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How do you annoy a scientist? Officials in Texas’s environmental agency have a sure-fire way of doing so: ask researchers to write a report on the state’s Galveston bay – and then edit it to remove any reference to rising sea levels.
The State of the Bay 2010 report has been delayed for a year by disputes between the scientists who wrote it and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), which commissioned it. It now appears that government officials heavily edited a chapter covering sea-level rise in…
