Global Warming Disputes Heat Up Congress
WASHINGTON, Jul. 20, 2006
(AP) As a heat wave baked the capital, global warming dominated a
number of conversations in and around the government Thursday.
The House Government Reform Committee began an inquiry into
allegations that White House officials edited reports on global
warming to play down the threat it poses.
...
The House committee chairman, Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., and the
committee's top Democrat, Rep. Henry Waxman of California, said they
will request data from the White House and hold hearings into whether
the White House Council on Environmental Quality intentionally
diluted scientific information on the threat of global warming.
...
With temperatures hovering around 100 in parts of the nation, global
warming has generated heat at the box-office with movies such as Al
Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth."
Scientists told the House committee that humans are causing most of
the earth's warming and the planet is 8 degrees to 10 degrees hotter
than it was thousands of years ago. Some voiced concern with the pace
of U.S. efforts.
"The fact that we don't have a plan is really disturbing," said
Judith Curry, head of Georgia Institute of Technology's School of
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.
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WASHINGTON, Jul. 20, 2006
(AP) As a heat wave baked the capital, global warming dominated a
number of conversations in and around the government Thursday.
The House Government Reform Committee began an inquiry into
allegations that White House officials edited reports on global
warming to play down the threat it poses.
...
The House committee chairman, Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., and the
committee's top Democrat, Rep. Henry Waxman of California, said they
will request data from the White House and hold hearings into whether
the White House Council on Environmental Quality intentionally
diluted scientific information on the threat of global warming.
...
With temperatures hovering around 100 in parts of the nation, global
warming has generated heat at the box-office with movies such as Al
Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth."
Scientists told the House committee that humans are causing most of
the earth's warming and the planet is 8 degrees to 10 degrees hotter
than it was thousands of years ago. Some voiced concern with the pace
of U.S. efforts.
"The fact that we don't have a plan is really disturbing," said
Judith Curry, head of Georgia Institute of Technology's School of
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.
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