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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p><a href="https://theenergymix.com/2017/02/10/u-s-scientists-counter-courtroom-attack-on-noaa-climate-science/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://theenergymix.com/2017/02/10/u-s-scientists-counter-courtroom-attack-on-noaa-climate-science/</font></a></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2/17</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">american scientists and scientific organizations are pushing back against a lawsuit demanding that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) release 8,000 pages of drafts, email discussions, and peer review critiques leading up to a 2015 study that debunked the notion of a “hiatus” in global warming between 1998 and 2012.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Now more than ever, it is critical that we defend climate scientists and their research,” said Lauren Kurtz, executive director of the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund (CSLDF), one of the organizations responding to the lawsuit by the conservative organization Judicial Watch. “Forcing the disclosure of scientists’ private emails is invasive, unnecessary, and hugely detrimental to the scientific method."</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: justify;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Judicial Watch suit “</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">was inspired by a Congressional subpoena from Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, who denies the science of global warming and the need to take action,” InsideClimate News reports. The accusations against NOAA had already been refuted, but were amped up last weekend by the Daily Mail, a UK tabloid that has since been </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/08/wikipedia-bans-daily-mail-as-unreliable-source-for-website" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); backface-visibility: hidden; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none !important; outline: 0px !important;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">disavowed</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> by Wikipedia as an unreliable source.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) blog, Director of Science & Policy Peter Frumhoff says the 2015 study, published in the journal Science, was one of several that refuted claims that the rate of global warming had slowed down or paused in recent decades. The Daily Mail “screed”, he said, came from David Rose, “a writer with a history of inaccurate reporting on climate science.”</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The article was an example of a “very old strategy,” Frumhoff writes. “</span><a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/02/04/bombshell-noaa-whistleblower-says-karl-et-al-pausebuster-paper-was-hyped-broke-procedures/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); backface-visibility: hidden; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none !important; outline: 0px !important;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">Repeated</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and </span><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/05/noaa-scientists-manipulated-temperature-data-to-make-global-warming-seem-worse/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); backface-visibility: hidden; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none !important; outline: 0px !important;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">amplified</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> through the climate denial echo-chamber, Rose’s allegations of misconduct have now been taken up by Rep Lamar Smith (R-TX), Chairman of the House Science Space and Technology Committee. Smith, who has long used his perch to harass NOAA scientists, issued a press release reiterating these unsubstantiated claims and accusing [retired NOAA climate scientist Thomas] Karl and colleagues of manipulating data for political purposes.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">”</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>The amicus brief from the CSLDF, the UCS, and the American Meteorological Society </b>argues that </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“groups across the political spectrum have attempted to discredit scientific studies they dislike…by seeking to use the scientists’ emails and preliminary drafts against them.”</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Frumhoff warns that, “along </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">with other recent high profile attacks on prominent climate scientists and science agencies, this may well be part of a larger political strategy to intimidate federal scientists, justify cuts in agency budgets, staffing and missions, weaken support for U.S. and international climate policies and, most fundamentally, erode public trust in science and evidence so central to a functioning democracy.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">”</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">InsideClimate reports that it’s unclear whether the Trump administration would defend its own researchers against the lawsuit. But Michael </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Halpern, deputy director of the UCS’ Center for Science and Democracy, said the new regime “might not want to set a precedent that all government information should be public</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">.”</span></font></p><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By MICHAEL HILTZIK   BUSINESS COLUMNIST </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DEC. 4, 2015</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While 150 world leaders continue their efforts outside Paris to hammer out an agreement to address climate change, the concerted attack on scientists by conservatives in Congress has continued apace. We’ve reported on this campaign in the past, but recent developments warrant an update.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ground zero for the attack on climate change scientists is the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. It’s headed by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), one of the most assiduous climate change deniers on Capitol Hill. For several months, Smith has been throwing a conniption fit over a report published by several government climate experts in the June 26 issue of the widely respected journal Science.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There is no discernable...decrease in the rate of warming between the second half of the 20th century and the first 15 years of the 21st century.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>KARL, ET. AL., DEMOLISH THE MYTH OF THE GLOBAL WARMING SLOWDOWN</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The article prompted Smith to demand emails and other correspondence from the scientists involved in the study, purportedly to ferret out evidence that they manipulated their data to help the Obama Administration make the case for climate change policy.</span> This prompted a coalition of seven leading organizations including the American Assn. for the Advancement of Science, the publisher of Science, to push back strongly. In a letter dated Nov. 24, they upbraided Smith for implying scientific misconduct “despite a lack of public evidence” and all but labeled Smith an irresponsible ideologue:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Scientists should not be subjected to fraud investigations or harassment simply for providing scientific results that some may see as politically controversial,” they wrote. “Science cannot thrive when policymakers--regardless of party affiliation--use policy disasgreements as a pretext to attack scientific conclusions.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>(Their reference to party affiliation was a swipe at Rep Raul Grijalva (D-Az.), who earlier this year demanded records from universities about seven scientists who had challenged the scientific consensus on climate change during Congressional hearings.)</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">The authors of the Science paper, headed by Thomas R. Karl of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, conclusively demolished one of the cherished claims of the denialists: that global warming had experienced a slowdown, or <b>“hiatus,</b>” from 1998 through 2012.</span> The denialists used this idea to foment doubt about whether climate change was as consistent as scientists contend or even whether it is happening at all.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Karl and his colleagues reexamined the 1998-2012 period, applying more comprehensive data from more precise measurements. Their conclusion is that no hiatus exists. In their words:</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“There is no discernible (statistical or otherwise) decrease in the rate of warming between the second half of the 20th century and the first 15 years of the 21st century.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The latest data show that the 1998-2012 "pause" in global warming so beloved by climate change deniers didn't happen.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The latest data show that the 1998-2012 “pause” in global warming so beloved by climate change deniers didn’t happen.(NOAA)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Specifically, they found that the warming trend in 1950 to 1999 was 0.113 degrees Celsius per decade; in 2000 to 2014 it was 0.116 C per decade. They devoted special attention to data from 1998, the start of the supposed pause. That was an exceptionally warm year, even within the overall trend, thanks to a strong El Niño effect.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Even when they incorporated 1998 in their calculations, which would tend to show a lower warming trend for the period, they determined that warming had slowed down only to 0.106 C per decade — and they believe that’s conservative, because it incorporates only spotty data from the Arctic, where warming trends show up especially strongly.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The refinements of climate change data made by scientists show minimal differences from earlier measurements, but enough to debunk the notion of a slowdown in warming earlier this century.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The refinements of climate change data made by scientists show minimal differences from earlier measurements, but enough to debunk the notion of a slowdown in warming earlier this century.(NOAA)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">To Lamar Smith, there could be only one explanation for this finding: scientific fraud.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Before we address how he has relied on this conclusion to harass NOAA and its scientific staff, let’s examine what makes him such a devoted challenger of climate science. It’s money.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We’ve noted before that climate change denialism always has been rooted in economics. The idea is that we can’t afford the disruptions to our fossil-fuel-driven society required to reduce atmospheric emissions. It shouldn’t be surprising that this notion is promoted by the oil and gas industry, which would suffer most from restrictions on fossil fuel emissions and reductions in consumption that would result from greater reliance on alternative energy sources.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Guess which is Lamar Smith’s biggest contributor among major industries? Yes, oil and gas. Throughout his congressional career, which dates back to 1987, oil and gas interests have funneled more than $630,000 into his campaign coffers, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>As chairman of the House science committee, Smith has taken a hatchet to funding for earth science.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Sometimes he and his committee have concealed their real intentions behind an ostensible concern over the “intellectual merit” of government science grants. But their real goal always has been to undermine the objective evaluation of grant applications via government agency peer reviews and substitute political judgments from Capitol Hill.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>When that failed, in part due to resistance from the National Science Foundation, Smith resorted simply to cutting agencies’ earth science budgets</b>. As we reported in May, committee Republicans were so sneaky about this that they failed to clue in their Democratic colleagues to what they were planning, then described the results deceitfully.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The latest Science article appears really to have put Smith in a dither. He has accused NOAA’s scientists of manipulating their data to serve what he calls President Obama’s “extreme climate change agenda.” In a Thanksgiving Day op-ed in the conservative Washington Times, he called NOAA’s work “not good science, [but] science fiction.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Meanwhile, he has subpoenaed data and email correspondence from NOAA and its scientists, supposedly to prove that they tailored their findings to reach a predetermined conclusion. NOAA Administrator Kathryn D. Sullivan, a former astronaut, has turned away his more intrusive demands. As she observed in a Nov. 20 letter, NOAA provided the committee with its raw data and has provided committee staff with extensive briefings, including one by Karl; the offer of a second briefing by Karl was rejected by committee Republican</span>s.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But Sullivan has refused to provide internal emails, despite Smith’s threat to her and her boss, Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, of “compulsory” legal action</b>. “I have not and will not allow anyone to manipulate the science or coerce the scientists who work for me,” she told Smith.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In recent weeks, Smith has expanded his accusations of a conspiracy to manipulate the data. He has claimed that an unidentified “whistle-blower” has confirmed that NOAA “rushed” the Science article into print to meet an administration deadline.[bates daily mail rose?]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the science committee’s ranking Democrat, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas), told Smith in a Nov. 19 letter, however, the accusation is absurd. The Karl paper was submitted to Science in December 2014 and was based on data that originally had been published in 2013. Science says the review process for the paper was more intensive and took nearly two months longer than usual, in part because Science knew the results would provoke a political reaction.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There shouldn’t be any confusion about what Smith is up to. The scientific process is seldom clean or free from debate; that’s how it advances. Smith is trying to use this debate, as it unfolds in professional discussions among researchers, as evidence of deliberate manipulation. His goal isn’t to perfect the process, but sow doubt in its results -- entirely because they conflict with his own political interests.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>This week, Smith backed off from his campaign--a tiny bit. He dropped his demand for scientists’ emails, but he still wants NOAA’s internal documen</b>ts.