Barton setting his sights on global warming researchers

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http://www.unknownnews.org/0507120708sameoldsameold.html
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As chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, he's sent letters demanding financial records and other information from the National Science Foundation and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, whose reports on global warming have shaped policies and treaties.

Three climatologists who authored a seminal 1998 analysis of ancient tree rings, ocean sediment and polar ice have been asked to provide details on funding sources, methods, computer code and data.

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Dr. John Holdren, an environmental expert who runs the science, technology and public policy program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, said Mr. Barton's letters "are clearly intended to frighten and tie up the scientists involved."

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The Barton letters drew a scathing rebuke from Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., a member of the energy committee and the senior Democrat on the House Government Reform panel. He called them "a transparent effort to bully and harass climate-change experts who have reached conclusions with which you disagree," rather than a "serious attempt to understand the science of global warming."

[Newsjock]

1. (fixed)

(link corrected)

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2. found link.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/washington/columnists/tgillman/stories/071005dnnattxw.8e40c23b.html

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3. They think they will find a vested interest

Because that's how they operate!

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4. what a moron!

Funding sources, methodology, computer code, and data are documented in publications anyway. i.e. reading their papers will get that without an executive order or subpoena. Typically computer code (unless licensed) and raw data are recorded somewhere on the internet. Odds are they didn't write their own, but rather licensed something, in which case whoever they licensed it from would have to send the code.

No kidding. When people publish, they already document all that (minus budget numbers). I suppose if he wants to know their actual budget he may need a detailed financial statement.

Clearly, a smear campaign is coming.