What square pegs?

From the things we knew, but should be reminding the public of until Bush loses the election department:

James E. Hansen told a University of Iowa audience that the administration wants to hear only findings that "fit predetermined, inflexible positions." Evidence that would raise concerns about the dangers of climate change is often dismissed as not being worthy of public dissemination.

"This, I believe, is a recipe for environmental disaster," he said.

Hansen is director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York and has twice briefed a task force headed by Vice President Dick Cheney on global warming.

He said the scientific community generally agrees that temperatures on Earth are rising because of the greenhouse effect - emissions of carbon dioxide and other materials into the atmosphere that trap heat.

These rising temperatures, scientists believe, could damage crops and human health, cause sea levels to rise and trigger other problems. Hansen said such warnings are consistently downplayed, while studies that cast doubt on those interpretations receive favorable treatment from the administration.

"In my more than three decades in government, I have never seen anything approaching the degree to which information flow from scientists to the public has been screened and controlled as it is now," Hansen said.

We know this applies to a number of things as well, such as health care, job growth, Iraq...