LA Weekly

"In my more than three decades in government, I have never seen anything approaching the degree to which information flow from scientists to the public has been screened and controlled as it is now."

The Associated Press reports today that James E. Hansen, the director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York who has twice briefed a task force headed by Vice President Dick Cheney on global warming, told an audience at the University of Iowa that the Bush administration has actively sought to stifle evidence on global warming "in an effort to keep the public uninformed."

(The whole Tom Tomorrow cartoon is here.)

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