House Republicans Grill Obama Science Advisor on ClimateGate

John Holdren, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy

Yesterday in the U.S. House of Representatives, Republicans read from several of the leaked emails from the Climate Research Unit in England which illustrate scientific fraud relating to global warming.

One of them was from John Holdren, President Obama’s Science Czar. It was written in 2003 when Holdren was at Harvard University.

Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) pointed out that these email showing scientific monkey-business aren’t just something far away that only concerns the British, but has global–and American–impact.

It does end up putting into question all of the science of Climate Change.

Now, the data from the Climate Research Unit at the UEA in England is one of only three major data sets, but they considerably overlap, and they’ve been used as a basis for the IPCC report as well as the U.S. Global Change Research Program. And that means that these two booklets that were passed out this morning, you know, at best need to have a thorough review in the light of this information that has been disclosed. And at worst, it’s junk science, and it’s a part of a massive international scientific fraud.

Yes, I have long pointed out that the whole contention of anthropogenic global warming is pure junk science.

And the fraud of this sloppy hoax is multiplied exponentially when you realize that certain people are using it–and the illusion of credibility surrounding it–to curtail American’s freedom and prosperity through measures like the cap and trade global warming tax being considered by the U.S. Senate right now (the U.S. House has already passed it), and the UN Climate Change Treaty President Obama wants to chain the U.S. to later this month.

Here is what Sensenbrenner said to Holdren about Holdren’s involvement in this mess:

Now Dr. Holdren, you’ve been in the middle of a lot of this, and I’ve got a couple of questions, based upon your statements before you joined the Obama administration.

You gave an interview in August of 2006 with the BBC News in the UK, and you said that a sea level rise of up to thirteen feet was in the realm of possibility. However, that’s eleven feet higher than what the IPPC has estimated over this period of time, which is somewhere between seven and 23 inches.

Now with respect to the hockey stick theory, which the Chairman has referred to, um, that’s been pretty much discredited in the scientific community, and yet in your October 13 email, which is now in the public record, you aggressively attacked the two scientists that put this together, a Dr. Willie Soon and a Dr. Sallie Baliunas.

Now, I think it’s pretty clear that in both cases you were wrong, and I guess I’d like to know if you’re concerned now that you’re in the White House and representing all of the public, whether you’re concerned about the misrepresentation of the state of science with respect to Global Warming, and I’d also like to know if you still support the principal critic of the, of those who trash the hockey stick theory, that is a Dr. Michael Mann, knowing of his efforts now to hide his data and to encourage his colleagues to shut out journals like Climate Research to publish works contrary to his own bias.

Holdren follows with a lot of hemming and hawing about how “not all of the climate data has been discredited.”

Wow, that should fill the American taxpayer with confidence while you’re ripping them off with cap and trade global warming taxes and running their everyday lives for them.

Holdren also whips out the trusty liberal play about “McCarthyism” and “name calling.”  Any time you nail them on their silly ideas and un-American proposals, they squeal “McCarthyism.”  And when you call their bunk what it is, you’re “name calling.”  Uh huh.

I think based on the rather remarkable behavior seen from the apostles of global warming during this ClimateGate incident (both the little they’ve said and the massive silence that’s followed these revelations), that on some level they know the gig is nearly up–and they’re sweating bullets.

The number of people who believe in the silly idea of anthropogenic global warming has been dropping for some time, even as the number of scientists who care coming forward with their dissent has been growing.  Now, with the curtain drawn back and the manipulation of the data exposed, they are almost out of rope in their schemes to burden the American people under bogus climate regulations.

There is no better time than now to make your voice heard, to let those in Washington know that we’re not buying it and they’d better not sell our freedom and prosperity down the socialist river.

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