Posted on 10/02/2015 12:45:36 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
The 20 climate scientists and academics who sent a letter to President Barack Obama asking him to prosecute global warming skeptics may be in big trouble.
A congressional committee is now looking into the government-backed nonprofit that circulated the letter, demanding they turn over “all e-mail, electronic documents, and data created since January 1, 2009.” The group has one week to respond in writing to the committee’s request.
The Institute of Global Environment and Society (IGES) “appears to be almost fully funded by taxpayer money while simultaneously participating in partisan political activity by requesting a RICO investigation of companies and organizations that disagree with the Obama administration on climate change,” Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith, chairman of the House science committee, wrote in a letter to IGES.
It seems like IGES’s effort to get Obama to prosecute global warming skeptics has completely backfired in the two weeks since their letter to the administration was published online. IGES has since taken down the letter and put up a message claiming the letter was “inadvertently posted” online. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Shukla’ing and jiving.
Those jerkweeds should be put before a congressional committee and the first question each should be asked is to identify who Trofim Lysenko was, and why he was a disgrace to the field of science.
I would criticize your post but, I’m scared to...
nicely played
How about using taxpayer funds for political activism?
HF
Trump wants to cut waste and fraud... this bunch of wingnuts would be a good place to start...
So, what will the pubbies do, when these dirt bags refuse to cooperate? Send them a nicely worded letter? Draw a line in the sand?
Can we get some people in Congress with balls that will STOP this taxpayer money going to every idiot and his brother on the planet?
Can someone get to the bottom of this one? If I google search ‘center of ocean land atmosphere studies’ the snippet under the second result (”IGES Home Page”) says they were getting more than just funding from the taxpayer:
“The Institute’s Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies is jointly sponsored by NOAA, NASA, and the National ...”
But that language appears nowhere on their website when I click on the link. Thinking they must have recently scrubbed the website, I tried to find that language on the wayback archive but I couldn’t and googling that quote only leads me here:
http://seoanalysissite.com/www/iges.org/
Anyone with better google skills than me want to check this out?
[[Prosecute them for what crime?]]
Terrorising the environment obviously- anyone how denies that man is causing climate change is an enviroterrorist according to these left wing nutcases
Anthony Watts’ take on this:
Hang them all...
>> put up a message claiming the letter was “inadvertently posted” online.
Yes, it was inadvertent. Just like Bill Clinton “inadvertently” had sex with Monica. Just like Hitlery “inadvertently” set up an illegal server and “inadvertently” deleted the emails.
That would be outstanding!
I particularly would like to trace the money sources for this scam. Who was paying, who was being paid? How much was fleeced from the taxpayers?
Algore, 0vomit, most high-ranking Dems, and probably a few GOPe would go down.
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