Officials from Texas Spark Revolt After Perry Appointees Doctor Environmental Report

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Scientists are asking for their names to be removed after mentions of climate change and sea-level rise were taken out by Texas officials.
October 18, 2011 |

That state of denial percolated down to the leadership of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. The agency chief, who was appointed by Perry, is known to doubt the science of climate change. "The current chair of the commission, Bryan Shaw, commonly talks about how human-induced climate change is a hoax," said Anderson.


But scientists said they still hoped to avoid a clash by simply avoiding direct reference to human causes of climate change and by sticking to materials from peer-reviewed journals. However, that plan began to unravel when officials from the agency made numerous unauthorised changes to Anderson's chapter, deleting references to climate change, sea-level rise and wetlands destruction.





http://www.alternet.org/story/152776/officials_from_texas_spark_revolt_after_perry_appointees_doctor_environmental_report?akid=7742.264745.7Mpj6P&rd=1&t=24

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1. I wouldn't want to be associated with a white wash either

By academic standards, the protest amounts to the beginnings of a rebellion: every single scientist associated with the 200-page report has demanded their names be struck from the document. "None of us can be party to scientific censorship so we would all have our names removed," said Jim Lester, a co-author of the report and vice-president of the Houston Advanced Research Centre.

Good for them!!

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