Climate Reports Politically Filtered

The New York Times reported today, June 5, government climate report has repeatedly edited in a way that softened links between such emissions and global warming. Philip A. Cooney, chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, “removed or adjusted descriptions of climate research that government scientists and their supervisors, including some senior Bush administration officials, had already approved. In many cases, the changes appeared in the final reports.” Click here to read NY Times article

Documents of Interest

• Strategic Plan for the Climate Change Science Program
• National Academies Statement

Organizations of Interest

• US Climate Change Science Program
• The Government Accountability Project (GAP)
• Green Peace

Related

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.