Kate Sheppard reports today that the sea level in Galveston Bay is rising, but Rick Perry’s administration wants to make sure that nobody knows about it:
Top environmental officials under Perry have gutted a recent report on sea level rise in Galveston Bay, removing all mentions of climate change….John Anderson, the oceanographer at Rice University who wrote the chapter, provided Mother Jones with a copy of the edited document, complete with tracked changes from top TCEQ officials. You can see the cuts—which include how much sea level rise has increased over the years, as well as the statement that this rise “is one of the main impacts of global climate change”—here. As the document shows, most of the tracked changes came from Katherine Nelson, the assistant director in the water quality planning division. Her boss, Kelly Holligan, is listed as a reviewer on the document as well.
Click the link for more. They didn’t just delete every reference in the report to climate change, they deleted most of the references to the mere fact of sea level rise. I guess they were hoping to spare their boss any more embarrassing debate questions. Click the link for the whole story.
