have been a bonanza for Enron.

What’s Good for Enron Isn’t Good for America

According to Washington Times reporter Jerry Seper, a December 1997 private internal memo written by Enron executive John Palmisano said the treaty would be “good for Enron stock!!”

“The memo said the Kyoto treaty - later signed by Mr. Clinton and leaders of 166 other countries, but never ratified by the Senate - ‘would do more to promote Enron’s business than will almost any other regulatory initiative outside of restructuring the energy and natural gas industries in Europe and the United States.’”

Easy Access to Clinton and Gore

Writing in Wednesday’s Times, Seper reports, “Federal and confidential corporate records show that after donating thousands of dollars in soft money and PAC donations beginning in 1995, Enron received easy access to President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore.”

Seper revealed that Clinton’s Energy Department and Environmental Protection Agency “often made themselves available for Enron executives to discuss the firm’s needs, according to records, even arranging for meetings with key congressional staffers.”

Enron’s drive to get the Kyoto Protocol ratified continued even after the Senate voted 95-0 to set restrictions on any climate negotiations. The Senate resolution warned U.S. diplomats against negotiating any climate treaty in which less developed nations such as communist China would have fewer restrictions imposed on them than the U.S. and other developed countries.

That vote gave clear warning that the Senate would never ratify the treaty, costing Enron potential profits in the billions. As a result, Enron used its open door to the Clinton White House to lobby hard for a treaty that would give it the ability to buy and sell trading credits to emit carbon dioxide as part of a strategy to reduce “greenhouse gases.”

Under the system pushed by Enron, new investments in gas-fired plants and pipelines would be expanded and coal-fired power plants, which emit more carbon dioxide, would be curtailed. Seper noted, “Natural gas, electricity and their delivery systems constitute Enron’s major businesses.”

During a White House meeting in July 1997, Enron Chairman Kenneth L. Lay prodded Clinton and Gore to support a “market-based” approach to what he described as the problem of “global warming,” a theory discredited by a majority of the world’s climatologists.

In the face of Senate hostility to the Kyoto accords, Enron continued to urge the Clinton administration to seek a “restructuring” of the treaty that would have been a “first step to solving the problems of global climate change.” Seper notes that the company “sought laws that would have favored Enron’s natural gas inventory and reduced competition from coal.”

On Feb. 20, 1998, during a meeting with Energy Secretary Federico Pena, Lay “encouraged the Clinton administration to seek electricity legislation favored by Enron,” outlining for the secretary what the company believed were the “important” pending legislative concerns.

“Today’s meeting between Ken Lay and Energy Secretary Federico Pena to discuss electricity legislation went very well,” said a memo written by Jeff Keller, the company’s Washington governmental affairs chief.

“Secretary Pena indicated that the White House proposed bill is ‘on the president’s desk,’ and that Clinton could be convinced to release the White House proposal in the next few days,” Keller wrote. “He suggested that President Clinton might be motivated by some key contacts from important constituents.”

The records showed that Lay took that advice and sent a letter to Clinton that day, asking him to “move this matter forward.”

Seper writes that Clinton administration officials have denied any wrongdoing, saying they were only responding to constituent requests.

Hypocrisy Alert

But while such Democrats as Rep. Henry Waxman of California attempt to create suspicion that Enron’s contributions to President Bush and other Republicans gave the company undue influence with the administration without a scintilla of evidence to back up their imaginings, more real proof of the cozy ties between Enron and the Clinton administration continues to unfold.

Seper recalls, for example that, the Washington-based Export-Import Bank approved a $302 million loan toward a $3 billion Enron-controlled power plant in India in 1994.

Wrote Seper: “Mr. Clinton took an interest in the deal, asking the U.S. ambassador to that country and his former chief of staff, Thomas F. ‘Mack’ McLarty, then a presidential adviser, to monitor the proposal.

“Mr. McLarty - who later became a paid Enron director - spoke with Mr. Lay on several occasions about the plant. In 1996, four days before India granted approval for Enron’s project, the Houston-based firm contributed $100,000 to the Democratic Party.”


7 posted on 04/25/2007 5:35:30 AM PDT by Matchett-PI (To have no voice in the Party that always sides with America's enemies is a badge of honor.)
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To: Oeconomicus

Bump


8 posted on 04/25/2007 5:39:08 AM PDT by Ditto (Global Warming: The 21st Century's Snake Oil)
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To: Oeconomicus

SEPP - Science & Environmental Policy Project

http://www.sepp.org/


9 posted on 04/25/2007 5:42:03 AM PDT by larryjohnson (USAF(Ret))
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To: Oeconomicus

Singer’s chapter in the Hoover volume is a cleverly worded and distorted spin of what actually transpired, both as to the creation of his Cosmos paper and as to the subsequent republication, protest and law suit. Note this Hoover chapter is not a sworn statement. No fair-minded commentator or researcher is well-served without having access to more direct, sworn evidence available in this case (See http://home.att.net/~espi/Cosmos_myth.html ), and most importantly, Singer’s own sworn deposition (See http://home.att.net/~espi/Cosmos_myth.html ), Revelle’s secretary’s sworn affidavit (see
http://home.att.net/~espi/Beran_affidavit.pdf ),
Lancaster’s sworn affidavit (See
http://home.att.net/~espi/Lancaster_affidavit.pdf), the
ES&T article previously published by Singer as sole author (see
http://home.att.net/~espi/Singer_article_solo.pdf ), and the
critical page 3 of the Galley Proofs reviewed by Revelle, in which he noted, “one to three” in reference to his prediction of likely increase in this century (degrees Celsius, global annual average temperature) (See
http://home.att.net/~espi/Cosmos_Galleys.pdf ). Lancaster’s 1994 retraction was coerced by a SLAPP lawsuit, which are now illegal in Massachusetts. He has fully rescinded this earlier retraction.


10 posted on 02/08/2009 1:15:42 PM PST by TruthTREE (... but at the length Truth will out.)
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