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Suppressed EPA report suppressed for a good reason.
climatespin —
(I'm going to stop making grand claims about restarting this blog. Posting will continue to be irregular. That's life.) I saw an interesting story on Huffington Post about an EPA report skeptical of global warming that has been "suppressed". Realclimate has the rundown on this report. A sample: So in summary, what we have is a ragbag collection of un-peer reviewed web pages, an unhealthy dose of sunstroke, a dash of astrology and more cherries than you can poke a cocktail stick at. Seriously, if that's the best they can do, the EPA's ruling ...
Why do people believe strange things?
Climate Change —
... Many readers who keep up with the blogs will be aware of the recent post at RealClimate concerning a recent review by Alan Carlin and John Davidson on the ...
On the Public Dime, A Very Public Whine … on a very false note
Get Energy Smart! NOW! —
... calling for a criminal investigation), the Global Warming “news of the day” is about supposed suppression of a report ‘proving’ that global warming isn’t real by EPA economist Alan Carlin. Carlin’s supposed report is an ...
Inhofe Calls for Criminal Investigation into Why EPA 'Suppressed' a Global Warming Denier
Hill Heat —
... Singer, and Roy Spencer – all of whom worked with Sen. Inhofe’s former aide Marc Morano to disseminate denials of climate science. Carlin’s references come from denier blogs such as ICECAP.us and Watts Up With That, and plagiarizes publications from the Heartland Institute, the Science & Environmental Policy Project, and the Friends of Science Society, all conservative front groups. RealClimate’s Gavin Schmidt summarizes the paper as “a ragbag collection of un-peer reviewed web pages, an unhealthy dose of sunstroke, a dash of ...
Memo to media: When the EPA ignores internal non-expert comments filled with falsehoods cut-and-paste from anti-science deniers, that isn’t “suppressing a report.” And why have you completely ignored a major scientific report revealing what a sham that “E
Climate Progress —
... You can read a thorough debunking of these “comments” at the RealClimate Post, “Bubkes” and a brilliant piece by ...
Dude, Where’s My War on Science?
Discover Magazine | rsslist —
... on greenhouse gases. At this point, conservatives thought they had a real scandal on their hands. Problem is, they didn’t pick a winner–Carlin’s report is scientific hogwash. As I write: Climate researcher Gavin Schmidt of NASA….has written a very devastating analysis of the claims made in Carlin’s paper, calling it “a ragbag collection of un-peer reviewed web pages, an unhealthy dose of sunstroke, a dash of astrology and ...
He Said, She Said on Global Climate Changes
Tangled Up in Blue Guy —
... on the EPA’s proposed greenhouse gas endangerment finding. Not only was the report a pastiche of warmed over contrarian talking points attacking the ...
"Supressed" Climate Report Cribbed From Patrick Michaels?
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science —
... of the mish mash of pseudo science that passes for the climate skeptic brain trust. According to the good folks at Real Climate, it seems the Carlin report simply imports sections of this verbatim. Gregory’s name is also referenced 20 times in the report. ...
Carlin Lives! Funnier than ever
Greenfyre's —
... nicely summarized Carlin’s paper as “a hodgepodge of widely discredited pseudoscience.” Carlin’s “science”, such as it is, has been exposed by Real Climate. See also the comments thread; very knowledgeable people hang out at Real Climate and often you get as much in the comments as you do in the excellent articles. ...
Burned by the Press
It's Getting Hot In Here —
... (CBS’s story)
http://www.globalchange.gov/ (the Global Impacts Report)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jun/16/climate-change-sea-level (the Global Impacts Report)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Voi6qFZhU (Fox News reporting on EPA)
http://deepclimate.org/2009/06/30/suppressed-carlin-report-based-on-pat-michaels-attack-on-epa/ (EPA report copying Pat Michaels)
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/06/bubkes/ (more debunking of EPA “report”) ...
Global warming triggers more disasters
Grist - the Latest from Grist —
... Recently Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) cited a debunked, unscientific report from an EPA economist to claim that the science on climate change was “ ...
Why the EPA ‘dissenter’ story needs to die
Grist - the Latest from Grist —
... , an actual climatologist, on RealClimate.org. Today the New York Times published a “closer look” at the Carlin story, relying on internal EPA docs obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests. ...
Climate Cover-Up: A (Brief) Review
RealClimate —
We often allude to the industry-funded attacks against climate change science, and the dubious cast of characters involved, here at RealClimate. In recent years, for example, we’ve commented on disinformation efforts by industry front groups such as the “Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Cato Institute, the Fraser Institute, and a personal favorite, The Heartland Institute, and by industry-friendly institutions such as the Wall Street Journal editorial ...
