Now Do You Believe in the RWOS?

Perhaps this gets tiresome for ScienceBlogs readers, but here is yet
another example of the href="http://www.waronscience.com/home.php" rel="tag">Republican
War on Science, this time in regard to href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_Change"> Climate
Change.

href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/01/AR2006110103269.html">

href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/01/AR2006110103269.html">IGs
Probe Allegations On Global Warming Data

Scientists Say Findings Were Suppressed



By Juliet Eilperin

Washington Post Staff Writer

Thursday, November 2, 2006; Page A15



Inspectors general at two agencies have begun an investigation into
whether the Bush administration has suppressed government scientists'
research on global warming, officials at NASA and the Commerce
Department confirmed yesterday...



...Some federal scientists interviewed yesterday said they welcomed the
probe because they had encountered problems in speaking to reporters
about their work...



...Tom Knutson, a climate research scientist at NOAA's Geophysical
Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, N.J., said he could not speak
in his official capacity, "but as a private citizen, I think it's a
good idea they're looking into that. There should be open lines of
communication between scientists and the media, and some of what I
experienced did not meet that standard."...

James
Inhofe, who often href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Inhofe#Environment">postures
and rants that global warming is a hoax or a myth, was upset,
wondering why the government should even bother investigating the
issue.  That, obviously, is an incredibly stupid thing to say.
 The investigation has nothing to do with whether climate
change is happening, or whether it is due to human activity.
 The investigators are looking into the possibility that the
Administration is trying to deceive the public.