Collins: Climategate Hasn't Changed Her Mind
“I think it warrants the Environment and Public Works Committee taking a look at it.” Read More...
‘Climategate’ hasn't swayed swing votes on climate change legislation
By Ben Geman - 12/07/09 06:28 AM ET
...Sen. Susan Collins...argues...the "climategate" e-mails should be probed on Capitol Hill, but the e-mails haven't changed her views on global warming.
“There appears to be sufficient controversy and concern that I think it warrants the Environment and Public Works Committee taking a look at it,” said Collins...
...the e-mails...led her to check in with two scientists at [UM]... “They are disappointed at what appears may have happened, but they tell me it does not change their own conclusions or their own research,” she said. Collins still believes humans are causing climate change.
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