The House Oversight committee has released its official report (PDF) on White House efforts to interfere with climate change science, and its conclusions are ... well, totally predictable. To wit:
The Committee's 16-month investigation reveals a systematic White House effort to censor climate scientists by controlling their access to the press and editing testimony to Congress. The White House was particularly active in stifling discussions of the link between increased hurricane intensity and global warming. The White House also sought to minimize the significance and certainty of climate change by extensively editing government climate change reports. Other actions taken by the White House involved editing EPA legal opinions and op-eds on climate change.
The sheer volume and magnitude of chicanery, when laid out in nearly 30 pages of detail, betrays a remarkably fastidious program of misinformation.
I suppose it's in the nature of things that many of the sub rosa efforts to tamper with the findings of real scientists would leak to the press and the Congress. After all, it's only Bush appointees who take an oath -- explicit or otherwise -- to uphold the president. The scientists who work in those appointees' agencies, on the other hand, were apparently pretty upset about all of this.
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stevenearlsalmony Posted 2:10 am
11 Dec 2007
It seems like only yesterday the prevailing view was global warming was a hoax, as ideological groups maliciously mislead the public by discrediting good science, by adamantly spreading uncertainty and relentlessly manufacturing controversy where none objectively existed, all for the purpose of supporting the selfish interests of the wealthy and powerful as well as promoting the specious idea that the global economy can grow infinitely in a finite world............ without damaging the Earth's ecosystems or dissipating our planetary home's limited resources. A hoax has surely been fradulently perpetrated on the public, but not the one we have been hearing about for 30 years.
The tampering with science we are noticing now is only the very latest iteration in an ongoing effort, both in government and big corporations, to halt the acknowledgement of virtual mountains of evidence, reasoning and common sense regarding the good science of climate change.
One question, if you please: Who are the actual peddlers of junk science with regard to global warming? I imagine these deceivers are getting easier to identify.
Steven Earl Salmony, Ph.D., M.P.A.
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population
http://sustainabilitysoutheast.org/
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Dutchboy777 Posted 7:02 am
11 Dec 2007
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