NASA's own watchdog: Agency misled on global warming
June 3, 2008 By SETH BORENSTEIN , AP Science Writer(AP) -- NASA's press office "marginalized or mischaracterized" studies on global warming between 2004 and 2006, the agency's own internal watchdog concluded.
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Also, the link on the bottom of the article supposedly connecting to a NASA Internal Investigation is broken.
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If you are a scientists who puts out an alarmist press release on Global warming you are absolutely swamped by the media. However, if you try to point out that there may be some genuine scientifc doubt, you are totally ignored.
NASA does not have to block press access to global warming sceptics who work in their agencies for the simple reason that press is so biased on this issue that they do not even attempt get a balanced view on this debate.
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Hansen doesn't need censoring. He needs firing.
Jun 03, 2008
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I can't wait for this carbon fad to end. There are more important things to worry about than an abundance of plantfood.
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