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Defend America on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 11:24:34 PM
BREAKING: Senator Barbara Boxer and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson Throw IPCC Under the Bus
Following the release of the Inhofe Report, Boxer claimed she was
only quoting "American scientists," and Jackson reversed herself on the
use of the IPCC as the "gold standard."
February 23, 2010 - by Charlie Martin
During the review of the Environmental Protection Agency budget in
today’s Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing, both
Senator Barbara Boxer — the chair of the committee — and EPA
Administrator Lisa Jackson distanced themselves from the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment
Report (AR4).
Boxer and Jackson’s statements, in addition to being a striking
change in policy, are problematic because U.S. climate science is very
closely tied to the IPCC reports (as Christopher Horner showed in his recent PJM series on the NASA FOIA emails.)
The statements by Boxer and Jackson followed Senator Inhofe’s release (see the PJM exclusive report)
in his opening statement of a minority staff report documenting many
flaws in the IPCC report and the other evidence revealed in the
Climategate files. (See the full hearing on CSPAN here; the exchanges with Senator Boxer and Inhofe, and Administrator Jackson begin at about 56 minutes into the video.)
Both Boxer and Jackson appeared to be trying to distance the EPA from the IPCC report. Boxer said:
In my opening statement, I didn’t quote one
international scientist or IPCC report. … We are quoting the American
scientific community here.
When Inhofe directly asked Jackson if she still considered the IPCC report the “gold standard,” she answered:
The primary focus of the endangerment finding was on climate threat risks in this country.
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