Who runs the US? NOAA versus science, democracy & the US congress

Posted on 28 October 2015 by Scottish-Sceptic

You’ve got to hand it these guys at NOAA – they don’t do arrogance in a small way.
What was once a question of science and asking NOAA to justify their methods that create warming out of nothing, just got a whole lot bigger as they challenged the right of congressional oversight of US democracy.
There’s no doubt whatsoever that those producing data for what was billed as “the world’s greatest problem” costing more than any other issue, must have their work scrutinised. There’s no doubt the US congress has a right and duty to perform that scrutiny. And now … there’s no doubt whatsoever that the temperature data has been fraudulently produced for political and personal gain – for what other reason can there possibly be to deny due oversight by those legitimately charged with that oversight?
But how stupid can they get? If they had nothing to hide, why not just hand over the emails as requested and bluff it out as usual? Clearly they cannot do that!
And now, this is no longer a matter of science, it’s not even about the climate, instead it goes to the heart of democracy. Who runs the US? Is it self-appointing public servants who are forcing their own “law” through illegitimate and unconstitutional decrees and denying oversight. Or is it the politicians elected to run the country?
 

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4 Responses to Who runs the US? NOAA versus science, democracy & the US congress

  1. Mark Hodgson says:
    29 October 2015 at 08:22

    Scientists can bluff their way through by arguing that only they, not non-scientists, understand science, so they must be right, and we must be wrong. But it’s very difficult to see how taxpayer-funded scientists can successfully argue that the politicians elected to look after taxpayers’ interests aren’t allowed to see how scientists spend txpayers’ money…because scientists say so. This has the potential to be Climategate squared.
    If you have nothing to hide, why hide things?

  2. Scottish-Sceptic says:
    29 October 2015 at 09:21

    Yesterday, NOAA turned it from a question of science, into a question of government and due oversight.
    And given the way the high profile RICO letter demanded public investigations from the very highest political body in the US – there is now no defence against such public investigations by congress.
    Now NOAA have denied a fair match on their own turf where they might have had a chance as they could claim to have authority on the “Science” and demanded Congress play on their turf – where it’s congress that sets the rules, where NOAA are just another bunch of public employees with their snouts in the trough putting two fingers up to legitimate oversight.

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  4. Richard says:
    1 June 2016 at 18:11

    We are talking about emails, possibly private and necessary for freedom of science, so the Congress may be overweening with harassment. We await the courts views.

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