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To: trouthead who wrote (685154)	6/9/2005 11:54:15 AM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) of 769667

Ex-Oil Lobbyist Was In Charge Of Global Warming Reports POSTED: 7:16 am MDT June 9, 2005 WASHINGTON -- The White House is playing down changes made in government reports on global warming by a former oil industry lobbyist. Spokesman Scott McClellan said the revisions were part of a normal review and did not violate a pledge to rely on sound science. Documents provided to the Government Accountability Project, a nonprofit group, showed that a White House official who once headed the oil industry's lobbying on climate change edited reports on the topic in 2002 and 2003. The edits -- published in The New York Times -- play up doubts on whether so-called "greenhouse gases" from human activity really cause climate change. Philip Cooney's changes in several federal reports tended to emphasize the uncertainty of climate science and the environmental impact of climate change, according to a summary of the documents provided by the advocacy group. McClellan rejected suggestions that Cooney had "watered down" the reports. McClellan said the resulting reports were still "scientifically sound." Cooney led the American Petroleum Institute's fight against greenhouse gas limits before he joined President George W. Bush's Council on Environmental Quality in 2001. The Times said Cooney has no scientific training. But McClellan calls him a "policy person" whose editing is "part of the interagency review process." Environmentalists have accused Bush and top aides of claiming doubt about mankind's role in global warming -- when the vast majority of scientific evidence supports a link.

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