The War Against the Planet
Jun 24th, 2007 at 7:48 am by Susie
Rolling Stone’s Tim Dickinson has a comprehensive look at how George Bush turned over anything having to do with energy and climate change to Dick Cheney - and how he actively obstructed any change, however minute.
I guess we’re getting awfully used to this sort of thing, but maybe we should remind ourselves what’s at stake:
“If we do nothing,” McCarthy says, “the lack of water in California will force a mass exodus.”
The Cheney Administration decided to, uh, fix the intelligence around the conclusion:
In the end, each of the scientists on Exxon’s hit list was replaced. “It was clear there was a strong lobby and activity against me by some in the energy industry - especially ExxonMobil,” says Watson.
[...] Internal documents uncovered by Rolling Stone reveal that Cooney did far more than edit scientific reports to suit the administration’s point of view. Just as neoconservative hawk Douglas Feith funneled false intelligence on Iraq’s weapons programs to the vice president, Cooney steered industry-sponsored junk science on global warming to Cheney. “What disturbed me most,” Whitman says, “was the administration’s record of taking the most extreme of the science - what I call the ‘political science’ - and giving it the same weight as the real science.”
What will the Bush legacy be?
And when will the United States and other polluting nations be expected to meet the nonbinding targets they set for themselves under Bush’s plan? Not until as late as 2075 - well past the point that global warming will have superheated the planet.
Just go read it. And weep.
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