Thanks guys, could the next Surgeon General's report on smoking be based on data from the Tobacco Institute? ] Among the deletions were conclusions about the likely ] human contribution to warming from a 2001 report on ] climate by the National Research Council (news - web ] sites) that the White House had commissioned and that ] President Bush had endorsed in speeches that year. White ] House officials also deleted a reference to a 1999 study ] showing that global temperatures had risen sharply in the ] previous decade compared with the last 1,000 years. In ] its place, administration officials added a reference to ] a new study, partly financed by the American Petroleum ] Institute, questioning that conclusion. See my quotes to the right for what the White House thinks about real science (evolution) as opposed to random crap (intelligent design, creationism, etc). |