Bush officials misled public on global warming

James Hansen, chief climate scientist for NASA reported over a year ago that the Bush administration tried to stop him from speaking out calling for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming.

Hearing things like this shows the divide between politics and what is in the Public's best interest.

But now this story about the investigation into the deliberate attempts by the Bush Administration to create doubt about Global Warming just reminds me how much this is true.

Apparently, 40 percent of the 279 climate scientists who responded to a White House questionnaire complained that some of their scientific papers had been edited in a way that changed their meaning. Nearly half of the 279 said in response to another question that at some point they had been told to delete reference to "global warming" or "climate change" from a report.

Full Story at Associated Press