The Bushies have gamed climate science to suit their political agenda.
Bush administration officials throughout the government have engaged in White House-directed efforts to stifle, delay or dampen the release of climate change research that casts the White House or its policies in a bad light, says a new report that purports to be the most comprehensive assessment to date of the subject.
Researchers for the non-profit watchdog Government Accountability Project reviewed thousands of e-mails, memos and other documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests and from government whistle-blowers and conducted dozens of interviews with public affairs staff, scientists, reporters and others.
The group says it has identified hundreds of instances where White House-appointed officials interfered with government scientists’ efforts to convey their research findings to the public, at the behest of top administration officials.
Surprise! To be fair, Dustin Hoffman’s character in Rain Man could see the direction this story was headed whens Bush, an old petroleum hand backed by petrodollars, tapped petroleum exec Dick Cheney as veep and filled the administration with old petroleum hands. Nobody expected America to lead the pack on carbon efficiency.
The only surprise, for me anyway, is exactly how far America can travel towards real-deal Lysenkoism before anybody throws up the red flag.
Krista
Well, I don’t know if Hansen had an actual point, but I will admit that “Mm-bop” was damn catchy.
Mr Furious
Never forget that Cheney tapped himself for VP. It says volumes about both men…
r4d20
The only surprise, for me anyway, is exactly how far America can travel towards real-deal Lysenkoism before anybody throws up the red flag.
I dont care what anyone else says, summer wheat can grow in winter if the farmers believe in socialism. Genetics is a ruling-class lie.
Zifnab
How can you even begin to put global warming on the same pedistal as gay marriage and flag burning, John? There are some serious issues in this country that require our attention.
Al GoreGlobal Warming is not one of them.Gay people are getting married, John. Married. And the Democrats sit idly by doing nothing.
Ellison, Ellensburg, Ellers, and Lambchop
Fixed
Bubblegum Tate
But…but…blogsforbush says that global warming is just leftwing fiction, and besides, why aren’t you talking about all the great benefits global warming could bring? I’d say that settles it.
lard lad
Jonathan Chait nails it:
In retrospect, I think that it might have been a mistake for Al Gore to narrate An Inconvenient Truth. Most loyal Republicans would rather teabag a goat than side with Al on anything.
(Imagine if Gore appeared before Congress again, only this time to sing the praises of Bush’s tax cuts… might send half the GOP congressmen into violent, eye-rolling seizures on the spot!)
Ellison, Ellensburg, Ellers, and Lambchop
Evidence for disastrous, man-made global warming isn’t getting stronger — if anything, it’s being assailed now more than ever. A British documentary (which I’m sure many skeptics watched) citing climate scientists who dismiss the GW alarmists came out last month. That’s probably the main reason for the declining numbers, along with public and scientific backlash to Gore’s film and some unsavory facts about the signatures on the IPCC study.