Reply #10: It wouldn't surprise me. Gore pushed Clinton in those days, but he didn't believe it was overstated. [View All]

[joshcryer]

Basically the scientist was saying that they wanted him to say something that the science didn't support at that time (but which others might have intuited in any case). Of course as time has gone on the science has gotten better and the support for the evidence has become significantly more persuasive. Thus one might have called the Clinton/Gore admin somewhat prophetic, but it wasn't something that couldn't have been intuited.

Plus the scientist made it sound like the pressure for making it "sound worse" wasn't nearly as bad as Bush's complete censorship, I believe the scientist mentioned this primarily to show that, yes, these sorts of pressures come from all sides. And I think the point was made that Bush is just completely insane as far as censorship goes.