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The Obama Administration this week released a report to underline the effects of global warming on the United States.  This predicted higher ocean levels, water sources depleting, worsening droughts, etc.

Pretty scary.  Until you realize how much of the science was manipulated.

Roger Pielke was one of the key scientific sources of the report.  The University of Colorado reseracher blasts the report (which uses much of his data to substantiate the findings).  “This post is about how the report summarizes the issue of disasters and climate change, including several references to my work, which is misrepresented.”

In his blog post, Pielke piece by piece shows how the report completely twisted his findings.  If you want to know point by point where the falsehoods are,  I advise you to read his blog post.

Here is the crux of Pielke’s findings, that were conveniently omitted from the White House report:

1. Over the long-term, U.S. hurricane landfalls have been declining.
2. Nationwide there have been no long-term increases in drought.
3. Despite increases in some measures of precipitation . . . there have not been corresponding increases in peak streamflows (high flows above 90th percentile).
4. There have been no observed changes in the occurrence of tornadoes or thunderstorms
5. There have been no long-term increases in strong East Coast winter storms (ECWS), called Nor’easters.
6. There are no long-term trends in either heat waves or cold spells, though there are trends within shorter time periods in the overall record.

Couple points.  First, Pielke is NOT a nonbeliever.  He is not a celebrated opponent of global climate change.  He is a scientist, and he believes that the scientific method should be used to analyze these things.  I don’t think we should hold him up as a political hero or anything.  He is just one of many scientists that want to be honest about their work.

I never really agreed with the Bush Administration policy on global climate change.  I thought they were much too passive.  However, they altered scientific data for their own purposes, and the Obama White House is doing the same.

The American people want honest answers.  The honest truth is that scientists do NOT absolutely know what the repercussions of global warming are; the science is not that clear. That is fine.  The public can understand that.  They can’t understand people lying to them.  This is especially discouraging from Obama, who had promised science above politics.  In this case, he has not held to that statement.

This doesn’t even start to discuss the CBO numbers on Cap-and-Trade, which are horrific.  Heritage has a great discussion that can be read here.

I am a big believer that we have to shift our energy from carbon sources to non-polluting sources.  I believe in green energy.  One can be a big believer in these things without having to believe a falsehood.  And one reason the American public does not trust the government on this issue is because on both sides, they continue to lie to them.  I would rather have an honest debate about what should be done, then people telling me things that are not true.

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