Alabama’s State Climatologist becomes EPA’s worst nightmare

[AUtiger98 24]

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Alabama’s State Climatologist this week urged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to readdress the physical science behind its Clean Power Plan, which assumes that carbon dioxide emissions are the driving force behind variations in the Earth’s climate.

Dr. John Christy is a climate scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) and has been Alabama’s State Climatologist since 2000.

“I build data sets from scratch to answer questions about climate variability and to test assertions people make about climate change,” he said during testimony before the U.S. Senate. “That’s really what the scientific method is all about.”

It is that commitment to starting “from scratch” without a predetermined outcome that has made him a particularly bothersome thorn in the EPA’s side in recent years.

While Christy does not deny that the Earth’s climate is changing, he vehemently rejects the assumptions at the core of the EPA’s growing list of environmental regulations.

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To sum it up, the EPA is making decisions based on the Avg of the Models (black line), but the actual temps are the blue and green lines at the bottom.

[cptau 124]

He's fighting the politics of this. He's in a red state and the major coal producing states are red states. Wyoming, W Virginia, Kentucky. They don't care about votes form the red states.

[AUtiger98 24]

He's fighting the politics of this. He's in a red state and the major coal producing states are red states. Wyoming, W Virginia, Kentucky. They don't care about votes form the red states.

Their problem is state like WV used to be blue and now they are going red. Other states use Dr. Christy's work too.