Scientist rips Bush on global warming-Says data 'screened and controlled'

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6341451/

Scientist rips Bush on global warming

NASA expert says data 'screened and controlled'

The Associated Press
Updated: 11:34 p.m. ET Oct. 26, 2004

IOWA CITY, Iowa - The Bush administration is trying to stifle scientific evidence of the dangers of global warming in an effort to keep the public uninformed, a NASA scientist said Tuesday night.

“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 is now,” James E. Hansen told a University of Iowa audience.

Hansen is director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and has twice briefed a task force headed by Vice President Dick Cheney on global warming.

Hansen said the administration wants to hear only scientific results that “fit predetermined, inflexible positions.” Evidence that would raise concerns about the dangers of climate change is often dismissed as not being of sufficient interest to the public.

“This, I believe, is a recipe for environmental disaster.”

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[JohnOneillsMemory]

1. I did sound for Al Gore in Berkeley tonight speaking on global warming.

He had a nice powerpoint presentation with photos of the loss of the icecaps and glaciers and the drought struck areas going barren in the higher temps searing habitats around the world.

Al explains ice loss and meteorology well and obviously liked to play Mr Science while the capacity 700 journalism students and older faculty in Wheeler Auditorium listen rapt.

Glad I got to be the knobs and dials guy for his non-partisan speech on a threat we all face together.

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2. This is big. Another "surprise", if it's picked up.... n/t

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3. More suppression: CIA report, flu-vaccine report, Plame outing...

on and on and on. Suppression should be news, and a campaign issue --

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