White House Stonewalling Release Of Climate Change Documents
White House Stonewalling Release Of Climate Change Documents
Today, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is holding a hearing to investigate “political interference in the work of government climate change scientists.” In the days leading up to the hearing, the committee requested documents from the White House Council on Environmental Quality “hoping to use them to underscore the suggestion that the administration has a habit of editing scientific reports to downplay the effects of global warming.” But according to CongressDaily, the White House is refusing to turn over the documents:
By presstime Monday, documents that were requested as recently as last week and as far back as six months ago had not been provided to the committee.
“Right now, the administration’s reaction doesn’t make a whole lot of sense,” Waxman’s chief of staff Phil Schiliro said Monday afternoon. “We’ve been trying to get information that we believe the committee should have for six months now. We don’t understand why it hasn’t been provided; this isn’t top secret information.”
A spokesman for Oversight and Government Reform ranking member Thomas Davis, R-Va., also sounded miffed about the difficulty in obtaining documents. “We’re still trying to get them and not happy about it,” the spokesman said.
Even without the documents, the hearing will be a strong indictment of the administration’s politicization of climate science.
The Union of Concerned Scientists and the Government Accountability Project said they would present “new evidence of suppression and manipulation of climate science” before the committee. Drew Shindell of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies will testify about a “now-defunct 2004 requirement that NASA press officers listened in whenever NASA scientists spoke with reporters, either on the telephone or in person.” Rick Piltz, who resigned in 2005 from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program will speak about White House interference with climate change reports and “questionable reviews of scientific research.”
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Never mind the (Global) War on Terror or the War on Drugs: the Republicans have their hands full with their War on Science.
January 30th, 2007 at 10:31 amThey have always hated science, it’s based in reality.
January 30th, 2007 at 10:32 amFat chance of getting anything from the agencies any more with Bush new Executive Order.
It is a “screw you” and all those who want clean government.
January 30th, 2007 at 10:34 amSubpoena?
January 30th, 2007 at 10:40 amI can’t believe these Congressmen and Senators who continually profess all of this “unhappiness” toward the White House tactics most every time they overstep their authority! I wish that the Congress would acquire some gumption and do their job by representing us as they were elected to do! Get off your bumms and put a halt to these shannigans AT ONCE, before we have no rights left all all to speak of!!
January 30th, 2007 at 10:58 amBush stonewalls on everything, so I am NOT surprised!
January 30th, 2007 at 11:00 amCome on, you liberal conspiracy-loving, Bush-hating weenies! The Bush administration is NOT stalling or refusing to release the documents. They are busy editing the documents for correct spelling and grammar (you know, don’t you, that that is a HIGH priority for Mr. Bush) and for the most up-to-date, sound scientific data.
/Tony Snow voice off/
January 30th, 2007 at 11:03 amBush/cheney/rove are intent on destroying America as we know it. They are simply following the warning from Gandhi to the letter.
January 30th, 2007 at 11:06 amIsn’t it time to impeach yet???? How much more will he be allowed to do?
January 30th, 2007 at 11:07 ampolitics without principle; pleasure without conscience;
wealth without work; knowledge without character;
business without morality; science without
humanity; and worship without sacrifice.
I thought the Republicans were limiting their platform to only 8 words?
January 30th, 2007 at 11:21 amHere are some scientists books coming out
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash2.htm
ROTFL
January 30th, 2007 at 11:22 am#10 – Eight is all they could come up with on their own. . . but they are very good at stealing from others!
January 30th, 2007 at 11:23 amOh, oh. Somebody has overdosed on their happy pills again and has posted on TP.
January 30th, 2007 at 11:29 am#2 FT – You have it nailed tight.
January 30th, 2007 at 11:38 amSince they aren’t in charge of making up the facts, it can’t be right…
Yup, I’m back. Sorry, I had a vacation but now I am here to laugh at the nuts and post a few facts.
ROTFL
January 30th, 2007 at 11:39 amdrudge report connected with scientists and facts is equivalent to trying to imagine Paris Hilton doing Shakespearean theater.
January 30th, 2007 at 11:46 amThanks for proving YET AGAIN that you’re a pathetic little lying man, Dumbya.
We’re not as stupid as Repukes Shrub, we remember what you lied about in you SOTU.
Come back to Texas, Boy George and leave the ‘politicking’ to those of us who have a functioning brain stem…
January 30th, 2007 at 11:48 amhttp://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2007/s1836250.htm
January 30th, 2007 at 12:04 pmWeather experts meet in Paris to discuss climate change
ABC Online – 1 hour ago
TONY EASTLEY: This week, hundreds of the world’s weather experts are meeting in Paris to nut out an authoritative report on the affects of global warming.
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http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-01-29-voa44.cfm
Climate Experts Meet to Discuss Long-Awaited Global Warming Report Voice of America
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http://www.boston.com/ news/ world/ europe/ articles/ 2007/ 01/ 29/ world_leaders_urged_to_act_on_global_warming_study
World leaders urged to act on global warming study Boston Globe
Caption:
January 30th, 2007 at 12:07 pm“See, tree hugging is easy, just like this…, and the bark is also quite delicious, and easy to gnaw off if you have dentition like I do!”
Come back to Texas, Boy George and leave the ‘politicking’ to those of us who have a functioning brain stem…
Comment by DieNowForPeace
Hey now DNFP,
Careful what you wish for, they may wheel out another T Schiavo in a last gasp effort at saving their party. She had a functioning brainstem. I am told the Bush WH and especially Bush himself, was amazed at Terris brain. Envious is a better word.
lmao
January 30th, 2007 at 12:12 pmJust another brick in the house that das Fuhrer Bush built.
January 30th, 2007 at 12:30 pmThere not stonewaling – there nothung their! Their is no globol warming! Wear I live it snowing, so wears the warm? Those liberuls should go back to something they do more better, like teeching comunism or trying to take are guns away – which they wont! But their is no globol warming. Just take a walk outside – doe it feel warm to you? It all all and tiper goar and thy’re ilk. Stop lissening to them – there loosers!
January 30th, 2007 at 3:32 pmWAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
“1984″ wasn’t a scifi novel – it was a prophecy –
Cold War, War on Drugs, War on Terror – these are the long wars Orwell wrote about that the Depublicans & Republicrats use to eviscerate our rights and transfer massive amounts of wealth from the poor and middle class to the ruling classes and the Military Industrial Complex.
January 30th, 2007 at 3:45 pmStop[ lissening] to them -[ there] loosers!
Comment by Carl Gordon
Learn to spell,and I might read your posts.
January 31st, 2007 at 12:54 amRightwing trolling becomes less creative by the day.
Somebody took away their sucker!
Nothing worse than the pouting rightwing lackeys of warcriminals.
January 31st, 2007 at 5:54 amhttp://www.climatesciencewatch.org/index.php/P45/
Climate Science Watch is a nonprofit public interest education and advocacy project dedicated to holding public officials accountable for the integrity and effectiveness with which they use climate science and related research in government policymaking, toward the goal of enabling society to respond effectively to the challenges posed by global warming and climate change.
See Details: http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/index.php/csw/details/about-climate-science-watch/
January 31st, 2007 at 7:09 amScience is about explaining natural events with logic and reason.
It’s NOT about shaping theories to fit some political agenda.
I think they tried that once, by coercing Galileo to recant his observations,
and put the Earth back in the “center of the solar system” instead of the Sun!
Look how well that agenda turn out.
Let Scientists review and critique other Scientists.
Keep politics in the Legislative halls, and out of the Labs!
Scientists have been trying to tell us something — it’s about we listen.
Global Warming Matters
January 31st, 2007 at 10:47 pm