Monday, July 13, 2009

7:00 AM

The SSRC has sent a letter to the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), and Ranking Member Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), asking that the President’s Science Advisor, Dr. John Holdren, and NOAA Administrator, Dr. Jane Lubchenko be removed from office for cause. In addition, similar letters to other EPW members also called on them to vote “No” on the American Clean Energy and Security Act now under review.

In summarizing the reasons for the removal of President Obama’s top climate science advisors Director Casey said, “These two individuals and other agency heads orchestrated and then signed off on the recently released government report, Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States. This report was a piece of blatant, politically motivated bad science and pure propaganda intended to reinforce the “big lie” that global warming is still a threat to the planet.

Global warming which was caused by the Sun and not mankind, ended years ago and yet we see that the environmental extremism that has invaded the White House and the US government, continues to deceive the American people and other nations as to the truth about climate change. Many scientists have voiced their strong disapproval of this document and it’s outdated, misleading science and faulty conclusions. A large and growing percentage of Americans have now become skeptical of man made climate change and our leaders in Washington who still falsely assert that global warming is a problem. The obvious goal of this document is to provide justification to the President’s plan to create a massive new federal bureaucracy that will tax the American people over $646 billion, all supposedly to control a climate period that no longer exists! The start of the next cold climate era has sounded the death knell for the global warming zealots. They now realize they don’t have much time left to rush their programs through Congress. They understand this may be their last chance to pass major climate legislation if they don’t take advantage of what remains of the dwindling public, media and political momentum and the heat of the summer season. By next year with the rapidly advancing cold climate it will be all too apparent even for the most ardent global warming enthusiasts that their scheme cannot be pulled off. Thus we see this last ditch effort come out in a fabricated report like the Global Climate Change Impacts. This report is a permanent embarrassment to the scientific community and the American people.

Those two individuals and the other instigators of this transparent deception need to go. If the President meant what he said during the campaign that he was going to restore ‘scientific integrity,’ then now is his chance to prove it.

Our country is at a turning point when it comes to the future of the scientific community. If we allow this legislation to go through, not only will it do nothing to impact climate change but worse, it will effectively institutionalize a single doctrine about the cause of climate change, stifle any research or researchers exploring other areas of climate science, and make it U.S. government policy to excise or punish (i.e. cut funding for, fire or discipline) those scientists who want to pursue any alternative theories. In fact this process has already begun, witness the recent Wall Street Journal report (July 3-5, 2009) by Kim Strassel who told of an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) analyst who had his professional wrist slapped for issuing a report that the science behind man made global warming was inconclusive and that the Earth has been cooling. Of course, we should never forget that the former head of NASA, Dr. Michael Griffin, was publicly berated as ‘arrogant and ignorant,’ for not buying into the global warming game. As we all know, he was quickly replaced once the Obama administration came in. That sent an unmistakable signal to all government agency leaders and scientists world wide that they will have to keep silent and not tell the truth about climate change if they want to keep their job and their professional standing. Senior United Nations officials have even said those who do not support the man made global warming idea should be regarded as ‘criminals.’ This serious threat to our fundamental freedoms must be stopped now.”

As to the legislation pending in the Senate, Director Casey was straight forward in his opinion adding, “Since there is no global warming we have no need to pass any form of legislation to regulate it and that certainly includes the American Clean Energy and Security Act. Since there is no global warming we have no need to impose an unbelievable global warming tax on the American people especially amidst a national and global financial crisis, that doesn’t seem to have reached bottom yet. Since the next climate change to an era of potentially destructive cold weather is upon us, we need our leaders to stop wasting time and resources on something that does not exist and concentrate their efforts on preparing our country for the next climate era which will bring the worst cold in over 200 years!”