GAO: Government's Climate Data Inadequate

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GAO: Government's Climate Data Inadequate
by Shihoko Goto
Washington DC (UPI) Apr 26, 2005

A federal government report suggests the Bush administration is not providing adequate or timely data on the subject of global climate change as required by Congress.

The report, "Climate Change Assessment," which was prepared by the Government Accountability Office and submitted to two members of Congress last Friday, said the administration "did not submit an assessment in 2004, as required."

John Stephenson, the GAO's director of natural resources and environment, said in his cover letter to Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and John Kerry, D-Mass., "it is unclear" how the administration will "explicitly address all required assessment topics."

The Global Change Research Act requires the White House to prepare a summary of federal climate-change research at least every four years. The first of these summaries, "Climate Change Impacts on the United States," was released in November 2000.

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http://www.spacedaily.com/news/climate-05zv.html

[CottonBear]

1. And why are we even surprised? I'm dismayed, of course

but in no way surprised or shocked at the actions of Bu$hco against our Mother Earth.