Bad advice
In an interview, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair hesitated to critisize the American policy on global warming. He said that it was far too easy to “point the finger at America”. China and India would be major CO2 producers over the next few years, and unless they were involved in an agreement it would never happen.
Yes, China and India will also pollute Earth's environment. While that is true, it seems Blair and Koizumi are so wimpy who never say anything frankly about the US position. It seems they have such bad advisers!
In fact, The Times has revealed that the White House aide who softened scientific warnings about global warming in US government documents has been hired by Exxon Mobil, the oil company. Philip Cooney, the former chief of staff to President Bush’s Council on Environmental Quality, quit two days after leaked documents disclosed the extent to which he had neutered the conclusions of government scientists.
Mr Cooney’s handiwork became an embarrassment to the White House when it was revealed in June. The leaked documents showed that he edited environmental documents before their release, according to The Times.
For instance, at one point he inserted the words “significant and fundamental” before the word “uncertainties” in an apparent effort to cloud the stark findings and predictions of scientists.
In one October 2002 policy paper, Our Changing Planet, Mr Cooney added the word “extremely” to the sentence: “The attribution of the causes of biological and ecological changes to climate change or variability is extremely difficult.”
Environmental activists have long accused Mr Bush of allowing big oil interests to dictate his environmental policy, writes The Times in a comment.
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Yes, China and India will also pollute Earth's environment. While that is true, it seems Blair and Koizumi are so wimpy who never say anything frankly about the US position. It seems they have such bad advisers!
In fact, The Times has revealed that the White House aide who softened scientific warnings about global warming in US government documents has been hired by Exxon Mobil, the oil company. Philip Cooney, the former chief of staff to President Bush’s Council on Environmental Quality, quit two days after leaked documents disclosed the extent to which he had neutered the conclusions of government scientists.
Mr Cooney’s handiwork became an embarrassment to the White House when it was revealed in June. The leaked documents showed that he edited environmental documents before their release, according to The Times.
For instance, at one point he inserted the words “significant and fundamental” before the word “uncertainties” in an apparent effort to cloud the stark findings and predictions of scientists.
In one October 2002 policy paper, Our Changing Planet, Mr Cooney added the word “extremely” to the sentence: “The attribution of the causes of biological and ecological changes to climate change or variability is extremely difficult.”
Environmental activists have long accused Mr Bush of allowing big oil interests to dictate his environmental policy, writes The Times in a comment.
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