Why did the former chief of staff doctor the report on Global Warming to please the Bush admin?

Question

Philip Cooney, former chief of staff at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, acknowledged at a House hearing that some of the changes he made were "to align these communications with the administration's stated policy" on climate change.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070319/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/scientists_warming

Answer 1

This is another of those "in plain daylight" answers.

ANYBODY who disagrees with the direction Bush takes is dismissed. Just ask those U.S. attorneys!

Answer 2

Environmental sanctions can be bad for big business (in the short term anyways). Bush likes taking care of big business and doesn't care so much about the environment. The chief of staff serves at the discretion of the president so of course he would follow the administration's instructions on how to spin climate reports. An overly negative (i.e. scary) climate report could distract people from American Idol long enough to vote for someone who might actually do something to curtail human impact on climate change. Such an occurance would hurt the bottom line.

Answer 3

Because he was a former OIL COMPANY LOBBYIST hired by Bush to doctor (falsify) reports on the environment.

Which scientists have known--and been complaining about--for years. This isn'tnew--it's just that now Congress is finally listening.

And, as a member of the academic community--I assure you, this is the tip of a very large, very ugly iceberg.

Answer 4

Corporate Welfare Programs for Big Business/Big Oil

Answer 5

How can the Bush Administration be right if the National Academy of Sciences oppose what they say. Editing....ahhh....the common tool of the Bush Administration.

Answer 6

Because this administration has consistently and systematically tried to silence detractors to fit the ideology - facts don't matter, nor does honest scientific debate. I don't expect much else from a creationist president and his followers.

Answer 7

to make it look like there is no problem with global warming. and any scientist that disagreed with him were fired. Philip Cooney now works for Exxon-Mobil.

Answer 8

I read that article you posted. It's troubling that if a person voices any doubt in global warming they are tarred and feathered. That's called Stalinism.

You should watch this video. It shows all the areas where Al Gore lies in his movie. It shows much more too, about the agenda of the environmental terrorists of today.

Answer 9

Because they have DIRECT ties to the oil companies, its what you get when you vote for an oil tycoon who cares more about making a profit on war and oil than he does about the environment and peoples health and most importatly the FUTURE!

Answer 10

He downplayed the evidence