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NOAA refuses to comply with House subpoena for documents on climate
americanthinker.com ^ | 10/29/2015 | Rick Moran

Posted on 10/29/2015 6:25:38 AM PDT by rktman

It shouldn't surprise us that the NOAA refuses to release data on how they reached the conclusion that the earth was, indeed, warming. It is the only study showing an increase in temps over the last 15 years, thus any debunking would be injurious to the climate change cause.

Aside from the shocking arrogance in defying a subpoena from Congress, it's pretty obvious that the NOAA doesn't want to release the data because it will either show they cooked the books, or, as they've done in the past, misinterpreted the data. Smith can go to court, but by the time the issue is adjudicated, the next Congress will be sitting.

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When will they reveal that their server is housed in someones garage? As far as being shocked by their arrogance, not really very shocking. It's what those with an agenda have been instructed to do.
1 posted on 10/29/2015 6:25:38 AM PDT by rktman
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It should go to court anyway, no matter who is in Congress.


2 posted on 10/29/2015 6:27:34 AM PDT by austinaero
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True scientists WANT their data to be released

There is no reason to refuse, unless you are hiding something.

If you release a conclusion, without showing the data that led to that conclusion, your result has no weight whatsoever.

And since this is the ONLY one that claims to show global warming (or ‘climate change’) it is even more suspect- since no others show that result.

So... are we to ignore all the other results? Results that have data included? And beleive the only different one with NO data included?


3 posted on 10/29/2015 6:29:42 AM PDT by Mr. K (If it is HilLIARy -vs- Jeb! then I am writing-in Palin/Cruz)
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If it's science, the data should be public.
If it's secret, it's not proper science, they're hiding something.

4 posted on 10/29/2015 6:30:51 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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Maybe NOAA's funding should be cut until they do comply.

HA! As if Paul Ryan has the balls to do that.

5 posted on 10/29/2015 6:31:06 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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The Government, its many agencies and its thousands of politicized apparatchiks believe they are a power unto themselves. They are ideologues, and believe they have no masters.

Congress must start making an example of them.


6 posted on 10/29/2015 6:31:52 AM PDT by PGR88
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What do you mean "NOAA refuses to comply"?

NOAA is not capable of making decisions. Who at NOAA is refusing to comply? Throw that bastard in jail for contempt of Congress.

7 posted on 10/29/2015 6:33:15 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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Satellite data shows no warming.

Only data collected by and adjusted by and modeled by far left environmental wackos shows warming.

But, we are not suppose to notice that.

8 posted on 10/29/2015 6:33:21 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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Obviously they have nothing to hide so there’s no point in showing anything that proves that nothing is hiding.


9 posted on 10/29/2015 6:35:39 AM PDT by SteveinSATX (C'mon Cruz, Trump or Carson ...baby needs a new pair of shoes!)
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Find him in Contempt of Congress and DO YOUR FRIKKIN JOB AND JAIL HIM!!!

Congress has ALL the power in washington, the executive and judicial branch operate according to the whims of CONGRESS!

Congress can Remove the President
Congress can remove the head of every executive agency Congress can remove ALL of their employees
Congress can Abolish every agency they so choose
Congress can remove EVERY JUDGE IN AMERICA, including every supreme court justice.
Congress can abolish every federal court except the supreme Court
Congress can decide which cases the Judicial Branch can hear and decide
CONGRESS can Imprison ANYONE they want for any reason they so desire for as long as they wish.
Congress can declare WAR

No other governing body has even 10% of the power CONGRESS has!!

CONGRESS IS ALLOWING ALL OF IT!!!

Congress has the authority to arrest and imprison those found in Contempt. The power extends throughout the United States and is an inherent power (does not depend upon legislated act)

If found in Contempt the person can be arrested under a warrant of the Speaker of the House of Representatives or President of the Senate, by the respective Sergeant at Arms.

Statutory criminal contempt is an alternative to inherent contempt.

Under the inherent contempt power Congress may imprison a person for a specific period of time or an indefinite period of time, except a person imprisoned by the House of Representatives may not be imprisoned beyond adjournment of a session of Congress.

Imprisonment may be coercive or punitive.

