Everyone knows the history of global warming is a series of drops in temperature.
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Oh wow. Is that graph created from data from these guys? A "lab" that was shut down for data manipulation? Naaaaah. It couldn't be from them....
"Someone in the inorganic section of a USGS lab in Lakewood, Colorado manipulated data – some of which related to the environment – from 1996 to 2014, with “serious and far ranging” effects, the Department of the Interior (DOI) Inspector General (IG) recently reported.
The Energy Resources Program lab closed March 1, 2016 as a result of the bad data, but now agency officials won’t say who’s been punished or even if anybody has or will be.
“Due to the confidential nature of personnel actions, we cannot disclose any specific actions that have been taken,” USGS spokeswoman Anne-Berry Wade told The Daily Caller News Foundation. She also cited privacy laws and refused to name the officials involved."
Read more: Federal Lab Refuses To Reveal Who Manipulated Environmental Data For Two Decades