Luckily, the administration is not in denial about cigarettes. But according to a high ranking EPA official, Dick Cheney’s office told the Environmental Protection Agency to delete references to the health hazards of global warming from a speech delivered to Congress.
That official, Jason K. Burnett, a long time democratic supporter, has since stepped down and is now doing press opps with Senator Barbara Boxer, the democratic leader of the Environment and Public Works Committee.
“History will judge this Bush administration harshly for recklessly covering up a real threat to the people they are supposed to protect,” Mrs. Boxer said.
The White House’s excuse for deleting six of the 14 pages of the speech: disagreements over science. Who knew Cheney had such a deep admiration for scientific debate.
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Its to bad that these republican followers cannot seem to grasp that the only threat to America is coming from the elected officials.
Who is the Heartland Institute?
Actually, what occurs to me is that the "stewards" of the world economy have failed miserably, as we are clearly beginning to see. But this economic failure is absolutely nothing compared with the ecological failure, which is coming - probably not in my lifetime, but definitely in the lifetimes of the next couple of generations.
If we are to prevent the worst of the ecological failure that is headed our way, we had better pay attention to the REAL SCIENCE, which warns that we have to reduce CO2 levels below 80% 1990 levels by 2050. How? Renewable energy. See:
Al Gore: A Generational Challenge to Repower America
The Pickens Plan
Finally, if you do not read another book this year, read Thomas Friedman's, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - And How it Can Renew America