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Climategate: Obama’s Science Adviser Confirms the Scandal — Unintentionally
Pajamas Media ^ | Dec. 6 | Myron Ebell

Posted on 12/05/2009 1:44:23 PM PST by AJKauf

When the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming held a hearing on the state of climate science on December 2, the Republicans were ready to focus it on the Climategate fraud scandal. And the first witness, President Obama’s science adviser, Dr. John P. Holdren, was ready to respond.

Instead of summarizing his written testimony in his oral remarks, Holdren read a prepared statement on Climategate. He said that the controversy involved a “small group of scientists” and was primarily about one temperature dataset. He said that such controversies were not unusual in all branches of science and that they got sorted out through the peer review process and continuing scrutiny. Holdren also said that openness and sharing of data was important, which is why the Obama administration is strongly committed to openness. In the case of the disputed dataset (the “hockey stick” graph), the National Academies of Science (NAS) undertook a thorough review of it and all other similar datasets and concluded that the preponderance of evidence supported the principal conclusion of the research. Holdren concluded by predicting that when the dust settles on this controversy, a very strong scientific consensus on global warming will remain.

Well, that sounds pretty plausible, but anyone who has followed Dr. Holdren’s amazing career knows that he is a master of plausible buncombe that disguises his “outlandish scientific assertions, consistently wrong predictions, and dangerous public policy choices,” as my CEI colleague William Yeatman has put it....

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cei; climategate; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hoax; loot; scam; smokinggun
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To: Brilliant

“I thought the lefties were telling us that virtually all scientists believed in global warming.”

Yeah. That was part of their mantra with the “concensus” business they kept repeating ad nauseaum.

These people just keep up the Goebbels act when they want something. Kinda like little kids keep pestering until they get what they want. I think it’s why the Left don’t like parents smacking the kids, and telling them to shut up.


21 posted on 12/05/2009 5:58:12 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...Call 'em What you Will, They ALL have Fairies Living In Their Trees.)
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To: Psycho_Bunny
Gads, I’m sick of tagging a “gate” on words. It’s childish.

Amen.

22 posted on 12/05/2009 8:08:30 PM PST by randog (Tap into America!)
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To: olezip
See this :

The Wegman Report

23 posted on 12/06/2009 8:24:21 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: samtheman
For anyone else who was curious, here's the list...

The Copenhagen Diagnosis About the authors

24 posted on 12/06/2009 8:27:18 AM PST by mewzilla (Voter fraud is treason.)
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To: FreeAtlanta
I used to be a Romney supporter, and I really wish we had him instead of that little communist punk teleprompter dependent fraud, but I really hope he doesn’t run in the next election.

Does the "R" next to the name make one socialist any better than the one with a "D" next to their name?

It's kind of like having a turd sandwich and getting to choose the bread. It's still a turd sandwich.

25 posted on 12/06/2009 9:42:00 AM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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