Dem senators seek retraction of climate change report

[G_j]

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Democratic_senators_seek_retraction_of_climate_change_report_written_by_former_oi_0629.html

Democratic senators seek retraction of climate change report written by former oil lobbyist

RAW STORY

After reviewing federal laws that prohibit obstruction of Congress and false statements, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to determine the legality of actions taken by a former top Bush administration official who altered government scientific reports on global warming, RAW STORY has learned.

They have also called on the U.S. Climate Change Science Program to retract the report until an investigation is completed.

Bush hired Philip Cooney, a onetime lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute (API), to be Chief of Staff of the White House’s Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) in 2001. He resigned his post to join ExxonMobil Corporation after an expose in the New York Times revealed he had hacked apart government reports to remove references to climate change.

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Climategate:

New Leaked Memos as US Moves to Spoil Climate Accord

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/061905X.shtml

New US Move to Spoil Climate Accord

By Mark Townsend
The Observer UK

Sunday 19 June 2005

Extraordinary efforts by the White House to scupper Britain's attempts to tackle global warming have been revealed in leaked US government documents obtained by The Observer.

These papers - part of the Bush administration's submission to the G8 action plan for Gleneagles next month - show how the United States, over the past two months, has been secretly undermining Tony Blair's proposals to tackle climate change.

The documents obtained by The Observer represent an attempt by the Bush administration to undermine completely the science of climate change and show that the US position has hardened during the G8 negotiations. They also reveal that the White House has withdrawn from a crucial United Nations commitment to stabilise greenhouse gas emissions.

The documents show that Washington officials:

-Removed all reference to the fact that climate change is a 'serious threat to human health and to ecosystems';
-Deleted any suggestion that global warming has already started;
-Expunged any suggestion that human activity was to blame for climate change.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/16/AR2005061601666_pf.html

U.S. Pressure Weakens G-8 Climate Plan
Global-Warming Science Assailed

By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 17, 2005; A01

Bush administration officials working behind the scenes have succeeded in weakening key sections of a proposal for joint action by the eight major industrialized nations to curb climate change.

Under U.S. pressure, negotiators in the past month have agreed to delete language that would detail how rising temperatures are affecting the globe, set ambitious targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions and set stricter environmental standards for World Bank-funded power projects, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. Negotiators met this week in London to work out details of the document, which is slated to be adopted next month at the Group of Eight's annual meeting in Scotland.
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[greekspeak]

1. Thank you Mr. Lautenberg!

Great job being a real DEMOCRAT!

[G_j]

2. he has been speaking up

on a number of issues. Good for him!

[G_j]

3. more bearing false witness.....

IMO, this in itself should be grounds for impeachment


from the OP:
New Leaked Memos as US Moves to Spoil Climate Accord

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/061905X.shtml

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The documents show that Washington officials:

-Removed all reference to the fact that climate change is a 'serious threat to human health and to ecosystems';
-Deleted any suggestion that global warming has already started;
-Expunged any suggestion that human activity was to blame for climate change.

[G_j]

4. don't die yet little thread.........

:bounce: