WP: Putting Some Heat on Bush

[primavera]

Putting Some Heat on Bush
Scientist Inspires Anger, Awe for Challenges on Global Warming

By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 19, 2005; Page A17

In his worn navy windbreaker, 63-year-old climatologist James E. Hansen looks more like the Iowa farm native that he is than a rebel -- but he's both.

Hansen, a lifelong government employee who heads NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, has inspired both anger and awe in the nation's scientific and political communities since publicly denouncing the Bush administration's policy on climate change last year.

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The ongoing sparring match between Hansen and his superiors underscores a broader tension between President Bush's top policy advisers and many senior U.S. scientists, who have loudly blasted the administration's approach to environmental questions in recent months. Nearly 50 Nobel laureates endorsed Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) for president; this year the Union of Concerned Scientists has collected more than 6,000 scientists' signatures on a letter questioning how the president applies research to policymaking.

After the barrage of criticism, John H. Marburger III, Bush's top science adviser, told Science magazine that if the researchers continue their protests, they might alienate influential lawmakers who set federal science budgets.

I love that oh-so thinly-veiled threat there! No such thing as subtlty in this administration, by God!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19162-2005Jan18.html

[ewagner]

1. Rumor is that

NWS (National Weather Service) division of NOAA has been or is anticipated to be cut while other brances get increases....anybody know?

[Robbien]

2. Science budgets will be cut whether they continue protesting or not

It is the same threat over and over again. Congressmen, scientists, environmentalist and so on keep falling for it and back off. Then their budgets are cut anyway.

[Just Me]

3. Damned straight it's a "thinly-veiled threat"!!

Either they stop protesting LIES and DESTRUCTION or they get their funding cut off!!!

That is an obvious tyrannical suppression of dissent.

:mad:

[LynnTheDem]

4. Quite the THREAT there; SHUT UP or ELSE. Yeah that's "DEMOCRACY"

Extortion & oppression have "democracy" written all over them uh huh.

[central scrutinizer]

5. We don't need no stinking science

the end times are near so why bother to worry about the environment. Plus the earth is only six thousand years old and Noah's flood caused the Grand Canyon.