End Global Warming's Threat by Threatening the Scientists Who Say It Exists

Despite their flip-flopping ally in the Global Warming debate, Bush just “don’t know” whether or not the whole environmental concern angle should be considered all that much.

As you may recall, the Bush administration isn’t really a big fan of science, what with all that monkey talk and that stem cell tomfoolery (perhaps they’ve yet to lose a family member who died from…well, anything).

But as I was trying not to vomit the other night as I watched the stand-up act of Dennis “180” Miller as he auditioned for the blue collar comedy tour, I was reminded of how much conservatives love to debate the existence of global warming.

They’re actually the only ones left debating it. The entire world-wide scientific community, in which debate over this topic ended about 20 years ago, must look upon this small contingent of conservative Americans and want to bitch-slap the oxycontin-enduced hallucinations right out of them.

Sure, you’ll be able to find specific “scientists” who’ll say anything. There are even anthropologists the Right Wing has either paid or threatened to say that “Intelligent Design,” the “God did it. Period” is a competing theory against 100 years of evolutionary science.

Speaking of which – enter NASA's chief climate scientist James Hansen. He recently went on record saying that 2005 was the warmest year since record keeping began, and that didn’t make the Bush administration too happy.

Hansen says threats from NASA officials came only by phone, with nothing in writing.

"One threat was relayed to me that there would be 'dire consequences — not specified,'" he told ABC News. In December, ABC News' "Good Morning America"
reported NASA's announcement, linking the record high temperatures of 2005 to
greenhouse gas emissions.

Said Hansen, "When 'Good Morning America' released our data showing that 2005 was probably the warmest year on record, I got calls that they were very unhappy."

Over the past year, a growing number of American scientists who study global warming have been complaining about the federal government's efforts to silence or alter their reports or to discourage them. Continue reading here.

Read more here, here and here.

If the whole “screwing with global warming scientists and data” thing sounds familiar, perhaps you’re thinking of Phillip Cooney, the Bush administration energy official who edited scientific government reports on climate change to intentionally mislead on the issue of global warming (more here). He later resigned.

Because after all, if you’re not a fan of what the government report says, just change it. Or, get rid of it altogether!