Confidentality of the Research

[GURPS]

since when is Gov. Funded Research Confidential :shrug:

Agency won’t give GOP internal docs on climate research

The federal government’s chief climate research agency is refusing to give House Republicans the detailed information they want on a controversial study on climate change.

Citing the confidentiality of the requested documents and the integrity of the scientific process, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said it won’t give Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) what he recently subpoenaed about the research.

At the center of the controversy is a study that concluded there has not been a 15-year “pause” in global warming. Some NOAA scientists contributed to the report.

Skeptics of climate change, including Smith, have cited the pause to prove that increased greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from burning fossil fuels, are not heating up the globe.

Smith, the chairman of the House Science Committee, vehemently disagreed with the study’s findings. He subpoenaed for communications among the scientists and some data, leading to charges from Democrats that he was trying to intimidate the researchers.

it is my opinion they are covering for 'scientists' that were lying their asses off, and got caught ....
if it was good pure research data, they would be falling all over each other to publish the findings, not hiding in the dark