Restoring Science to its Rightful Place

from the Blog The Commander Guy’s Lair

Quote of the Day:

“All I know is there’s water where it didn’t use to be, and it’s my responsibility to deal with that.”

Coast Guard Commandant Thad Allen, repeating Bush Administration dogma on melting polar ice caps.

After years of first denying the possibilities of a changing climate, Bush, eventually, grudgingly acknowledged the possibility. However, he decided to do nothing about it. The Bush Administration even went so far as to alienate allies, muzzle scientists and censor government reports on the subject. Nothing new here.

So would it surprise you to learn that just days before leaving office, President Bush issued new national security directive, NSPD – 66, on Arctic Security to address the effects of global warming?

New waterways are opening in the Arctic as polar ice caps shrink, even the Bush Administration understood this fact.

Thawing of the Arctic will allow new transportation shortcuts and new energy exploration, even the Bush Administration came to understand this fact.

But what the Bush administration could not do was allow science to have a roll in understanding the changes to the Arctic and to the planet as a whole.

Let’s just add restoring science to its proper role and cleaning up the censorship and obstructed scholarship that occurred during the last Eight Years as another burden passed off to future generations.