Global Warmin' Is Fer Idjuts...

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Global Warmin' Is Fer Idjuts
Exxon writes America's energy policy, BushCo chops up emissions reports. Is there any hope at all?
- By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Friday, June 10, 2005

Like anyone is the slightest bit shocked.

Like anyone is the slightest bit appalled anymore by the breathtaking litany of utter BS oozing forth from the White House these days, this time about how one of BushCo's top oil-lovin' henchmen has been hacking away at countless scientific reports for over two years, editing them at will, all to downplay the effects of emissions on global warming.

His name is Philip Cooney, and he has zero scientific training whatsoever and was formerly the "climate-team leader" (read: top flying monkey) and a lobbyist at the American Petroleum Institute, the largest trade group representing the oil industry. He is now chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the group that helps devise and set the nation's environmental agenda; Cooney's cuts and edits of scientific emissions and global warming reports often made it into final White House policy.

Isn't that just the cutest thing? Aren't you just, like, yawning with ennui at the bitter repetition of it all? At how savagely and biliously common these stories have become?

>>>>>>> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2005/06/10/notes061005.DTL&feed=rss.morford

[acmavm]

1. Folks, this article is priceless. A true 'must read'.

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They lie about why a gay male model and former prostitute who ran gay porn Web sites was allowed to pose as a partisan hack reporter in White House press briefings for over two years, allowed to ask softball questions of the president and the press secretary and allowed to sleep overnight in the White House and shall we venture a guess who might've been waiting down in the dungeon all those nights, all sweaty and adipose, waiting for hunky Jeff Gannon to come and spank him but good?

And of course, most impressively, BushCo lied about WMDs, about why we're at war, about why we're dumping $5 billion along with dozens of dead U.S. soldiers and thousands of wounded per month into the Iraq quagmire (total cost: over $175 billion, and counting -- fast) when our own economy is gutted and the dollar is at a desperate low and the deficit is at an all-time high and our education and health care systems are crumbling and we are, as a nation, essentially running on fumes.

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[maxsolomon]

2. preaching to the choir

but it feels good to know someone else agrees, no?

there may come a day when we look back on bush fondly - "at least he wasn't as bad a president dick armey."

[Henny Penny]

3. Speaking of which...

does anyone know anything about (ie have links to any good articles about) Bjorn Lomborg??? I might be able to get to see him speak next week but don't know anything about him, except that he would agree with the title above!

I just put his name into google and the first few pages about him all seem to be rather flattering. Is he sponsored by big oil?

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Not as far as I know, but they may well love him

He does actually admit global warming is happening, but he says it would be easier to spend our way out of it with technological solutions (eg research into solar power and nuclear fusion), and to help the developing world develop faster, because richer people can withstand the effects more easily.

[NNadir]

5. Notable for the fact he selects two forms of energy that don't work...

...very well, solar power and fusion power.

This isn't a time to propose a magical research program. This is a time to act.

The biggest lies told about the means to address global climate change are the lies that people tell themselves.