Administration breaking law by withholding global warming report, judge rules

San Framcisco Chronicle ^ | 8/22/7 | Bob Egelko

[SmithL]

Armstrong, Saundra Brown

Born 1947 in Oakland, CA

Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U. S. District Court, Northern District of California
Nominated by George H.W. Bush on April 25, 1991, to a seat vacated by William A. Ingram; Confirmed by the Senate on June 14, 1991, and received commission on June 18, 1991.

Education:
Merritt College, A.A., 1967

California State University, Fresno, B.A., 1969

University of San Francisco School of Law, J.D., 1977

Professional Career:
Policewoman, Oakland Police Department, Oakland, California, 1970-1977
Judicial extern, California Court of Appeals, 1977
Deputy district attorney, Alameda County, California, 1978-1979, 1980-1982
Senior consultant, California Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice, 1979-1980
Trial attorney, Public Integrity Section, U.S. Department of Justice, 1982-1983
Commissioner, Consumer Product Safety Commission, 1983-1986
Commissioner, U.S. Parole Commission, 1986-1989
Judge, Alameda Superior Court, California, 1989-1991


Race or Ethnicity: African American

Gender: Female

[dirtboy]

The Bush administration has violated a 2004 congressional deadline for presenting the latest scientific research about global warming to lawmakers and the public and must submit its report by next spring, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

I guess she missed the news about NASA having to revamp its global warming numbers. Wonder if those are used in the report?

[sourcery]

Basic References:

• Hostages to a hoax
• Water Experts Find Earth’s Warming, Rainfall Linked to Sun
• Milankovitch Cycles and Glaciation
• The Myth of Dangerous Human-Caused Climate Change (PDF)
• Up against the warming zealots
• When Physics Trumps Hysteria in Global Warming
• Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
• Heat Capacity, Time Constant, And Sensitivity of Earth's Climate System (PDF)
• Global Warming: Forecasts by Scientists versus Scientific Forecasts
• Geophysical, archeological and historical evidence support a solar-output model for climate change (PDF)
• Gamma rays and climate (PDF)
• Temperature vs. Cosmic Ray Flux
• Linkages between solar activity, climate predictability and water resource development (PDF)
• Proof on Ice: Southern Greenland Was Once Green; Earth Warmer
• Global Warming and Nature's Thermostat
• The Past and Future of Climate (PDF)
• Global warming is not a crisis
• The Great Global Warming Swindle
• IceCap

Lawrence Solomon's "The Deniers" (a series of articles on the view of scientists who have been labelled "Global Warming Deniers"):

• Science, not politics
• Statistics needed
• The original denier: into the cold
• End the chill
• They call this a consensus?
• The limits of predictability
• Unsettled science
• Models trump measurements
• The ice-core man
• The hurricane expert who stood up to UN junk science
• Polar scientists on thin ice
• The sun moves climate change
• Bright sun, warm Earth. Coincidence?
• Look to Mars for the truth on global warming
• Read the sunspots
• Forget warming - beware the new ice age
• Little Ice Age is still with us
• Fighting climate 'fluff'

Other References:

• Alarmist global warming claims melt under scientific scrutiny
• The Global Warming Myth
• Global Warming: A Chilling Perspective
• Father of Climatology Throws Up at the Thought of Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth'
• IPCC Scientists Challenge Al Gore’s View of Global Warming Consensus
• Swedish Scientist Accuses UN's IPCC of Falsifying Data and Destroying Evidence
• CO2 Science
• Global Warming and Climate Forcing by Recent Albedo Changes on Mars
• Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming - Now Skeptics
• The Real 'Inconvenient Truth'
• New findings indicate today's greenhouse gas levels not unusual
• Climate Change: Incorrect information on pre-industrial CO2
• Global Warming as a Religion
• I Was On the Global Warming Gravy Train (By David Evans)
• Global Warming: it's not caused by greenhouse gases says academic
• Still Waiting for Greenhouse
• GREENIE WATCH
• Why Global Warming Would be Good for You
• Global Warming Primer (PDF)
• Global Warming: An Official Pseudoscience
• Sun's Output Increasing in Possible Trend Fueling Global Warming
• Fiddler On The Roof
• Debating Global Warming
• Climate Resistance

[BigBobber]

And will she be grading the report also, to make sure they completed the assignment?

What a waste of everyone’s time.

[RightWhale]

Write the report on the back of the decision and keep it under fifty words.

Still looking for evidence of Global Warming. Next report in four years. -Your Pres

[NRA1995]

"Breaking the law, breaking the law.....breaking the law, breaking the law"

[mimaw]

So now it’s against the law not to submit flawed and bogus reports?

[agere_contra]

This administration has denied and suppressed the science of global warming at every turn

He's got a point. Any scientifically-minded Govt would make a point of ramming the Vostok ice-core graphs down Al Gore's throat every chance they got.

But of course he really means "the administration isn't producing the fake-science report that backs up our highly lucrative AGW delusion".

[aruanan]

"This administration has denied and suppressed the science of global warming at every turn," said Brendan Cummings, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity.

Brendan, you're a weasel. The "science" of global warming (I'm surprised you're behind the times and didn't say "climate change") is more heavily funded than anything meteorological in recent memory.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

"This administration has denied and suppressed the science of global warming at every turn," said Brendan Cummings, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity.

Not too difficult. There is no global warming.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Kind of like blocking public discussion of Muslim peace initiatives.

[Abathar]

"A 1990 federal law requires the government to produce a scientific report every four years on climate change and its effects on the environment, including land, water, air, plant and animal life, and human health. "

Unfortunately I think this judges hands are tied here. It is a simple thing, there is a law, whether we agree with it or not, and it isn't being followed.

Even a Conservative judge would have to come to the same conclusion as this judge did, either do the report or change the law that required it being done.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

“Most of the disciples of global warming are liberal Democrats who never have enough of our money and believe there are never enough regulations concerning the way we lead our lives.
That ought to be enough to give everyone pause, along with emerging evidence that the global warming jihadists may be more full of hot air than the climate they claim is about to burn us up.”
—Cal Thomas

[freekitty]

There is no global warming and even if there is the slightest hint of it; it’s suppose to be there. I am offended and resent those who are scamming me and the public and making a lot of money or gaining power because of their scam.

[Trillian]

I gotta wonder how long they are going to beat this dead horse (global warming).

[pepsionice]

The interesting thing is that the gov’t can appoint a high school student to produce the report and then issue the report. The law is obeyed and basically the dimwits who wrote this law...really didn’t know the first thing about science...so this is how stupid this whole thing gets.

[.cnI redruM]

The administration needs to start releasing those pictures of where all the GISS thermometers are posted. Like the one that’s placed directly over the HVAC unit heat sink.

[Abathar]

Agree with you 100%, the fact is someone is screaming because the i's aren't dotted and the t's aren't crossed.

The only reason they want this report to bash the Bush administration, if it comes out on their side of the debate they hold it up and scream that they admit in their own words that they are killing us knowingly. If it comes down on the other side they hold it up and scream that they are liars and frauds, and are knowingly killing us.

Pretty sad that we are stuck in a no win situation by a bunch of stinky hippies who have us over a barrel because of a law that can't honestly be followed with anything other than the truth - "We don't know"

[PEACE ENFORCER]

The science of global warming report issued by the President.

Warming Report 1 page