The Green Files

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[LightUpTheDarkness.org] Playing "What if. . .?" Election 2004 Edition: government climate research priorities, according to a government whistle-blower, Rick Piltz, former... House official, former oil industry lobbyist Phillip A. Cooney, has reviewed and altered government scientific reports on global warming. According to the Times, Mr. Cooney has "repeatedly edited

[The American Street] BushCo Administration Lies to America Again (and Again and Again and Again): originally read, “Many scientific observations indicate that the Earth is undergoing a period of relatively rapid change.” In a neat, compact hand, Mr. Cooney modified the sentence to read, “Many scientific observations point to the conclusion that the Earth may be undergoing a period of relatively rapid change.”

[Users.muohio.edu] Media Watch: Cooney, who has a background as a lawyer and economist, has used his position on the CEQ to dilute reports from the scientific agencies that point to the human component of global warming. Hence, the United States continues to stand as the only advanced industrialized economy that refuses to admit to its contribution to global warming, despite the fact that a mountain of evidence has fleshed out just how much humans have contributed to the problem (a story in the "Wall Street Journal" yesterday spotlighted the rise of adolescent skin cancer in the US.)

 [Workplacefairness.org] Workplace Fairness: today's workplace: it's everyone's job: Your source for the latest developments in workplace rights and employment law, "Today's Workplace" is the blog (weblog) written by Paula Brantner, Program Director of Workplace Fairness. In each entry, Paula focuses on legal and political information relevant to employee rights and fairness issues in the workplace.

[Chriscmooney.com] Chris C Mooney: The story's culprit is Philip Cooney, formerly of the American Petroleum Institute, now of the Council on Environmental Quality. (Gee, why is it again that people object to a revolving door between industry and government?) Playing a key role in the story is longtime Climate Change Science Program employee turned whistleblower Rick Piltz, who now states, "Each administration has a policy position on climate change. But I have not seen a situation like the one that has developed under this administration during the past four years, in which politicization by the White House has fed back directly into the science program in such a way as to undermine the credibility and integrity of the program." It is really staggering just how much evidence has now accumulated to back this claim up.

[Rootsie.com] Rootsie.com - Weblog: Bush was finally asked about the memo directly this week, during a media availability with Blair. Bush tried to discredit the memo because of the timing of its disclosure -- just days before Blair's re-election. But it is important to note that no one has challenged the authenticity of the memo nor the accuracy of its account of the meeting.

 [Norwegianity.com] Norwegianity: Today, of course, we have Vietnam II, the BBC is in tatters, Deep Throat turns out to be a mad-eyed geezer with a book deal and Ellsberg is still appealing for whistleblowers when no one will print their revelations unless they involve pierced labia, or Castro having sex with a dog. While all other public figures cannot appear in any format without being at least partially naked, sexually reassigned and/or masturbating a farm animal, our politicians are cocooned by embedded sycophancy.

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