*White House) Climate Research Faulted Over Missing Components

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/22/science/22warm.html?
April 22, 2005

Climate Research Faulted Over Missing Components

By ANDREW C. REVKIN

The Bush administration's program to study climate change lacks a major component required by law, according to Congressional investigators. The program fails to include periodic assessments of how rising temperatures may affect people and the environment.

The investigators, from the Government Accountability Office, conclude in a report to be released today that none of the 21 studies of climate change that the administration plans to publish by September 2007 explicitly address the potential effects in eight areas specified by a 1990 law, the Global Change Research Act. The areas include agriculture, energy, water resources and biological diversity.

Without such an assessment, the accountability office said, "it may be difficult for the Congress and others to use this information effectively as the basis for making decisions on climate policy."

The investigators also said the program was behind schedule, with just one report on track out of nine that are to be published by next September. The 1990 law requires a report to Congress every four years on the consequences of climate change.....



Summary also:
http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/pp.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=574171

ENVIRO – ADMINISTRATION HIDES MORE INFORMATION: Just in time for Earth Day comes a report from the Government Accountability Office stating that the Bush administration's "program to study climate change lacks a major component required by law … to include periodic assessments of how rising temperatures may affect people and the environment." In fact, "none of the 21 studies of climate change the administration plans to publish by September 2007 explicitly address the potential effects in eight areas specified by a 1990 law, the Global Change Research Act." The lack of these figures may make it difficult for "Congress and others to use this information effectively as the basis for making decisions on climate policy." Furthermore, the program is behind schedule "with just one report on track out of nine that are to be published by next September."

[Hobarticus]

1. Dennis Miller has all the info on climate change we need...

Who needs scientists?

[Spinzonner]

3. You forgot about Michael Crichton

the great planetary climatologist

[gratuitous]

2. Gee, more fudging by the corrupt Bush administration

And, who'd'a thunk it! but it appears to benefit their corporate buddies again! What a run of luck they've had. But we can't say that it's evidence of corruption, or that there's any agenda lurking behind this honest mistake, so stop saying that! Don't you know how much it hurts troop morale when you point out that the administration is a corrupt bunch of thieves?

God, you liberals will stop at nothing to try to hurt this popular war-time president?