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To: Brumar89 who wrote (66825)	10/28/2015 2:18:11 PM
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NOAA refuses to comply with House science committee subpoena By Annika Fredrikson, Staff OCTOBER 28, 2015 csmonitor.com A study done by NOAA scientists in July contradicted previous evidence that global warming was declining. The House science committee now demands internal communications related to the study. In a study published in the journal Science in July, scientists indicated that average global temperatures have continued to rise in the 21st century, contradicting previous evidence that suggested a global warming hiatus. The analysis, based on temperature records from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), has now come under congressional scrutiny. In July, the US House of Representatives Science, Space and Technology committee head, Rep. Lamar Smith (R) of Texas, asked NOAA for both data and internal communications related to the study led by Thomas Karl. While NOAA conceded publicly available data related to the study, it has refused to release internal communications, citing the “long-standing practice in the scientific community to protect the confidentiality of deliberative scientific discussions,” as reported by Nature. In response, Representative Smith filed a subpoena on October 13, a move which the Washington Examiner suggests is consistent with a “ climate change doubter.” In a statement released to Nature, Smith accused NOAA of falsifying temperature records, stating, “NOAA needs to come clean about why they altered the data to get the results they needed to advance this administration’s extreme climate change agenda.” "Congress cannot do its job when agencies openly defy Congress and refuse to turn over information," Smith told the Examiner. "When an agency decides to alter the way it has analyzed historical temperature data for the past few decades, it's crucial to understand on what basis those decisions were made. This action has broad national and policy implications." NOAA denied Smith’s accusations, backed by fellow Texan Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, the highest ranking Democrat on the science committee, who released a letter last week categorizing Smith’s subpoena as “illegitimate harassment of our Nation’s research scientists.” "The baseless conflict you have created by issuing the Oct. 13 subpoena is representative of a disturbing pattern in your use of congressional power since your chairmanship began," Ms. Johnson said in the letter addressed to Smith. Former NOAA employee, Andrew Rosenberg, told Nature that Dr. Karl’s team was merely updating analysis. “There’s absolutely no implication that there is malfeasance of any kind,” Dr. Rosenberg told Nature. “You could ask these questions anytime anybody updates an analysis, but you are only picking the ones where you really don’t like the answer." Rosenberg further suggested that the subpoena could discourage private sector scientists from working with federal scientists. Smith maintains that “the Committee intends to use all tools at its disposal to undertake its Constitutionally-mandated oversight responsibilities.”

To: Brumar89 who wrote (66825)	10/28/2015 7:31:35 PM
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Hot Days Are Disappearing From The Lives Of Americans Posted on October 28, 2015 by stevengoddard Both the frequency of hot days and the areal coverage of hot days has rapidly declined in the US. Last year had the smallest areal coverage on record for 95 degree days, with only 55% of US HCN stations reaching 95 degrees during the year. In 1931, 93% of the US reached 95 degrees. The fraudsters at Climate Central claim the exact opposite of what the data shows. For example, they say that Fond Du Lac, WI will average 89°F during summers in the future. Blistering Future Summers for 1,001 U.S. Cities \| Climate Central The frequency of 89 degree days in Fond Du Lac has dropped by two thirds since the 19th century, with the vast majority of thir hot days occurring with CO2 below 350 PPM. Not only is their claim empirically flawed, but it has no theoretical basis. Radiative transfer models show that the amount of downwelling longwave radiation during mid-latitude summers hardly increases with increasing CO2. There is no empirical or theoretical basis for the Climate Central claims. They are 100% fraudulent. Climate criminals make Enron accountants look like Mother Theresa.