Re: Good science / USGS manipulating data
"Has nothing to do with climate in terms of global warming, but of measuring contaminants in the environment."
Well, that is disingenuous at best.
One of the tenets of global warming is that it is a man-made phenomenon driven by "contaminants in the environment."
Lets pick coal, one of those contaminants specifically cited in the article.
Government policy in this country is that coal is one of the factors driving global warming.
This is a quote from the NY Times from Interior Secretary Jewell saying that the federal policy on coal "...takes into account its impacts on climate change.”
So the main question is:
Why does a government lab knowingly manipulate data?
A logical assumption might be that it is done because the actual data does say what the government wants it to say.
Perhaps someone else has another explanation?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
