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'Most transparent administration ever' keeps carbon tax plans secret | WashingtonExaminer.com

...And, curiously, Gina McCarthy, EPA's new administrator but then head of the Air and Radiation Office, had almost nothing to say to her senior EPA colleagues about carbon, carbon taxes and the war on coal despite the fact coal is a major factor in regulating air pollution.

So how did she communicate with her boss and other top staffers? Text messages, we learned. She was often seen texting during congressional hearings. So, CEI requested her phone records for the 18 days she was known to have appeared before Congress. EPA said it had no responsive records.

No, wait, EPA says. She did text. But all the texts -- every single one -- on her government-issued PDA, which she is supposed to use at least primarily for work, were personal messages to family members.

How was that determined?

Twitter / Foxgoose: . @AndrewDavies @Greenpeace ...

. @AndrewDavies @Greenpeace Appears to start 1997 & end 2007. Why can't #climate activists ever understand "trends" can come to an end?

Did a 2006 Arctic “Heat Wave” Largely Cause 2007′s Sea Ice Melt? | Talking About the Weather

In terms of the mechanisms restricting ice melt this season, to the extent that they have anything to do with air temperature, a cool Arctic above 80N basically means an absence of overrunning air from southern latitudes. Pretty much every temp spike up there is simply a wind spike — from the south.

IPCC : That Medieval Warm Period We Used To Believe In Wrecks Our Story, Lets Get Rid Of It | Real Science

From the 1990 IPCC report. Remarkably, no one prior to Michael Mann had noticed that the world was heating out of control since 1860.

NASA : That 90 Year Long US Cooling Trend Wrecks Our Story : Let’s Get Rid Of It | Real Science