Right-Wing Think Tank Sues To Block Release Of Climate Report

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Suit Challenges Climate Change Report by U.S.
By Andrew C. Revkin
New York Times, August 7, 2003

"An antiregulatory group sued the Bush administration yesterday in an effort to force the government to stop distributing a report on climate change that the group contends is inaccurate and biased.

It was filed in Federal Court in Washington by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a group with industry backing that contends global warming poses no significant risks.

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The report in question was the product of nearly a decade of work by dozens of government and private scientists - mostly during the Clinton administration - who had a slim budget and tight deadlines that forced them to compromise sometimes on their choice of computer models and other tools, several study authors said.

Because of the inherent weaknesses, the study quickly became a prime target of industry lobbyists, conservatives, and a small group of scientists who deny that greenhouse emissions pose a significant threat."

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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/07/politics/07DATA.html

[donsu]

1. they can suppress and deny all they want

but destruction marches on

[treepig]

2. just another example showing that irony-is-dead

an antiregulatory group seeking to regulate the distribution of information?


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