Inhofe gives ‘sneak peak’ into new Climategate report after EPA turns blind eye

Steve Mosher and Tom Fuller recently released their book ‘Climategate: The Crutape Letters.’ Top climate change website Watts Up With That said, “For those of you that want to follow a detective story, this one has as the twists and turns of Mickey Spillane with a Hardy Boys approach to a matter of fact story line. I highly recommend it.”Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, has released a ‘sneak-peek’ into a major new Senate report on an investigation of the Climategate scandal. A statement at Inhofe’s Senate website said emails and documents were reviewed from “a 13-year period from 1996 through November 2009.” The Environmental Protection Agency ignored the serious implications of the emails and documents made public.

What emerged from the Senate committee investigation of Climategate, Inhofe said,  “is much more than, as EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson put it, scientists who ‘lack interpersonal skills.’”

The investigation revealed alarmist scientists and other experts:
•Obstructed the release of damaging data and information;
•Manipulated data to reach preconceived conclusions
•Threatened journal editors who published work questioning the climate science ‘consensus’;
•Assumed activist roles to influence the political process.

Inhofe said the correspondence revealed, “a fractured consensus on the state of climate science.”

Refuting alarmist claims there is no need for further debate, Inhofe added, “Contrary to repeated assertions that the ‘science is settled,’ the emails show the world's leading climate scientists arguing over critical issues, questioning key methods and statistical techniques, and doubting whether there is ‘consensus’ on the causes and the extent of climate change.”

Noting he believes Climategate is “only the beginning,” Inhofe said, “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."

The US government has spent billions of dollars on global warming, global cooling and climate change research. One criticism has long been levied about the placement of devices measuring temperatures and the omission of large tracts of land in other countries from data-tracking.

CBS News said a group of more than 100 members of Congress, their spouses and others traveled to Copenhagen in December for a Climate Summit. That’s without President Barack Obama’s entourage. The bill easily surpassed $1 million and no deal was reached.

Steve Mosher and Tom Fuller, authors of ‘Climategate: The Crutape Letters’, said Climategate is “as seamy as what happened on Wall Street.”

Inhofe has posted the Climategate report on his Senate website. That report noted, “[T]hey [the emails] put the lie to the notion that the science is ‘settled,’ and that key facets of the climate science debate are no longer in dispute.”

The Daily Caller said Inhofe “will ask the Justice Department to investigate Pennsylvania State University climatologist and White House adviser Michael E. Mann for his involvement in Climategate.”

Media sympathetic to alarmist policy, mostly wire services and old branded media, have largely ignored questions about IPCC claims. IPCC does no actual research on its own and has sometimes relied on non-peer-reviewed materials and radical environmental group claims for information.

The Cap and Trade bill, HR 2454, passed by the House with Democrat support and support from a few Republicans would, as President Barack Obama promised during his campaign, cause most Americans' electricity bill to "skyrocket."   [by Kay B. Day; major source Sen. Inhofe’s statement Feb. 23, 2010]