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Renowned expert says data 'screened and controlled'
The Associated Press
Updated: 7:10 a.m. ET Oct. 27, 2004
IOWA CITY, Iowa - The Bush administration is trying to stifle scientific evidence of the dangers of global warming in an effort to keep the public uninformed, a NASA scientist said Tuesday night.
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�In my more than three decades in government, I have never seen anything approaching the degree to which information flow from scientists to the public has been screened and controlled as it is now,� James Hansen told a University of Iowa audience.
Hansen is director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and has twice briefed a task force headed by Vice President Dick Cheney on global warming. He was also one of the first government scientists tasked with briefing congressional committees on the dangers of global warming, testifying as far back as the 1980s.
'Recipe ... for disaster'
Hansen said the administration wants to hear only scientific results that �fit predetermined, inflexible positions.� Evidence that would raise concerns about the dangers of climate change is often dismissed as not being of sufficient interest to the public.
�This, I believe, is a recipe for environmental disaster.�
MSNBC
It's also recipe for tyranny and dictatorship.
Originally posted by curme
“This, I believe, is a recipe for environmental disaster.”
There, sea-bed deposits of oil and gas that have until now been cloaked in thick shifting crusts of sea ice could soon be exploitable, and ice-free trade routes over Siberia could significantly cut shipping distances between Europe and Asia in the summer. www.iht.com.../articles/2004/10/29/news/arctic.html