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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

> Bush climate-change research won't research climate-change effects
>
> According to the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office, the "more
research" President Bush is always touting as his response to climate change
is overlooking an area some might consider important -- namely, what effects
global warming might have on people and the environment (oh, that!). In
fact, the GAO report to be released today says that none of the 21 studies
of climate change the administration plans to publish by 2007 will include
assessments of its possible effects on agriculture, water, energy, or
biological diversity (oh, those!). This is in violation of the 1990 Global
Change Research Act, which requires the federal government to produce a
report on the consequences of climate change every four years. Critics say
the research program was deliberately jiggered to prevent it from generating
alarming findings that might increase political pressure for action. But
without accurate information, said the GAO, "it may be difficult for the
Congress and others to use
>   this information effectively as the basis for making decisions on
climate policy." You think?
>