BUSH COVERS UP CLIMATE RESEARCH

September 24, 2003

" White House officials have undermined their own government

scientists' research into climate change to play down the impact of

global warming, " Paul Harris reports in the Observer. " Emails and

internal government documents obtained by The Observer show that

officials have sought to edit or remove research warning that the

problem is serious. They have enlisted the help of conservative

lobby groups funded by the oil industry to attack US government

scientists if they produce work seen as accepting too readily that

pollution is an issue. " Evidence includes an email from the

Competitive Enterprise Institute to the White House Council on

Environmental Quality that " reveals how White House officials

wanted the CEI's help to play down the impact of a report last

summer by the government's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),

in which the US admitted for the first time that humans are

contributing to global warming. ... The email discusses possible

tactics for playing down the report and getting rid of EPA

officials, including its then head, Christine Whitman. ... The CEI

is suing another government climate research body that produced

evidence for global warming. The revelation of the email's contents

has prompted demands for an investigation to see if the White House

and CEI are co-ordinating the legal attack. "

SOURCE: London Observer, September 21, 2003

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