London Observer (Sunday): Bush covers up climate research

[Jack Rabbit]

From the London Observer (Sunday supplement of the Guardian Unlimited)
Dated Sunday September 21

Bush covers up climate research
White House officials play down its own scientists' evidence of global warming
By Paul Harris New York

White House officials have undermined their own government scientists' research into climate change to play down the impact of global warming, an investigation by The Observer can reveal.
The disclosure will anger environment campaigners who claim that efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions are being sabotaged because of President George W. Bush's links to the oil industry.
Emails and internal government documents obtained by The Observer show that officials have sought to edit or remove research warning that the problem is serious. They have enlisted the help of conservative lobby groups funded by the oil industry to attack US government scientists if they produce work seen as accepting too readily that pollution is an issue.
Central to the revelations of double dealing is the discovery of an email sent to Phil Cooney, chief of staff at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, by Myron Ebell, a director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). The CEI is an ultra-conservative lobby group that has received more than $1 million in donations since 1998 from the oil giant Exxon, which sells Esso petrol in Britain.
The email, dated 3 June 2002, reveals how White House officials wanted the CEI's help to play down the impact of a report last summer by the government's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in which the US admitted for the first time that humans are contributing to global warming. 'Thanks for calling and asking for our help,' Ebell tells Cooney.
The email discusses possible tactics for playing down the report and getting rid of EPA officials, including its then head, Christine Whitman.

As if we didn't already know, the junta does science the same way it does intelligence in order to prepare for war.

[Fovea]

1. That's it...

Impeach Bush NOW!

[Gopens]

3. You stole my thunder

Let's add another impeachable offense to the list.

[Brucey]

2. Old news.

[pippin]

4. once more Bush lied, people died

. . .and will die as thousands did this summer in Europe. I was in France at the height of the heat wave and believe me it was terrible. We Americans are still in denial about global warming because we can retreat to the comfort of our airconditioned homes and cars.

The rest of the world including most of Europe isn't equipped with cooling systems so they are literally taking the heat for the Bush administration's callous attitude toward global warming. Do most people here know or care that the ozone hole is three times bigger than initially supposed? Ofcourse not! :mad:

[T_i_B]

5. How dare those pesky scientists discover the truth!

:eyes: :kick: