White House tries to censor and silence climate critics from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U..S. Geological Survey:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...040502150.html
NASA "dampening" it's expert personnels:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/25/national/25MOVI.html
Bush government uses chance of opportunity to go after Greenpeace:
http://www.greenpeace.org/internatio...ets-greenpeace
Fish and Wildlife Service regulations on a theme that is taboo:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/nation...0_bears09.html
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/e...ovalPerham.PDF
Scientists offered cash to challenge climate change:
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/cl...004397,00.html
And that is just a very minor portion of the related stories that were published during the last 3 years.
We could play this game for the rest of the week, my archive is full. But I fail to be attracted by this kind of playing.
I summarize from my memory: Bush has
- significantly softened up the Clean Air Act from 1970,
- lowered emission limits for older powerplants
- while endlessly delaying the second Clean Air Act that was meant to even tigthen the demands of the first. Scientists have repeatedly sued the WH for censoring or distorting vital parts of their related works, to make these works less objecting to the WH's policies
- Kyoto protocol has been decided against.
- At the same time decisions were made that are very pleasing for energy companies,
- reduced environmental protection,
- aimed at opening Alaska and the Arctic for industrial exploitation,
- launched the Clean Sky Initiative that is everything but that, that - if passed - helps to weaken and delay health protection of the oridnary public as is already required by American laws right now and allows mercury emissions to climb by three times, sulfur emissions by two times, and also a drastic climb in nitrogen oxygens compared to current levels, people will find it much more difficult to sue industries and energy companies for health probelsm they cause by their pollution,
- while at the same time it all does nothing to battle global warming;
- and last but not least a miscalculated war was launched to tighten control over the global oil flowing patterns.
Very big :hmm:
BTW, this refers to how the US military thinks about climate change.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/inter...153513,00.html
Quote:
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'You've got a President who says global warming is a hoax, and across the Potomac river you've got a Pentagon preparing for climate wars. It's pretty scary when Bush starts to ignore his own government on this issue,' said Rob Gueterbock of Greenpeace.
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But that is coming from the same camp that helped Rumsfeld to transform the army the way he wanted, so maybe it is all wrong...