Of all the problems Republicans face today, effective recruitment of non-ridiculous whistleblowers and cause celebre federal bureaucrats has to be rated high on the list.

First we had fired IG Gerald Walpin, whose supporters may now be considering firing him themselves. And now we have EPA climate scientist Al Carlin, whose critical report on the scientific basis of global warming was suppressed by officials at the EPA. It's been all over Fox for the last few days. And Sen. Inhofe says there must be a criminal probe into the suppression of Carlin's finding.

Only Carlin isn't a climate scientist at all. He's not even a scientist. He's an economist at EPA, who's been there since 1971 and recently took up climate science as a hobby. Details, details ... He decided to submit a report on his own initiative that no one seems to have asked him to write. Zack Roth has the shocking story.