The name of Alan Carlin, a senior analyst with the EPA Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation, should go down in the history books along with America’s other brave and honorable patriots. He is the EPA official who authored a report that reveals the EPA is releasing what could be deemed political reports on the subject of global warming, not scientific ones.

His report was officially quashed, but Carlin released it anyway. His courage to reveal important information to the public, at the risk of his career and the expected forthcoming hatchet job by the Obama administration on his character, may be the greatest single act in history for protecting our Republic from legislation that would seriously undermine it.  
 
What does the suppressed report say? It points out that the EPA has been relying on the science of others — primarily the IPCC and other “outside groups” — for the EPA’s information on global warming. This is contradictory to EPA policy, which requires an independent investigation of scientific claims. “If they (the outside groups) should be found to be incorrect at a later date, however, and EPA is found not to have made a really careful review of them before reaching its decisions on endangerment, it appears likely that it is EPA rather than these other groups that may be blamed for this error.”
 
What will no doubt become a poster for those who have been skeptical of the connection between CO₂ and rising planetary temperatures is Figure 1-2 in the report that shows three models of UN temperature predictions zooming skyward, while the actual temperature as measured by surface thermometers and satellites is dropping. This at a time when CO₂ is continuing to increase. Some of the indications made in the report that the “science is out of date” as regards conventional global-warming truisms are

• By far the best single explanation for global temperature fluctuations is variations in the PDO/ENSO. (The Pacific Decadal Oscillations and the El Nino Southern Oscillation.)
•   There appears to be a strong association between solar sunspots/irradiance and global temperature fluctuation.
•   Changes in GHG (greenhouse gas) concentrations appear to have so little effect that it is difficult to find any effect in the satellite temperature record, which started in 1978.

The conclusions of the report make sense to most Americans, but will cause gritting and gnashing of teeth at the UN, in countries that are preparing to sell us “carbon credits” and take over our manufacturing, and in the Obama administration, which plans a takeover of U.S. energy resources. One conclusion of the report that would likely get a round of applause from Americans who like logic — especially those who don’t want to see their jobs go overseas as a result of high energy prices — is the following: “Given the downward trend in temperatures since 1998 (which some think will continue until at least 2030) there is no particular reason to rush into decision based on a scientific hypothesis that does not appear to explain most of the available data.”  (Parenthetical expression in the original.)
 
What would have been the effect on the vote in the House on climate legislation last Friday if this report had not been suppressed? A switch of only four votes would have defeated the bill. Which brings up another question. Who ordered it to be suppressed? A YouTube video quotes an e-mail from Al McGartland, an EPA official, as follows: “The time for such discussion of fundamental issues has passed for this round. The administrator and the administration has decided to move forward on endangerment, and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision. I can only see one impact of your comments given where we are in the process, and that would be a very negative impact on our office.”
 
On the video Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.) has announced an investigation to look into suppression of the memo by EPA officials and reminded us that he has said for over 10 years that Anthropogenic (human caused) Global Warming is the “probably the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.”
 
Carlin also stated: “My view is … there is not currently any reason to regulate carbon dioxide. Global temperatures are roughly where they were in the mid-20th century. They’re not going up. If anything they are going down.” Without a serious contradiction in this statement by Dr. Carlin, this revelation should end all talk of carbon footprints, CO2 emissions, cap and trade, and the entire global-warming lexicon. Thank you for the truth, Dr. Carlin.
 
