It's no secret that the White House has been hostile to policy proposals addressing the problem of climate change, but in a letter to Sen. John McCain and John Kerry, GAO stated it found the program established by the Bush administration to study climate change has missed important deadlines and has failed to address how climate change will impact the environment and human health, information that is critical for the development of sound policy. In 1990, Congress passed the Global Change Research Act of 1990, which, among other things, required the President to prepare a scientific assessment of climate change every four years. In 2002, Bush created the Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) to carry out the provisions of the act. Rather than producing a four-year assessment in November 2004, as required by law, CCSP announced last July that it would produce 21 shorter reports between 2005 and 2007, delaying the full report to Congress by three years. None of the 21 reports to be issued address natural resources, the environment or human health and welfare. Rather, all 21 reports focus on the scientific uncertainties of climate change, thus denying lawmakers and the American public critical information about a serious public health threat. Read the letter. Read the New York Times article.