White House edits global warming report

AP ^ | Thursday, June 19, 2003

[presidio9]

The White House directed a major rewrite of an assessment of climate change, removing references to health and environmental risks posed by rising global temperatures, according to internal draft documents made public Thursday.

Several Senate Democrats, including some running for president, accused the White House of "doctoring" the Environmental Protection Agency report to suit President Bush's skeptical views on global warming.

[RAT Patrol]

So the people who edit information to serve political purposes for a living are criticizing others for a similar perceived slight?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

And EPA isn't a political animal ?

[EggsAckley]

Well, well. We're not only getting rid of Christie Todd-Whitman (long overdue), we're also going to correct/ammend the junk science. Good good good.

[Thane_Banquo]

"Global warming is true regardless of whether or not there is evidence."

[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

If the AP report characterizes this accurately, this was a dumb move by the White House.

Of course, that's a big "if."

[theDentist]

Can we edit out the words "rain forest" and insert the words "unkempt jungles"?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[presidio9]

"Global warming is true regardless of whether or not there is evidence."

Riiiight.

Did I ever tell you about the time I invented the internet?

[nuconvert]

It used to known as the "global warming theory" The "theory" somehow was dropped a couple years ago. Wonder how that happened, since there's still serious debate amongst scientist whether there's anything going on
that hasn't gone on for thousands for years?

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

Editing has cleaned up the environment,which is all it ever needed in the first place!

[nuconvert]

By the way, was that a joke?

[RightWhale]

the climate section "no longer accurately represents scientific consensus on climate change,"

There is no scientific consensus, although there is a political consensus. Smogbag ecotopists are riding this bangtail way too hard; she's not going to finish the race.

[BushCountry]

It was funny when the greenhouse gases actually helping to produce plantlife in the deserts. The gases were actually helping the enviroment instead of hurting it!

[taxed2death]

Kinda like thier new policy on not releasing any unemployment information unless it's good news.

Peculiar.

[RightWhale]

like thier new policy on not releasing any unemployment information unless it's good news

Who is 'thier'? What policy? Unemployment reports are being issued by all depts right on schedule as always.

[CyberAnt]

Why is everybody getting so uptight about this REPORT?? It's not a legal document - it's just a report. We edited the ENVIRONMENTAL WHACKO report and make it more user friendly.

[Thane_Banquo]

I was being sarcastic. I forgot the < /sarcasm > tag.

[RobRoy]

>>The changes initially were reported in Thursday's New York Times. <<

So it must be true then...

[RobRoy]

>>EPA spokesman Joe Martyak said the agency "didn't want to hold up the rest of the report" because of the disagreement over the climate language and because there remains no clear "consensus on the science and conclusions" on global warming. <<

That alone justifies the deletion.