The doctored science of global warming

EDITORIAL: The doctored science of global warming - Washington Times
"Pure science undertaken for science’s own sake is as rare as a rainbow.
It’s certainly scarce in Washington, where the quest for knowledge is vulnerable to the bias of politics.
Skeptics of President Obama’s climate change agenda say they see new evidence of fraud. 
If administration officials are colluding with scientists to cook the evidence, such as it might be, to demonstrate that the planet is warming, the skeptics deserve everyone’s thanks.
Whistleblowers within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) complained last year that a major study by agency researcher Thomas Karl, refuting evidence of a pause in global warming, had been rushed to publication. 
The implication was that the study was coordinated with Obama administration officials to add to the urgency of the president’s climate change agenda in advance of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris.
...Data consist of facts, and facts can be cherry-picked to yield a desired effect.
In the NOAA study, researchers found that ocean temperatures measured by ships were warmer than those recorded by buoys anchored in place, and scientists “developed a method to correct the difference between ship and buoy measurements.”
Ship’s engines, however, can heat nearby water and produce false readings. 
...The argument was the basis for the Paris climate change agreement, endorsed by nearly 200 nations. If documents were to emerge suggesting temperature data was doctored to reach an expedient conclusion in the NOAA study, and if White House officials were part of such a scheme, that would be proof that science had been recruited to serve politics. 
...EPA officials quietly schemed with environmentalists to write regulations reinforcing their shared climate change agenda.
The agency has denied the accusations..."