Top NASA Scientist: Bush is Politicizing and Screening Global Warming Science

[babylonsister]

Eat that, Rush!

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Top NASA Scientist: Bush is Politicizing and Screening Global Warming Science
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Mon, 03/19/2007 - 2:56pm. Alerts

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The House Oversight and Reform Committee held a hearing Monday on the Bush Administration's control over scientific findings regarding climate change. The hearing centered around claims of censorship by Dr. James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

"In my more than three decades in government, I have never seen anything approaching the degree to which information flow from scientists to the public has been screened and controlled as it has now," Dr. Hansen testified. "Review and editing of scientific testimony by the White House OMB (Office of Management and Budget) seems to now be an accepted practice."

Dr. Hansen highlighted multiple instances when Administration officials had edited scientific findings and prohibited him from talking freely to the media. He also complained that NASA's Earth Science Research and Analysis budget was reduced retroactively by 20% last year, preventing the development of new technology and the effective use of existing surveying tools. "One way to avoid bad news: stop the measurements!" he said

George Deutsch, a former NASA Public Affairs Officer , testified that NASA had standard practices for keeping scientists in check. "Among those practices were that PAOs should listen to interviews as they’re being conducted, that superiors can do interviews in someone’s stead (known as the 'right of first refusal'), and that NASA employees should report interview requests to the Public Affairs office. In fact, one of my duties was to send out a daily email to senior NASA Public Affairs personnel known as 'On The Record,' in which I detailed the day’s media requests.

(Deutsch quit last year after the New York Times revealed that he had lied about having a college degree on his resume and had tried to impose his personal religious views while at NASA. Hired when he was just 23, his only previous experience was an internship for the George W. Bush reelection campaign and an assistant position on the Presidential Inaugural Committee.)

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[ComerPerro]

1. problem is, for every legitimate expert we have, they can dig up one or two

because, face it, right now denying global warming is a very lucrative, very profitable business. Some people are making entire careers out of it.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. How long before Dr. Hansen's medical history of psychoanalysis

is published?