A global warming contrarian at the EPA with poor scholarship now a conservative martyr

[steven johnson]

Here is a martyr for the conservative cause of climate skepticism who is using crap science like all the other climate change deniers.

Alan Carlin, a 72-year-old analyst and economist, had labored in obscurity in a little-known office at the Environmental Protection Agency since the Nixon administration....Conservative commentators and Congressional Republicans said he had been muzzled because he did not toe the liberal line.

He rushed out a 93-page report that cited a variety of sources in raising questions about global warming and the usefulness of government action to combat it. In an accompanying e-mail message to superiors, he said the belief in global warming was “more religion than science” and warned that regulating carbon dioxide would be “the worst mistake that E.P.A. has ever made.”

Agency officials and outside experts who reviewed his report as a result of the outcry over the episode have said they found it wanting in a number of ways. It included unverified information from blog posts, they found, quoted selectively from journal articles, failed to acknowledge contradictory information and may have borrowed passages verbatim from the blog of a well-known climate change doubter.

Behind the Furor Over a Climate Change Skeptic

[Viking12]

1. "Poor scholarship" is an awfully kind way of saying, "Carlin plagiarised made-up shit"