[Sosfbay-discuss] GPUS Release: Impeachable Offense - Global warming: Bush is doing to world what he did to New Orleans

[JamBoi]

GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Monday, February 5, 2007

Contacts:
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624,
mclarty at greens.org
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805,
starlene at gp.org


Greens call Bush's tampering with scientific
research on global warming an impeachable offense

• Congress must hold Bush accountable for placing
U.S. and world at risk by manipulating scientific
reports to fit reckless, pro-corporate energy
policies

• "Bush is doing to the world what he did to New
Orleans"


WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Green Party leaders demanded
that Congress hold the Bush Administration
accountable for tampering with scientific
research on global warming, calling President
Bush's interference and dishonesty an impeachable
conspiracy to commit 'high crimes and
misdemeanors.'

"The Bush Administration is doing to the whole
world what it did to New Orleans as Katrina began
to descend on the city," said Rebecca Rotzler,
co-chair of the Green Party of the United States
and Deputy Mayor of New Paltz, New York.  "By
altering scientific research on global warming to
fit his political agenda and refusing to take
necessary steps to protect the public, President
Bush has aggravated an impending environmental,
public health, and security crisis.

Greens cited mounting evidence of such tampering,
including complaints from more than 120
scientists from seven federal agencies that
they've been pressured to remove references to
global warming from research reports, press
releases, and communications with Congress
<http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0131/p01s04-uspo.html?s=hns>.

Last week, scientists from 113 countries meeting
at the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change in Paris warned that destructive effects
of global warming, in which human consumption of
energy has led to a global concentration of
carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse
gases in the earth's atmosphere, were probably
inevitable, with a likely temperature rises of
3.2-7.1 degrees Fahrenheit
<http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070202/ap_on_sc/france_climate_change>.
 (Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change:
<http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb2007.pdf>)

"Congress must recognize the Bush
Administration's tampering with studies on global
warming and other scientific research as an
impeachable offense," said Jody Grage, treasurer
of the Green Party.  "Ever since Vice President
Cheney initiated private meetings with oil
company representatives to determine energy
policy, the administration has placed the demands
for corporate profits over urgent human and
environmental needs."

Green Party leaders called recent news of a White House directive that
gave President Bush greater
control over the rules and policy statements that
federal government agencies develop to protect
the environment, public health, and safety (as
well as civil rights and privacy)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/washington/30rules.html>
further indication that the Bush Administration
was manipulating public policy in these areas to
benefit favored corporate interests.

The Green Party has called for the U.S. to sign
on to the Kyoto accords and to take the lead on a
70% reduction of CO2 emissions, as well as a
rapid transition to clean and secure alternative
energy sources, energy conservation, reduced
reliance on cars, and a phase-out on fossil fuel
dependence and nuclear energy.  The party
advocates restructuring of local, national, and
global economies, with investment and creation of
new jobs in conservation and conversion to
renewable solar and wind power, taxes on fossil
fuel consumption, and bans on new drilling in the
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other
wilderness areas.

Greens have already called for impeachment of
President Bush and Vice President for deceiving
the public about the U.S.'s reasons for invading
Iraq and numerous other abuses of power.  News of
a proposed law giving U.S. and U.K. oil companies
lucrative 30-year deals to extract Iraqi oil has
confirmed that oil company interests are driving
U.S. energy policy, and that desire for U.S.
corporate control over Iraqi oil fields was a
major motivation for the Iraq War
<http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2132569.ece>.


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