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This has got to be the worst presidency in the US/world history
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| emc^2 |
If someone told me that Bush and Chenney feast on the flesh of the living (well, formerly living), I wouldn't be even slightly surprised.
How's this:
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White House gagged NASA scientists over global warming: Hansen
Posted on : 2007-03-20 | Author : Thomas Blythe
News Category : Environment
WASHINGTON - Dr James Hansen, a director of Goddard Institute of Space Studies at NASA has said that the White House continually interfered with climate scientists and stymied their work by editing their reports on the issue.
Dr Hansen said NASA's climate scientists were effectively gagged by the White House, which also cut their budget needed to study the effect of climate change on the planet. He made these comments in a written testimony to the US House of Representatives yesterday. The budget has been cut by 20 percent as compared to 1 to 3 percent increases in other areas.
"Interference with communication of science to the public has been greater during the current Administration than at any time in my career," Dr Hansen wrote in his testimony. "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 has now."
Dr Hansen said the interference and the orders to weaken reports were often verbal, meaning that there was no record that such orders were issued. This allowed officials to dismiss interference reports as hearsay.
Dr Hansen was the first to cite the dangers of global warming to the administration. But he says in his testimony that when he delivered a lecture on the record global temperatures in 1995 to the American Geophysical Union, the White House had called to complain.
"It became clear that the new constraints on my communications were going to be a real impediment when I was forced to take down from our website our routine posting of updated global temperature analysis," he wrote, adding that this interference had muddled public perception on the dangers of global warming.
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...now, if they could force Nasa to cover up something like Global Warming... WHAT WOULD THEY DO ABOUT THE DATA THAT PROVED ALIENS EXIST/VISITED OUR PLANET?
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| Omega_M |
| Yeah, I was watching the senate hearing on c-span yesterday where he was called in to speak. it was pretty chaotic. Al Gore was going to testify today. Missed it cause it was at 9:30 AM. Too early for me to wake up and watch TV. :o I will watch the proceedings on c-span.org sometime today. Interesting topic. |
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| tranceDJ |
Seems pretty simple to me...the less you spend on a problem like global warming, the more you can spend on the war in Iraq:rolleyes:
I would not want to be running for president right now, even if you win you're going to have a huge mess to clean up left by the Bush administration |
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| emc^2 |
Of course Bush administration knows about alienz. ...as Condi Rice is one!
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| idoru |
| I'm not surprised. Just one more year of this bull then (hopefully) we should be all good. |
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| Omega_M |
The argument made by the White House chief of staff at the Council on Environmental Quality, Mr. Cooney, was that the scientists are paid by the government to do their job and he simply edited Mr. Hansen's words on global warming to keep the report in line with the Government Policies. He claimed the report was too ambiguous and lacked direct evidence linking human actions to global warming. Ironically, Mr. Cooney now works for Exxon Mobil, and the American Petroleum Institute was a sponsor of the report.
The senate hearing was very chaotic and there were heated exchanges between the republicans and the democrats on a number of issues. The republicans blamed the committee chair, a dem, for speaking more than his alloted time, giving them less time, refusing to call in their witness to testify on the same day and what not. :stongue:
The NASA public affairs dude who was called in to testify, a 25 year old official who censored Mr. Hansen - a NASA Director, was a total tool. The committee read out his email exchanges with other officials where he declared that NASA must add "theory" every time they use the words "Big Bang", because he believed "intelligent design" and "creationism" was never discussed in such reports and hence people were not informed about other theories dealing with the Origin of Universe. :stongue: |
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| emc^2 |
^^ wrong.
The Official George W. Bush
"Days Left In Office"
Countdown Clock:
671 DAYS
10 Hrs 30 Min 57.5 Sec
Plenty of time to f*ck things up even more. |
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| D-res |
| quote: | Originally posted by idoru
I'm not surprised. Just one more year of this bull then (hopefully) we should be all good. |
that's what I'm hoping |
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| inconspicuous |
| I'll take 'Jimmy Carter' for 200, Alex. |
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| Sunsnail |
| Read this in Seed a few months ago |
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| Orbital32 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Omega_M
Yeah, I was watching the senate hearing on c-span yesterday where he was called in to speak. it was pretty chaotic. Al Gore was going to testify today. Missed it cause it was at 9:30 AM. Too early for me to wake up and watch TV. :o I will watch the proceedings on c-span.org sometime today. Interesting topic. |
I used to watch C-span when i was a kid. When i got in trouble they made me watch C-span. Horrible, horrible, horrible thing to do to a kid. |
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