Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
A while back I posted up comments on how EPA had handled the case of Alan Carlin, a career bureaucrat opposed to action on climate change who complained about how his dissenting views were handled in the agency. At the time I wrote about the process that EPA used in handling Carlin: As I argued in the similar case of Jim Hansen in 2006, EPA's actions to limit Carlin's ability...
TommyWonk (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
Economists have a hard time agreeing with each other. So why is the story that an obscure economist disagrees with climate scientists such a big deal? Alan Carlin has toiled in obscurity for years as an analyst in the EPA's National Center for Environmental Economics. Even though his work focuses on cost-benefit analysis and market incentives, Carlin hurriedly prepared lengthy,...
OpenMarket (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
In today’s New York Times , John Broder strains to belittle Alan Carlin, the “whistle blower” whose skeptical comments on EPA’s proposed endangerment finding the Agency tried to suppress . Most of the piece is larded with innuendo and spin. Below is the text of Broder’s article…
OpenMarket (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Today, Rep. Darrell Isa (R-CA), ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. James Sensenbrenner, ranking member of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, released a joint minority staff report titled,…
Skeptic's Corner (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
... sea surface temperatures cooling, Easterbrook expects 30 years of global cooling. EPA analyst Alan Carlin - an MIT-trained economist with a degree in physics - referred to "solar variability" and Easterbrook's work in a document that warned that politics had prompted the Environmental Protection Agency and countries to pay "too little attention to the science of global...
Values Voter News (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
... evidence that solar-charged particles have a big impact on global temperatures....EPA analyst Alan Carlin -- an MIT-trained economist with a degree in physics -- referred to "solar variability" and Easterbrook's work in a document that warned that politics had prompted the EPA and other countries to pay "too little attention to the science of global warming" as...
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
... sea surface temperatures cooling, Easterbrook expects 30 years of global cooling. EPA analyst Alan Carlin -- an MIT-trained economist with a degree in physics -- referred to "solar variability" and Easterbrook's work in a document that warned that politics had prompted the EPA and other countries to pay "too little attention to the science of global warming" as partisans ignored the...
ideonexus (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Anchiornis huxleyi is yet another dinosaur-bird transitional species; however, researchers have recently figured out that it is firmly in the dinosaur category, which dramatically pushes back the history of bird evolution. Anchiornis huxleyi Credit: Arthur Weasley Dr. Alan Carlin has been held up as an example of the politicization of Global Warming as the EPA refused to forward [...]...
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
"The red line is my government pension." Get ready: looks like the Right is gearing up for its next fight - trying to debunk the "myth" of climate change. They already have their figurehead: Dr. Alan Carlin, an economist who has been working in a corner at the E.P.A. since the Nixon administration, and who is, by all accounts, an ardent climate change denier. Dr. Carlin is at the...
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
... … and I’ve stretched this analogy to death. This is essentially what happened with Alan Carlin , 72, a EPA career economist upset that his views on climate science weren’t getting due consideration. EPA scientists had listened to his opinion in the past, but when they excluded it from a report earlier this year, the Competitive Enterprise Institute jumped on the...
Green Hell Blog (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Check out John Broder’s ‘hit’ piece on EPA economist Alan Carlin in today’s New York Times. Our comments in bold. Behind the Furor Over a Climate Change Skeptic By JOHN M. BRODER WASHINGTON — 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...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Fox News interviewing Alan Carlin. Note her first statement: "Most of us are not scientists. You are." He did not contradict her. Just two days ago our favorite Member of Congress, Michele Bachmann, was reminding us of how the EPA suppressed reports that contradict the government's position on global warming, writing in the Read the full story on TreeHugger
Brainicane (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Fox News interviewing Alan Carlin. Note her first statement: “Most of us are not scientists. You are.” He did not contradict her. Just two days ago our favorite Member of Congress, Michele Bachmann, was reminding us of how the EPA suppressed reports that contradict the government’s position on global warming, writing in the Read the full [...]
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
[Shock: In the controversy over the greatest scientific fraud of all time, The Grey Lady continues to side with the fraudsters]: Furor Over Alan Carlin, a Climate Change Skeptic - NYTimes.com Adora Andy, the agency’s chief spokeswoman, called the accusation that Dr. Carlin had been muzzled for political reasons “ridiculous.” “There was no predetermined position...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
A closer look at the case of Alan Carlin, a global warming contrarian at the E.P.A., paints a more complicated case than has been widely publicized.
