Abbott and the idiot AG from Virginia tried to claim that the hacked e-mails in the climate gate non-scandal showed that the science here was not to be trusted. The Court rejected that claim.
On August 13, 2010, EPA issued a denial of the petitions for reconsideration accompanied by a 360-page response to petitions (RTP). Id. at 49,556. It determined that the petitions did not provide substantial support for the argument that the Endangerment Finding should be revised. According to EPA, the petitioners’ claims based on the CRU documents were exaggerated, contradicted by other evidence, and not a material or reliable basis for questioning the credibility of the body of science at issue; two of the factual inaccuracies alleged in the petitions were in fact mistakes, but both were “tangential and minor” and did not change the key IPCC conclusions; and the new scientific studies raised by some petitions were either already considered by EPA, misinterpreted or misrepresented by petitioners, or put forth without acknowledging other new studies. Id. at 49,557–58.
The climategate claims were really very stupid and I am glad that the EPA and the court rejected this stupidity. Abbott and the idiot AG from Virginia were really stupid to try this argument in a court.
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