Bush "Misled" US on Climate Change

Congressional report says "the White House had over the years suppressed scientific views that conflicted with administration policy and extensively edited government reports 'to minimise the significance of climate change.' "

from Aljazeera.com:

The White House has systematically manipulated climate science for years to play down the dangers of global warming, a US congressional report says.

Monday's report, prepared by Democrats after a 16-month investigation, came as the Bush administration pressed a UN climate meeting to drop targets for big cuts in greenhouse gases by rich nations.

The report said that the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) exerted "unusual control" over what federal scientists could say publicly about climate change, and that it was standard practice for the council to decide whether or not US scientists could give interviews to the media.

It said the White House had over the years suppressed scientific views that conflicted with administration policy and extensively edited government reports "to minimise the significance of climate change".

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