Climate Researchers Feeling Heat From White House
By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
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.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/05/AR2006040502150.html
3 comments:
Did they learn this media technique from the Talaban or Sadam? Or, perhaps, this a left over lesson learned from China or the former USSR.
It is obvious to me that the flow of information MUST be stemmed in order to defeat the evildoing folks who plotted the September the 11th attacks on America and all that we stand for.
Scientist made the atomic bomb. It was a weapon of mass destruction. Evil doers make weapons of mass destruction, therefore they must be scientists. Scientists are evil doers who must be stopped!
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