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I'm surprised the redumblican morons actually believe in scientific reports
enough to think they warrant changing.
Bush official altered scientific reports on global warming 45 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A White House official with no scientific training edited
government climate reports to play down the links between greenhouse gas
emissions and global warming, according to internal documents obtained by
The New York Times, the paper said.
Philip Cooney, chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental
Quality, often would subtly alter documents -- for example adding
"significant and fundamental" before the word "uncertainties" -- to create
an air of doubt about findings few scientists dispute, said the daily
Wednesday.
On one document, Cooney added the work "extremely" to the sentence: "The
attribution of the causes of biological and ecological changes to climate
change or variability is extremely difficult."
The alterations Cooney made on drafts of several reports issued in 2002 and
2003 often appeared in the final reports, said the daily.
Cooney, who before working at the White House in 2001 was a lobbyist at the
American Petroleum Institute and led the oil industry's fight against limits
on greenhouse gases, is a lawyer with a bachelor's degree in economics and
lacks scientific training, the daily said.
Rick Piltz, who resigned in March as a senior associate in the office that
coordinates government climate research, said in a memorandum sent to top US
officials last week that editing of scientific reports tainted official
efforts to establish the causes of climate change.
"Each administration has a policy position on climate change," Piltz wrote,
according to The New York Times. "But I have not seen a situation like the
one that has developed under this administration during the past four years,
in which politicization by the White House has fed back directly into the
science program in such a way as to undermine the credibility and integrity
of the program."
I'm surprised the redumblican morons actually believe in scientific reports
enough to think they warrant changing.
Bush official altered scientific reports on global warming 45 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A White House official with no scientific training edited
government climate reports to play down the links between greenhouse gas
emissions and global warming, according to internal documents obtained by
The New York Times, the paper said.
Philip Cooney, chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental
Quality, often would subtly alter documents -- for example adding
"significant and fundamental" before the word "uncertainties" -- to create
an air of doubt about findings few scientists dispute, said the daily
Wednesday.
On one document, Cooney added the work "extremely" to the sentence: "The
attribution of the causes of biological and ecological changes to climate
change or variability is extremely difficult."
The alterations Cooney made on drafts of several reports issued in 2002 and
2003 often appeared in the final reports, said the daily.
Cooney, who before working at the White House in 2001 was a lobbyist at the
American Petroleum Institute and led the oil industry's fight against limits
on greenhouse gases, is a lawyer with a bachelor's degree in economics and
lacks scientific training, the daily said.
Rick Piltz, who resigned in March as a senior associate in the office that
coordinates government climate research, said in a memorandum sent to top US
officials last week that editing of scientific reports tainted official
efforts to establish the causes of climate change.
"Each administration has a policy position on climate change," Piltz wrote,
according to The New York Times. "But I have not seen a situation like the
one that has developed under this administration during the past four years,
in which politicization by the White House has fed back directly into the
science program in such a way as to undermine the credibility and integrity
of the program."