Did EPA check global-warming claims?

Two members of Congress have written to the Environmental Protection Agency demanding answers about scientific documentation that was used to support the agency's determination that "greenhouse gases threaten the public health and welfare of the American people." The letter is from U.S. Reps. Joe Barton, R-Texas, and Greg Walden, R-Ore., and follows by just a day a recommendation from officials at Penn State University that the work of one of their own – Michael Mann – regarding climate change documentation be investigated further. The developments follow a tsunami that was triggered shortly before Christmas when a cache of e-mails sent among global warming proponents was hacked from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, one of the world's premier global warming investigative organizations.. It revealed there were references to a "trick" to "hide the [temperature] decline," suggestions that other e-mails were being purged to prevent their revelations and indicated scientists who did not agree deliberately were being excluded from the discussion. Barton, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Walden, ranking member of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, addressed their concerns to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson because the agency has based much of its work on information from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which worked closely with the officials East Anglia...read more