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donnay
04-29-2017, 07:57 AM
CLIMATE CHANGE: FORMER OBAMA OFFICIAL CLAIMS THE GOVERNMENT COOKED THE BOOKS

Robert Jonathan


With regard to its climate change advocacy, the Obama administration published misleading data for public consumption.

That is the apparent conclusion of Dr. Steven E. Koonin, who served as undersecretary for science in the U.S. Department of Energy from 2009 to 2011.

Koonin told the Wall Street Journal in a brief interview (see clip embedded below) that “What you saw coming out of the press releases about climate data, climate analyses, was, I’d would say, misleading, sometimes just wrong, but much more often misleading.”

If the MIT Ph.D. is correct, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) were putting out what some might describe as fake news that both Congress and the news media relied on for climate change data in the context of policymaking and public opinion formation, respectively.

Koonin noted that the Obama administration had a specific point of view about climate change and wasn’t shy about promoting that agenda. He also noted that when he was coming up, the prevailing ethos was to follow the data, wherever that data led, irrespective of politics.

By way of one example, the scientist suggested that bureaucrats buried a nugget in fine print of the 2014 National Climate Assessment that hurricane activity had actually been decreasing for decades prior to 1980 before it supposedly started increasing post-1980.

The theoretical physicist is currently the director of the Center for Urban Science and Progress at New York University as well as teaching in the NYU’s school of engineering.

Read more: http://www.inquisitr.com/4176103/climate-change-former-obama-official-claims-the-government-cooked-the-books/

enhanced_deficit
04-29-2017, 09:00 AM
That is hard to believe, honesty was one of the best known traits of that regime.

oyarde
04-29-2017, 09:06 AM
Is there any penalty for the govt putting out fake climate news ?

GunnyFreedom
04-29-2017, 11:10 AM
Is there any penalty for the govt putting out fake climate news ?

Yes. The penalty is levied against us, and the next Conservative Supreme Court Justice will probably justify it by calling it a tax.

timosman
04-29-2017, 11:51 AM
Yes. The penalty is levied against us, and the next Conservative Supreme Court Justice will probably justify it by calling it a tax.

They will also force you to pay it even if you didn't make a dime that year.