EPA: Climate-gate, Schlimate-gate

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was intended to be an independent agency that served the American people through policy recommendations based on the best available science. Instead, it has apparently become a subsidiary of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

There was a time when the best available science was based on, or at least passed through, American innovation and leadership. American ingenuity still exists as always, but I don't think it is paid much respect these days. That's because there is a political agenda at stake. When the stakes are more intrusive government, raising taxes and then raising them again on a global scale, the rules change.

The science of climate change is bent and twisted to fit the socialist agenda of "sustainable living." The scientists at the heart of the previously mentioned "climate-gate" scandal have shown that scientific "consensus" doesn't always mean proof that a theory is proven true. In fact, at the IPCC, it simply means all scientists it allows into its academic research circle must agree that there is man-made global warming. If their research shows otherwise, it wouldn't see the light of day, much less survive the politically biased "peer review" process.

With this in mind, it is absolutely outrageous that the EPA has given the IPCC and its research fiasco, known as climate-gate, a pass. Its recent endangerment finding for greenhouse gases is obviously based on flawed science. It may be said to be based on an international agency that is fraudulent at its core.

The U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works has time and again sounded alarms about the fraud practiced at the IPCC and partners in research. One Senate report summary makes it plain that the "EPA accepted the IPCC’s conclusions wholesale, without doing an independent review. Therefore, EPA failed to uncover key errors in the IPCC reports that ultimately were incorporated into the endangerment finding."  It boggles the mind that a simple fact check by our own EPA was not done.  In reality, I believe if the facts were properly scrutinized, the conclusions would have been unacceptable, because it would have obstructed the EPA and the White House from implementing its burdensome regulations on the American people and on American business.

How did the EPA respond to such an obvious breach of public trust at the supposedly highly respected IPCC and the climate-gate scientists?  According to a Fox News report, "The EPA says it is going forward with "common sense measures that are helping to protect Americans from this threat" and said its critics are trying to 'stall progress.'" 

The inescapable truth is, the EPA doesn't care as much about scientific certainty as it does about fulfilling the utopian dream of the UN and the current White House.  For the EPA, the "debate" is over.  The only debate that keeps them up at night is how big to grow government and how much revenue to extract from businesses and the American people.