The Bush administration is at it again. It is suppressing scientific views that run contrary to the administration's line.
NO, WAIT! It's the Obama administration that is conducting a war on science. It appears that the EPA has suppressed a report solely because it contradicted the president's belief in imminent catastrophe due to global warming.
Reports Declan McCullagh for CBS News:
The Environmental Protection Agency may have suppressed an internal report that was skeptical of claims about global warming, including whether carbon dioxide must be strictly regulated by the federal government, according to a series of newly disclosed e-mail messages.
Less than two weeks before the agency formally submitted its pro-regulation recommendation to the White House, an EPA center director quashed a 98-page report that warned against making hasty "decisions based on a scientific hypothesis that does not appear to explain most of the available data."
Not only was the researcher's report not forwarded. He was told to stop working on climate change and to instead update the agency's grants database.
This is all so confusing. I thought we were living in the era of change, of openness, of liberalism and tolerance!
Liberal Reader| 6.30.09 @ 2:28PM
Spare me.
Pete| 6.30.09 @ 3:22PM
Mr. McCullagh had better get his resume out there...you don't work for a mainstream mouthpiece and even come close to exposing the real "inconvenient truth."
Mike | 6.30.09 @ 3:29PM
Any effort to quash a dissenting opinion or minority report is troubling. Having read the entire McCullagh report, it appears that minority opinions were considered, some included in the final report and others rejected. The preponderance of solid scientific opinion supports the hypothesis about global warming. Is there dissent? Yes. The difference between the Bush administration and the Obama administration is that the preponderance of scientific opinion was rejected in favor of the minority opinion during Bush's administration. The opposite is true now. Even so, how research is conduct and policy crafted matters.
Mike | 6.30.09 @ 3:30PM
Any effort to quash a dissenting opinion or minority report is troubling. Having read the entire McCullagh report, it appears that minority opinions were considered, some included in the final report and others rejected. The preponderance of solid scientific opinion supports the hypothesis about global warming. Is there dissent? Yes. The difference between the Bush administration and the Obama administration is that the preponderance of scientific opinion was rejected in favor of the minority opinion during Bush's administration. The opposite is true now. Even so, how research is conduct and policy crafted matters.
Alan Brooks| 6.30.09 @ 4:47PM
let's ask the Derb to do a piece here. He isn't averse to doing an article for AS, is he?