Pacific Spirit Marine Institute
Global Warming Censorship by US Government Investigated
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
“Rep. Edward J. Markey Chairman of The House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming has opened an investigation into allegations that the Smithsonian Institute altered an Exhibit on Global warming.
Mounting evidence indicates there has been very real pressure applied to government-affiliated scientific bodies to color, gloss over or in some cases ignore facts being presented to the public as well as Congress regarding Global Warming.
NASA scientist Dr. James Hansen says the government has pressured him to toe the party line on Global Warming “contrary to the evidence”. The EPA also allowed a former oil lobbyist working in the White House to censor Global Warming science from an EPA report. This former lobbyist, come White House employee is as yet un-named.
In our After the downing street memo came the Polar bear memorandum article we told you how the Department of Interior put a gag order on scientists talking about the links between the threatened Polar bears and Global Warming.
The latest slap in the face to the public, who are paying these very government-affiliated scientific bodies, is the revelation that The Smithsonian altered an exhibition on Global Warming.
On May 22, Markey sent to Chistian Samper, Acting Secretary of the Smithsonian, asking for all information pertaining to the exhibit in question including letters, emails, a list of scientific and an non-scientific consultants, and any correspondence with political bodies.
“This administration’s pattern of stifling and censoring Global Warming science is too clear for us to ignore yet another possible example of political influence on Climate science,” said Chairman Markey. “We can no longer allow the ideology of this President and his operatives of climate denial to compromise the reputations of our greatest scientists and proudest scientific institutions.”
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Global Warming Censorship by US Government Investigated
