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 [Heart, Soul & Humor] ExxonMobil Is Key Bush Advisor on Global Warming: "President Bush tells Mr Blair he's concerned about climate change, but these documents reveal the alarming truth, that policy in this White House is being written by the world's most powerful oil company. This administration's climate policy is a menace to humanity," said Stephen Tindale, Greenpeace's executive director in London last night. "The prime minister needs to tell Mr Bush he's calling in some favors.

 [Old Town Review Chronicles] Exxon influenced Bush on Climate Change: In briefing papers given before meetings to the US under-secretary of state, Paula Dobriansky, between 2001 and 2004, the administration is found thanking Exxon executives for the company's "active involvement" in helping to determine climate change policy, and also seeking its advice on what climate change policies the company might find acceptable.

 [How THIS old Brit Sees It ...] The EXXON Connection ...: "Potus [president of the United States] rejected Kyoto in part based on input from you [the Global Climate Coalition]," says one briefing note before Ms Dobriansky's meeting with the GCC, the main anti-Kyoto US industry group, which was dominated by Exxon.

[World Turning] Exxon rules”¦: In briefing papers given before meetings to the US under-secretary of state, Paula Dobriansky, between 2001 and 2004, the administration is found thanking Exxon executives for the company’s “active involvement” in helping to determine climate change policy, and also seeking its advice on what climate change policies the company might find acceptable….

Not Easy Being Green: In briefing papers given before meetings to the US under-secretary of state, Paula Dobriansky, between 2001 and 2004, the administration is found thanking Exxon executives for the company’s “active involvement” in helping to determine climate change policy, and also seeking its advice on what climate change policies the company might find acceptable.

 [Malaysia Today: MT-news] Revealed: how oil giant influenced Bush: In briefing papers given before meetings to the US under-secretary of state, Paula Dobriansky, between 2001 and 2004, the administration is found thanking Exxon executives for the company's "active involvement" in helping to determine climate change policy, and also seeking its advice on what climate change policies the company might find acceptable.

[Whatwouldjesusdrive.org] News: What Would Jesus Drive?: Christy, an atmospheric science professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, said that despite a recent study suggesting the Arctic is warming much faster than the rest of the globe, the hottest years for Arctic temperatures in recorded history are 1937 and 1938, and current Greenland temperatures are not higher than they were 75 years ago. And Myron Ebell, who directs global warming and international environmental policy for the free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute, said some studies cast doubt on a U.N. pronouncement in 2001 that the 20th century was likely the warmest in a millennium.

 [Nocapital.blogspot.com] No Capital: In briefing papers given before meetings to the US under-secretary of state, Paula Dobriansky, between 2001 and 2004, the administration is found thanking Exxon executives for the company's "active involvement" in helping to determine climate change policy, and also seeking its advice on what climate change policies the company might find acceptable.

 [Climateark.org] 17/12/2004 -- US is accused of undermining Kyoto principles on ...: Other parties have complained that the US has used its position to stop countries that have ratified Kyoto from continuing its provisions, and from talks of extending the provisions to developing countries. While the US believed climate change caused by human actions was a serious problem, Ms Dobriansky said, the key to tackling it was in fostering technologies rather than risking economic growth by cutting emissions.

 [Weblog.sinteur.com] the Daily Irrelevant: On April 25, 2005, Despres arrived at the U.S.-Canadian border crossing at Calais, Maine, carrying chain saw stained with what appeared to be blood, a homemade sword, a hatchet, a knife, and brass knuckles. U.S. customs agents confiscated the weapons, fingerprinted Despres, and then let him into the United States. Despres, the suspect in a grisly double murder in New Brunswick, Canada, was arrested in Mattapoisett, Mass., on April 27, 2005 and is being held in a jail there, charged with two counts of first-degree murder.

[Freedomist.net] Freedomist Network Blog: 3 Fold World: Each post seeks to help readers take needed action and shows how society's three realms -- the economy, the government, and the moral-cultural system -- if sufficiently independent of one another, check, balance and correct each other, generating continuous revolution and driving current events, such as the spread of educational choice, the growth of cooperative and socially responsible business and stakeholder capitalism, and the proliferation of democracies worldwide.

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