e-mails/documents show bushgang hiding global warming reports

[donsu]

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1046363,00.html

Bush covers up climate research

White House officials play down its own scientists' evidence of global warming

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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. 'It seems to me that the folks at the EPA are the obvious fall guys and we would only hope that the fall guy (or gal) should be as high up as possible,' Ebell wrote in the email. 'Perhaps tomorrow we will call for Whitman to be fired,' he added.

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the article ends with Symons saying: The Bush administration's attitude was clear from the beginning, he said, and a lot of people were working to ensure that the President did nothing to address global warming.
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the bloody hands bushgang rushing us all toward destruction.

and they own our military! chew on that!

[Gman]

1. So whatever happened to the Hydrogen Fuel car that the FI

made such a big deal about during the SOTU address?

Everyone knew it was just a diversion. We all knew that would be the last we heard about it. It dovetailed real nice with the article above.

[calimary]

2. Another day, another coverup...

[G_j]

3. yep

just put in the file with the EPA's report on post 9-11 air quality.