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s perfectly clear whose skin is being protected by congressional climate change deniers: Just as the climate talks were getting underway in France this week, the House voted twice to block President Obama’s order for carbon emission limits on new and existing power plants. The argument, as always, is that we can’t afford to take such steps, when the truth is we can’t afford not to.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Lamar Smith cites fake news in fight against climate science</font></h1><div class="submitted-wrp" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px;"><span class="submitted-by" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase; margin: 0px; width: auto; display: inline-block; max-width: calc(100% - 150px); border-bottom: none !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BY BOB WARD, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — <span class="submitted-date" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; white-space: nowrap; border-bottom: none !important;"><b>09/23/17 </b></span></font></span></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Lamar Smith (R- Texas), chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology has worked to delegitimize an <a href="http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2015/06/05/science.aaa5632" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83, 193);">important study on climate change</a>, establishing there has been no recent slowdown in climbing temperatures. Smith’s pursuit inadvertently required citing other work that is far less credible. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Earlier this year, <a href="https://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/02.14.17%20SST%20Letter%20to%20Acting%20Administrator%20Friedman.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83, 193);">Smith again challenged the findings</a> of a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) report by Thomas Karl, citing a British newspaper article, alleging Karl and his colleagues had “rushed to publication, and [the report] was not free from political bias.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The article has since been ruled to be inaccurate and misleading by an official regulator. </font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Mail on Sunday was forced to publish<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4891046/IPSO-adjudication-upheld-against-MoS-climatesciencearticle.html" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83, 193);"> an “adverse adjudication”</a> on Sept. 17 admitting that a story by its reporter, David Rose, had breached the Editors’ Code of Practice of the UK </b><a href="https://www.ipso.co.uk/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83, 193);"><b>Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO</b>)</a>. The organization was established and is funded by a group of British newspapers, including The Mail on Sunday and its stablemate, the Daily Mail.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The article at fault was published in February as an expose of  <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4192182/World-leaders-duped-manipulated-global-warming-data.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83, 193);">“how world leaders were duped over global warming,”</a> focusing on Karl, alleging NOAA had “rushed to publish a landmark paper that exaggerated global warming and was timed to influence the historic Paris Agreement on climate change.” </font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The story was mainly based on a blog post and interview with John Bates, a former NOAA employee who was not involved in the study, but who was unhappy about the way in which its data had been archived.</b> </font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The academic paper on <a href="http://science.sciencemag.org/content/348/6242/1469.full" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83, 193);">‘Possible artifacts of data biases in the recent global warming hiatus,'</a> which was published in the respectable journal ‘Science’ in June 2015, presented the results of a new analysis of oceanic and land surface temperatures, and concluded that they “do not support the notion of a ‘slowdown’ in the increase in global surface temperature.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Rose alleged that Bates had “shown The Mail on Sunday irrefutable evidence that the paper was based on misleading, ‘unverified’ data”. But a seven-month investigation by IPSO, carried out in response to <a href="http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Mail-on-Sunday-follow-up-February-2016.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83, 193);">a formal complaint</a> I submitted about inaccuracies in the article, concluded that these claims were untrue. </font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The adjudication states that IPSO’s Complaints Committee “decided that the newspaper’s claims that Bates’ testimony had provided “irrefutable evidence” that the paper had been based on “misleading, ‘unverified’ data”, leading — as the headline claimed — to world leaders being “duped” over global warming, and “convinced” to invest billions in climate change, went much further than the concerns which Dr. Bates had detailed in his blog or in the interview; they did not represent criticisms of the data collection process, but rather, were assertions of fact that the data had been demonstrated conclusively to be wrong and had a significant impact on the decision making of world leaders, with an additional implication this had been part of a wilful attempt to deceive”.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition, the adjudication points out that Rose’s article had included “significantly misleading statements” about the archiving of data used for the academic paper, and that it was accompanied by a graph that had created a “significantly misleading impression” of trends in global average temperature. </font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an important caveat, the adjudication stresses that the Complaints Committee’s “central concern was whether the article had accurately reported Dr. Bates’ concerns”, and it did not assess whether Bates’s claims were true. </font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In fact, it became apparent very soon after the publication of Rose’s article that several of Bates’s allegations were false.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In particular, <a href="https://judithcurry.com/2017/02/04/climate-scientists-versus-climate-data/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83, 193);">Bates’s post on the Climate Etc blog</a> stated that “Tom Karl constantly had his ‘thumb on the scale’ — in the documentation, scientific choices, and release of datasets — in an effort to discredit the notion of a global warming hiatus and rush to time the publication of the paper to influence national and international deliberations on climate policy”.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But Bates backed away from his accusations of scientific fraud when challenged by other journalists, and he <a href="https://apnews.com/3fc5d49a349344f1967aadc4950e1a91/major-global-warming-study-again-questioned-again-defended" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83, 193);">told a reporter at Associated Press</a> that there had been “no data tampering, no data changing, nothing malicious” by Karl and his co-authors.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Most reputable media were skeptical of Rose’s false claims when they were published in February. However, a few outlets, such as The Times in the U.K. and <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/science/2017/02/07/federal-scientist-cooked-climate-change-books-ahead-obama-presentation-whistle-blower-charges.html" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83, 193);">Fox News</a>, were fooled and erroneously reported the story without checking its veracity.