From WorldNetDaily:
Environmental Protection Agency officials have silenced one of their own senior researchers after the 38-year employee issued an internal critique of the EPA's climate change position.
Alan Carlin, senior operations research analyst at the EPA's National Center for Environmental Economics, or NCEE, submitted his research on the agency's greenhouse gases endangerment findings and offered a fundamental critique on the EPA's approach to combating CO2 emissions. But officials refused to share his conclusion in an open internal discussion, claiming his research would have "a very negative impact on our office."
His study was barred from circulation within the EPA and was never
disclosed to the public for political reasons, according to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, or CEI, a group that has accessed four internal e-mails on the subject.
CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman told WND, "His boss basically
told him, 'No, I'm not going to send your study further up. It's going
to stay within this bureau.'"
A March 12 e-mail to Carlin warned him not to have "any direct communication with anyone outside NCEE on endangerment."
But Grist says that it is no big deal:
But what was it that Carlin wanted to attach to the endangerment
ruling? Sam Kazman, the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s general
counsel, told me Carlin’s work cites research showing global warming
has been caused by ocean and solar cycles, not by human-caused
emissions. Kazman refused to share the document.
“On the question of whether we have a copy of any version of the
report—sorry, but at this time all I can say is no comment,” Kazman
wrote in an email.
So there’s your nothingburger of a story. The CEI tried to seed this
false controversy in hopes that it would grow into a media kerfuffle
that would slow down the EPA’s climate work or the energy and climate bill advancing toward a vote in the House this wee.
One gullible blogger
already took the bait. Any others who make the same error shall have
their blogging license suspended for 90 days and their Twittering
privileges permanently revoked. It is hereby declared.
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