Climate Czar Holdren Holdren Lies and Lies About Climategate E-mails

Barack Obama's science czar John Holdren was on Capitol Hill yesterday, where he testified before a Select Committee Hearing about climate change. Holdren whitewashed the recent scandal in which e-mails from the East Anglia Climate Center were released. The e-mails showed definitively that scientists manipulated the data, but that didn't seem to bother Holdren.

"The e-mails are mainly about a controversy over a particular data set and the ways a particular small group of scientists have interpreted and displayed that data set," he said. He later claimed that the data that was manipulated "constitute a very small part of the immense body of data and analysis on which our understanding of the issue of climate change rests."

In fact, the University of East Anglia is perhaps the central academic hub for climate research. Its work was featured prominently in the IPCC report that is always cited as gospel by global warming alarmists. The scientist who wrote many of the e-mails, Phil Jones, is considered one of the world's foremost climatologists. And contrary to what Holdren said, the e-mails were about much more than just the way data was "interpreted" and "displayed". They showed scientists tried to cover up inconvenient temperatures, attempted to blacklist scientific journals that published papers critical of climate change, and may have broken the law by evading Freedom of Information Act requests.

For how long can Holdren and Obama spin before the truth catches up with them?