Scientists charge White House pressure on warming

[Green Gaia]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. scientists were pressured to tailor their writings on global warming to fit the Bush administration's skepticism, in some cases at the behest of a former 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.
"Nearly half of all respondents perceived or personally experienced pressure to eliminate the words 'climate change,' 'global warming' or other similar terms from a variety of communications," Grifo said.

Rick Piltz, a former U.S. government scientist who said he resigned in 2005 after pressure to soft-pedal findings on global warming, told the committee in prepared testimony that former White House official Phil Cooney took an active role in casting doubt on the consequences of global climate change.

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I didn't think it was possible to be any more disgusted with the Bush Administration.

 

[Quoth The Raven]

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I didn't think it was possible to be any more disgusted with the Bush Administration.

Oh, don't be too harsh...after all, they're only trying to protect us from a combination of bad science and out own hysteria. We wouldn't want to go running about changing anything based on that now, would we.
Go turn on all the appliances at once...you'll feel much better.

On a serious note, I wasn't aware they had lashings of credibility left, except possibly amongst the people who would still think they were a good government if they sold the entire country to China at a discount rate and leased it back 'to save money'.