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Senator Calls For
“Criminal” Global Warming Investigation
Inhofe demands Al Gore be called back to the
Senate to testify
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 Oklahoma
Senator James Inhofe has called for a full investigation into
the climategate affair, calling the actions of the scientists
involved "criminal" and part of “the greatest
scientific scandal of our generation”.
Inhofe has asked the Department of Justice to determine if
climatologists, including Dr. Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State
University and Dr. James Hansen of Columbia University and NASA,
engaged in illegal activity to deliberately falsify data and
mislead the public on the facts of global warming.
The Republican Senator also called for former Vice President
Al Gore to be called back before the Senate to testify on the
matter.
“In [Gore's] science fiction movie, every assertion has
been rebutted,” Inhofe stated at a hearing this morning.
Details of Inhofe's action were revealed in a minority staff
report from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee,
of which he is ranking member.
The report, which was obtained by the Pajamas
Media blog states:
[The] Minority Staff of the Senate Committee on Environment
and Public Works believe the scientists involved may have
violated fundamental ethical principles governing taxpayer-funded
research and, in some cases, federal laws. In addition to
these findings, we believe the emails and accompanying documents
seriously compromise the IPCC -backed “consensus”
and its central conclusion that anthropogenic emissions are
inexorably leading to environmental catastrophes.
"The CRU controversy features e-mails from the world's
leading climate scientists -- e-mails that show disturbing practices
contrary to the practice of objective science and potentially
federal law," the report adds.
"The released CRU e-mails and documents display potentially
unethical, and illegal, behavior," it continues. "Moreover,
there are e-mails discussing unjustified changes to data by
federal employees and federal grantees. These and other issues
raise questions about the lawful use of federal funds and potential
ethical misconduct."
As well as suggesting scientists were manipulating the data
to reach predetermined conclusions, the minority report also
charges that there was an agenda to obstruct the release of
damaging information and counter-evidence, and that some climate
scientists colluded to pressure journal editors not to publish
work questioning the so called “consensus.”
"We knew they were cooking the science to support the
flawed UN IPCC agenda," Inhofe said this morning. "I
suspect Climategate is only the beginning."
The report also points out possible criminal offences relating
to Climategate, including a potential violation of the Shelby
Amendment, which requires open access to the results of government-funded
research, in addition to a violation of the Office of Science
and Technology Policy (OSTP) policies on scientific misconduct.
It also states that scientists involved could be in breach
of the Federal False Statements and False Claims Acts, charges
that could carry civil and criminal penalties.
Furthermore, an obstruction of Congress in Congressional Proceeds
may constitute an obstruction of justice according to the report.
Inhofe's call for a criminal investigation will include a request
for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to re-examine
the classification of Carbon Dioxide as a pollutant.
"The EPA accepted the IPCC's erroneous claims wholesale,
without doing its own independent review," Inhofe said
about the EPA's decision to rely on information from the U.N.'s
International Panel on Climate Change.
"So EPA's endangerment finding rests on bad science,"
he added.
An overturning of the EPA's CO2 Endangerment Finding would
decimate moves by the Obama Administration to regulate carbon
emissions and introduce carbon taxes.
However, the proposed investigation will have to be approved
by a Democratic majority that has previously blocked any attempt
by Inhofe for investigations into climate change science.
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