Bush administration bans talk on polar bears

from Mongabay:

The Bush administration has banned discussion of polar bears, sea ice, and global warming among officials traveling overseas, according to environmental groups and the director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

“This is positively Orwellian,” said Kieran Suckling, policy director with the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the environmental groups that made the allegation. “Only the worst cynic could admit the polar bear is being driven extinct by global warming, then issue a gag order to stop government scientists from talking about it.”