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2004-02-19 
Guardian: Bush ’bending science to his political needs’
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Posted by Super Hose 2004-02-19 2:14:35 PM|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Next at The Guardian: Does George Bush have a soul?
Posted by Matt 2004-2-19 2:20:02 PM||   2004-2-19 2:20:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 So what is it now, eggheads? Bush is Mengele???
Make up your friggin' minds, will ya.
Posted by tu3031 2004-2-19 2:22:05 PM||   2004-2-19 2:22:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 i feel deeply ashamed that a member of my family buys the al Gaurdiana , i can't seem to change thier ways whatever i try, good for a laugh sometimes though
Posted by Jon Shep U.K 2004-2-19 2:34:17 PM||   2004-2-19 2:34:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 The Guardian folks are just bummed because they are starting to realize that, despite their best efforts, the info on nuclear proliferation is going to prove GW right and make them all look small and irrelevant. Now they intend to keep digging with their junk science....why...because there are no fools like old fools.

It must be tough to look in the mirror one day and realize that you never were cool or hip but rather just a useful idiot for tyrants. The 60's are so long over... and now they are little more than bitter old frauds with the blood of mass graves and rape rooms all over their hands.

Can't wash that stuff off guys. Might as well learn to live with it.
Posted by B 2004-2-19 2:36:44 PM||   2004-2-19 2:36:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Unfortunately, once again those without an understanding of basic science try to turn the climate into a religion. Take the analogy; we have a god (Gaia), an Eden (world without people or pollution), the sin (mankind, pollution), redemption (renewables, recyling) and salvation (going back to the primitive). The truth is that not that long ago (approx. 200 years ago) humanity turned on a path that leads to inevitability. Its too late to return unless a few billion deaths are acceptable.
Posted by Chemist 2004-2-19 4:18:45 PM||   2004-2-19 4:18:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 . "To be a scientist working on climate change in the US is to be frustrated by the backlash against environmental science, research budget cuts and by the American media’s general lack of interest in environmental issues,"

Fact: NIH, National Science Foundation, NASA and EPA budgets for research have increased by greater than the cost of living in the Bush administration.

Media reporters are no less competent reporting about the environment than they are about everything else (parse that carefully). And while there is no "backlash against environmental science", there is a welcome reassessment of agenda-driven environmental science.
Posted by Steve White  2004-2-19 4:46:03 PM||   2004-2-19 4:46:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Every Global Warming Study I've seen always assumes that solar output is constant. It isn't, the Sun is a mildly variable star.
Posted by Cheddarhead 2004-2-19 4:53:26 PM||   2004-2-19 4:53:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Translation = The Bush administration is promising substantial amounts of money for research to determine if global warming is actually occuring and if so what are the real causes.

No wonder the Kyoto lobby is alarmed! Evidence that Kyoto is based on hot air (pun intended) will destroy a lot of gravy trains.
Posted by phil_b 2004-2-19 5:14:39 PM||   2004-2-19 5:14:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 You folks might think this is all very funny but I'll pass on the Lysenkoism.
Posted by Hiryu 2004-2-19 6:14:49 PM||   2004-2-19 6:14:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Why Hiryu... you usually agree with us.
Posted by New Soviet Man 2004-2-19 6:43:48 PM||   2004-2-19 6:43:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Hiryu, Lysenkoism is remarkably similar to Kyotoism. Science subsumed to a political agenda.
Posted by phil_b 2004-2-19 6:49:37 PM||   2004-2-19 6:49:37 PM|| Front Page Top

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