Global Warmin' Is Fer Idjuts (Another gem from Mark Morford)

[kliljedahl]

Global Warmin' Is Fer Idjuts
Exxon writes America's energy policy, BushCo chops up emissions reports. Is there any hope at all?

- By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Friday, June 10, 2005

Like anyone is the slightest bit shocked.

Like anyone is the slightest bit appalled anymore by the breathtaking litany of utter BS oozing forth from the White House these days, this time about how one of BushCo's top oil-lovin' henchmen has been hacking away at countless scientific reports for over two years, editing them at will, all to downplay the effects of emissions on global warming.

His name is Philip Cooney, and he has zero scientific training whatsoever and was formerly the "climate-team leader" (read: top flying monkey) and a lobbyist at the American Petroleum Institute, the largest trade group representing the oil industry. He is now chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality,
the group that helps devise and set the nation's environmental agenda; Cooney's cuts and edits of scientific emissions and global warming reports often made it into final White House policy.

Isn't that just the cutest thing? Aren't you just, like, yawning with ennui at the bitter repetition of it all? At how savagely and biliously common these stories have become?

Or how about that other story about how Bush's decision not to sign the Kyoto Treaty, the landmark environmental policy signed by 122 other nations to reduce greenhouse emissions, was influenced not at all by sound science or serious concern for the planet, but by pressure put on him by his pals at ExxonMobil and other major oil corporations? Did you read that one?

Link: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2005/06/10/notes061005.DTL&nl=fix


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[Guckert]

1. Wait a second. Bush does NOT fix facts around policies!!!! that would be

wrong...and un-Christian.
this person is obviously a traitor and has learned nothing from the lessons of 9/11. :puke:

[Shallah Kali]

2. Another inspired rant from Morford!

Thus proving what everyone already knows: Bush cares about as much for the health of the planet and for air quality and for the future of your miserable stupid emphysemic kids as a snake cares for lip balm.

Or rather, in more plain terms, it means this: The environmental policies of the most powerful and gluttonous nation on the planet are being written by the world's most powerful oil company. Which is, of course, a bit like our national dietary guidelines being written by Burger King, or our national health care guidelines being written by Merck, or our national school curricula being written by lost born-again Neanderthal creationists. Oh wait.

This, as we all now know, is the BushCo way. They lie about environmental devastation, going so far as to hire known skeptics of global warming( http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?id=5172&method=full ) to testify in court against piles of data compiled by thousands of world-class scientists the world over that prove the obvious direness of the threat.

They lie about abortion and breast cancer ( http://www.govtech.net/news/story.print.php?id=27543 ). They lie about unemployment data and corporate layoffs ( http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0103-02.htm ). They lie about prison-inmate torture, about intentionally desecrating the Koran and smearing menstrual blood on prisoners and violating the Geneva Convention the way a lonely farmer violates a sheep.

[silverweb]

3. Mark nails it again.

This is another gem to email to everyone.

[Martin Eden]

4. Kick !!!

Great column, with excellent links to back it up, and gems like tis:

Even some of BushCo's more rabid followers, even some hardcore evangelical Christians, those intelligent few not wrapped up in the nutball Rapture Index and who therefore don't believe it's our God-given duty to ravage the planet and burn through all the resources as fast as possible so as to hasten the arrival of a really pissed-off, homophobic Christ, even some powerful evangelicals are urging Bush to get on the global warming issue ASAP, as, according to the Bible, we are supposed to be good stewards of the Earth, not its destroyers.

[kliljedahl]

5. I love Mark's columns

Get on his mailing list & you'll get 2 like this every week. He really nails it almost every time.


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