--> Bush Administration Stifles Global Warming Data

The Bush administration is stifling scientific evidence of the dangers of global warming in an effort to keep the public uninformed about the progress of global warming, a NASA scientist said Tuesday night in Iowa City, Iowa.

"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.

He 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", Hansen told the audience...


He said reports that outline potential dangers of global warming are edited to make the problem appear less serious to the public...

He identifies the process control in three steps:
First, there is a selection of what results will be reported public.. Results that would
raise concerns about climate change are slowed and in some cases dismissed as not of sufficient interest for public dissemination.


Second, there is commonly a massaging of the text of the scientific messages that are presented. Wording is altered to make the message about climate change to appear to be less serious, or, among the various results in a paper, the ones highlighted are those that do not raise
concern about climate change. He said this process is in direct opposition to the most fundamental precepts of science....



Hansen concludes:"if the evidence from science is distorted, if there is a selection from the scientific results of those bits that support a predetermined course of action, this is a dangerous anthropogenic interference with and a misuse of the scientific process. How can the phrase “sound science” be applied to results emanating from a procedure that flies in the face of the fundamental basis of science?"

Then he adds: "I know that such interference with and misuse of the scientific process is occurring now to a degree unprecedented in my scientific lifetime. ... I find a willingness to listen only to those portions of scientific results that fit predetermined inflexible positions.


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