Jim Hoft
GatewayPundit
12/15/2010
Oops!… Sorry about that mass unemployment and drought.
In December 2008, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued what is known as a “biological opinion” imposing water reductions on the San Joaquin Valley and environs to safeguard the federally protected hypomesus transpacificus, a.k.a., the delta smelt. As a result, tens of billions of gallons of water from mountains east and north of Sacramento was channelled away from farmers and into the ocean, leaving hundreds of thousands of acres of arable land fallow or scorched.
Democrats created a dust bowl based on junk science.
A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that the liberal study that forced California officials to cutback on water to the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta was based on faulty science.
SFGate reported:
A federal judge has ruled that a landmark 2008 environmental study laying the groundwork for controversial water cutbacks from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta relied on faulty science.
In his much-anticipated decision released Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Oliver Wanger ordered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to re-examine and rewrite its plan for the threatened delta smelt.
The agency’s solution for shoring up the collapsing species – namely cutting water exports to California cities and farms – is “arbitrary” and “capricious,” the Fresno judge wrote in his 225-page decision…
The article continues at GatewayPundit.
H/T iOwnTheWorld
Update: Melanie Phillips of the Spectator writes about the “disappearing polar bear” scam:
…As I have so often observed in respect of the Great Anthropogenic Global Warming Scam, if you feed rubbish premises into the computers you get rubbish predictions out. It’s what’s called in the vernacular a self-fulfilling argument, aka a closed thought system that is intrinsically inimical to scientific inquiry. And you don’t need a PhD to know that.
Why should we take seriously a single word that Mr Amstrup and his fellow scientific chumps say ever again?
Update 2: At MichelleMalkin.com Doug Powers discusses science czar John Holdren’s concerns about “scientific integrity”:
John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, issued a memorandum Friday to the heads of all federal departments and agencies calling for “a clear prohibition on political interference in scientific processes and expanded assurances of transparency.”
The memorandum comes as the science upon which key administration decisions are made on issues like climate change is being challenged by many Republicans in Congress. As the next Congress approaches, key members of the new House Republican majority have said they plan to challenge the Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
