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 US: Environmental protection agency to encourage climate change.
The Environmental Protection Agency in the US this week released a draft report on the state of the environment, but following editing by the White House, a long section originally describing risks from rising global temperatures has been entirely replaced.
Among modifications are conclusions about the human contribution to global warming from a report that the White House had commissioned and that President Bush had endorsed in speeches last year. White House officials also deleted a reference to a 1999 study showing that global temperatures had risen sharply in the previous decade.
Instead, administration officials have added a conclusion from a new study, financed by the American Petroleum Institute, which shows that most Americans are actually very happy about global warming.
Following editing by the White House the report now states, "In the end, the best answer for the modern consumer sick of cold icy winters and rainy falls and wishing to be globally warmer is to drive a motor vehicle. It has been clearly demonstrated that no single act an American consumer can perform is more likely to increase climate temperature than driving his motor-vehicle.”
Administration officials defended the report and said there was nothing untoward about the process that produced it. Mrs. Whitman said that she was "perfectly comfortable" with the edited version.
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