Bush official altered scientific reports on global warming: report

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - A White House official with no scientific training reportedly edited government climate reports to play down the links between greenhouse gas emissions and global warming, according to internal documents.

Philip Cooney, chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, often would subtly alter documents -- for example adding "significant and fundamental" before the word "uncertainties" -- to create an air of doubt about findings few scientists dispute, The New York Times reported from obtained documents.

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Link to Times story
http://nytimes.com/2005/06/08/politics/08climate.html