A Turning Point In Bush's Global Warming Strategy

23 June 2005 - 10:00am

Margaret Carlson argues that President Bush's strategy of "denial" about global warming may have reached a turning point.

"Bush is always awaiting yet another study to prove a link between greenhouse gases and global warming because the one in his hands isn't good enough. To make sure he didn't get a study that would force him to act, Bush hired Philip Cooney, the former lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute...Scientists would issue a study, and Cooney, with his blue pencil in hand, would happily doctor it up...Just two days after the New York Times reported on his editorial climate changes, Cooney discovered a pressing need to spend more time with his family. After one weekend of that, he discovered a pressing need to work at Exxon."

Source: Bloomberg, June 16, 2005
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