He said he decided to speak
out after seeing reports in papers including the Washington Post and
Forbes magazine claiming that scientists feared the Trump administration
would fail to maintain and preserve NOAA’s climate records.
Dr Bates said: ‘How ironic
it is that there is now this idea that Trump is going to trash climate
data, when key decisions were earlier taken by someone whose
responsibility it was to maintain its integrity – and failed.’
NOAA not only failed, but
it effectively mounted a cover-up when challenged over its data. After
the paper was published, the US House of Representatives Science
Committee launched an inquiry into its Pausebuster claims. NOAA refused
to comply with subpoenas demanding internal emails from the committee
chairman, the Texas Republican Lamar Smith, and falsely claimed that no
one had raised concerns about the paper internally.
Last night Mr Smith thanked Dr Bates ‘for
courageously stepping forward to tell the truth about NOAA’s senior
officials playing fast and loose with the data in order to meet a
politically predetermined conclusion’. He added: ‘The Karl study used
flawed data, was rushed to publication in an effort to support the
President’s climate change agenda, and ignored NOAA’s own standards for
scientific study.’
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