Heated Hearings On Global Warming

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Tuesday March 20, 2007 · 8:18 AM PDT

2007/03/20 · 08:18

Lost in the series of scandals rocking the White House was Monday's House Committee on Oversight and Reform meeting in which government scientists accused the Bush administration of censoring their findings on climate change:

LA Times -- To support their charges Monday, the Democrats produced hundreds of pages of legal depositions, exhibits and e-mail exchanges between administration officials. The paper trail illustrated how officials with no scientific training shaped the administration's climate change message and edited global warming reports, inserting doubt in the place of definitive statements and diminishing the role people play in the planet's rising temperatures.

GOP apologists proposed one rather novel solution:

Republicans targeted a NASA director who testified about administration pressure, ... they disputed his contention that taxpayer-funded scientists are entitled to free speech. "Free speech is not a simple thing and is subject to and directed by policy," said Rep. Chris Cannon (R-Utah).

Yeah, just muzzle them and the problem will go away. Kind of says everything about these clowns doesn't it? Chris Mooney has lots more at HuffPo.

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