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition, Science Committee Chairman Smith, was taken in by Rose’s article and cited it in a <a href="https://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/02.14.17%20SST%20Letter%20to%20Acting%20Administrator%20Friedman.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83, 193);">letter he wrote in</a><a href="https://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/02.14.17%20SST%20Letter%20to%20Acting%20Administrator%20Friedman.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83, 193);"> February</a> to the Acting Administrator of NOAA, Mr Benjamin Friedman.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is perhaps surprising that he and others were not more suspicious about Rose’s article given his <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/bob-ward/hypocrites-of-northcliffe-house_b_4440043.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83, 193);">track record of inaccurate and misleading reporting</a> about climate change and his <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/may/30/Iraqandthemedia.iraq" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83, 193);">previous admission</a> that he was an unwitting conduit for false information about weapons of mass destruction in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However, Smith seems to be carrying out <a href="https://democrats-science.house.gov/sites/democrats.science.house.gov/files/FINAL%20-%20Much%20Ado%20About%20Nothing%20-%20Minority%20Staff%20Report.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83, 193);">a campaign against Karl and his co-authors</a> since publication. The IPSO ruling should catch Smith’s attention. Smith should set the record straight by acknowledging that he cited a fake news article in his letter to Friedman.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bob Ward is policy and communications director at the <a href="http://www.lse.ac.uk/grantham" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83, 193);">Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> at the London School of Economics and Political Science.</span></font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></span><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">following allegations of impropriety over the handling of a controversial climate change report, a government watchdog group now wants to know whether there was any collaboration between the report’s lead author and a key Obama adviser.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> On March 27, <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Judicial Watch </em>filed a lawsuit seeking “all records of communications between a pair of federal scientists who heavily influenced the Obama administration’s climate change policy and its backing of the Paris Agreement.”</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.8125rem; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The FOIA specifically requests correspondence between Tom Karl, the former head of the climate-data program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and John Holdren, the director of Obama’s Office of Science and Technology Policy</b>.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Holdren is from that species of Baby Boomer global catastrophists who make changing predictions each decade about how we will all die</span>. He also happens to be the science guy who had the president’s ear for eight years.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.8125rem; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Holdren’s buddy, Tom Karl, authored a report in 2015 attempting to disprove the hiatus in global warming that had been widely acknowledged by many scientific groups, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change</b>. The warming pause threatened to undermine the justification for a costly climate-change pact that was being negotiated at the time: How could world leaders commit trillions in tax dollars to stop global warming if it wasn’t actually happening?</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.8125rem; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Karl’s report came to the rescue just months before the Paris Climate Conference. </b>In announcing his findings, Karl said the “new analysis suggests that the apparent hiatus may have been largely the result of limitations in past datasets, and that the rate of warming over the first 15 years of this century has, in fact, been as fast or faster than that seen over the last half of the 20th century.” <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">How convenient</em>. His analysis was eagerly accepted by the international science community, but others were leery about its timing; <b>the House Science Committee has been leading an inquiry into the report for nearly two years.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.8125rem; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But a retired top official at NOAA has now confirmed suspicions about the veracity of Karl’s research and about whether politics — not science — were at play. In February, John Bates, the former head of NOAA’s climate-data archive, wrote a lengthy exposé detailing misconduct at NOAA related to the report.</span> The allegations included using inappropriately “corrected” datasets, violating agency protocol on data review, and failing to archive the data. In the most damning allegation, Bates said: “In every aspect of the preparation and release of the datasets . . . we find Tom Karl’s thumb on the scale pushing for, and often insisting on, decisions that maximize warming and minimize documentation.” (<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">You can read more about Bates’s allegations <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/444668/whistle-blower-scientist-exposes-shoddy-climate-science-noaa" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">here</a> and a subsequent smear campaign by the scientific establishment <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/444942/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">here.</a>)</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.8125rem; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It was more of a political document than a scientific document,” <b>Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch,</b> told me. “People need to know how the [climate] alarmists have taken over agencies like NOAA and NASA. This is about trying to get the truth out.” Judicial Watch also filed a separate lawsuit against NOAA in 2015 attempting to get the datasets used in Karl’s paper.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.8125rem; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">There’s plenty of reason to suspect collaboration between Karl and Holdren. Both are professionally invested in anthropogenic global warming and have advanced their careers promoting a catastrophic view of humanity’s fate due to our carbon-fueled rape of Mother Nature. In 2010, Holdren appointed Karl to serve as chairman of the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, which oversees how 13 federal agencies “advance climate science and improve the understanding of how global change is impacting society, both today and into the future.”</span> In a review for <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Karl’s 2009 book, <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States</em>, Holdren says he hopes the book will “make people think about specific legislative proposals, and the need to move ahead, after many years of dithering and delay.” (In his book, Karl states: “Observations show the warming of the planet is unequivocal. . . . Warming over this century is projected to be considerably greater than the last century.</span>”)</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.8125rem; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Both Karl and Holdren understood the stakes of the Paris climate conference, a last-ditch effort to<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> force</span> world leaders to <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">impose drastic</span> measures that would <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">allegedly</span> ease climate change</b>. In an interview with <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">National Geographic </em>while attending the event, Holdren said the climate pact was needed because “it is urgent that the nations of the world act now, both to reduce their emissions and to increase their preparedness and resilience against ongoing climate change.”<b> He believes that the world should be completely decarbonized by the end of the century, a wholly ridiculous, untenable, and pointless idea</b>. But then again, this is the same guy who thought we would all be dead by the start of the 21st century because of one <b>ecocatastrophe</b> or another. When we managed to survive, he said carbon-induced famine would kill 1 billion people by 2020. (I guess it would no fun to calculate how many billions of people are <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">fed</em> every day thanks to carbon.)</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.8125rem; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It might take months or even years, according to Fitton, to find out whether Karl and Holdren colluded to push a dubious but favorable climate report before the Paris confab: “It depends on how fast the administration can turn it around. The default position of the bureaucracy is always secrecy.” Regardless, Fitton said, the climate-change movement is suffering from serious problems. <b>“They’ve lost their credibility. The public is starting to see this as a scam</b>. That’s why the language of the climate alarmists has been intensified.” [CLIMATEGATE?]I’ll bet career suicide was never in the mix of catastrophic ends for the climate movement.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.8125rem; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="section-gray" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">— Julie Kelly is a writer in Orland Park, Ill.</font></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.8125rem; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">READ MORE:</font></span></p><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: outside; list-style-image: none;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.8125rem; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/444668/whistle-blower-scientist-exposes-shoddy-climate-science-noaa" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Top Climate Scientist Blows the Whistle on Shoddy Climate Science</font></a></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.8125rem; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/446295/michael-mann-house-testimony-climate-change-embarrassing-rude" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Michael Mann Embarrasses Himself before Congress</font></a></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.8125rem; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445338/tucker-carlson-bill-nye-debate-climate-change" target="blank" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-color: inherit; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">Bill Nye’s Embarrassing Face-Off with Tucker Carlson on Climate</a><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> change</span></font></p></li></ul></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>New Allegations Against NOAA Scientists — And Why They’re Incorrect</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>February 10, 2017</b> By Lauren Kurtz</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Judicial Watch, a conservative group, has used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to sue for the privileged email correspondence of nine climate scientists employed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). On January 27, 2017, the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund (CSLDF) filed a brief in the District of Columbia federal District Court urging the court to protect the communications between these scientists.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Why Do These Emails Matter?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2013, a <b>leaked draft </b>of an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report stated that the rate of global warming had slowed between 1998 and 2012. Though the final report stated that “trends based on short records are very sensitive to the beginning and end dates and do not in general reflect long-term climate trends,” climate contrarians latched onto the idea of a<b> “pause” in warming to bolster their position: If global warming has stopped, there is no need to curb fossil fuel use or take any other action to combat climate change.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">The hiatus was rebutted in 2015 when Thomas Karl and his colleagues at NOAA published a paper in Science based on updated, more accurate data that demonstrated that there was no pause in global warming. In fact, warming from 2000 to 2015 was at least as great if not greater than that of the last half of the 20th century.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Other researchers have corroborated Karl et al.’s conclusions. Most recently, a 2017 Science Advances study by Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist at Berkeley Earth, validated Karl et al.’s findings using independent data from satellites, buoys and free-floating Argo floats, and reached the same conclusions about the rate of global warming.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Global land/ocean temperature records from NOAA, NASA, Berkeley Earth, Hadley/UAE, and Cowtan and Way show no detectable sign of a “pause” in warming through to the present. Note that the old (pre-Karl et al.) NOAA temperature record is only available through the end of 2014.]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Soon after Karl et al. published their study, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), Chair of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology — who disputes the scientific consensus on climate change — subpoenaed the scientists’ documents and communications. He alleged that NOAA had readjusted historical temperature readings to suit the Obama administration’s political agenda, that the scientists had engaged in “suspicious” behavior, and that this had “broad national implications.</span>”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>NOAA supplied some documents to Smith, but refused to turn over the scientists’ confidential email correspondence.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In late 2015, Judicial Watch sued for the scientists’ emails under the Freedom of Information Act, a law designed to ensure transparency in government. Judicial Watch states it “is investigating how NOAA collects and disseminates climate data that is used in determining global climate change.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The controversy over the Karl et al. study flared up again in early February 2017 when the Daily Mail published an article by David Rose — who has often inaccurately written about climate science — based on a blog post by retired NOAA scientist John Bates, who maintained that the study authors failed to disclose critical information about their data. Rose claimed that the authors exaggerated the rate of global warming and that the study was rushed into publication to sway the Paris Climate Accords. (Incidentally, Bates was administratively admonished and relieved of a supervisory position at NOAA at a time when Karl was in a leadership role; Bates denies that his complaints were driven by any animus.)