Some references

[1] Joseph Story’s Commentaries on the Constitution, Volume 2, § 842 http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/print_documents/a1_5s21.html

[2] Anderson v. Dunn - 19 U.S. 204 - “And, as to the distance to which the process might reach, it is very clear that there exists no reason for confining its operation to the limits of the District of Columbia; after passing those limits, we know no bounds that can be prescribed to its range but those of the United States.” http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/19/204/case.html

[3] Jurney v. MacCracken, 294 U.S. 125 http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/294/125/case.html 73rd Cong., 78 Cong. Rec. 2410 (1934) https://archive.org/details/congressionalrec78aunit

[4] McGrain v. Daugherty, 273 U.S. 135 - Under a warrant issued by the President of the Senate the Deputy to the Senate Sergeant at Arms arrested at Cincinnati, Ohio, Mally S. Daugherty, who had been twice subpoenaed by the Senate and twice failed to appear. http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/273/135/case.html

[5] Rules of the House of Representatives, Rule IV Duties of the Sergeant at Arms - [] execute the commands of the House, and all processes issued by authority thereof, directed to him by the Speaker. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/HMAN-105/pdf/HMAN-105-pg348.pdf

[6] An analysis of Congressional inquiry, subpoena, and enforcement http://www.constitutionproject.org/documents/when-congress-comes-calling-a-primer-on-the-principles-practices-and-pragmatics-of-legislative-inquiry/


10 posted on 10/29/2015 6:36:07 AM PDT by eyeamok
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Withholding the science says it all

Nothing but lies

11 posted on 10/29/2015 6:36:14 AM PDT by scooby321
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These noaa “scientists” are criminal liars. They have sold their souls for a government check. They are anti-science “scientists”. Losers.


12 posted on 10/29/2015 6:38:46 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: rktman

The solution is simple, and two-pronged.

First, eliminate all NOAA funding until the agency complies with the subpoena.

Second, sue the agency and its leadership (personally). The agency for the data. Its leadership for failing to properly respond to its employer’s demand for the data its employer already paid for.

The punishment for the leadership would be forfeiture of all pay and allowances for the length of time covered by the study - applied retroactively. If they don’t have the cash, they can make up the difference breaking rocks or sweeping out pig sties for the government.


13 posted on 10/29/2015 6:39:54 AM PDT by MortMan (The rule of law is now the law of rulings - Judicial, IRS, EPA...)
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ANd for those of you that might question this Inherent Right CONGRESS Possesses to IMPRISON YOU, here is what the Communist Party has to say:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2007/04/house_arrest.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/opinion/04tue4.html?_r=0


14 posted on 10/29/2015 6:40:35 AM PDT by eyeamok
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Congress has a small police force. And it is my understanding that there is a small jail on the premises.

So, as I see it, Congress has two options here:

1. Take the matter to court. Then wait years for some judge to order the release of the documents.

2. Send the Capitol police out to arrest NOAA officials for contempt. Throw the officials in the Capitol jail until the documents are released.

I vote for the second option.

15 posted on 10/29/2015 6:41:29 AM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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When NOAA or any other government agency pays a contractor for a “study” the contractor quickly learns what the desired findings should be. If they produce something contrary to the “right answer” it will be the last contract they ever get from that agency. That type of thing goes on all the time in Washington.


16 posted on 10/29/2015 6:41:44 AM PDT by Starboard
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We live in lawless times. From what I read, see and hear in the news, most of the Obama administration should be jailed and removed from office. The lunatics are running the asylum.


17 posted on 10/29/2015 6:42:54 AM PDT by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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The agency cites "confidentiality" in refusing to turn over documents.

The temperature on January 1, 2011 was {REDACTED}.

18 posted on 10/29/2015 6:43:25 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (If Hillary's last name were anything but Clinton, she'd already be behind bars.)
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Computer server crash coming in 5, 4, 3, ...


19 posted on 10/29/2015 6:46:20 AM PDT by mellow velo
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“Smith can go to court, but by the time the issue is adjudicated, the next Congress will be sitting.”

Zero funding until they release their notes, all of them!


20 posted on 10/29/2015 6:52:46 AM PDT by Beagle8U (jeb! continues to not only step in it, but lie down and roll in it! - freedumb2003)
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