Bush Backers Offer Bribes to Undercut Global Warming Report

[PhilipShore]

Atlantic Free Press, Netherlands
Saturday, 03 February 2007
by Chris Floyd

http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/883/81/

*This is my latest column for Truthout.org.


The new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just been released, and it looks like bad news for the home team, i.e., the entire human race. Things are going to get hotter, coastlines are going to go under, deserts are going to get wider, and millions if not billions of people are going to be on the move, in need, in conflict, in increasingly desperate straits – and it's all our own fault. What's more, the effects set in train by our epic debauch with fossil fuels are going to keep on keeping on – although the worst outcomes can still be avoided,if the leaders of the world can bestir themselves to take action to slow the poisoning of the planet.

This is the consensus of more than 2,500 leading scientists from more than 30 countries – including the United States. But not to worry: that nattering nest of neocons, the American Enterprise Institute – which also functions as an employment agency for the Bush White House, sending innumerable nabobs into the higher reaches and greasy guts of the Administration – have come up with a perfect solution to this threat to the life of the world: bribing scientists to say it ain't so.

[Double T]

1. How many criminal indictments does it take before a president...........

and vice president can be impeached??? One dozen? Two dozen?