Groups sue Bush administration for suppressing global warming science

CLIMATE: Lawsuit accuses Bush admin of suppressing global warming assessment

Advocacy groups filed a lawsuit today aimed at forcing the Bush administration to produce an assessment of the effects of global warming and the state of climate science...

The administration's decision to follow its 2000 national assessment of climate science and consequences with a series of 21 staggered, narrowly defined reports violates the Global Change Research Act of 1990, the three groups said in their complaint.

The Center for Biological Diversity, Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth filed the suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

The groups are asking the court to force the government -- through its Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) and the Office of Science and Technology Policy -- to produce a second national climate assessment.