WASHINGTON - The Democratic chairman of a House panel examining the government's response to climate change said Tuesday there is evidence that senior Bush administration officials sought repeatedly "to mislead the public by injecting doubt into the science of global warming."

Comment: This is not exactly new news, but it reminds us of the potential havoc inflicted on the planet by President Bush and his cohorts. It is terrible enough that his disastrous Iraq misadventure caused the deaths and casualties for many thousand Americans and multiple more Iraqis. But the misleading and the neglect on global warming risks destruction and death of unprecedented magnitude.