"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"
Posted on 12/13/2009 10:19:41 AM PST by tobyhill
The release of e-mails that suggest climate change data were manipulated is causing a "tree ring circus" that is trying to inflate a scandal to prevent international efforts to reduce global warming, a leading House proponent of climate change legislation said Sunday.
Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., who co-authored legislation to reduce U.S. manmade greenhouse gas production by 17 percent over the next 10 years, told "Fox News Sunday" that the thousands of e-mails now known as "Climate-gate" are actually a minute aspect of the overall study on global warming produced by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Markey's legislation with Rep. Henry Waxman passed the House of Representatives earlier this year but stalled after passing the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee. He said efforts to try to minimize studies that prove global warming -- like one that looked at the size of rings in trees in Siberia -- will make it harder to pass legislation that could help save both U.S. industries and the earth.
"The deniers want to create a Siberian tree ring circus," Markey said. "They want to take a small percentage of this entire study, a couple pages of it -- 1,000 pages -- and throw out the conclusion. ... The real scandal will be is if we don't solve this problem for coming generations."
But Sen. James Inhofe, the ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and the top skeptic in the Senate of manmade climate change, said the data are flawed, something he warned about in a 2005 speech in which he described complaints from some scientists who claimed they were being sidelined for their dissenting views that the science is "cooked."
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"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"
Variations of this have been posted.
“command and control” approach of the federal government.”
Why do Democrats think that they will be exempt from the backlash that would occur if the EPA regulated C02?
Republicans should say go ahead Kenyan EPA, drive up energy prices. I dare you.
So, if they only found a bit of my DNA at a murder scene, that wouldn't be enough to question my innocence?
We have irrefutable evidence that the climate change evidence has been gamed and this ass-clown wants to wish it away.
Markey looked/sounded pathetic...”forests are the lungs of the earth”.
don’t those forests REQUIRE CO2 to be able to make O2?
Ed Markey is my rep. I don’t bother to call his office.
(Or Kerry’s. Or Kennedy’s, before he died.)
Markey, you crook, how can you base a massive change in US domestic policy on tainted data?
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Ed Markey was born in Malden, Massachusetts, on July 11, 1946. He attended Boston College (B.A., 1968) and Boston College Law School (J.D., 1972). He served in the U.S. Army Reserve and was elected to the Massachusetts State House where he served two terms representing Malden and Melrose. He is married to Dr. Susan Blumenthal.
mmmm....Legislative malpractice!!!!!!
Larching from one bad argument to another. How ironic that MWD is more of a fraud than WMD ever was.
Dear Honorable idiot Markey:
You may have missed the news.
Everything that has compelled the mentally challenged to hysterics has been proven to be manufactured.
Not just "some" of it, but the entire foundation of the faux "crisis."
No honest data, no global warming, no need for any legislation whatsoever.
What would it take to make it any clearer?
A solution in search of a real problem.
Don't you have important critical stuff to deal with?
Like runaway spending, runaway deficits and a legacy of misery for our children and grandchildren?
No. "Share the misery" won't hack it!
It's also Steve McIntyre's analysis of Briffa's manipulation and cherry picking of tree ring data. That analysis shows that the Medieval Warming Period did exist and that the 20th Century hockey stick is an artificial construct.
It's also Richard Lindzen's work that shows that recent increases in carbon dioxide have not caused increases in temperature.
It's also the efforts of the alarmists from Briffa to Jones to Hansen to Mann to conceal the data upon which their conclusions and reports are based. If the science is so settled, what are they afraid of? What do they have to hide?
It's also recent ice core analyses that show that carbon follows warming, not the other way around.
Finally, its the utter failure of ANY of the alarmists models to predict the cooling of the last ten years.
Keep calling, you will get the same result now as before.
He is a global cooling denier. Shun him
“Why do Democrats think that they will be exempt from the backlash that would occur if the EPA regulated C02?”
I really don’t think they understand it WILL drive up energy prices.
Because 1) these people aren’t as smart as they think they are and 2) they NEVER understand how economies work anyway.
You can’t reason with them so you just have to stop them.
...It is just a minor error regarding the foundation and should not affect the magnificent building we have designed and plan to build.
Inhofe cleaned the little commie bitch's clock.
And Markey new it.
Markey looked visibly disturbed when Inhofe quoted the $10 billion illegal promise Obarry was about to make to the 3rd world.
I think it will make a great piece of video evidence in the upcoming treason and corruption trials.
Like Ed Markey has ever looked at ANY of the climate data that went into the IPCC report.
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