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Bush and his toadies must be drinking or smoking some powerful stuff, or they have secret hideaways where they can escape the effects of global warming, which if it warms enough and the Atlantic Conveyer is cut off will lead to the next ice age.
Of course, northern Europe will be affected the most by that kind of global cooling, so they fall into the Alfred E. Newman category of, who them worry.
Climate change and bad air quality are equal opportunity destroyers.
For all of you who might comment that we who believe in global warming or the possibility of it are drinking or smoking some powerful stuff, too not believing or not considering the possibilities doesn’t make you immune from the effects either.
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http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_9459838
NASA Played Politics With Warming Issue
By Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press
Article Last Updated: 06/02/2008 09:34:41 PM PDT
WASHINGTON - NASA's press office "marginalized or mischaracterized" studies on global warming between 2004 and 2006, the agency's own internal watchdog concluded.
In a report released Monday, NASA's inspector general office called it "inappropriate political interference" by political appointees in the press office. It said that the agency's top management wasn't part of the censorship, nor were career officials.
NASA downplayed the report as old news on a problem that has since been fixed. NASA spokesman Michael Cabbage said the space agency's new policies have now been hailed for openness by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
The report found credence in allegations that National Public Radio was denied access to top global warming scientist James Hansen. It also found evidence that NASA headquarters press officials canceled a press conference on a mission monitoring ozone pollution and global warming because it was too close to the 2004 presidential election.
In addition, the report detailed more than a dozen other actions in which it said the NASA public affairs office unilaterally edited or downgraded press releases having to do with global warming or denied access to scientists.
NASA public affairs officials criticized by the report called it wrong, saying they were always open and truthful.
Not so, according to the report. The report did not directly accuse them of lying, but used more nuanced terms such as "mendacity" and "dissembling." The space agency complained those terms were unjust.
