At the end of July, I posted a poll here on News Bloggers asking: What makes the Bush Administration so unpopular?

The obvious answers grabbed the top slots - Iraq War and the Katrina response. Surprisingly sitting in third place is "Silencing Science." I decided to take a look and find videos that may have generated this opinion.

This first clip is from a 60 Minutes episode that aired in March 2006, the story of James Hansen, who's a climate scientist for NASA. Here he talks to 60 Minutes about how his research was altered by an ex-oil lobbyist working in the White House. (Watch full doc here)

Did you enjoy that? It was quick, I know. Remember you can watch the full segment if you want to learn more. You can also watch this next clip, it's from Mr. Gore's epic documentary "An Inconvenient Truth." There are a few interesting points in this four minute clip. First the archive footage of Gore in '89 - that's Hansen he's warning about science suppression, which was 18 years ago! Another thing that blew my mind, Philip Cooney, the fella who edited the climate change document, Gore shows his resume on the big screen.

1995 - 2001 - American Petroleum Institute.
2001 - 2005 - White House Council on Environmental Quality.
2005 - Exxon Mobile.

This is probably the best example I can find, if you have any others you would like to share, please do in the comments below, but please don't turn the comment thread into an "Al Gore bash fest."