Climate Change -- Spin Files (left click underlined text) 1. The Bush Administration chose to litigate to prevent the EPA from implementing CO2 emissions controls. April 2, 2007 The Supreme Court “rebuked the Bush administration” .. “for refusing to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, siding with environmentalists in the court's first examination of the phenomenon of global warming.” Science, Environmental Defense, Washington Post 2. Jim Hansen, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies suffered censorship of his reports by Bush political operatives. New York Times, Columbia U website (includes full text of testimony before the Congress) 3. The Bush appointee head of NASA just recently observed he didn’t think warming was much of a concern. MSNBC. 4. Severe budget cuts by Bush are causing the loss of data accumlation. Satellite and labs will not be funded. One major satellite now functioning beyond projected lifetime will be allowed to die. Georgia's own world famous Savannah River Ecology Laboratory (doing work vital with a changing environment) has lost DOE funding and likely will die. Boston Globe, Reuters, MSNBC,, Science, Athens Banner Herald. 5. The AAAS provides many examples and editorially expresses grave concerns as to a dangerous politicization of studies and reports. Editor Donald Kennedy in Science, 30 March 2001 reported over 30 peer reviewed studies related to global climate change in the preceding year. This elicited an immediate response by a Bush operative attempting to raise doubts. 6. The prestigious Union of Concerned Scientists publishes statements of protest of Bush misuse of science, widely available in mainstream media. CNN, UCS website 7. Corporate giant EXXON is recruiting people who will create doubt about warming. The right wing American Enterprise Institute is offering thousands of dollars in grants to anyone willing to do the same. The Guardian, Washington Post 8. Consistently
refuses to cooperate with world governments'' Rejection
of Kyoto was only a beginning. USA Today Online,
AP
9. Web of Deceit The trail of intentional obfuscation and ignorance is rich and tangled. The more carefully one tries to follow this critical science the more clear the pattern is, and the more alarming. The following are a number of articles and references I have run onto and managed to preserve. Planet, Testimony to Congress, GAP Letters to the Ed sparking the formation of this archive. Two
late additions, both excellent summations of activities
to delay addressing and developing remedies to the consequences
of the planet warming. "Dick Cheney is the most influential
and powerful man ever to hold the office of vice president. This
series examines Cheney's largely hidden and little-understood
role in crafting policies for the War on Terror, the economy
and the environment." More good sources for information Article by Dr. Judith Curry at Georgia Tech that addresses some of the issues of "spin" directly: www.curry.eas.gatech.edu/currydoc/Curry_BAMS87.pdf Web Site that monitors policies on climate and obstructionism: http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/ Finally I am accumulating more and more material on policies leading to deaths and damage to health Here |
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