Senator Inhofe seeks to recall Gore to testify over Climategate

Washington, DC—Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) has put forth he would like to recall former Vice President Al Gore to testify before the Environmental and Public Works Committee in light of recent discoveries that climate scientists have been manipulating and suppressing data.

In an interview with the BBC, climate scientist and former head of the East Anglia’s University Climate Research Unit in the UK, Phil Jones, stated that he cannot produce original data to verify his conclusions and that skeptics may be correct that the period known as the Medieval Warm Period might have seen temperatures higher than today and went on to say that there has been no statistical warming in the last fifteen years...(continue to Helium News)

The IPCC has now admitted they used unscientific data in their report, relying on information comprised by activist groups. In one report, the IPCC asserts the Himalayas would melt by 2035. The predication came not from scientific data, but from literature distributed by the World Wildlife Fund.

Senator Inhofe released the following statement in regard to his call for a criminal investigation, “Minority Staff of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works believe the scientists involved may have violated fundamental ethical principles governing taxpayer-funded research and, in some cases, federal laws. In addition to these findings, we believe the emails and accompanying documents seriously compromise the IPCC -backed ‘consensus’ and its central conclusion that anthropogenic emissions are inexorably leading to environmental catastrophes.”

-- Owen E. Richason IV

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