US scientists reject Bush scepticism over global warming

An American government report on climate change has undermined a key claim of Bush administration hard-liners and sceptics who have long disputed a link between carbon emissions and global warming.

The study by the federal Climate Change Science Programme concluded that the atmosphere was growing warmer and that there was “clear evidence of human influences”.

Lee Lane, the executive director of the Climate Policy Centre, said the fact that the report was by an American body and not an international one might lead policy-makers in the Bush administration to take it more seriously.

He said it also undercut the perception that the administration was repressing climate science and “bowdlerising” scientific results.

“It shrinks the credibility of claims that the administration is trying to fiddle the science.

Telegraph