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Comment by 7R33SandR0P3S on February 23, 2010 at 12:26pm

Source: http://bobmccarty.com/2010/02/23/senate-to-release-major-climategat...

Senate to Release Major ‘ClimateGate’ Report Today (Update)
February 23rd, 2010

Early this morning, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) forwarded a “sneak peak” of a major new Senate report stemming from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s investigation into the scandal commonly known as “ClimateGate.”

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.)

“What emerges from our review of the emails and documents, which span a 13-year period from 1996 through November 2009,” Senator Inhofe said, “is much more than, as EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson put it, scientists who ‘lack interpersonal skills.’ Rather, the emails show the world’s leading climate scientists discussing, among other things:

* Obstructing the release of damaging data and information;

* Manipulating data to reach preconceived conclusions;

* threatening journal editors who published work questioning the climate science “consensus”; and

* Assuming activist roles to influence the political process.

Senator Inhofe, ranking member of the committee, went on to explain that the correspondence also reveals a fractured consensus on the state of climate science.

“Contrary to repeated assertions that the ’science is settled,’” he said, “the emails show the world’s leading climate scientists arguing over critical issues, questioning key methods and statistical techniques, and doubting whether there is ‘consensus’ on the causes and the extent of climate change.”

Back in 2003, Senator Inhofe said blaming global warming on carbon dioxide and other man-made gases is the “greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.” Today, he says, “I was right.”