Scientists Report Government Intimidation on Climate

Reported today:

When the Union of Concerned Scientists issued surveys to 1,600 climate scientists within the federal government, 46 percent responded that they have been pressured to remove phrases such as “global warming” and “climate change” from publications of their research. 43 percent reported that their research has been edited by their superiors in order to change the meaning of their findings.

If global warming were not a genuine threat, then government administrators would not need to work so much to attempt to squelch the evidence that global warming exists, is a serious threat, and is due to some extent to human activity. If global warming were really a hoax, then all those government administrators would have to do to expose the hoax would be to allow government-employed climate scientists to report their results without interference.

To get an idea of the scope of the institutional disdain within the Bush Administration, take a look at the Union of Concerned Scientists’ alphabetical list of examples of abuses against science by the current federal government.

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