NASA Scientist - Bush Administration Suppressing Global Warming Evidence

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IOWA CITY, Iowa -- "The Bush administration is trying to stifle scientific evidence of the dangers of global warming in an effort to keep the public uninformed, a NASA scientist said Tuesday night. "In my more than three decades in government, I have never seen anything approaching the degree to which information flow from scientists to the public has been screened and controlled as it is now," James E. Hansen told a University of Iowa audience.

Hansen is director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and has twice briefed a task force headed by Vice President Dick Cheney on global warming.

Hansen said the administration wants to hear only scientific results that "fit predetermined, inflexible positions." Evidence that would raise concerns about the dangers of climate change is often dismissed as not being of sufficient interest to the public. "This, I believe, is a recipe for environmental disaster."

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Hansen said such warnings are consistently suppressed, while studies that cast doubt on such interpretations receive favorable treatment from the administration. He also said reports that outline potential dangers of global warming are edited to make the problem appear less serious. "This process is in direct opposition to the most fundamental precepts of science," he said."

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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apscience_story.asp?category=1501&slug=Global%20Warming

[tompea]

1. The Union of Concerned Scientists

included something like 56 Nobel Prize winners has decried bush's manipulation of science to fit policy....

so just add this one to the mix..
too bad it's not higher up in the media..so many evils..so little time

tom pea