Posted by JM Ashby
Remember "Climategate?" A collection of leaked emails which supposedly showed evidence of manipulation of scientific data to hype the severity of climate change. Well, "Climategate" can finally be given a proper burial because the controversy has been debunked by Republicans.
WASHINGTON – A Republican-led federal probe of climate scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found no evidence that they manipulated data, after leaked e-mails in 2009 sparked the "climategate" controversy.
The investigation was conducted by the inspector general of the Commerce Department. It reviewed the 1,073 leaked messages, particularly the 289 that were exchanged with NOAA scientists, and interviewed NOAA chief Jane Lubchenco and her staff about them.
"We did not find any evidence that NOAA inappropriately manipulated data," the inspector general concluded in a recent report. It also cleared Lucbhenco for testifying before Congress that the e-mails did not weaken the science of climate change.
The probe was requested by Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma, the top Republican on the environment committee, who has called global warming "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people."
"The greatest hoax ever perpetrated," except his own investigation into the matter has now concluded there was no evidence of data manipulation. The irony is delicious.