Rewriting Environmental Science

Aqua OS X writes to tell us CBS News is reporting that government scientist James Hansen recently spoke out against the White House in an appearance on 60 Minutes. From the article: "Hansen is arguably the world's leading researcher on global warming. He's the head of NASA's top institute studying the climate. But this imminent scientist tells correspondent Scott Pelley that the Bush administration is restricting who he can talk to and editing what he can say. Politicians, he says, are rewriting the science."

Comments

Not to sound like a grammar nazi, but ... ;)

[Lightman_73]

... it's "eminent scientist", not "imminent" ;)

From m-w.com :

Main Entry: imminent

: ready to take place; especially : hanging threateningly over one's head


Main Entry: eminent

3 : exhibiting eminence especially in standing above others in some quality or position : PROMINENT


It's always nice to see how much attention /. puts in thoroughly cheking the submitted stories... ;)

Mankind does not belong to Man

[thedletterman]

It's interesting to view the variety of responses on this question.

"Population control" is quite a frightening subject once one begins to study the depths of it.

I wrote about five paragraphs after this sentance and deleted it all. I'll just throw out some names of some of the biggest supporters of population control:

Stalin, Hitler, Sanger, Blavatsky..

In zoology, there is ample evidence to show that population growth is self-restraining. That there are several factors, including access to natural resources that control popultion sizes. Why should human intervention even be required? population control has throughout history been a convenient excuse for genocide and the wholesale depopulation of 'undesirable' segments of society. Someone made the suggestion that by eliminating poverty we could control population. Maybe they would agree that population might be more "under control" if we took the shortcut of killing all the poor people.

Re:Politics and Science

[Ender Ryan]

Why don't you read the article, you fucking douchebag. Then you'd see where this guy is coming from, and here's a hint, you clueless piece of shit, it's not from where you're ignorantly assuming.