Climate Researchers Feeling Heat From White House

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By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 6, 2006; A27


Scientists doing climate research for the federal government say the Bush administration has made it hard for them to speak forthrightly to the public about global warming. The result, the researchers say, is a danger that Americans are not getting the full story on how the climate is changing.

Employees and contractors working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, along with a U.S. Geological Survey scientist working at an NOAA lab, said in interviews that over the past year administration officials have chastised them for speaking on policy questions; removed references to global warming from their reports, news releases and conference Web sites; investigated news leaks; and sometimes urged them to stop speaking to the media altogether. Their accounts indicate that the ideological battle over climate-change research, which first came to light at NASA, is being fought in other federal science agencies as well.


More at (surprise!) the Washington Fishwrap (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/05/AR2006040502150_pf.html).

[cerberus]

I love it when the White House gets involved in quashing science. That's just suuuuuuper...:rolleyes:

[sunsettommy]

I love it when the White House gets involved in quashing science. That's just suuuuuuper...:rolleyes:

Such as?

I recall that America never RATIFIED the stupid Kyoto Treaty.

So what have you got?

Leave out James Hansen since he is obviously very free to talk about anything.

What have you got left?

Then we have a lot of access to NOAA through their website.There is a lot of information on climate all over it.

Been there?

Then we get this amazing paragraph,from the posted link:

Scientists doing climate research for the federal government say the Bush administration has made it hard for them to speak forthrightly to the public about global warming. The result, the researchers say, is a danger that Americans are not getting the full story on how the climate is changing.


Americans not getting the full story on how the climate is changing?

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!


America is getting a very ONE SIDED story on the always changing climate.It is in favor of the chicken littles and also the media's jihad against capitalism.

The skeptics are routinely DEMONIZED by the media,the environmentalists and ignorant people in general.

The United Nations own climate research group the IPCC is well funded and has the inside track on publishing.They produce a report every few years and the science in the reports are always distorted by the political panel who provides to the public,the sanitized version of what the science panel says.

So much for this strawman story.

[The_Sonarman]

I love it when the White House gets involved in quashing science. That's just suuuuuuper...:rolleyes:
Global Warming isn't science. It's Junk Science.

[Timberwolf]

Sonar, that is an insult to Junk Scientists everywhere...global warming doesn't even rate being junk science, as it's not science at all....LOL

[DoctorDoom]

I love it when the White House gets involved in quashing science. That's just suuuuuuper...I love it when clueless libertrolls point to utter crap and call it science. At best, their "science" is on a par with Solarmanite (known only to unrepentant fans of "Plan 9 From Outer Space", and pronounced however the "actors" chose).

Colonel Tom Edwards: Why is it so important that you want to contact the governments of our earth?
Eros: Because of death. Because all you of Earth are idiots.
Jeff Trent: Now you just hold on, Buster.
Eros: No, you hold on. First was your firecracker, a harmless explosive. Then your hand grenade: you began to kill your own people, a few at a time. Then the bomb. Then a larger bomb: many people are killed at one time. Then your scientists stumbled upon the atom bomb, split the atom. Then the hydrogen bomb, where you actually explode the air itself. Now you can arrange the total destruction of the entire universe served by our sun: The only explosion left is the Solaranite.
Colonel Tom Edwards: Why, there's no such thing.

Colonel Tom Edwards: You speak of Solaranite. But just what is it?
Eros: Take a can of your gasoline. Say this can of gasoline is the sun. Now, you spread a thin line of it to a ball, representing the earth. Now, the gasoline represents the sunlight, the sun particles. Here we saturate the ball with the gasoline, the sunlight. Then we put a flame to the ball. The flame will speedily travel around the earth, back along the line of gasoline to the can, or the sun itself. It will explode this source and spread to every place that gasoline, our sunlight, touches. Explode the sunlight here, gentlemen, you explode the universe. Explode the sunlight here and a chain reaction will occur direct to the sun itself and to all the planets that sunlight touches, to every planet in the universe. This is why you must be stopped. This is why any means must be used to stop you. In a friendly manner or as (it seems) you want it.
Colonel Tom Edwards: ...Why, a particle of sunlight can't even be seen or measured.
Eros: Can you see or measure an atom? Yet you can explode one. A ray of sunlight is made up of many atoms!
Jeff Trent: So what if we do develop this Solanite bomb? We'd be even a stronger nation than now.
Eros: [with disgust] Stronger. You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!

Memorable Quotes from Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052077/quotes)

Why are we fretting over a little global warming when we can explode the universe?

[Telit laikitiz]

Twinkle, Twinkle little star. We are causing global warming. We must shut off the sun. Is it me or is it getting cold in here? Turn the sun back on. That's better. Wait a minute, now its getting hot again, what will we do. Just shut up and leave things alone, you can't change anything anyway, except taking peoples money. That's the answer, we will collect all the money and then we will save the planet. OK, let's call these session of the U.N. on global warming and Kyoto protocol closed. All in favor? Aye! The ayes have it, see you next year. Isn't science wonderful?

[DoctorDoom]

Attention, world: I have the output controls for the sun. I expect an annual stipend of $1 billion for a solar energy level that is optimal. If the money is not forthcoming, buy either asbestos jumpsuits or parkas, depending on my mood at any given time.

Contact me at my Latverian palace when you are ready to agree. Have a nice day.

Vic

[Rhino]

Would that be a progressive stipend, or a regressive one?

[DesertFox]

Vic, Albore already has a tax plan in mind for your billion, you piker.