BUSH OFFICIAL EDITED 'GLOBAL WARMING' EVIDENCE

[KipWellsFan]

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash1nyt.htm

 

Tue Jun 07 2005 19:07:22 ET

 

A White House official who once led the oil industry's fight against curbs on greenhouse gases has repeatedly edited government climate reports in ways that play down links between such emissions and global warming, according to internal documents.

 

The NEW YORK TIMES is planning a Wednesday splash on the development, newsroom sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT.

 

NYT reporter Andrew Revkin is urgently filing the report.

 

"In handwritten notes on drafts of several reports issued in 2003, the official, Philip Cooney, removed or adjusted descriptions of climate research that government scientists and their supervisors, including some senior Bush administration officials, had already approved."

 

Developing...

[KipWellsFan]

Who thinks the mainstream liberal media is going to expose this one?

 

A White House official who once led the oil industry's fight against limits on greenhouse gases has repeatedly edited government climate reports in ways that play down links between such emissions and global warming, according to internal documents.

 

In handwritten notes on drafts of several reports issued in 2002 and 2003, the official, Philip A. Cooney, removed or adjusted descriptions of climate research that government scientists and their supervisors, including some senior Bush administration officials, had already approved. In many cases, the changes appeared in the final reports.

 

The dozens of changes, while sometimes as subtle as the insertion of the phrase "significant and fundamental" before the word "uncertainties," tend to produce an air of doubt about findings that most climate experts say are robust.

 

Mr. Cooney is chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the office that helps devise and promote administration policies on environmental issues.

 

Before going to the White House in 2001, he was the "climate team leader" and a lobbyist at the American Petroleum Institute, the largest trade group representing the interests of the oil industry. A lawyer with a bachelor's degree in economics, he has no scientific training.

 

The documents were obtained by The New York Times from the Government Accountability Project, a nonprofit legal-assistance group for government whistle-blowers.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/08/politics...agewanted=print

much more mind blowing info at the link

 

Can anyone tell me why someone who used to lobby for Oil companies became the chief of staff for the White House on Environmental Quality?

 

:headshake

[FlaSoxxJim]

Can anyone tell me why someone who used to lobby for Oil companies became the chief of staff for the White House on Environmental Quality?

 

:headshake

 

That's supposed to be a rhetorical question, right?

[HuskyCaucasian]

Who thinks the mainstream liberal media is going to expose this one?

 

That's an interesting point. i was watching a think on CSPAN last week. It was a House panel and freedom of the press. Basically, it was a bunch of Democrate house members and Air America people b****ing about how the media is not "liberal" as everyone claimes. It is actually very right wing. it was interesting and they raised some legit points.

[southsider2k5]

Who thinks the mainstream liberal media is going to expose this one?

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/08/politics...agewanted=print

much more mind blowing info at the link

 

Can anyone tell me why someone who used to lobby for Oil companies became the chief of staff for the White House on Environmental Quality?

 

:headshake

 

The funny thing is that it took that damned conservative Drudge to break the story.

[KipWellsFan]

The funny thing is that it took that damned conservative Drudge to break the story.

 

 

Drudge for me is still the best for breaking news, conservative or not.

[Rex Kickass]

Saying "The New York Times is going to report a story that says..." is breaking a story about a paper breaking a story.

 

It's not really breaking the story, it's more meta-breakage.

[Balta1701]

 

Drudge for me is still the best for breaking news, conservative or not.

 

Like when he broke that Kerry was having an affair...oh wait, yeah, that was completely wrong.

 

Drudge gets "Breaking" news because he has a few people at ABC, The NYT, and the WaPo who tell him what they're going to be publishing a few hours before the paper goes to print. That's it.

[southsider2k5]

It is funny to hear everyone jump on people who discredit certian media for their views, but as soon as a "conservative" columnist gets mentioned, everyone comes out to discredit them. Irony.

[Balta1701]

It is funny to hear everyone jump on people who discredit certian media for their views, but as soon as a "conservative" columnist gets mentioned, everyone comes out to discredit them.  Irony.

 

Are we talking about people being discredited for their views or because they were completely wrong about something?

 

Drudge has been repeatedly, utterly wrong about a very large number of his "breaking scoops", and I think that the Kerry Smear was probably the worst of them.

 

When CBS screwed up that story...I stopped using CBS as a source for anything for roughly 6 months, until the people responsible were gone. I still hesitate to use them as a source. Likewise, I don't trust a damn thing Judith Miller writes at the NYT, because she was the one who the Administration/the Iraqi National Congress spoonfed their anonymous stories about Iraq's WMD programs.

 

On the ohter hand, Drudge gets something wrong, and it gets picked up by networks all over the place...most of which never bother to issue a retraction, and neither does he. And even though he shouldn't have credibility left at all, people still consider him a legit source.

[KipWellsFan]

Like when he broke that Kerry was having an affair...oh wait, yeah, that was completely wrong.

 

Drudge gets "Breaking" news because he has a few people at ABC, The NYT, and the WaPo who tell him what they're going to be publishing a few hours before the paper goes to print.  That's it.

 

I wish I had a better source than him for big breaking stories, but as of now I don't.

