Tell Elected Officials: Stop Playing Politics with Science!

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In June, we learned that White House chief of staff on the Council on Environmental Quality, Phil Cooney, personally edited and distorted scientific reports, and in doing so significantly downplayed the scientific certainty on global warming. But Mr. Cooney is not a scientist — he’s a lawyer who used to work as an oil industry lobbyist. After the New York Times revealed Cooney's involvement in doctoring government reports on behalf of the Bush administration, he left his job and took a position with ExxonMobil, the world’s largest oil company and leading critic of global warming science.

Then in July, scientists accused U.S. Representative Joe Barton (R-TX) of harassing and intimidating prominent climate scientists over their findings on global warming.

With the scientific facts and the impacts of global warming clear, doesn’t it make you wonder whose interests our government officials are looking out for?