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>At a February 7 House Science committee hearing, “Making the Environmental Protection Agency Great Again,” Smith again attacked NOAA</b>,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> accusing it of “falsifying data to justify a partisan agenda.” Conservative media outlets have seized on the Daily Mail story, using it as ammunition in their fight against climate science.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bates, however, has since said in an interview with E&E News, “The issue here is not an issue of tampering with data, but rather really of timing of a release of a paper that had not properly disclosed everything it was.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Irish Climate and Research Unit’s Peter Thorne, who worked on the underlying material for the Karl study but left NOAA before it was published, defended the study. “At no point was any pressure brought to bear to make any scientific or technical choices. It was insisted that best practices be followed throughout.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>CSLDF’s Involvement in the Case</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CSLDF filed the brief in support of the NOAA scientists because we’re committed to safeguarding the confidentiality of communications between researchers. FOIA requests for scientists’ emails may ostensibly be made in order to verify research, but they can result in hindering research or intimidating scientists into downplaying risks or not publicly discussing their research.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>These FOIA requests usually seek preliminary drafts, private critiques from other researchers, and the personal documents and email correspondence of scientists rather than the data, methodologies, or research results of scientific studies, which might help clarify or evaluate the science itself.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">FOIA contains nine exemptions designed to protect certain categories of government records from indiscriminate release. Under Exemption 5, there is a deliberative process privilege for federal employees, including federal scientists, which allows them to withhold deliberative communications within or between federal agencies.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The purpose of this privilege is to encourage frank discussions between colleagues, protect against premature disclosure of proposed actions before they are finalized, and prevent public confusion that might result from the disclosure of proposals that were discarded and had no relation to the final decision.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What Happens Next?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Judicial Watch is scheduled to file its first legal brief to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by February 20. Additional briefs from the plaintiff and defendant are due in March and April; <b>the NOAA scientists’ emails are being defended by the Department of Justice and the Department of Commerce (NOAA’s parent agency).</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CSLDF is committed to protecting the scientific endeavor, especially defending scientists from legal attacks; we will continue to participate in and monitor this lawsuit.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">— Renee Cho is a blogger for the Earth Institute at Columbia University.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 4px 50px 0px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.climatedepot.com/<b>2017</b>/02/12/christopher-booker-will-trump-gop-bring-an-end-to-the-costliest-scare-story-ever-known/</font></div><div style="padding: 4px 50px 0px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">morano</font></div><div style="padding: 4px 50px 0px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">entine bs</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 4px 50px 0px; position: relative;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Booker weighs in on the <b>latest NOAA scandal:  THOMAS KARL PAUSE HIATUS BS</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Two years ago last week, I wrote a column given the provocative heading “</span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/globalwarming/11395516/The-fiddling-with-temperature-data-is-the-biggest-science-scandal-ever.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The fiddling of temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever</span></a><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">”. It was the second of two articles which attracted a record 42,000 comments from all over the world, reporting on the discovery by expert bloggers in half a dozen countries – led in Britain by Paul Homewood on his site “Not a lot of people know that” – that something very odd appeared to have been done to the official land surface temperature records on which, more than anything else, the entire alarm over man-made global warming has rested.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>These derive from the record known as the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN), run by the US government’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">. By comparing archived data with that now being published, the bloggers claimed to have discovered that temperature records all over the world had, seemingly, been systematically “adjusted” to show older temperatures lower than those originally measured and more recent temperatures higher than those recorded: thus conveying the notion that the world is warming significantly more than the actual data justified.</span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>This <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">scandal has now  surfaced again with accusations made by Dr John Bates, a recently retired senior scientist at the NOAA</span></b><span style="font-weight: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, against his former boss , Tom Karl. Bates alleges that an NOAA paper written before the historic climate conference in Paris in 2015 breached its own rules and was based on misleading and unverified data. That, to many, looks like the paper was designed to stoke up hysteria over global warming in the run-up to the conference.</span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The warmist lobby had no greater concern at that time than the so-called “pause”: the evidence that, for nearly 20 years, the trend in global temperatures had been failing to rise as all the official computer models had predicted it should.</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Karl’s paper won worldwide publicity by purporting to show that there had, in fact, been no “pause”, and that both land and sea temperatures had continued to rise more than was previously accepted.</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What Dr Bates now claims is that, in defiance of rules he himself drew up and over his (Bates’s) private objections, Karl’s paper had again been based on “adjustments” that the scientific evidence didn’t justify.</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The paper, widely quoted by President Barack Obama and others, played a key part in persuading the Paris conference to </span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/paris-climate-change-conference/12047233/Paris-climate-change-agreement-at-a-glance.