The Boulder Daily Camera has the latest on NASA PR flacks torquing findings in the field of climate science. It seems that sea ice experts at the University of Colorado are angry about the way NASA altered a press release announcing the results of their research--which, of course, showed declining sea ice extent and warned about feedbacks that could lead to still more rapid melting:
NASA and the CU data center had agreed to issue a joint press release. But NASA's release, which appeared several hours after CU's, differed in tone and content. Scambos' quotation about rapid ice decline did not appear, and Stroeve's statement about the potential disappearance of summertime Arctic ice was not even alluded to.
Instead, the space agency's release quoted a NASA scientist who cautioned against "thinking that Arctic sea ice is gone for good."
Why the differences? Sources inside and outside NASA say that Bush-administration ...
