On Jan 31, 3:05 pm, "Alastair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Adams wrote: > > Please help me get the word out on this. I just discovered this > > yesterday and I am trying to catch the attention of higher profile > > media any way I can think of. > > Why don't you post > tohttp://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/01/house-and-senat... > That blog is read by the media.
Great idea. I emailed them a they did post a blurb: "First off, there are some curious patterns in the whitehouse.gov search engine. It turns out that it has been blocked from returning most results if the search phrase includes "global warming" - even if it's from the President himself. For instance, searching for "issue of global" gives as top result the President's Rose Garden speech in June 2001 on Global Climate Change, but searching for "issue of global warming" (which of course is the full phrase used) returns nothing. Hmmm....." http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/02/quick-pre-spm-round-up/ > > It has been reported that the GWB administration were trying to play > down 'global warming' by calling it 'climate change', but I cannot > find the report. It was so long ago :-( I think you are referring to the memo by Republican strategist Frank Luntz. It found its way to the press about 4 years ago and caused quite a stir. Luntz said is was time for Republicans to start talking about "climate change" instead of global warming, because it is less frightening, less catastrophic, suggests a more controllable and less emotional challenge. Here is the memo: http://www.luntzspeak.com/graphics/LuntzResearch.Memo.pdf IIRC, the memo was on a computer disk found by a Democratic aide on a park bench in Washington DC. Some posters here and in blogs seem to think that the fact that "climate change" is not censored like "global warming" is exculpatory. But, in light of the Luntz memo, this looks like part of a Republican strategy that was meant to be secret. > > There is another report only 3 hours old which says: "Bush > administration accused of doctoring scientists' reports on climate > change" seehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2002484,00.html > > Chers, Alastair. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
