The New York Times reports that the US Environmental Protection
Agencys report on the state of the environment has been severely edited by
the White House to make things seem better than they may actually be:
"The editing eliminated references to many studies concluding that warming
is at least partly caused by rising concentrations of smokestack and tail-pipe
emissions and could threaten health and ecosystems.
Among the deletions were conclusions about the likely human contribution to
warming from a 2001 report on climate by the National Research Council that
the White House had commissioned and that President Bush had endorsed in
speeches that year. White House officials also deleted a reference to a 1999
study showing that global temperatures had risen sharply in the previous
decade compared with the last 1,000 years. In its place, administration
officials added a reference to a new study, partly financed by the American
Petroleum Institute, questioning that conclusion."
Ed Weick
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