White House Edits Another Memo to Minimize Global Warming

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The Bush White House has once again (see here and here) edited a climate change document to delete references to adverse effects, to question certainty and to directly challenge scientificย warnings.

In a fax copy of the edited EPA document (attached), made public by the Environmental Defense Fund, editors at the White House Office of Management and Budget inserted the word โ€œmayโ€ in place of โ€œwill,โ€ promoted research into the โ€œbenefitsโ€ of global warming and dismissed warnings of devastating storms with the question: โ€œIs this relevant to theย U.S.โ€

Amnesia about Katrina notwithstanding, the memo’s editors also insist that no amount of storm-driven flooding will ever affect American drinking water because โ€œwe have a regulatory structure in place to ensureย quality.โ€

The edits and comments range from the dishonest (changing โ€œwillโ€ to โ€œmayโ€) to the dunder-headed. For example, in response to an EPA paragraph that reads: โ€œAbrupt climate changes are an important consideration because, if triggered, they could occur so quickly and unexpectedly that human or natural systems would have difficulty adapting to them,โ€ the White House editors interjected, โ€œIf referring to changes that take decades, one would think that human systems couldย adapt.โ€

Given that the White House has been caught doing this kind of thing twice before, it appears that certain Americans are woefully slow to adapt.

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