Senators Demand Explanation of NASA's Flawed Climate Data and the Relation to Offshore Drilling

"We shouldn't make decisions affecting millions of American jobs when the data isn't credible," Barrasso told FoxNews.com.

That quote by Senator Barrasso says it all and why there should be no Cap and Trade legislation this year or next year. It should be dead and buried and any Republican jumping on board to try and pass an energy bill on flawed data needs to see the door. No decision can be made on a bill like cap and trade or any other energy bill without validation of the data. In this case it seems all the data is pretty well junk as the some of the climate scientists at NASA tweaked some numbers to fit their political agenda.

Every person involved in this flawed data fiasco at NASA needs FIRED! Their data could cost the American people huge dollars especially with the Democrats, one independent, and one Republican trying to continue Cap and Trade legislation. Someone needs to tell Lindsey Graham to stop this nonsense now and help block the bill instead of trying to get it passed for Obama.

If you are asking why we are comparing what is going on with the flawed data being used to push Cap and Trade and Offshore Drilling, we are about to answer that question as we believe it is related.

This idea that Obama is going to open the Virginia coast and other coastal areas to possible drilling we believe is nothing more then a ruse to bring in Republicans to vote for Cap and Trade. It takes many months to years to explore, find the oil/natural gas and set up the oil platform before drilling brings in the oil or natural gas. It is not a simple build a platform and start drilling as you have to locate the source before you build the platform and go into operation of drilling and producing from an offshore well. By that time Obama can change his mind 100 times or give the oil lease to CITGO which we think is a distinct possibility since it would make Chavez very happy and then he would allow drilling. Call us very suspicious about this whole deal.

Why did the Democrats in Congress allow the offshore oil ban expire which stood for 30 years? Who was behind allowing the ban to expire in Congress? Answer that question and you will discover who is set to make millions and probably billions off the operation. Our guess is George Soros who funds a lot of Democrat activities and expects paybacks with their votes.

Remember Obama "loaning" money to Brazil's Petrobras to drill off their coast and then discovering that George Soros is a huge investor in Petrobras (Aug 19, 2009 ... Billionaire George Soros bought $811 million stake in Petrobras in the second quarter).

The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars ($10B) to Brazil’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil’s Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro. Brazil’s planning minister confirmed that White House National Security Adviser James Jones met this month with Brazilian officials to talk about the loan. Excerpt: Read More at Wall Street Journal

Interior Secretary Salazar has already said no offshore drilling until 2013 so what gives?

The Obama administration’s six-month delay in approving new offshore drilling leases in federal waters will become a new three-year ban, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar quietly told reporters last Friday. Which means that no new oil and gas leases will be approved during President Obama’s term even though two –thirds of the American public supports such activity, according to a December 2009 Rasmussen poll. Read more at the Washington Examiner

We suspect this offshore drilling is another phony statement by Obama to garner votes like the Executive Order on Abortion he signed which is worthless. Maybe he will prove us wrong, but we doubt that. No way is this President going to stick with drilling off Virginia when his environmentalist base gets done with him.

We believe that Obama is saying one thing to lure in Republicans while his Interior Secretary Salazar follows up with his comments. Perfect example was Obama announcement on offshore possibly being opened and the March 31st statement by Salazar:

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said Wednesday that the U.S. will not achieve energy independence through offshore drilling alone.

“We don’t believe that we are ever going to drill our way to energy independence,” said Salazar in a conference call with reporters. Source: AP

Another question that is not being answered in the current discussion is how much will the Federal Government charge for the oil leases and then tax the companies that do win the leases and drill? Does this Administration want to make the price of American crude oil sold higher then what we can import from the Middle East or Venezuela?

The last thing this economy needs is Cap and Trade. We have three Senators out in front on this fight against cap and trade -- Senators Jim Inofe (R-OK), David Vitter (R-LA), and John Barrasso (R-WY). We have to believe there are some sensible Democrats from oil/gas states like Mary Landrieu that can see through this smoke and mirrors and will join Republicans minus Lindsey Graham in defeating Cap and Trade.

If Obama truly believes that planes leave a carbon footprint then why does he fly on Air Force One so much? Why did his family fly on the taxpayer's nickle for spring break in New York? We have a recommendation: "Stay in the White House and save on the carbon footprints if you believe they are hurting the environment."

Updated March 31, 2010
Senators Demand Explanation of NASA's Flawed Climate Data
By Jeremy A. Kaplan
- FOXNews.com

Senators John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and David Vitter (R-La.) have written a letter to NASA chief Charles Bolden demanding answers to questions surrounding newly uncovered irregularities in the space agency's climate data.



Maps from NASA's GISS reveal temperatures where no data exist, thanks to mathematical extrapolation of data.
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Not everyone is sipping the global warming Kool-Aid.

Concerns about the validity of NASA's climate research are being raised following revelations that the space agency admitted its data was less accurate than other weather trackers'. Disturbed by these reports, as well as the growing Climate-gate scandal that has left global-warming theorists reeling, Senators John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and David Vitter (R-La.) have written a letter to space agency chief Charles Bolden demanding answers.
"The American people deserve to learn the truth about the data," Barrasso told FoxNews.com, stressing the risks of basing public policy on science that remains largely undecided.

FoxNews.com has obtained an advance copy of the letter -- the third that Barrasso, ranking member of the Subcommittee on Oversight for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and Vitter, ranking member of the Committee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety, have written in the months following the Climate-gate scandal.
Writing that "American data is partially derived from the corrupted data set that has been criticized as too political and unscientific as a result of the Climate-gate scandal," the senators have invited Bolden to testify before the Senate on the credibility of NASA's data.

"Their efforts to attack the science of climate change may be politically motivated. I see nothing in the NASA/GISS data that suggests anything other than an honest effort to discover the scientific truth about the Earth's temperature record," Barrasso says.

When contacted for comment, NASA had still not received the letter, but a spokesman for the space agency was awaiting to the Senators' comments. "NASA has not received the letter," NASA spokesman Michael Cabbage said. "We look forward to working with the senators to respond to their concerns."
Read Senator Barrasso's letter to NASA

Excerpt: Read More at Fox News

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