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Adventurer
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 Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:42 pm Post subject: U.S. climate scientists allege White House pressure |
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U.S. climate scientists allege White House pressure
Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:29pm ET
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Scientists charge White House pressure on warming
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. scientists felt pressured to tailor their writings on global warming to fit the Bush administration's skepticism, in some cases at the behest of an ex-oil industry lobbyist, a congressional committee heard on Tuesday.
"Our investigations found high-quality science struggling to get out," Francesca Grifo of the watchdog group Union of Concerned Scientists told members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
A survey by the group found that 150 climate scientists personally experienced political interference in the past five years, for a total of at least 435 incidents.
[This is not really new. How does that contrast with his recent verbal conessions on the issue? ]
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2007-01-30T204336Z_01_N30346494_RTRUKOC_0_US-BUSH-WARMING.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsArt-R2-Today-3 |
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Hollywoodaction
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| Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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"Allege"? Is that really in doubt? You've got a president who cut funding for organisations that don't promote abstinence and is hellbent on preventing stemcell research, and has made it so that the law would label feotuses as people.
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Kimchi Cowboy
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| Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Damn. Double-damn! I was trying to post the same thing, but couldn't access the site for a while... had to re-do the whole thing and you beat me to it! Curse you, internet! I shake my fist at you! Curses!! |
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| Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:35 am Post subject: |
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| Kimchi Cowboy wrote: |
| Damn. Double-damn! I was trying to post the same thing, but couldn't access the site for a while... had to re-do the whole thing and you beat me to it! Curse you, internet! I shake my fist at you! Curses!! |
The difference is I had Harper and Bush's take on the issue, so they pair up quite nicely, so it was for the best. So as Bobby McFerrin would say "Don't worry, be happy". |
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