"Climate Findings Were Distorted, Probe Finds"

Source: Subtitle: "Appointees in NASA Press Office Blamed"
Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post, June 3, 2008.

Excerpts:

An investigation by the NASA inspector general found that political appointees in the space agency's public affairs office worked to control and distort public accounts of its researchers' findings about climate change for at least two years, the inspector general's office said yesterday......

From the fall of 2004 through 2006, the report said, NASA's public affairs office "managed the topic of climate change in a manner that reduced, marginalized, or mischaracterized climate change science made available to the general public." It noted elsewhere that "news releases in the areas of climate change suffered from inaccuracy, factual insufficiency, and scientific dilution."