Hot Report For the Day Is Not From McClellan
posted 28th May 2008 in Environment, Science by The Green Man
Blabbery blabbery blabbery goes the corporate press about the new book by George W. Bush’s former Press Secretary Scott McClellan. I honestly don’t understand what the big deal is about the book. In it, McClellan only admits to what we independent liberal writers were trying to get the corporate press to investigate way back in 2002 and 2003. Five years later, this is news? And McClellan’s given credit for breaking it?
If you want a hot report, get one that looks ahead to problems of the future, rather than belatedly getting the news of years past correct. Get the Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.3 from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program.
I know, the report does not have a glamorous name. That importance of the subject matter more than makes up for that. The report summarizes the latest government estimates of the impacts of global warming in the United States in terms of land, water, agriculture and biodiversity.
This is what government scientists are able to publish under the political censorship of the Bush White House, mind you, so it may be on the conservative side. Nonetheless, it’s an important summary of the challenges the United States will soon be facing.
Instead of indulging in another Republican windbag’s attempt to detach himself from the sinking ship of George W. Bush, we can work to keep the rest of our nation afloat.
Tags: agriculture, biodiversity, climate change, global warming, report, research, water
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