Suspicious Inquires Into Climate Science

As previously mentioned, the Bush administration attempts to silence science is deeply troubling. Now U.S. Senator Jame Inhofe is making some suspicious inquiries into the research going on at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR, up the road in Boulder). Inhofe is chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and is asking for a review of NCAR's 40-year old contract from NSF. A review of this contract and NCAR's compete bid with NSF is reasonable, however there are numerous reasons for suspicion:

• the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation has jurisdiction for science inquiries, not Inhofe's committee.
• he is asking for a list of all NCAR and UCAR staff and job titles, a list of NCAR and UCAR employees under contract with non-National Science Foundation agencies and organizations including salary information; and a list of research projects including funding for the past three years, among other information. This is information outside the scope of a compete review.
• Inhofe in a quote from 2003, "With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that manmade global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? It sure sounds like it." NCAR is one of the world's top climate-change research institutions.
  

Credit to Todd Neff from Daily Camera for reporting on this.