It makes me sick...

The following was taken from the CNN web site:

"WASHINGTON (Reuters)- A White House official, who previously worked for the American Petroleum Institute, has repeatedly edited government climate reports in a way that downplays links between greenhouse gas emissions and global warming, The New York Times reported.

Philip Cooney, chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, made changes to descriptions of climate research that had already been approved by government scientists and their supervisors, the newspaper said, citing internal documents.

The White House declined to comment on the report.

The report said that the documents were obtained by the newspaper from the Government Accountability Project, a non-profit group that provides legal help to government whistleblowers.

The group is representing Rick Piltz, who resigned in March from the office that coordinates government research and issued the documents that Cooney edited, the Times said.

The newspaper said Cooney made handwritten notes on drafts of several reports issued in 2002 and 2003, removing or adjusting language on climate research.

White House officials told the newspaper the changes were part of a normal interagency review of all documents related to global envirnmental change.

"All comments are reviewed, and some are accepted and some are rejected, "Robert Hopkins, a spokesman for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy told the newspaper.

In a memo sent last week to top officials dealing with climate change at a dozen agencies, Plitz charged that "politicization by the White House" was undermining the credibility and integreity of the science program."


Isn't it good to know that our government is destroying our planet for future generations all in the name of oil. I just want to ask these fools what good is a million dollars in the bank if you, your children and grand children haven't got any air to breathe, no ground to stand on and no water to drink? Does the need to line one's own pocket outweigh the promise of sustaining the lives of future generations on our planet? It's not like we can go out to a Galactic Wal-Mart and buy an new Earth folks. Greed doesn't do a body good.