EPA analyst Alan Carlin raised questions about the impact of global warming on areas like Greenland. Shown here is an iceberg off Ammassalik Island, Greenland. (AP Photo)
Proving that the Global Warming issue may indeed be simply a political issue we discover last night what 38 year veteran EPA scientist Alan Carlin tried to tell his bosses and the rest of the world back in March. The climate is cooling!
The 98-page report, co-authored by EPA analyst Alan Carlin, pushed back on the prospect of regulating gases like carbon dioxide as a way to reduce global warming. Carlin’s report argued that the information the EPA was using was out of date, and that even as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have increased, global temperatures have declined over the last 11 years.
Carlin’s boss at the EPA dismissed the report saying, “The administrator and the administration has decided to move forward on endangerment, and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision,” he wrote, according to the e-mails released by CEI. “I can only see one impact of your comments given where we are in the process, and that would be a very negative impact on our office.”
He later wrote an e-mail urging Carlin to “move on to other issues and subjects.”
“I don’t want you to spend any additional EPA time on climate change. No papers, no research, etc., at least until we see what EPA is going to do with climate,” McGartland wrote.
The question arises- will Obama’s Cap and Trade bill still be passed now that we know that Global Warming is a farce? I maintain my stance that focusing on Global Warming or even Global Cooling is simply an example of the public overfocusing on hype rather than on what’s really necessary. Certainly reducing pollution and carbon emissions is important but I’d like to see the Global Warming fanatics focus their energy on something more important like water conservation. (see www.4fiberstone.com or www.naturalsourceprinting.com for more info on the water crisis and simple ways you can help).
Check back often we’ll keep an eye on this story as it unfolds.
CO2 is a finite resource critical for all life on Earth. Earth has sequestered 94% of atmospheric CO2 since animals started roaming Earth (from 7000 to 280ppm). The boost from 250 to 380ppm we’ve got since the industrial revolution has increased global plant growth and agricultural production by over 30%. Those who advocate sequestering CO2 would inadvertantly be promoting reduction of plant growth and increase global starvation. And if CO2 drops to about 150ppm, nearly all life on Earth dies. Think the EPA is considering that?
Typo. The line should have been (from 7000 to 380ppm).
Jeff, thanks for helping to get this information out there. Green doesn’t mean abandoning all logic.
Thank you Randy and Laurie!
I wonder which oil company paid mr Carlin for his report.
Green Packaging & Printing Blog is run by a green printer. I am also a printer who tries hard to be green and is willing to listen to ideas from other printers about how to accomplish that.
That said, GP&PB is not a scientific blog, the article presented is not in agreement with the findings that the EPA believes are credible. To infer that the EPA is trying to muzzle this guy because he has found something that they disagree with is disingenuous. Show me Carlin’s peer reviews, show me his data that demonstrates that either the climate is actually cooling or that the rise in C02 levels are necessarily correlated to temperature change.
I have a son who is an earth scientist with a Ph.D. in geology and paleontology. From his research and the research of the vast majority of natural scientists, I would rather believe him and/or the EPA than a (handful of) guys who choose to ignore the mainstream research. But that’s just me.
Hmmm, does your son have 30+ years of climate study under his belt? Mr. Carlin does. Did you read the 98 page report by Carlin? Did you read more on the EPA burying this? The comments from Carlin’s boss, “We’re choosing to go another direction.” “This will affect our funding.” are correct and confirmed.
Another good reference on this debate is “The Sustainability Mirage – Confusion and Reality in the Coming War on Climate Change” by John Foster.
http://www.earthscan.co.uk/?tabid=26730
Have you heard/read Mike Hulme, UK Tyndall Center founder, on “why we disagree about climate change”?
http://bit.ly/3aVEW
Another critical aspect not discussed by the EPA is that Earth’s atmospheric CO2 has decreased 94% from 7000 to 380ppm over the past 540 million years because of natural sequestration. (it has gone up from 280ppm in the past 250 years). EPA policy seems to be to reduce it further. Problem is, as CO2 decreases, agricultural productivity drops as well, until we hit 150ppm, when nearly all life on Earth dies. Since CO2 appears not to have an influence over climate as previously thought, we should accept that the increased levels will INCREASE Earth’s flora and fauna.
Aw, shucks, Carlin was already debunked. This is old news to people who don’t watch FOX.
Also, Exxon Mobil funds global climate change denials.
http://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/212/45267.html
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