It has pretty much been a given that the Bush administration's policy on climate change (or more accurately, lack thereof) would be driven by Big Oil. We now have evidence that it is in fact literally written by Big Oil. The New York Times reveals that Phil Cooney, a shill for the American Petroleum Institute significantly edited the scientific reports on climate research in order to de-link the accepted conclusion linking human emissions of greenhouse gases to global climate change.
As a result of our government's inaction the insane Great Global Chemistry Experiment goes forward. You'd think anyone except somebody making an obscene amount of money out of the status quo would be a bit uncomfortable living in the testtube. Then again, those people are precisely the ones making our nation's policy on this issue. At the rate the Bush Administration and the GOP Congress is selling out the country, they might as well rename Pennsylvania Avenue "K Street" - after all its not like there's any difference between what's happening inside the offices lining either street.
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