Re: SC15

http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=EDCLIMATEREPORT-05-10-06

White House mischief on new climate report

Normally when the Bush administration makes news on global warming research, it's for trying to suppress yet another report showing the folly of its wait-and-see stance. So naturally it was a surprise when the U.S. Climate Change Science Program posted an alarming new report online.

The report, still in draft form and supposedly secret, is by a working group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and its influence would be hard to overstate. The IPCC has the cooperation of virtually every climate scientist in the world, as well as experts in many other fields. Its periodic reports _ this is the fourth since 1990 _ are thoroughly critiqued by countless scientists and government policy chiefs before release, a process which assures both accuracy and moderation.

Such stature has not deterred the Bush administration from trying to dismiss or minimize past IPCC findings as just another set of debatable, unpersuasive conjectures.........

President Bush has made it consistently clear that he intends no serious action on global warming, which is reckless but at least honest. He has continued to PRETEND his administration will partner with the rest of the world in exploring options, which is dishonest but at least transparent. But attempting to undermine the world's most credible periodic review of climate science is only a cheap little prank, which is typical but at least can't hope to obscure a CONSENSUS this president finds INCONVENIENT.

Meanwhile, the climate meltdown continues at accelerating rates, and Bush, by his deeds, makes sure that the US will continue its ignorant path of denial. And what will his legacy be, when the coming generations look back on how foolish, and reckless he was, as they cope with a drastically changed world, that he helped create, by his lack of action, and wisdom?