Endangerment

Following up, most recently, on this post, GAO sees just how absurd it is for NASEM to purport to be any sort of impartial participant on “climate” science or policy, particularly as it pertains to the effort to rush in and influence the Environmental Protection Agency’s reconsideration and rescission of the 2009 Endangerment Finding (EF). The larger production of correspondence…

Following up on this, GAO sees more records from the National Academies’ “very fast track study titled “Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gases and US Climate”, [to] be completed in time to be incorporated into the docket for the current administration’s reconsideration of the endangerment finding for carbon dioxide.” Records which, it is worth noting, several other, naughty participants/custodians failed to locate. (More…

2009 Obama EPA appointees internally called the Endangerment Finding a “decision ready to go,” a “basic fact” and “nothing more than science and common sense”; discussion went straight to timing, suggesting predetermination and a sham notice-and-comment rule making process Executive Summary: GAO strongly encourages the Environmental Protection Agency to include in any rescission of the Obama Administration’s 2009 Endangerment Finding…

Following up on this post, GAO sees the below from the University of Texas-Austin and NASEM endangerment panel author (and pro-regulation amicus-filer) David Allen, who in the top email seems to get let in on the effort, which he would soon join, by an energy industry “Senior Director, Climate & Sustainability”:    

Comments on National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Fast-track Review of the Evidence on Whether Greenhouse Gas Emissions are Reasonably Anticipated to Endanger Public Health and Welfare in the U.S., in Response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposal to rescind its 2009 Endangerment Finding. Submitted via NASEM website. NOTE: Due to NASEM’s restrictions on characters and attachments, full…

GAO understands the environmental/journalism complex is dusting off an old playbook. The booming reproducibility crisis in science has left it scrambling to salvage the federally funded and engineered science blob as a turn-key vehicle to advance activist agendas. As the White House has put things, “The falsification of data by leading researchers has led to high-profile retractions of federally funded…

Following up on this post, and this, and seeing that “EPA Sends GHG Endangerment Finding and Vehicle Rule to OMB,” GAO notes the following—consisting of three pages of typed timeline followed by relevant images of correspondence, including from a 5% randomly sampled Vaughn index (privilege log) in the CEI “Richard Windsor” FOIA case. These threads-to-pull serve as a reminder that…