Bush Admin: Censoring Science Global Warming 4/4

Dr. James Hansen is widely regarded as the leading climate change scientist in the country. For the past twenty-five years, he has headed NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Just over a year ago, Dr. Hansen went public with a charge that made headlines around the world—that the Bush administration had been trying to silence his warnings about the urgent need to address climate change. His story is detailed in a new book by author Mark Bowen titled Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming.

The increasing powers concentrated in the executive branch prove convenient for new administrations, so they do not give them up. It is perhaps more subtle in Democratic administrations, but they do not want or expect a scientist to present evidence that contradicts what they want people to believe. Our Founding Fathers would have tears in their eyes if they saw how the democratic process has been distorted.

A January 2007 report by the Union of Concerned Scientists regarding the $16 million public relations campaign to spread disinformation about global warming that has been waged over the past decade and more by oil giant ExxonMobil. According to the authors, this report "details how the oil company, like the tobacco industry in previous decades, has • raised doubts about even the most indisputable scientific evidence • funded an array of front organizations to create the appearance of a broad platform for a tight-knit group of vocal climate change contrarians who misrepresent peer-reviewed scientific findings • attempted to portray its opposition to action as a positive quest for 'sound science' rather than business self-interest • used its access to the Bush administration to block federal policies and shape government communications on global warming"



The Government Accountability Project produced a similar report in March 2007, called "Redacting the Science of Climate Change".

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[im4wur]

Thank you for posting this series! Excellent!

If anybody needs a grin after this. Here are the Union of Concerned Scientists' 2008 finalists for their cartoon contest to draw attention to the misuse and distortion of federal government science:

ucsusa(.)org/scientific_integr­ity/science_idol/2008-science-­idol-finalists(.)html

I am SO looking forward to scientific integrity resuming it's proper place in governmental (and public) consciousness!

[JohannEthDiablerie]

Thank you for the post - wonderful stuff.

[matmicmj]

PEACE AND LOVE

[crutmauler]

Hansen has destroyed the integrity of GISS in a way that is criminal fraud. 

[68spaceman]

That the mainstream media in the US has ignored this scandal should prove to anyone that you can't trust them anymore. We all need to do our own research to discover the truth. That we need to spend hours doing on our own research instead of relying on the media/journalists to do their job is in itself an 'inconvenient truth.' Thank you Dr Hansen and Democracy Now for working diligently for us.

[GreenRiver72]

I would imagine our forefathers are turning over their graves constantly, in part by the ignorance of the sheep in this country that believe humans are the main influence in climate change (while our temperature has warmed 1/3 as much as the climate models say it should have)

[AriesLudzik]

This charlatan, Hansen, should be sued for professional malpractice - last month he & his GISS announced that October 2008 was the hottest October on record. Turns out the reason for the freak figures was that scores of temperature records from Russia and elsewhere were not based on October readings at all. Figures from the previous month had simply been carried over and repeated two months running.

He is a fraud and has committed massive errors like this many times. His lies are legion !

[wilbert1755]

Over 1500 speeches at $70.000 each latter telling people he is being Muzzled? What a Lying SOB.