New post may signal a thaw on warming

[MaineDem]

I never heard about this appointment on Monday. The Bush administration investigating global warming???

WASHINGTON — William Brennan spent the early part of his career cleaning out a tanker's bilge. But his new job might be tougher, as he coordinates federal research into climate change, one of the country's most hotly contested subjects. Brennan, a Castine native, worked on merchant marine and commercial fishing vessels early in his career. He earned several college degrees studying the oceans.

And he rose through government posts from Maine commissioner of marine resources to a top post at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The agency announced Monday that the 54-year-old Brennan became the acting director of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program. The post coordinates $2 billion in research spread across 13 federal agencies.

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President Bush campaigned in 2000 to regulate heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions but reversed that position in office by arguing it would stifle economic growth.

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/state/060625climate.shtml

Were they shamed into this by Al Gore?