Yesterday, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) released a report on the organization's year-long investigation into political manipulation of federal climate science. The report focuses on how Bush administration politicos interfere in climate scientists' communications with the media and Congress. The report accuses OMB of participating in the manipulation. In one instance, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was preparing formal responses to questions posed during a Senate hearing on climate change. OMB reviewed the draft and inserted text which "attributed global warming to increasing water vapor, in reliance on a quote taken out of context from a scientific paper." The text was finally removed, but not until the paper's author intervened. Water vapor?!? That kind of logic wouldn't fly in a junior-high earth science class, let alone the United States Senate. Stay tuned as Reg•Watch posts more examples of OMB interference uncovered in GAP's eye-opening report.