[Rex Kickass]

It is funny to hear everyone jump on people who discredit certian media for their views, but as soon as a "conservative" columnist gets mentioned, everyone comes out to discredit them.  Irony.

 

I don't discredit what he says. But saying that a paper is going to report a story is not the same as reporting a story.

[FlaSoxxJim]

Cooney has been subverting the science for a long time, and confirmation that he altered global change documents to increase uncertainty in the science is just the latest revelation. Two years ago, at the end of a time span when the White House was pretty much telling EPA to take a dive in court whenever it went up against Big Business, it was suspected by Joe Lieberman and others that the strategy was also being used to undermine 10 years of climate change findings.

 

There is more at the link - to the Senate website and not 'some pinko newspaper.' But the upshot is that Cooney, at the behest of the White House, convinced CEI to take the Administration to court over the findings of the Clinton era climate change report (based on 10 years of research). The rationale, of course is that if the findings of the 2000 report are invalidated, the carry-over into the 2002 report is also invalidated, and none of the emmissions reduction actions reccomended need to be put in place.

 

http://www.senate.gov/~gov_affairs/index.c...nth=9&Year=2003

 

September 24, 2003 

LIEBERMAN SEEKS WHITE HOUSE CONTACTS REGARDING GLOBAL WARMING LAWSUIT

CEQ, Think Tank Discussed How to "clean up this mess"

 

WASHINGTON – Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., sought clarification Wednesday as to whether the White House played a role in a lawsuit challenging an Administration report on global warming that exposes the flaws in President Bush’s environmental policy.

 

In a letter to White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, dated September 24, 2003, Lieberman asked Card “to clear the record once and for all by publicly disclosing all the White House contacts” in the last two years with The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, regarding global warming.

 

At issue are communications between Philip Cooney, Chief of Staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, and Myron Ebell, Director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Global Warming and Environmental Policy, as evidenced by a June 2003 email in which the CEI director referred to a White House’s request that the think tank help “clean up this mess.”

 

“The mess” refers to the submission of the global warming report in May 2002 by the State Department to the United Nations, which embarrassed the Administration because it found that increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are responsible for the warming of the earth. The Bush Administration, by contrast, has supported the unfettered use and production of fossil fuels regardless of environmental ramifications.

 

On August 6, 2003, CEI filed a lawsuit against the Administration, asking for the invalidation of a Clinton-era report on global warming, a decade in the making, and which provided the basis for the May 2002 Bush Administration report.

 

“This lawsuit may have been seen by the Administration as the best means to that end,” Lieberman wrote to Card. “I hope that the lawsuit…. is not the result of a collusive plan conceived by the CEI in concert with the Administration, itself. It would be wrong in any circumstance to reject the well-founded findings of the (Clinton-era report), but for the Administration to use an outside group to pursue such an ill-conceived goal would be doubly wrong, and could also be abuse of the courts at the expense of the taxpayers.”

 

Lieberman asked Card to explain what the White House was seeking from CEI that prompted the “clean up this mess” email.

[FlaSoxxJim]

This won't hold a candle to the Jacko jury verdict, but the timing of Cooney's resignation, announced today, is an interesting coincidence...

 

Ex-Lobbyist Leaves White House Environmental Job

 

June 13, 2005 — By Reuters

 

WASHINGTON — A senior official at the White House Council on Environmental Quality has resigned, days after a newspaper reported he changed some government reports to downplay links between greenhouse gas emissions and global warming.

Philip Cooney, the council's chief of staff and a former energy industry lobbyist, resigned Friday, two days after The New York Times reported he edited some descriptions of climate research in a way that cast doubt on links between greenhouse gas emissions and rising temperatures.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino confirmed Cooney had resigned from the council but said it was unrelated to the Times story.

"Mr. Cooney has long been considering his options following four years of service in the administration," she said. "He had accumulated four weeks of leave and decided to resign and take the summer off to spend time with his family."

The Times said it obtained the environmental documents from the Government Accountability Project, a nonprofit group that provides legal help to government whistle-blowers.

The White House has denied Cooney had watered down the impact of global warming.

The newspaper noted Cooney previously worked at the American Petroleum Institute, a lobby group for the oil industry.

Source: Reuters

[Balta1701]

This won't hold a candle to the Jacko jury verdict, but the timing of Cooney's resignation, announced today, is an interesting coincidence...

 

Man, that is some fascinating timing. Resign right after your name winds up on the front page of the NYT. Who woulda thunk it?

[KipWellsFan]

The White House has denied Cooney had watered down the impact of global warming.

 

Leaving everyone on the surface of the earth baffled.

[Soxy]

As per the New York Times, he was reportedly hired by Exxon.

[KipWellsFan]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/15/coo...n.ap/index.html

 

what a joke

[FlaSoxxJim]

Russ Roberts told The Associated Press by telephone from the company's headquarters in Irving, Texas. He declined to described Cooney's job, but was optimistic he would be willing and able to do any kind of evil s*** that needed doing.

 

Ah..., I may have altered the report just a little (Hey, I pulled a Cooney!), but you should get the gist of it.

[LowerCaseRepublican]

[FlaSoxxJim]

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