Your Govt Working Hard to Keep You Uninformed - Evidence

by reposted Thursday, Mar. 01, 2007 at 6:11 PM

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has received a few of the documents it has requested from the White House after months of filing requests in their "investigation into suspicions that the Bush White House has edited scientific reports to downplay the effects of global warming."

[from the Excellence in Government website, 2/27/07]

......During the Jan. 30 hearing, Waxman said documents provided to the

committee last fall showed changes were made in a draft EPA report

to add "balance" by emphasizing "beneficial effects" of climate change.

Other changes deleted a discussion of health and environmental effects

of climate change and added language saying atmospheric concentrations

of carbon are not a "good indicator of climate change," the chairman said.

The documents also showed that a statement was removed indicating

that "changes observed over the last several decades are likely mostly

the result of human activities," Waxman said.

This was rewritten to state that the link between human activity and global

warming cannot be "unequivocally established," he added.

No Bush administration officials testified at the January hearing. ......

More:

http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0207/022707cdam1.htm

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