Panel Hears Climate 'Spin' Allegations

[Omaha Steve]

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20070130/D8MVSBAO0.html

Panel Hears Climate 'Spin' Allegations

Jan 30, 5:23 PM (ET)

By H. JOSEF HEBERT

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal scientists have been pressured to play down global warming, advocacy groups testified Tuesday at the Democrats' first investigative hearing since taking control of Congress.

The hearing focused on allegations that the White House for years has micromanaged the government's climate programs and has closely controlled what scientists have been allowed to tell the public.

"It appears there may have been an orchestrated campaign to mislead the public about climate change," said Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif. Waxman is chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee and a critic of the Bush administration's environmental policies, including its views on climate.


Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., second from right, listens to Sen. Christopher Bond, R-Mo.,center, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007, prior to a hearing on global warming. From left are, Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Del., Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., seated, Bond, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., and Boxer. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook)

Climate change also was a leading topic in the Senate, where presidential contenders for 2008 lined up at a hearing called by Sen. Barbara Boxer. They expounded - and at times tried to outdo each other - on why they believed Congress must act to reduce heat-trapping "greenhouse" gases.

FULL story at link.

[hippiechick]

1. already on home page:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x81711

[PDJane]

2. Does this surprise anyone?

This administration will simply lie to protect their corporate donors. They seem to think enough money will make them immortal.......either that, or this president really and truly is a believer in the end times/rapture crap.

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[WePurrsevere]

4. Perhaps they should question one of the most outspoken GOP Global Warming deniers,

Inhofe, what his role was in helping spread disinformation and spin as previous chairman of the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee?

Global Warming: The Worst of All Environmental Scares by Senator James Inhofe:
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_200308/ai_n9268057/pg_1

Inhofe has called Global Warming “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.” and compared An Inconvenient Truth to Hitler’s book, Mein Kampf. More info/links here:
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/24/inhofe-third-reich/

American Prospect: Sen. James Inhofe's Science Abuse
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/11/opinion/main666190.shtml

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The American people deserve to hear the whole truth about Global Warming including how it's been dealt with by this GOP government. Thankfully with Senator Boxer and the rest of the Dems now in power I finally have hope that they will.