On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 19:03:42 -0400, HarryKrause wrote:

Ex-oil lobbyist quits White House job


Official reportedly edited warming, emission link

Updated: 5:08 p.m. ET June 11, 2005WASHINGTON - 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 on 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.”

Cooney is a lawyer who previously worked for the American Petroleum
Institute, which like the Bush administration opposes mandatory curbs on
greenhouse gas emissions.

Warming language qualified, removed
The Times reported that Cooney made handwritten notes on drafts of
several reports issued in 2002 and 2003, removing or adjusting language
on climate research.

The paper said it obtained the reports from the Government
Accountability Project, a nonprofit group that is representing an
official who resigned in March from the Climate Change Science Program,
which issued the documents edited by Cooney.

In one document, Cooney reportedly crossed out a paragraph describing
the projected reduction of mountain glaciers and snowpack from warming.
Those projections, he noted in the margins, are “straying from research
strategy into speculative findings/musings.”

The Times also reported the words “significant and fundamental” were
added before the word “uncertainties” when describing the state of
climate science.

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

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Well, of course. All the Busn misadminstation ever does when it is
caught lying, cheating, or stealing is DENY, DENY, DENY.

What a crock of crooks at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

I'll bet all those Bush guys own 36' Zimmerman style lobsta boats too!

--
John H

"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal,
murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a
particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to
miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his
continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction
... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real
...."
- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003