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March 09, 2007

Gordon, Miller Seek Explanation on Continued Censoring of Federal Climate Scientists

(Washington, DC)  In a letter today to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, House Committee on Science and Technology Chairman Bart Gordon (D-TN) and Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Brad Miller (D-NC) asked for an explanation as to why federal scientists – this time at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) – are being prohibited from discussing the issue of climate change.

In an article by Felicity Barringer in the New York Times today, it was reported that the USFWS scientists had been instructed not to speak of global warming in relation to efforts to save Arctic species – such as polar bears – whose survival is threatened by the warming Arctic environment.

This “appears to be the latest effort by the Bush Administration to block a full and free discussion of issues relating to climate change by the scientific community, despite the President’s recent acknowledgement that global warming was an issue that needed to be addressed,” wrote the Chairmen in their letter to Secretary Dick Kempthorne.

Read the letter to Secretary Kempthorne.

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