GLOBAL WARMING CALLED 'HOAX' BY SENATOR

October 1, 2003

George W. Bush's White House has been charged repeatedly with using

its influence to undermine environmental protection. The Senate

confirmation hearing on Bush's nomination of Utah Governor Michael

Leavitt as head of the Environmental Protection Agency provided

another forum for scrutinizing Bush's environmental record,

according to the New York Times. Senate Environment and Public

Works Committee chair James Inhofe (R-OK) firmly denied

environmentalists' claims as baseless, at one point saying the

concept of global warming " could be the greatest hoax ever

perpetrated on the American people, " the Times reports. The same

day the Times reported on the disintegration of an ancient Arctic

ice shelf. " [Researchers] said it was not yet possible to say

whether the melting was related to rising atmospheric

concentrations of heat-trapping greenhouse gases from human

activities. But they added that the breakup was just one of many

signs of enormous climate shifts in the Arctic that merited careful

monitoring, " the Times reports.

SOURCE: New York Times, September 24, 2003

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