Plan B Forum

"... Smith threatens to sic law enforcement on the first American woman to walk in space
Kathryn Sullivan
(NOAA)
Kathryn Sullivan, who unlike Lamar Smith is a scientist and has walked in space.

Here's a fun side note. In Smith's letter to NOAA administrator Kathryn Sullivan, he demanded that she turn over her staff's internal communications or face "civil and/or criminal enforcement mechanisms."

Johnson notes:

I think it might be informative to take note of whom you are threatening. Dr. Kathryn Sullivan is a PhD geologist, former naval reserve officer, former three-time NASA astronaut, former chief scientist of NOAA, and former member of the National Science Board. As an astronaut, Dr. Sullivan became the first American woman to ever "walk" in space.

This is who Smith says colluded with the White House to falsify scientific data.
Smith is making accusations in the press for which he has never offered evidence

Johnson notes that it has taken Smith four months of investigation to articulate any reason for the investigation to exist. And when he finally put an allegation of wrongdoing on record, it was hedged and mild (there were "concerns" that the study was "rushed"). But when it comes to the popular press, Smith shows no such restraint.

From a November 16 op-ed by Smith on Breitbart News:

NOAA needs to come clean about why they altered the data to get the results they needed to advance this administration’s extreme climate change agenda ... When NOAA concocts data to get the politically correct results they want and then refuses to reveal how those decisions were made, that discredits their entire agenda ... It’s always easy to prove climate change when the Obama administration changes the data until they get the results they want.

In a letter to the Washington Post on November 17, Smith repeated: "NOAA employees altered temperature data to get politically correct results."


Johnson is not impressed:

In one fell swoop, you have accused a host of different individuals of wrongdoing. You have accused NOAA's top research scientists of scientific misconduct. By extension, you have also accused the peer-reviewers at one of our nation's most prestigious academic journals, Science, of participating in this misconduct (or at least being too incompetent to notice what was going on). If that weren't enough, you are intimating a grand conspiracy between NOAA and the White House to doctor climate science to advance administration policy. Presumably this accusation extends to Administrator Sullivan herself. And all of these indictments are conjured out of thin air, without you presenting any factual basis for these sweeping accusations ...

To date, Smith has offered no evidence in support of his sweeping accusation of scientific fraud and collusion. ..."

"... But regardless, her area of expertise is irrelevant. The claims of "warming" conflict with claims of "no warming for the past thirty years," but I have never seen the "Rosetta Stone" article that juxtaposes the data and explains how one reputable source claims that the data PROVES AGW and another reputable source claims that the data REBUT AGW - or at least the projections that caused the early alarms to go off. ... "

that she turn over her staff's internal communications

No worries about who will publish lies when you've got brietbart on your side.

Surprising, how few people care about the truth.