"The Whole Point Of This Exercise Is To Deter NOAA . . . From Doing What They're Supposed To Do"

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Across Capitol Hill, actions by the head of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee also have highlighted Republican opposition to climate action. Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, hopes to force climate scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration into closed-door interviews with committee staffers and to turn over thousands of emails on their research.

Earlier this year, the scientists published a study in the journal Science showing greater evidence that global warming has not gone on hiatus as deniers have claimed. It said the earth had warmed at least as fast in the past 15 years as it did in the last 50 years of the 20th century.

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NOAA maintains that the agency has been "transparent and cooperative with the committee over the past couple months to help them understand the research and methodologies that were used," spokeswoman Ciaran Clayton says.

Attorney and Georgetown University law professor David Vladeck, who previously represented climate scientist Michael Mann during a similar congressional investigation, contends the goal of the current inquiry is not more transparency – especially in the lead-up to the Paris summit. "I think it is fair to conclude that the whole point of this exercise is to chill and to deter NOAA scientists from doing what they're supposed to do," he says, "which is tell us what's going on with our climate."

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http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/11/18/as-us-approaches-paris-climate-summit-gop-pushes-back

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1. Dumb bastards

Ignorant fucking yokels.