Posted: 12/07/2009
Obama Administration Underestimates Severity of Climate-gate
NCPA: This is a bad time to make hasty decisions about climate change, need to reevaluate science
Dallas (December 7, 2009) - The Climate-gate scandal, which revealed that scientists attempted to suppress inconvenient data, used tricks to change reported outcomes, suppress dissent, and undermine the peer review process, should serve as a major red flag to the Obama administration and other government delegations, according to NCPA Senior Fellow H. Sterling Burnett.
"Even though the science used to justify the need for a costly climate treaty is unraveling, the Obama administration is shrugging off the emails, parroting the claim that the science is settled and it's time to act, which couldn't be further from the truth," Dr. Burnett said. "Instead of the administration choosing to slow down and make sure the science is solid, it feels the need to push harder for an agreement to set new greenhouse gas emissions targets."
Supporters within the Obama administration who support moving forward with a climate treaty are underplaying the importance of scientific data and the critical nature that this small group of scientists has played in shaping public perception of the causes and consequences of global warming, Burnett said.
"With literally trillions of dollars at stake, now is not the time to take dramatic action just for the administration to say that they are 'doing something' about global warming," Burnett said. "Rather, we should get the science right, then determine if we need to do anything at all. Surely we can come up with a solution better than the cap-and-trade scam currently dominating the policy discussion."
Burnett has developed several sensible ideas to effectively address global warming. To see the list of "no regrets" policies, log on to http://www.ncpa.org/pub/st321.
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