Bush rewrite of science doesn't change the facts

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In second grade, students learn that carbon dioxide can kill us. In sixth grade, they learn that it traps heat inside the atmosphere and causes global warming. Now, the nearly 300 million students enrolled in Bush University are learning that global warming isn't as big of a concern as they were led to believe.

Late last month, the Environmental Protection Agency produced the results of a comprehensive two-year study amounting to "the state of the environment." Contained in this report was no mention of carbon dioxide emissions or global warming and their dangerous consequences. Instead, under direct orders from the Bush Administration, the EPA "cooked the books" and included incoherent, ambiguous results about "climate change" (note the euphemism) in which results were supposedly too incomplete to yield scientific evidence. In a further act of scientific suppression, outgoing EPA director Christie Todd Whitman deleted the entire edited section from the report in a last-ditch effort to spite the White House.

Now this sounds like a case of "revisionist history." After pledging in his campaign to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, Bush commissioned a comprehensive report by the EPA in 2001. The original draft included cautionary statements and surveys regarding human-caused carbon dioxide emissions and their link to global warming. The revised draft -- sans a reference to a 1999 study showing global temperatures had risen sharply in the past decade compared with the previous 1,000 years -- cites a study, partly paid for by the oil industry, that challenges the uniqueness of recent temperature increases.

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