Global Warming
So the President of the USA does not believe that man contributes to global warming? The facts that all the research points to the fact that greenhouse gas emissions is a major contributing factor to global warming seems to go unnoticed and the US continues to reject claims that by not having any policy in place to reduce emissions it is adding to the destruction of the planet.It also emerges that one of this officers, Philip Cooney who is chief of staff for the White House council on environmental quality, a person who has the power to edit scientific reports without having any scientific knowledge, was a former lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute. Now call me a cynic, but does this not raise a few eyebrows around the world, that a man who virtually controls environmental policy in the US was the one who would be arguing for there to be no change in the US governments policy towards the use of oil as a fuel, with the use of oil being one of the major contributors towards greenhouse gases.
It also emerges that Mr Cooney also made editorial changes to major scientific documents, that were to be presented to the President, these changes cast doubt over findings that were regarded as mainstream in scientific research. In a 2002 draft report from the government office that co-ordinates research into climate change it is reported that Mr Cooney deleted a paragraph on the projected impact of global warming and altered another using his editorial process to increase the impact of one sentence that went against scientific research. All of which have been taken by the Presidents office as being well within Mr Cooney's remit.
Also we have to look at the Presidents allies on his march to power, and his background and that of his family, not only in their background with the oil industry in the US but also their close ties with the Royal Saudi family, strangely enough another major oil producing country. The picture starts to become a little clearer, does it not? Why would you bite the hand that feeds you? why would you worry about a world that will only face major problems after you have departed this mortal coil? surely one needs to look after ones self before all others? or am I just being unfair. Is it really the case that the Presidents wants more research into the research so that as he says, "My administration isn't waiting around to deal with it; we're acting. We want to know more about it. Easier to solve a problem when you know a lot about it." As I say call me cynical, but rather than alter the facts or try to research more research I'll let you make up your own mind.
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