Thune demands both sides of the story as EPA tries to squelch one of their own who disagrees with global warming.
South Dakota’s US Senator, John Thune, is taking the EPA to task over their scientists apparently telling one of their own to “shut up” about the fact he disagrees with the Democratic party line on Global warming:
Thune said in a Tuesday news release that he sent a letter calling for an investigation to a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency. E-mails made public by the House and Energy Commerce Committee show evidence, Thune said, of an attempt by one scientist to “suppress” the work of another scientist who dissented with the EPA’s view on greenhouse gases linked to global warming.
“I am concerned about the credibility of the Obama administration’s arguments in favor of increased environmental activism and government regulation now that it is clear that legitimate differences of opinion are not tolerated within the EPA,” Thune said in the news release.
According to Thune, the e-mails show that Al McGartland, director of the National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE), kept Alan Carlin, an economist at NCEE, from presenting his view that the EPA was incorrect in its research regarding greenhouse gases.
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“As Congress considers costly climate change legislation that has the potential to reshape our entire economy, a robust debate on the issue is necessary,” Thune said in the release.
Read it all here (in an article which originally came from the Mitchell Daily Republic).
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I need your help! I posted this on Mount Blogmore but that bunch of liberals couldn’t or wouldn’t give me the answer. So I am asking all of you on dakotawarcollege to help me find the answers!
I have been searching for the exact date but haven’t found it yet, but I know Senator Thune asked the following questions numerous times during the 8 years President Bush was in power. One thing about Senator Thune is that he is consistent!
“Did Administrators or other high-level policy officials within the Bush administration have knowledge of dissenting information? If so, when did they have knowledge of this information and to what extent did they suppress this information?
“Did Administrators or other high-level policy officials within the Bush administration knowingly exclude or authorize other personnel to knowingly exclude dissenting information?
Yes, I am sure Senator Thune asked the Bush administration those questions many times. I just haven’t found a record of it yet but I know it’s there somewhere! I’ll get back to you with the dates and times when I find it.
Good call Johnny – lets investigate the economist trying to say the researcher’s research is wrong! Then lets put the researchers on fixing fiscal policy!! Thune’s newly increased profile is exposing him as an empty suit.