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Texas agency censors scientific report to remove references to reality
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Oct 19, 2011 10:32am |
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| Author | John Timmer |
| News Date | Wednesday, October 19, 2011 02:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The latest bit of climate controversy has kicked off in Texas, a state with a governor, RIck Perry, who has suggested that climate scientists have manipulated data. At issue is a report on the future of Galveston Bay, on Texas' Gulf coast. The report was commissioned by the state's Commission on Environmental Quality, and prepared by a private consulting firm. The CEQ, however, had issues with the report's contents when it came to topics related to climate change, and tried to edit the report. Now, the scientists who prepared the report are asking that their names be removed from it.
The report was being prepared by the Houston Advanced Research Center, which contracts the work out to research scientists. One of the chapters of the report focuses on the impact of sea level rise. Studies in the peer-reviewed literature suggest that, after thousands of years of relative stability, the rate of sea level rise has been accelerating during the last century, and it's expected to continue to rise as temperatures get warmer. That obviously has implications for low-lying coastal areas like Galveston, and the report touches on some of these.
That didn't go over well with some people at the CEQ, who edited the report to remove all references to sea level rise (replacing "rise" with "change") and made other alterations to diminish its significance. The author of that chapter, Rice University's John Anderson, was appalled, and refused to approve the edits |
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