WASHINGTON ― Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), a longtime denier of mainstream climate science, is convinced that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration cooked its books on climate change. So when an article appeared Sunday in the British tabloid The Daily Mail with the headline, “Exposed: How World Leaders Were Duped Into Investing Billions Over Manipulated Global Warming Data,” Smith pounced. The agency corrected its analysis to account for differences between ships’ measurements and those of more accurate at-sea buoys, which increased the estimated rate of warming over the previous 15 years. On Tuesday, Smith’s committee hosted a hearing that had nothing to do with NOAA, at least on the surface. Smith said the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) “should redact” the NOAA study.

Source: Huffington Post February 08, 2017 02:01 UTC