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the_ignored
SFN Addict
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 Posted - 04/25/2007 : 13:31:00
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Looks like your "pro-science" president has done it again...
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska– Today the Center for Biological Diversity denounced a Bush administration directive restricting the ability of government scientists traveling abroad to discuss global warming, sea ice, and polar bears. The memo requires employees traveling in situations where these topics could arise to submit a statement of assurance that the employee understands “the administration's position on these issues,” and will not be speaking on, or responding to, questions about them.
“This is positively Orwellian,” said Kieran Suckling, policy director with the Center for Biological Diversity. “Only the worst cynic could admit the polar bear is being driven extinct by global warming, then issue a gag order to stop government scientists from talking about it.”
On December 27, 2006, the administration was forced to propose listing the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act due to a petition and subsequent lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity, NRDC, and Greenpeace. The proposal authored by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service scientists concluded that the Arctic is rapidly warming, causing the polar bear's sea-ice habitat to melt away. Scientific models predict that in a matter of decades, all summer ice could be gone.
Anyone else remember that petition that the Bush administration got from all those scientists a few years back because he was putting politics above science?
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>From: enuffenuff@fastmail.fm
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> I'm looking to teach these two bastards a lesson they'll never forget.
> Personal visit by mates of mine. No violence, just a wee little chat.
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> **** has also committed more crimes than you can count with his
> incitement of hatred against a religion. That law came in about 2007
> much to ****'s ignorance. That is fact and his writing will become well
> know as well as him becoming a publicly known icon of hatred.
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> Good luck with that fuckwit. And Reynold, fucking run, and don't stop.
> Disappear would be best as it was you who dared to attack me on my
> illness knowing nothing of the cause. You disgust me and you are top of
> the list boy. Again, no violence. Just regular reminders of who's there
> and visits to see you are behaving. Nothing scary in reality. But I'd
> still disappear if I was you.
What brought that on? this. Original posting here.
Another example of this guy's lunacy here. |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
 Posted - 04/25/2007 : 15:12:14 [Permalink]
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I shouldn't be suprised by this crap, but each time I hear about a new attempt at silencing scientists it shocks me.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/25/2007 : 16:22:33 [Permalink]
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It's gotten to the point where Bush's attempts to silence science is making more waves than what the scientists are saying themselves. I sincerely hope that the Administration will continue with this policy, as it's helping its critics make their points.
An anyway, the real reason polar bears appear scarce these days in the arctic is explained here.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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McQ
Skeptic Friend
USA
258 Posts |
Posted - 04/25/2007 : 16:45:09 [Permalink]
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Maybe if we ignore the problem, it will go away?
Oh, wait.....that's what they're doing.
Who cares? After all, it's just a few bears. They were always harassing the tourists anyway.  |
Elvis didn't do no drugs!
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Bush issues gag order about Polar Bear report
