"The head of a congressional committee on science has issued subpoenas to the Obama administration over a recent scientific study refuting claims that global warming had 'paused' or slowed over the last decade.
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology and a prominent congressional skeptic on climate change, issued the subpoenas two weeks ago demanding e-mails and records from U.S. scientists who participated in the study, which undercut a popular argument used by critics who reject the scientific consensus that man-made pollution is behind the planet’s recent warming.
Smith’s document request to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ordered the agency to turn over scientific data as well as internal 'communications between or among employees' involved in the study, according to a letter Friday by the House committee’s ranking Democrat, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (Tex.). Johnson accused Smith of 'furthering a fishing expedition' by looking for ways to discredit NOAA’s study, which was published in June in the peer-reviewed journal Science."
Joby Warrick reports for the Washington Post October 23, 2015.
SEE ALSO:
"The House Science Committee Is Worse Than the Benghazi Committe" (Vox)
"GOP Congressman Goes on a Climate Science Fishing Expedition" (Slate)
"US Congressman Subpoenas NOAA Climate Scientists Over Study" (ArsTechnica)
"Dem Compares Climate Deniers To Tobacco Execs" (The Hill)
"Science Publishes New NOAA Analysis: Data Show No Recent Slowdown in Global Warming" (NOAA Release: 6/4/2015)
"Here's the Secret Data Climate Scientists Are Hiding From Us" (Mother Jones)
"2015 Likely to Be Hottest Year Ever Recorded" (New York Times)
