{"id":1144,"date":"2009-10-06T15:26:16","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T19:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2009-10-06T16:44:56","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T20:44:56","slug":"the-dog-ate-my-global-warming-homework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1144\/the-dog-ate-my-global-warming-homework\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dog Ate My Global Warming Homework?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of East Anglia is a taxpayer-supported university whose Climate Research Unit (CRU) has produced data serving as the basis for international studies alleging a global warming crisis.\u00a0 That includes our own Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which has proposed draconian, unnecessary and costly regulation of carbon dioxide. But in August of this year, the CRU admitted that it destroyed the original raw data for its global surface temperature set, claiming a lack of storage space.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the dog ate its homework?<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, but conveniently for global warming alarmists, the EPA stopped accepting public comments on its proposed carbon dioxide regulation back in June.\u00a0 But fortunately, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) <a href=\"http:\/\/cei.org\/rcandtestimony\/2009\/10\/05\/petition-environmental-protection-agency-reopen-proceeding-proposed-endang\" target=\"_blank\">filed a petition<\/a> with the EPA yesterday to re-open debate.\u00a0 As stated by CEI&#8217;s General Counsel Sam Kazman, &#8220;the EPA is resting its case on international studies that in turn relied on CRU data.\u00a0 But CRU\u2019s suspicious destruction of it<span style=\"color: black;\">s<\/span> original data, disclosed at this late date, makes that information totally unreliable.\u00a0 If the EPA doesn\u2019t reexamine the implications of this, it\u2019s stumbling blindly into the most important regulatory issue we face.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dennis the Menace couldn&#8217;t get away with this excuse, and neither should the CRU or EPA bureaucrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of East Anglia is a taxpayer-supported university whose Climate Research Unit (CRU) has produced data serving as the basis for international studies alleging a global warming crisis.\u00a0 That includes our own Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which has proposed draconian, unnecessary and costly regulation of carbon dioxide. But in August of this year, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,246,205],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-climate-change","tag-environmental-protection-agency-epa","tag-global-warming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1148,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}