result #111777 - DOES THIS MAKE YOU QUESTION BUSH'S "NEW STANCE" ON GLOBAL WARMING?

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DOES THIS MAKE YOU QUESTION BUSH'S "NEW STANCE" ON GLOBAL WARMING?

[+] serious ballot by cranky
ACTIVE Jan 31,2007 - Mon Oct 26, 09

Bush Administration Has Pressured Half Of Gov’t Scientists To Downplay Global Warming

A new report presented to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee by the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Government Accountability Project shows 435 instances in which the Bush administration interfered into the global warming work of government scientists over the past five years. Some other findings of the survey:

– 46 percent of government scientists “personally experienced pressure to eliminate the words ‘climate change,’ ‘global warming,’ or other similar terms from a variety of communications.”

– 46 percent “perceived or personally experienced new or unusual administrative requirements that impair climate-related work.”

– 38 percent “perceived or personally experienced the disappearance or unusual delay of websites, reports, or other science-based materials relating to climate.”

– 25 percent “perceived or personally experienced situations in which scientists have actively objected to, resigned from, or removed themselves from a project because of pressure to change scientific findings.”

James Hansen, the government’s top global warming researcher, has also revealed that the Bush administration tried to prevent him from speaking freely about global warming to the media. In 2004, the administration also had a requirement that “NASA press officers listened in whenever NASA scientists spoke with reporters, either on the telephone or in person.”

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Rep. Cooper: White House Barred Negroponte From Saying ‘Global’ And ‘Warming’ In Same Sentence

During today’s House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on the political manipulation of climate change science, Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN) revealed the Bush administration has barred Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte from saying the phrase “global warming.”

Cooper said he recently attended a dinner party at which Negroponte was speaking, and “word slipped through the crowd he was not allowed to utter the words ‘global warming,’ at least not in the same sentence. Apparently, he was allowed to say the word ‘global’ in a separate sentence, and ‘warming’ in a separate sentence, but not together.” (Think Progress)

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Does reading the above make you doubt that Bush is really serious about doing something about the very real threats from global warming?

Yes, Bush seems to want to cover up the truth about global warming	14
No, suppressing the truth means you want to do something about the problem	0

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COMMENTS:
Voted : Yes, Bush seems to want to cover up the truth about global warming
Oh, indeed Bush is very biased and stubborn on this issue. When it comes to science, personal desire for a particular result is not appropriate. He is being ridiculous, obviously.

However, a proper investigation as to what extent human beings cause global warming should be done with neither side of any political spectrum pushing for a result.

by xxxxxxxx on Wed Jan 31, 07 9:08am [+]

I thought he was going to use global warming as a justification for his plan to depopulate the planet.

Oops... Perhaps I've said too much.

by _Beelzebubba on Wed Jan 31, 07 9:10am [+]

Sorry. I meant "climate change". _Beelzebubba_Dubya

by _Beelzebubba on Wed Jan 31, 07 9:11am [+]

he doesn't want to depopulate the planet, in all his holiness he wants more and more cute lil' God's-images brought into the nasty stinkhell we're making. Somehow no one's mind, especially his, can make the leap to realizing over-population is a problem.
But we're not monkeys, no we are Gods :p

by Jyl on Wed Jan 31, 07 9:23am [+]

I read this yesterday on MSNBC.
My first thought was of Herzog's parents calling the suicide hotline.

by elvislennon on Wed Jan 31, 07 10:00am [+]

Voted : Yes, Bush seems to want to cover up the truth about global warming
"Global warming ? What Global warming" ? When it comes to the ecology, this Administration seems to think/hope if you ignore it, it will go away...as long as the big Corporations are making money...they just don't care...it's like ignoring a elephant in the bathroom...

by thesoothsayer on Wed Jan 31, 07 10:44am [+]

Voted : Yes, Bush seems to want to cover up the truth about global warming
I question all that there *is* re Mister Bush. Jyl, keep up the good work!

by Truthseeker013 on Wed Jan 31, 07 2:47pm [+]

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