"Flood-gate": Texas Commission Scrubs Report of All References to Climate Change

[wtmusic]

This man is running for President.

"'We Live in the State of Denial, the State of Texas' Censored Rice University Oceanographer John Anderson Tells Climate Progress

In one of the most flagrant recent instances of scientific censorship, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) refused to publish a report chapter unless all mention of climate change and its impact on sea level rise were eliminated. The author — Rice University oceanographer John Anderson, a leading expert on sea level rise with more than 200 publications — refused. As a result, TCEQ killed his chapter in The State of the Bay, a regular publication of the Galveston Bay Estuary Program.

Climate Progress interviewed Anderson along with other Texas scientists who revealed that this is not the first time officials removed references to climate change in a state report. Dr. Wendy Gordon, a scientist who spent 8 years working for the TCEQ and its predecessor agencies, told me she was not surprised by this censorship at all. She related the story of one of her colleagues whose attempt to incorporate climate change into a state water planning report was 'eviscerated by the higher-ups.'"

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/10/12/342210/flood-gate-perry-sea-level-rise-censorship/#more-342210

[saras]

1. We need a new word for "so stupid it's evil" or "so evil it's stupid"

Stevil? Evupid? nah.

Anyone?

[lunasun]

3. just evil will do ///let us not pass this off as pure ignorance

[jwirr]

2. In that case have they added that the only other option is that God

is really angry with Texas. So angry that he is letting it dry up and catch fire? :sarcasm: