And now the EPA has its own Climategate. It is in the report by EPAs Dr. Alan Carlin who was -- according to this July 16 letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson -- subjected to a gag order.
The March 16, 2009 report by Dr. Alan Carlin says -- among other things -- that As of the best information we currently have, the GHG/CO2 hypothesis as to the cause of global warming, which this Draft TSD supports, is currently an invalid hypothesis from a scientific viewpoint because it fails a number of critical comparisons with available observable data. Any one of these failings should be enough to invalidate the hypothesis; the breadth of these failings leaves no other possible conclusion based on current data.
Irrelevant.
“WE WILL TRY THE POWER OF PERSUASION, AND
IF THAT DOESN’T WORK
WE WILL USE THE PERSUASION OF POWER.
It’s about the redistribution of wealth, domestically and globally.