Guardian: Climate Change - White House censored scientific reports on climate change - Kate Sheppard
Climate Change - White House censored scientific reports on climate change - Kate Sheppard
In a letter made public this week, former EPA associate deputy administrator Jason Burnett indicated that both the office of the vice-president and the White House Council on Environmental Quality have directly attempted to censor discussions of the consequences that global warming poses to human health. While all this information about the White House's continued efforts to undermine the science on climate change was coming to light, Bush was in Japan hailing the G8's agreement as "significant progress" against the threat of global warming. How's that for cognitive dissonance? Yet the long-term goal of cutting emissions 50% by 2050 is well below the 80% below 1990 levels by 2050 that most scientists agree is necessary. And even that lower goal lacks an implementation plan with teeth to force world leaders to comply.
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