More GW BS

U.S. scientists felt pressured to tailor their writings on global warming to fit the Bush administration’s skepticism, in some cases at the behest of an ex-oil industry lobbyist, a congressional committee heard on Tuesday.

“Our investigations found high-quality science struggling to get out,” Francesca Grifo of the watchdog group Union of Concerned Scientists told members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

A survey by the group found that 150 climate scientists personally experienced political interference in the past five years, for a total of at least 435 incidents.

“Nearly half of all respondents perceived or personally experienced pressure to eliminate the words ‘climate change,’ ‘global warming’ or other similar terms from a variety of communications,” Grifo said.

The Union of Concerned Scientists are a left wing group that pushes a leftist agenda under the guise of being scientists. But they are in fact, rank ideologues and they often tell whopping falsehoods. This is a classic example. Man Made Global Warming is a theory proposed by anti-capitalists as a weapon against progress. It’s no surprise that the biggest proponents of GW are left wing. But since the basis of their theory is almost entirely built on the foundation of logical fallacies, and doctored science (eg: Computer Models), it’s credibility will be completely shot down by the reality which is the earth’s climate. The climate will do what it will. Mankind be damned. We’re just along for the ride. 

1. I just saw this story reported on the evening news and it was ridiculous. Ask a biased group if they have percieved tampering from the Bush Administration over the last 5 years and see what they say. What gets me about the whole debate is that they keep throwing out “proof” that it’s getting warmer and automatically blame mankind for it while never proving that it’s man’s fault. Then they demand that we fix it. Might as well try to stop the sun from setting.

   Posted by Paul T  on  01/30  at  09:41 PM

2. Where were these guys when the scientists who worked on the original TAR were being pressured to “pump up” the GW danger, to the point that several resigned?
   Typical LW press move.  Find a group with a benign name like “People for the American Way” and quote them like a non-partisan group when in fact they are raving partisans.  This is why Handgun Control, Inc. was renamed the “Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence,” and The National Coalition To Ban Handguns became “The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence.” It wouldn’t do to let people know they have an explicit agenda, would it?

   Posted by  on  01/31  at  01:56 AM

3. Union of Concerned Scientists.  H’m. What does that mean, exactly?

   Coulter used to say that if we really knew what Liberals thought, we’d hang them.

   Posted by Fred  on  01/31  at  10:16 AM
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