Open email to Chairman Lamar Smith (TX) Science, Space, and Technology Committee
Dear Rep. Smith,
Pres.
Obama has a stated policy to reduce the use of carbon containing fuels to foster
development of wind and solar energy sources. Part of his program is to
claim that carbon dioxide, which is emitted in burning carbon containing
fuels, leads to global warming. There is no more scientific proof of the
relationship between carbon dioxide and global warming than there is to baseball
scores controlling the rising of the moon.
The following is a quotation
from the Washington Examiner:
"Buried in a lengthy Washington Post
article about President Obama’s environmental policy is an illuminating anecdote
about just how debatable the administration views climate change — namely, not
at all:
In an agency-wide address to employees Aug. 1, (Interior
Secretary Sally) Jewell took the unusual step of suggesting that no one working
for her should challenge the idea that human activity is driving recent warming.
“I hope there are no climate-change deniers in the Department of Interior,” she
said.
The address does not appear to be posted on the department’s
website, so the Washington Examiner can only go by the Post’s presumably
third-hand version. Still, it raises some interesting questions: What would
happen to somebody at the department who raised some skepticism regarding
Jewell’s take on climate change? Would they be in danger of losing their
job?
For example, what if that person posted a news article pointing out
that the global temperatures have been flat for the last two decades?
Presumably somebody at the Interior Department knows the answers to these
questions. Whether they’re willing to talk openly about them is another
question."
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