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To: LindyBill who wrote (2427)6/20/2003 12:21:17 AM
From: American Spirit  Read Replies (2) of 793916
 
June 19, 2003 | Dr. Rove's junk science
Although this front-page New York Times exposé of White House "editing" of an important EPA report doesn't mention Karl Rove, he is known to control every aspect of domestic policy. Some courageous agency officials, presumably disgusted with the Bush administration's subservience to its financiers in the energy industry, leaked drafts of the report to the Times. The White House manipulation of the EPA report "eliminated references to many studies concluding that warming is at least partly caused by rising concentrations of smokestack and tail-pipe emissions and could threaten health and ecosystems," according to the Times. Those deleted studies included the findings of a National Research Council report commissioned by the president in 2001, and a 1999 study that measured the alarming increase in global temperatures during the 1990s when compared with the prior millennium.

Instead, "administration officials added a reference to a new study, partly financed by the American Petroleum Institute, questioning that conclusion."


Rove's minions applied similar editing techniques to an EPA report on air pollution last September, when they ordered the deletion of a section on climate change. The president's political guru is pursuing a scientific methodology derived from the behavior of the ostrich: If we never read about global warming, maybe it isn't really happening.
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