Obama’s War On Science: Global Warming Skeptic Who Was Suppressed By EPA Speaks Out On Fox News
A week ago I posted about revelations made in internal EPA emails about suppressing a study critical of the EPA’s decision to designate carbon as a “dangerous pollutant” (yes, the very substance you exhale is a pollutant). This morning the author of the suppressed studies spoke out on Fox News:
Mark Tapscott has more:
Alan Carlin, the senior EPA research analyst who authored a study critical of global warming that was suppressed by agency officials, has broken his silence and spoken on Fox News about his situation. Carlin told “Fox & Friends” Steve Ducy and Gretchen Carlson that his most important conclusion in the study was that the U.S. should not rely upon recommendations of the UN in making policy decisions regarding global warming.
“The most important conclusion, in my view, was that EPA needed to look at the science behind global warming and not depend upon reports issued by the United Nations, which is what they were thinking of doing and in fact have done,” Carlin said.
Asked what happened to his study once it was completed, Carlin said “my supervisors decided not to forward it to the group within EPA who had the responsibility for preparing an overall report which would guide EPA on whether to find that the emission of global warming gases would be something that EPA should regulate.”
What Carlin is arguing is that the EPA should be setting policy not based on politics but on scientific data. Internationally, the “climate change” movement is very heavily driven by politics. The politicians love global warming alarism issues because it gives them excuse to broaden their powers over the economy and institute new taxes and fees which give them more revenue to play with. And a lot of big businesses love global warming alarmism too because it opens the doors to entire new universes of rent seeking. Subsidies. Carbon credits. Mandates. You name it.
In short, global warming alarmism has become big business in political circles. Far too big to be undone by anything as unimportant as scientific fact.
