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CEI Releases Global Warming Study Censored by EPA

source: http://cei.org/news-release/2009/06/25/cei-releases-global-warming-study-censored-epa

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Washington, D.C., June 26, 2009—The Competitive Enterprise Institute is today making public an internal study on climate science which was suppressed by the Environmental Protection Agency. Internal EPA email messages, released by CEI earlier in the week, indicate that the report was kept under wraps and its author silenced because of pressure to support the Administration’s agenda of regulating carbon dioxide.
The report finds that EPA, by adopting the United Nations’ 2007 “Fourth Assessment” report, is relying on outdated research and is ignoring major new developments. Those developments include a continued decline in global temperatures, a new consensus that future hurricanes will not be more frequent or intense, and new findings that water vapor will moderate, rather than exacerbate, temperature.

New data also indicate that ocean cycles are probably the most important single factor in explaining temperature fluctuations, though solar cycles may play a role as well, and that reliable satellite data undercut the likelihood of endangerment from greenhouse gases. All of this demonstrates EPA should independently analyze the science, rather than just adopt the conclusions of outside organizations.

The released report is a draft version, prepared under EPA’s unusually short internal review schedule, and thus may contain inaccuracies which were corrected in the final report.

“While we hoped that EPA would release the final report, we’re tired of waiting for this agency to become transparent, even though its Administrator has been talking transparency since she took office. So we are releasing a draft version of the report ourselves, today,” said CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman.
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14 comments // CEI Releases Global Warming Study Censored by EPA

  • stephenthomson
  • stephenthomson
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      stephenthomson  

    • Listen,

      for anyone who is tired of hearing two sides of the story and not knowing where to come down on it:

      think with simple common sense - When you dig up coal and oil from the ground, which is basically concentrated sunlight over geological eons, and you burn it, spewing the carbon byproduct into the air in a single day... what do you expect? Earth is going to react. One way or the other, it means drastic change to a delicately time-woven ecology.

      The sooner we get off the stuff, the less likely we are to perish.

    • 2 years ago
  • keviar
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      keviar  

    • Without a doubt our oceans are in disarray. Overfishing, oil spills and oxygen depleted oceans are just some of the problems that humanity will have to deal with. Otherwise, the functions of the ocean will unravel perpetuating freaky weather conditions on the land and discontinuing the life cycle which relies on the ocean so much. We have to protect the oceans in order for the climate initiative to be effective!

    • 2 years ago
  • oomlaut
  • Ian_Monet
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  

    • Another LIbertarian/Right Wing think tank that is tied to OIL and TOBACCO, and associated with the SCAIFE FOUNDATION. Need we say more? That is the truth that should be known. More partisan political BS from a group of people who use the word 'freedom' as a cloak to cover their true hatred of real science and social justice. And this is more paper I can use to wipe my a** with. Global warming is real, it is happening to real people NOW, and if we continue to spend anymore time on this politically partisan Al Gore /science hating BS instead of dealing with it, then we will reach a tipping point REGARDLESS of who or what is causing it. Then YOU can explain to your children why you held your politics up as a banner in lieu of that truth and facts.

      This is Exxon's Cash Pipeline to CEI

      Exxonsecrets.org lists Exxon's funding of CEI, based on data released by the company itself, as totalling $2,005,000 since 1998. [9] The specific year-by-year fugures are:

      1998: $85,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving

      2000: $230,000 ExxonMobil Foundation

      2001: $280,000 ExxonMobil Foundation

      2002: $205,000 ExxonMobil Foundation: This was identified as being for "50K congressional briefing program, 140K general operating support, 60K legal activities";

      2002: $200,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving' This was identified as "140K general operating support, 60K for legal activities;"

      2003: $25,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving for "Annual Dinner"

      2003: $440,000 ExxonMobil Foundation for "General Operating Support";

      2004: $90,000 ExxonMobil Foundation for "General Operating Support"

      2004: $90,000 ExxonMobil Foundation for "Global Climate Change"

      2004: $90000 ExxonMobil Foundation for "Global Climate Change Outreach"

      2005: $90,000 ExxonMobil Foundation for "General Operating Support"

      2005: $180,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving for "General Operating Support"

    • 2 years ago
  • jh64487
  • larrysnotes
  • larrysnotes
  • WakeUpPeople
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      WakeUpPeople  

    • The director of global warming from this CEI group has personally received $612,000 from ExxonMobile, and his organization Frontiers for Freedom has received $857,000. He's a sellout, not an expert.

    • 2 years ago
  • boywhocould
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      boywhocould  

    • assuming the majority here are US citizens. . . regardless, This country is hemorrhaging economically and a large portion (mind you not the biggest) is from our energy needs, we need better policy wither we are responsible or not.

    • 2 years ago
  • ras_menelik
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      ras_menelik  
    • boywhocould:

      the best way is all of the above and more done right!

      Having politician try to legislate science is a sad thing to witness and will predictably fail for that reason..........after a gazillion in tax payer IOUs are vaporized.

    • 2 years ago
  • jh64487
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      jh64487  
    • boywhocould:

      ...i may not be up to date on this one...but isn't that (reducing taxes for said companies) exactly what obama is doing?

      regardless of global warming, and i still don't buy it because one right wing think tank said it, the amount of pollution we generate from current energy practices is both harmful to us and the planet.

      go to brazil, go to china, (believe me, i see it from china here in korea), freakin go to the app mountains and the hollers there. things need to change, gov's the one to do it because the companies won't regulate themselves.

    • 2 years ago
  • Ihatethemall
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