Yesterday, the prestigious scientific journal Nature published a story saying that the Bush Administration has blocked release of a scientific report linking hurricane severity and frequency with global warming, according to an Associated Press story. It is not the normal beat of a scientific journal to be playing government watchdog, so one can surmise that the frustration of the scientific community with the Administration is quite high over its repeated efforts to block, usurp, manipulate, or ignore good science.

The issue of protecting scientific integrity from abuse by government has been raised by many preeminent scientists and the Union of Concerned Scientists. On February 18, 2004, 62 preeminent scientists including Nobel laureates, National Medal of Science recipients, former senior advisers to administrations of both parties, numerous members of the National Academy of Sciences, and other well-known researchers released a statement titled, “Restoring Scientific Integrity in Policy Making.” In this statement, the scientists charged the Bush administration with widespread and unprecedented “manipulation of the process through which science enters into its decisions.”

With its new law to fight global warming to be signed today by Governor Schwarzenegger, California bypasses federal inaction and calls upon other states to join the world in fighting global warming pollution.

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