INTRODUCTION

Last week, President Barack Obama pledged that during his Administration, he’d see “that scientific data is never distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda - and that we make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology." Viewing this commitment through the lens of the global warming issue gives us hope that President Obama will break ranks from the lockstep conformity demanded of politicized scientists concerning the issue of global warming. Perhaps now we can get on with discovering the truth through science, and leave political pressure out of it. ...

Global Warming background

In 2001, over 17,000 scientists signed a petition asking the United States government to not agree to the Kyoto treaty. These distinguished researchers said: "There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate."

Too often, when congress is asked to pass environmental legislation, the legislation is based on emotional junk science rather than data based on reproducable, rigorous, tested, peer-reviewed results.  In no area has this been more obvious than climate change. Because the Kyoto Treaty and much of the suggested environmental legislation would decimate jobs in southern California, constituents may be interested to learn of the growing scientific consensus that global warming is not manmade, if it is in fact even occuring. The links below will provide a great deal of information that is of interest.