James Inhofe asks Barbara Boxer to investigate Climategate, but Boxer claims the leaker is the criminal

  Senator James Inhofe– who is a member of the  Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works– has asked the chairman of that committee, Barbara Boxer, to open up an investigation into Climategate in an effort to get to the truth about the scandal.

  Here is what James Inhofe had to say:

Inhofe said the recent disclosure of emails between several prominent climatologists reveal “possible deceitful manipulation of important data and research used by the US Global Change Research Program” and the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.”
 
He suggested “a possible conspiracy by scientists, some of whom receive or have received US taxpayer funds, to stifle open, transparent debate on the most pressing issues of climate science.”

  If these scientists have manipulated data and if they have purposely ignored data that was contrary to their agenda while they were receiving taxpayer money, as it now appears they did, than a crime surely must have been committed. It seems to me that these scientists had to keep promoting this foolish notion that man is causing the earth to warm, when in fact the earth has been in a cooling period for ten years, in order to keep the money coming in to their agencies.

  If the scientists ever admitted that global warming did not exist, the money to study this hoax would have been cut off because there would be no reason to study it any longer. So these scientists made the decision to manipulate the evidence to ensure that the money was not cut off.

  Barbara Boxer agrees that a crime has been committed, and she just may open up an investigation into the matter. The problem is that she believes that the actual crime is the fact that these emails were leaked in the first place.

You call it ‘Climategate’; I call it ‘E-mail-theft-gate’

  She continued:

We may well have a hearing on this, we may not. We may have a briefing for senators, we may not,” Boxer said. “Part of our looking at this will be looking at a criminal activity which could have well been coordinated.

“This is a crime”

  She also said that if she did open up the investigation that James Inhofe is asking for that the investigation would also look into what she considers the true crime as well.

  What she calls “’email-theft-gate,” (that just rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?) I call whistleblowing. And when the stimulus bill was passed and signed into law by Barack Obama, the laws protecting whistleblowers was strenghtened in an amendment that was added to the legislation. Needless to say, but I will say it anyway, Barbara Boxer voted in favor of the stimulus package. When she did so she voted to strengthen the protections against the same type of activity that she now calls criminal.

  I suppose that if it takes expanding the investigation into the area of how the emails were hacked and leaked that would be acceptable just as long as the investigation also focused on whether the scientists have manipulated the data for personal reasons, but I just don’t think we can trust these global warming alarmist to seek a truth that would undermine their agenda. The investigation will just slowly be manipulated to gravitate toward investigating and punishing the whistleblower and less focus will be given to the crime that these scientists have committed. If the original crime had not been committed the whistleblower would never had to have come forward in the first place.

  Climate change is already a huge money-making industry, there are plenty of people who are already capitalizing on the fear that these scientists have spread and we are getting ready to commit billions, if not trillions, of dollars to combat this crisis. The responsible thing to do here would be to at least make sure that the evidence used to justify this expenditure was gained by legitimate means. We are owed at least that much.