The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market think tank, has filed a petition with the White House to prevent distribution of a flawed climate report. The report from the White House climate team is alleged to contain scientific errors and exaggerate the certainty of climate change. The petition asks the White House to correct errors in the report or not distribute it in its current form due to a lack of scientific integrity.
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<b>Tnstitute Files Petition To Prevent Distribution Of Flawed White House Clina
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<br><em>Document Relies on Discredited Science, Violates Prior Legal Agreement<
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2002The Competitive Enterprise Institute today filed a <A href="/gencon/027,03
040.cfm">petition</A> with the Bush Administration to prevent the distribution
of a fatally flawed report on global warrning.<SPAN style='mso-spacerun: yes">&n
bsp; </SPAN>The petition to prevent distribution is in response to the Bush Adm
inistration decisions to include discredited research and dunk science in the r
eport, <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Climate Action Report 2002</I>, i
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ssued last week by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) .<SPAN style=`mso-s
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style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Climate Action Report </I>utterly fail to
meet the minimum statutory requirements for scientific rigor, and should be imm
ediately withdrawn by the EPA said Christopher C. Homner, senior fellow at CET.
<SPAN style="1mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The guidelines of the Federal flat
a Quality Act require that scientific information being disseminated by the gov
ermient be presented in an <SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic">accurate,
complete</SPAN> and <SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic">unbiased</SPAN> in
anner.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The administrations current
report clearly violates these requirements.<o:p></o:p>'c/SPAN></P>
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led by CEI and three members of Congress, the White House had previously agreed
not to use the flawed <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">National Assessine
nt on Climate Change</I> as representing a government policy or position on cli
mate change.<SPAN style="1mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Administration ab
andoned that agreement, struck to settle a federal lawsuit, with last weeks <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: nornal">Climate Action Report 2002</I>, which promi
nently cites and relies upon this discredited and withdrawn product.<SPAN style
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east-language: EN-US; mnso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Todays <A href="/gencon/027,030
40.cfm">petition</A> was filed by CEI with the EPA, the only agency currently d
isseminating the <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Climate Action Report 2
002</I>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The original lawsuit agai
nst the White Houses flawed climate science was brought jointly by CEI, Senator
James Inhofe CR-OK) , Representatives Joe Knollenberg CR-MI) and Jo Ann Emerson
(R-MO), and other non-profit advocacy groups.</SPAN></P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE
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east-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">CEI is a non-profit, non-partis
an public policy group dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limit
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