Muffled warnings on global warming

[im10ashus]

THE BURNING issue was the thin ice encrusted on the boulders. The rocks were half-submerged in a small stream at the foot of the White Mountains in Maine. Ribbons of water swirled around them, propelled by two days of nonstop rain.

That was the first problem. It was mid-January. In northern New England, the rain usually would have been a foot of snow. The boulders would have been smothered into giant marshmallows. This aberration was amplified by the seductive warmth in Boston. For the first time in about a quarter century of Januarys, I jogged around the Charles River on consecutive weekends in shorts. The only true blast of winter I have felt this season was with my Scouts, snowshoeing in the White Mountains to 2,700 feet.

The coup de ice came at the end of January when NASA's chief climate scientist, James Hansen, said Bush administration minions were muffling his warnings on global warming. Hansen said officials at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in recent months have canceled or rejected interview requests for him and appointed monitors for approved interviews. He reportedly was ordered last fall to remove preliminary information from the Internet that said last year might be the warmest year on record. Last week, NASA announced that 2005 was indeed the warmest on record.

''In my three decades in government, I've never seen control of communications to the public so constrained," Hansen said over the phone this week. ''Communications from government scientists have never been so constrained."

Please read the entire article...

http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2006/02/04/muffled-warnings-on-global-warming/

it links to here:

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/02/04/muffled_warnings_on_global_warming/

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[im10ashus]

2. Thanks!

Can you remove it too?  

[Delphinus]

3. I went to a link from the story to

The Center for American Progress ... anyone know if they're affiliated with the right wing? Or PNAC? It says it's "Progressive ideas for a strong, just, and free America - something about it just makes me wonder. TIA.

[im10ashus]

4. It links from here:

http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2006/02/04/muffled-warnings-on-global-warming/

[marions ghost]

5. We are finding out the hard way

that environmental problems are not in the imaginations of those crazy liberals. The results of failed Republican policies for the last several decades are becoming evident.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. I live in Maine and it has been a weird winter to be sure. I am about to

go for a walk in sneakers on a perfectly clear driveway,

Our winter is currently hovering over Russia. On one hand I appreciate not having the huge heating fuel bill I had expected but on the other hand I am concerned that this may not be a fluke but a pattern. We had one of our hottest summers on record in '98 complete with droughts for a couple of summers, then several milder than usual summers that led to a December one year where I still had flowers growing in my garden.

I remember growing up that we expected snow by Thanksgiving or so and that the winter usually had snow drifts and banks bigger than I was tall by many times over. Not sure if we will ever see that with an anual frequency again or not.

[im10ashus]

7. I hear that with everyone I speak with all over the U.S.

Particularly in the Midwest and the Eastern portions. I am in NYC and I have used my gloves for just one week this season so far. I grew up in Indiana where winters were cold and we had snow on the ground nearly all the time. Indiana also has had a record warm winter. :shrug: