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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 09/26/2006 : 19:17:38
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LiveScience, running an AP article based on one in Nature, reports that a Bush administration official has blocked the release of a consensus report by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather scientists that suggests global warming is responsible for the increasing frequency and strength of hurricanes. (CNN also has the same AP article.)quote:
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration has blocked the release of a report that suggests global warming is contributing to the frequency and strength of hurricanes, the journal Nature reported Tuesday.
The possibility that warming conditions may cause storms to become stronger has generated debate among climate and weather experts, particularly in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina disaster.
In the new case, Nature said weather experts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration -- part of the Commerce Department -- in February set up a seven-member panel to prepare a consensus report on the views of agency scientists about global warming and hurricanes.
According to Nature, a draft of the statement said that warming may be having an effect.
In May, when the report was expected to be released, panel chair Ants Leetmaa received an e-mail from a Commerce official saying the report needed to be made less technical and was not to be released, Nature reported.
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Yet another poke in science's eye by the sluttiest presidency in modern history, this time pimped out to service Big Oil. Take that, reality!
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