Via Drudge, the Washington Post is reporting that—you guessed it—the Bush administration is hindering its scientists from getting the global-warming message out to the American people:

Scientists doing climate research for the federal government say the Bush administration has made it hard for them to speak forthrightly to the public about global warming. The result, the researchers say, is a danger that Americans are not getting the full story on how the climate is changing.

Maybe it’s just me, maybe it’s the 34-page cover package in Time, or maybe it’s Drudge’s link to an article in the Washington Post, but it seems those scientists are getting plenty of media coverage.

[Pieter Tans, who measures greenhouse gases linked to global warming,] added that although he often “ignores the rules” the administration has instituted, when it comes to his colleagues, “some people feel intimidated — I see that.”

Pieter Tans, if it weren’t for you, we’d all be in the dark about climate change. David Mastio, editor of InOpinion, also has an article that alleges media outlets have donated a half-billion dollars in free advertising to the environmental movement, including global warming.