 
 

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Rmoen said:

Public opinion against cap and trade I'm a Democrat who thinks the House overplayed its hand. I read editorials, comments and letters-to-the-editor from all over the nation. Support for cap and trade appears to be evaporating. Whereas a week ago it was maybe 2-to-1 against cap and trade, it now seems to be 10-to-1 against. The Senate will be wise to heed the overwhelming lack of public support and stop this disastrous legislation from passing into law. If instead the United States had a national mandate to replace coal generation plants with natural gas and nuclear energy, plus if we replaced our commuter cars with battery-powered electric cars, we would drastically reduce our dependence on foreign oil and reduce CO2 emissions faster and beyond the proposed cap and trade targets. -- Robert Moen, www.energyplanUSA.com

July 06, 2009 | url

B Cash said:

... cap and trade is a money grab from top to bottom, there has always been a hole in the atmosphere, caused by the extreme cold,thats just science, we need diesel engine's in all vehicles that run on vegetable oil, all the power of standard diesel is there,on vegetable oil! no foreign oil needed! It puts the farmers back to work and creates new industry and jobs at all different levels.Oil companies hate it because it cuts their profits as they see it. the emissions from diesel on vegetable oil is tiny.The only crisis is the one being created by money hungry liberals and the current administration.

July 06, 2009

oku said:

... “The time for such discussion of fundamental issues has passed for this round.": that is actually an appropriate response. Just like the response by NASA to a document stating that the earth is flat. Or by USGS to claims that plate tectonics were not true. The 'suppressed' document is discussed for example at realclimate.org. Easy to find when you search for 'bubkes' at realclimate.org. All the claims in the document are well known by anyone who follows the climate change discussions, and long debunked.

July 06, 2009

Derak said:

... I sent a copy of this report as a link included in the JBS summary to one of my chemistry professors who then proceeded to read it, print it, and distribute copies to some of his friends and coworkers. He thinks the report is one of the best summaries he has seen as to why Global Warming does not stand up to scientific investigation.

July 07, 2009

Rob said:

... The mainstream media has attempted to hide the truth about the great global warming hoax from the public but slowly everyone seems to be learning that global warming is just a way to increase taxes so now they’re going to extremes to push it through before its too late…pathetic. By the way today I just watched a very informative and very well made video giving people the crashcourse on this topic, I think its little things like these that can greatly wake up the ordinary person from their slumber…enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_heRPK9TU4

July 07, 2009

Allen Baxter said:

... Another compelling reason we must FIRE this congress and get some ethical legislators who really care about this country.

July 07, 2009 | url

metnav said:

... This career EPA employee is derided by the AGW crowd for not being a scientist. I belive in addition to being an economist Mr Carlin also has a Physics degree. Hell Al Gore is no climatologist or scientist and he's allowed to testify before Congress on this issue. Madness!

July 09, 2009

Flu-Bird said:

Abolish the EPA Its time for the EPA to be abolished completly abolished its become another goverment buracracy

July 14, 2009

tom walls said:

Carlin's report isn't science I am very surprised people think the Alan Carlin report was "suppressed". I favor holding career government employees to standards. In several other web sites, people have documented that Alan Carlin's "report" was lifted, in many cases without attribution, from other blogs. He does not rely on the peer reviewed, scientific literature -- something that the Bush OMB (more specifically, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs under John Graham) codified in guidance to all agencies and still remains in effect today (See OMB circular A-4 and their guidance on peer review.) Indeed the Sensenbrenner Science Committee also issued a report in 1992 that argued that regulatory agencies need to rely on peer review science. So, when an economist writes (or should I say lifts) a report from non peer reviewed sources the EPA manager should just let it go forward? Government agencies shouldn't have any scientific standards? Any career government employee should be permitted to write whatever they want and force other agency scientists to spend time (and our tax dollars) responding? You do not think career employees should be held to standards? I am quite certain that any agency analyst can always find something on a blog somewhere that supports their point of view. Some comments imply that federal employees should be free to lift that blog material, put their office's imprimatur on it, and then forward it to the workgroup that is responsible for the regulation (or is that just for employees who don't think climate change is a problem? That of course would take valuable work time of other federal employees to respond. Maybe you missed the recent release by the Department of Commerce's NOAA -- but the combined ocean and land temp for this past month is the second hottest on record (since 1880). Ocean temp's have never been higher. See http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/s...stats.html

August 02, 2009