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">sign a “historic” (but non-binding) agreement</span></a><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> to take all sorts of hugely costly measures to prevent global temperatures rising by “more than two degrees”.</span></font></p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 4px 50px 0px; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><a href="https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/agencies-control-scientists-contacts-media"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/agencies-control-scientists-contacts-media</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 174, 235); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">a series of case studies</a><span style="font-style: inherit;"> produced by the Union of Concerned Scientists' Scientific Integrity Program between 2004 and 2010 to document the abuses highlighted in our 2004 report,<i> </i></span></span><a href="https://www.ucsusa.org/node/4127" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 174, 235); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Scientific Integrity in Policy Making</a><span style="font-style: inherit;">.</span></font></p><hr style="font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 1px dotted var(--border-color); border-left: 0px; border-image: initial; margin: 1rem auto 1.6rem; padding: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; height: 0px; width: 480px;" /><p style="font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Media policies at federal agencies have been changed in recent years to increase control over communications about climate science. Scientists studying climate change have been subjected to special interference when attempting to communicate their research with the press. Scientists experiencing the greatest interference are those working on "controversial" topics such as the extent of human influence on the climate or the impact of a warmer climate on ecological and agricultural systems.</font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2004, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued a new media policy that implemented top-down control over press contacts.  NOAA public affairs officers reminded scientists and managers of the new policy in emails such as the following:</font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From NOAA public affairs officer Erica Rule:</font></p><blockquote dir="ltr" style="font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; border: 1px solid var(--border-color); font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; letter-spacing: -0.002em;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"A study on hurricanes and global warming by Emanuel Kerry [sic] will be released in <em style="border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">Nature</em> this Sunday. As this topic might generate media inquiries—consider this e-mail a reminder that ALL media requests are to be directed to NOAA Public Affairs..."<span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">1</span></font></p></blockquote><p style="font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From NOAA public affairs officer Jim Teet:</font></p><blockquote dir="ltr" style="font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; border: 1px solid var(--border-color); font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 1rem; box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; letter-spacing: -0.002em;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I have been informed that any request for an interview with a national media outlet/reporter must now receive prior approval by DOC [Department of Commerce, NOAA's parent agency]. Please ensure everyone on your staff is aware of this requirement..."<span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">2</span></font></p></blockquote><p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b>Although these emails seem to show a media policy intended to apply to all scientists, NOAA public affairs officer Jana Goldman confirmed that the policy was unevenly enforced. Certain scientists working on topics considered by the agency to be sensitive received special scrutiny</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">.</span><span style="font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">3</span><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> In some cases, public affairs officials actively denied agency scientists access to the media due to the politically sensitive nature of their work.</span></font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Thomas Knutson is a NOAA climate modeling expert working with hurricane specialists to investigate the link between climate change and tropical cyclone activity. He has experienced several instances of political interference in his work, illustrating the power of NOAA's media policies and practices to control the communication of scientific research.</font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In September 2004, Knutson published a paper in the <em style="border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">Journal of Climate</em> suggesting that an increased concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could lead to more intense tropical cyclones with increased precipitation and flood potential. His paper coincided with the Florida hurricane season, and was picked up by <em style="border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">The New York Times</em>, thereby gaining a tremendous amount of visibility for his research. On July 31, 2005, a study by Dr. Kerry Emanuel was published in the journal <em style="border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">Nature</em> linking increased hurricane intensity to increased sea-surface temperatures (which in turn have been linked to global warming) The anticipation of media requests related to Emanuel's article prompted Erica Rule to remind NOAA employees of the requirements of NOAA's media policy (<a href="https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/agencies-control-scientists-contacts-media#media_policy" style="border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 174, 235); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">see above</a>).</font></p><p style="font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That weekend, after returning from a trip, Dr. Knutson received a voicemail from a NOAA public affairs officer named Kent Laborde asking whether he would be interested in appearing on Ronald Reagan, Jr.'s MSNBC talk show to discuss hurricanes and climate change.<span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">4</span> Shortly thereafter, he received a voicemail from the show's production staff. As it was the weekend, Knutson responded directly to the show staffer to confirm his appearance and requested they contact Laborde on Monday morning. That Monday, Laborde left Knutson voicemails apologizing for the confusion and stating that the "White House said no" to Knutson's appearance. Laborde also notified Knutson that he had already called the show and offered as an excuse that Knutson was too tired for the interview after his trip.</font></p></div></div></div></div><div class="column-section" style="font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="main-region" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknoderesourcefield-sections" style="border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: var(--border-color); border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field field--name-field-sections field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden fielditems" style="border: 0px; 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Within a few days, Landsea was granted an interview with USA Today.