Al Gore should testify on global warming fraud, says Senator
A ranking U.S. Senator is demanding that former Vice President Al Gore be a part of a comprehensive government investigation into allegations that scientists and special interest groups have perpetrated the "greatest scientific scandal of our generation."
Senator James Inhofe is openly questioning the veracity of those within the scientific and political communities who are using so-called climate change data to push economic and social policy.
Senator Inhofe is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate whether there has been research misconduct or criminal actions by the scientists involved, including Dr. Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University and Dr. James Hansen of Columbia University and the NASA Goddard Institute of Space Science, who are suspected of manipulating their research to fulfill a political agenda.
"We knew they were cooking the science to support the flawed UN IPCC agenda. As I said on the Senate floor back in 2005 that the IPCC has demonstrated an unreasoning resistance to accepting constructive critiques of its scientific and economic methods, even in the report itself...this is a recipe for de-legitimizing the entire endeavor in terms of providing credible information that is useful to policy makers," said Inhofe.
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In his statement, Senator Inhofe said:
What emerges from our review of the emails and documents, which span a 13-year period from 1996 through November 2009, is much more than, as EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson put it, scientists who “lack interpersonal skills.” Rather, the emails show the world’s leading climate scientists discussing, among other things:
Obstructing the release of damaging data and information;
Manipulating data to reach preconceived conclusions;
threatening journal editors who published work questioning the climate science “consensus”; and
Assuming activist roles to influence the political process.