--- Joe Bauman <bau@desnews.com> wrote:
I'm open-minded on this issue. But I have a hunch there are a lot of politically-correct politicians and scientists who are not willing to at least look at the possibility that global warming is natural.
Joe, Ideological politicians ignoring data and trying to force a conclusion that global warming is not man-caused by manipulating reports scientists are a real concern for me - too. Clear Skies - Kurt 2005-06-08 White House allows a former lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute to edit the national global warming plan - watering down its contents http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/08/politics/08climate.html?ex=1275883200&en=2... 2005-06-08 Whitehouse defends its editing of the report http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-06-08-white-house-climate_x.htm 2005-06-12 White official resigns after document editing flap http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0612-04.htm And to keep this thread marginally astronomical - here's one about global warming and NASA: 2006-01-29 Climate Expert [NASA/NOAA's James Hansen] Says NASA Tried to Silence Him George Deutsch, a recently appointed public affairs officer at NASA headquarters, participated in a series of telephone calls to Hansen "who relayed the warning to Dr. Hansen that there would be 'dire consequences' if such statements [that 2005 was probably the warmest year in at least a century] continued . . ." http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/science/earth/29climate.html?ei=5090&en=51... 2006-02-08 A Young Bush Appointee Resigns His Post at NASA "George C. Deutsch, the young presidential appointee at NASA who told . . . a Web designer to add the word 'theory' at every mention of the Big Bang, resigned yesterday, agency officials said." http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/08/politics/08nasa.html?ex=1297054800&en=dc3c... - Kurt ____________________________________________________________________________________ Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.yahoo.com