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   nomad2112 said, 1 day ago

   http://www.switched.com/2009/07/02/epa-may-have-suppressed-anti-global-warming-study/

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   Anthony 2816 said, about 22 hours ago

   From Nomad’s link: “A grain of salt is required however, since Carlin is also the man who postulated that managing sea levels and solar radiation would be more effective and less expensive than regulating carbon dioxide emissions. We are admittedly not experts on these topics, but it seems a tad far-fetched that it is more expensive to tell a company to stop pumping so much CO2 into the air than it is to find a way to artificially control the amount of radiation that enters our planet’s atmosphere.”

   Thanks, Nomad.

   Did you see this story on CBSNews.com?

   “For its part, the EPA sent CBSNews.com an e-mailed statement saying: “Claims that this individual’s (Carlin) opinions were not considered or studied are entirely false. This Administration and this EPA Administrator are fully committed to openness, transparency and science-based decision making. These principles were reflected throughout the development of the proposed endangerment finding, a process in which a broad array of voices were heard and an inter-agency review was conducted.”

   “The individual in question is not a scientist and was not part of the working group dealing with this issue. Nevertheless the document he (Carlin) submitted was reviewed by his peers and agency scientists, and information from that report was submitted by his manager to those responsible for developing the proposed endangerment finding. In fact, some ideas from that document are included and addressed in the endangerment finding.”

   Amazing what you can find when you look at both sides, huh?

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   motivemagus said, about 8 hours ago

   Good one, Anthony.

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   nomad2112 said, about 5 hours ago

   So, the EPA justifies the suppression of Carlin’s study because Carlin “is an individual who is not a scientist.” But Carlin is a 35-year veteran of the EPA and holds a B.S. in physics. Those are better credentials than Al Gore can produce. I’d look at the other side more often but the smoke & mirrors prevent me from doing so.

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   Anthony 2816 said, about 5 hours ago

   I get the feeling you missed the last paragraph of my previous post…

   You want smoke and mirrors, Nomad? If you enter “oil company global warming” into Google, you get almost 10 million results. Here’s one of them:

   http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/ExxonMobil-GlobalWarming-tobacco.html

   “Scientists’ Report Documents ExxonMobil’s Tobacco-like Disinformation Campaign on Global Warming Science

   Oil Company Spent Nearly $16 Million to Fund Skeptic Groups, Create Confusion ”