McCain Challenges Bush Admin Official on Global Warming Data

Numerous, even countless, examples of the Bush administration’s eagerness to shove the global warming issue under the rug can be cited, but one of the most obvious has been its flat-out refusal to have NOAA file the decadal data, as required by the act that authorized the US Global Change Research Program. Yesterday John McCain made an issue of that: a Talking Points Memo post expertly summarizes the controversy. For more on the subject, keep an eye on whistlerblower Rick Piltz’s Climate Science Watch.