Agency won’t give GOP internal docs on climate research

Agency won’t give GOP internal docs on climate research | TheHill:
"The federal government’s chief climate research agency is refusing to give House Republicans the detailed information they want on a controversial study on climate change.
...At the center of the controversy is a study that concluded there has not been a 15-year “pause” in global warming. Some NOAA scientists contributed to the report.
Skeptics of climate change, including Smith, have cited the pause to insist that increased greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from burning fossil fuels, are not heating up the globe.
...“It was inconvenient for this administration that climate data has clearly showed no warming for the past two decades,” he said in a statement. “The American people have every right to be suspicious when NOAA alters data to get the politically correct results they want and then refuses to reveal how those decisions were made.”...