<span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">5</span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Following Hurricane Katrina, NOAA scientists were again in high demand for media interviews talking about the connection between hurricanes and global warming. On the morning of October 16, 2005, Knutson received a request to appear on the CNBC show "On the Money."<span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">6</span> Knutson called Laborde for approval, and FOIA documents show that Laborde forwarded the request to Chuck Fuqua, deputy director of communications at the Department of Commerce, who responded: "What is Knutson's position on global warming vs. decadal cycles? Is he consistent with Bell and Landsea?" </font></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Knutson recalls that Laborde soon called back to question him about what he planned to say—especially with regard to any trends in hurricane activity—and that Knutson "supplied a guarded response." Laborde then wrote to Fuqua, "He is consistent, but a bit of a different animal. He isn't on the meteorological side. He's purely a numerical modeler. He takes existing data from observation and projects forward. His take is that even with worse [sic] case projections of green house gas concentrations, there will be a very small increase in hurricane intensity that won't be realized until almost 100 years from now." Two minutes later Fuqua responded, "Why can't we have one of the other guys on then?"<span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">7</span> Knutson soon received a voicemail notifying him that the interview had been rejected.</font></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In another example of agencies' public affairs officials preventing scientists from communicating about their own research, Dr. Kevin Trenberth, head of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)'s Climate Analysis Section, published an article in December 2003, in the journal <em style="border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">Science,</em> titled "Modern Global Climate Change." The article, co-authored with Thomas Karl, director of NOAA's National Climatic Data Center, surveyed then-current climate science research and concluded, "modern climate change is dominated by human influences." NOAA had been informed of the pending publication, which included a disclaimer stating, "this article reflects the views of the authors and does not reflect government policy."<span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">8</span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nevertheless, media inquiries for Karl were diverted to Dr. Jim Mahoney, a political appointee (now retired) who at the time served as both assistant secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and NOAA deputy administrator.<span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">9</span> In a December 4, 2003 article in the <em style="border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">San Francisco Chronicle,</em> Mahoney downplayed the significance of the peer-reviewed study, stating: "My own view is somewhat more open-minded, and from my perspective we don't really understand these things as well as we might."<span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">10</span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Similar problems at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are documented in this guide under the entry <a href="https://www.ucsusa.org/scientific_integrity/abuses_of_science/james-hansen.html" style="border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 174, 235); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">J is for NASA scientist James Hansen</a>. Such problems were partly alleviated at NASA by a revised media policy issued in February, 2006.<span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">11</span></font></p><hr style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 1px dotted var(--border-color); border-left: 0px; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 1rem auto 1.6rem; padding: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; height: 0px; width: 480px;" /><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.001em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1. Rule, E. 2005. Possible media attention. Email to NOAA staff, July 27. Obtained via FOIA request on July 31, 2006.<br style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;" />2. Teet, J. 2005. <a href="http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Commerce_Department_tells_Nationa_1004.html" style="border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 174, 235); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">DOC Interview Policy</a>. Email to NOAA staff, September 29. Originally published by L. Alexandrovna, 2005. Commerce Department tells National Weather Service media contacts must be pre-approved. <em style="border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">The Raw Story</em>, October 4. Accessed December 22, 2006.<br style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;" />3. Goldman, J. 2006. Interview with Tarek Maassarani in Silver Spring, MD, October 7. Jana Goldman is a public affairs officer at NOAA.<br style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;" />4. Knutson, T. 2006. Interview with Tarek Maassarani in Princeton, NJ, April 13. Thomas Knutson is a research scientists at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.<br style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;" />5. Laborde, K. 2005. <em style="border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">USA Today</em> Interview. Email to Chris Landsea, research scientist at NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory, July 28. Kent Laborde is a public affairs officer at NOAA. Obtained via FOIA request on August 9, 2006.<br style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;" />6. Knutson, 2006.<br style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;" />7. Fuqua, C. 2005. Media request for tonight with Knutson. Email to Kent Laborde, October 19. Chuck Fuqua is deputy director of communications at the Department of Commerce. Obtained via FOIA request on August 9, 2006.<br style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;" />8. T.R. Karl and K.E. Trenberth. <a href="http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/Trenberth/trenberth.papers/karltrenberthSci.pdf" style="border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 174, 235); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Modern Global Climate Change</a>, <em style="border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">Science</em> 302:1719-1723. Accessed December 22, 2006.<br style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;" />9. Trenberth, K. 2006. Interview with Tarek Maassarani in Boulder, CO, April 6. Kevin Trenberth is head of the Climate Analysis Section at NCAR.<br style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;" />10. D. Perlman, 2003. Climate Change Laid to Humans: Report warns there's "no doubt" industry is primary cause. <em style="border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;">San Francisco Chronicle</em>, December 4.<br style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;" />11. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). 2006. <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/communication_policy.html" style="border-width: 0px 0px 2px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 174, 235); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Policy on the release of information to the news and information media</a>. Accessed December 22, 2006.</font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></article></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">realclearsci  BS</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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