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"In a striking shift in the way the Bush administration has portrayed the science of climate change, a new report to Congress focuses on federal research indicating that emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gasses are the only likely explanation for global warming over the last three decades," reported the August 26 New York Times. Among the other remarkable "scientific" findings in that report is the supposed discovery that accumulating emissions of C[O.sub.2] "pose newly identified risks to farmers," since the gas promotes "the growth of invasive weeds far more than it stimulates crops.... " Which is to say, apparently, that carbon dioxide is a discriminating molecule.
Unlike an earlier "climate change" report that offered similar conclusions, the most recent document "is accompanied by a letter signed by ...