EFL of boringly repetitive "Bush wants to lay waste to the enviroment after he is done lying about WMD" type charges that are not backed up.
The Bush administration is guilty of misrepresenting scientific knowledge and misleading the public, a group of America’s most senior scientists claimed yesterday. They said the government had manipulated information to fit its policies on everything from climate change to whether Iraq had been trying to make nuclear weapons.
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The NAS reviewed the draft strategy and gave the CCSP a chance to improve its plans. Yesterday’s report is an evaluation of these revisions. "The plans are quite good now actually, it has been quite responsive to the scientific community," said Diana Liverman, director of the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University and a co-author of the NAS report. "But the academy’s concerns are mostly about whether the resources will actually be there to implement it. And if the resources aren’t there, which bits of it are going to be implemented?"
Translation - the administration has propsed a sensible plan for real studies to determine scientifically whether Global Warming is factual. Work that could possibly have taken place prior to the Koyoto Protocals. In science its customary to test the hypothesis developing an expensive plan based on the assumption that the hypothesis is true.
Linda Mearns of the national Centre for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, agreed: "I think it does indicate that they have been certainly pressured by the criticism by the scientific community." Writing in today’s Guardian Life section, Prof Liverman said scientists in the US were increasingly complaining of political interference with their work. She outlines the increasing suppression of research that goes against government policy on global warming. "To be a scientist working on climate change in the US is to be frustrated by the backlash against environmental science, research budget cuts and by the American media’s general lack of interest in environmental issues," she writes.
It’s like everybody wants us to stop politicizing our studies.
One group of scientists had federal lawsuits filed against them by lobby groups for producing reports based on fictitious data on the effects of climate change across the US.
Which group?
The UCS has long been critical of the Bush administrations attitude to climate change. "The distortion of scientific knowledge for partisan political ends must cease if the public is to be properly informed about issues central to its well being," its letter said.
Translation - let the kooks generate the results they want on their self-perpetuating alarmist studies. Every other administration has let us run amok. Why should your administration require us to strictly adhere to the rules of science. |