Tuesday, March 20, 2007

(Yet more) on global warming politics....

This article from today's NY Times discusses congressional investigation White House editing of government reports on global climate change.....

Material Shows Weakening of Cimate Reports.

2 comments:

Steve Troxell said...

perhaps a slightly off topic response here, but I actually just saw the same article from another site, and was going to post in here... in any case my question/comment is this: if these charges are true, this is to me a huge story. Why do you suppose, this is receiving very little press in the mainstream media? A quick survey of CNN.com, MSNBC, etc reveals no coverage of this controversy (as of yet), which seems to be a big topic in the blogosphere. Shouldn't an issue as serious as global warming studies being intentionally altered to suit the administration agendas be making national news headlines outside the blogosphere?

das411 said...

Having trouble creating a new post so I will just put this here since it is somewhat related anyways:

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PRAGUE, March 21 (Reuters) - Czech President Vaclav Klaus said on Wednesday that fighting global warming has turned into a a "religion" that replaced the ideology of communism and threatens to clip basic freedoms.

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"This ideology preaches earth and nature and under the slogans of their protection -- similarly to the old Marxists -- wants to replace the free and spontaneous evolution of mankind by a sort of central, now global, planning of the whole world," he added.
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