Sea level edited out

摘要

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 thenedititto 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 (TCEQJ, which commissioned it. It now appears that government officials heavily edited a chapter covering sea-level rise in the bay, written by Joh Anderson of Rice University i Houston, Texas.