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A Smithsonian exhibit on climate forces at work in the Arctic was a victim of self-censorship, according to a former Smithsonian director. He said evidence of human contributions to climate changed was toned down to avoid repercussions from Congress and the Bush administration.
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"The obsession with getting the next allocation and appropriation was so intense that anything that might upset the Congress or the White House was being looked at very carefully."
Former museum director Robert Sullivan, who says the museum revised evidence of climate change to avoid angering officials
(CBS/AP) The Smithsonian Institution toned down an exhibit on climate change in the Arctic for fear of angering Congress and the Bush administration, says a former administrator at the U.S. museum. Among other things, the script, or official text, of last year's exhibit was rewritten to minimize and inject more uncertainty into the relationship between global warming and humans, said Robert Sullivan, who was associate director in charge of exhibitions at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. Also, officials omitted scientists' interpretation of some research and let visitors draw their own conclusions from the data, he said. In addition, graphs were altered "to show that global warming could go either way,"