All References To Sea Level Rise, Warming Cut From His Report By TCEQ, Rice Professor Notes

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GALVESTON – A Rice University professor is accusing Texas' environmental agency of systematically deleting all references to climate change and sea-level rise from an article he wrote about changes in Galveston Bay.

The deletions by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality are ideological and political, said John Anderson, the Maurice Ewing professor of oceanography at Rice. "I don't think there is any question but that their motive is to tone this thing down as it relates to global change," Anderson said. "...It's not about the science. It's all politics."

A TCEQ spokeswoman said she was seeking a response to a Houston Chronicle request for comment. Anderson said the TCEQ won't allow the article - written for a report by the TCEQ's Galveston Bay Estuary Program - to be published without the deletions. That, and Anderson's refusal to accept the changes, are holding up publication of The State of the Bay, a periodic report published by the program.

The TECQ contracted with the Houston Advanced Research Center to produce the report about two years ago and the research council asked Anderson to submit an article on sea level rise in Galveston Bay. The Houston Advanced Research Center received the final edited version of his article about three months ago, Anderson said.

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[dtexdem]

1. Just more censorship and lies from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quackery.

Their slogan on this issue should be: "deny till you drown."

But, then, poor air quality may do in Texans before they have a chance to be affected by sea-level rises. ;-)

[AnneD]

2. The scientific community here....

is hot under the collar about this. As will be the Galveston Bay preservation societies once this gets out. They were pulling stunts with NASA research...assholes.

You can't make reasonable responses or plans without factual data. This is not Enron book keeping we are talking about.

[Viking12]

3. Scientists schmientists. We'll just pray and everything will be okee-dokee.

[AnneD]

4. Prayer is no substitute....

for good government or good planning.

[Viking12]

5. I didn't think the smilie was necessary

^^^^^^:sarcasm:^^^^^

[AnneD]

7. It wasn't needed...

That was the come back line that had my RW Perry voting SIL laughing and rethinking Perry's piety.

[silverweb]

6. Poor reTHUGs.

They just can't get anywhere without having to cheat, distort, and lie.

You'd think at least some of them would have enough insight to realize what that means and reconsider their positions. Maybe there's still some hope of that, but I'm not counting on it.