Good day all. This story came out last week, but I’ve been busy. It seems we have yet another government agency that is telling Congress to shove off. This time it’s the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that is refusing to answer congressional inquiries.
The request was for some documents on a study NOAA conducted on co called “Climate Change.” The study is controversial and the Republicans who were questioning it wanted to see the actual data. Asking to see the report and all the information with it is within the oversight purview of Congress. Pity that NOAA thinks it’s above all that. Here are the details from The Hill:
The federal government’s chief climate research agency is refusing to give House Republicans the detailed information they want on a controversial study on climate change. Citing confidentiality concerns and the integrity of the scientific process, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said it won’t give Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) the research documents he subpoenaed.
So what’s so interesting about this study that Senator Smith wanted to see it?
At the center of the controversy is a study that concluded there has not been a 15-year “pause” in global warming. Some NOAA scientists contributed to the report.
I recall that report. There has been a real bruhaha over that study since it goes against many other studies that do show that temperatures have remained stable. Some have wondered if the Obama Regime and it’s followers may have doctored the report to fit their agenda.
Smith, the chairman of the House Science Committee, vehemently disagreed with the study’s findings. He issued a subpoena for communications among the scientists and some data, leading to charges from Democrats that he was trying to intimidate the researchers.
The Democrats accusing the Republicans of intimidating scientists?
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May I bring the remarks of DEMOCRAT Senator Sheldon Whitehouse? He wants to throw anyone who disagrees with Global Warming into prison. And then we have a group of Moonbats in various universities that want to use the RICO laws to go after anyone who disagrees with their religious belief in Global Warming. Now we have a Republican senator who is asking for all the paperwork and data so he can review it and see how NOAA came to it’s conclusions. Sounds to me like someone has something to hide. Why else would all the Democrats start circling the wagons?
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (Texas), the committee’s ranking Democrat, has sharply criticized Smith’s requests. “By issuing this subpoena, you have instigated a constitutional conflict with an inquiry that seems more designed to harass climate scientists than to further any legitimate legislative purpose,” she wrote last week. “This is a serious misuse of congressional oversight powers.”
Considering the abuse by DEMOCRATS when they had control of the house and senate, and how they’ve historically used their offices to go after anyone who wasn’t toeing the party line, simply requesting information and then issuing a subpoena when the agency refuses is perfectly legitimate.
Smith also said NOAA’s assertion of confidentiality is incorrect. “The agency has yet to identify any legal basis for withholding these documents,” he said, adding that his panel would use “all tools at its disposal” to continue investigating.
That’s because they have no legal basis, but then we also have an administration that considers things like Congress, the Constitution and the Rule of Law a petty annoyance in their drive to “Fundamentally Transform America.
Global Warming collapsed under many feet of snow. When Global Warming protests kept getting snowed under, the moonbats decided they had to come up with another way to scam money from the ignorant. They came up with “Climate Change!” The only problem with all this “Global Warming” and Climate Change” baloney is the problem with their computer models.
They don’t work.
When they feed in historical weather data, which they know is correct, the computer models always come back with the wrong results. Yet, these are the same models they are using to restrict the freedom of Americans. The problem with the Global Warmists is that people have caught on to their fraud and aren’t rolling over like good little serfs and peons.
To top it off, the Republicans have a few members who actually consider it their job to determine how taxpayer funds are being spent. When you have an agency that issues a study that goes against a number of other studies, then asking to see all the information in how the study was done is a requirement. Perhaps it’s time to start zeroing out a few budgets and see how these bureaucratic moonbats enjoy “Funemployment.”
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