The government’s chief climate research agency is refusing to provide detailed information about research backing up theories that global warming comes from fossil fuel to House Republicans.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said it isn’t going to hand over research materials for a controversial study that concluded there was no 15-year pause in global warming trends, as some researchers have suggested.
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the chairman of the House Science Committee, had demanded the study details along with copies of communications among NOAA scientists.
“It was inconvenient for this administration that climate data has clearly showed no warming for the past two decades,” he said in a statement. “The American people have every right to be suspicious when NOAA alters data to get the politically correct results they want and then refuses to reveal how those decisions were made.”
Smith contends that NOAA is fudging data to hide a 15-year global warming pause, which would lend credence to arguments that global warming is not primarily caused by the use of fossil fuels.
NOAA spokeswoman Ciaran Clayton said that the agency gave Smith some of the information he requested but is withholding the rest to protect NOAA confidentiality and the integrity of its scientific process.
“We have provided data, all of which is publicly available online, supporting scientific research, and multiple in-person briefings,” she said.
“We stand behind our scientists who conduct their work in an objective manner,” she continued. “It is the end product of exchanges between scientists — the detailed publication of scientific work and the data that underpins the authors’ findings — that are key to understanding the conclusions reached.”
Smith said the agency is simply stalling.
“The agency has yet to identify any legal basis for withholding these documents,” he said.
The lawmaker promised his panel will use “all tools at its disposal” to get the information he’s requested.
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