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Global Warming
June 18, 2005 ( politics )
Philip Cooney removed or adjusted descriptions of climate research that had already been approved by government scientists, the newspaper said. ...The reports were "based on the best available science", spokesman Scott McClellan said.
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Before working at the White House, Mr Cooney was a lobbyist at the American Petroleum Institute, the largest oil industry trade group.
He is a lawyer by training, with no scientific background.
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They included the insertion of the phrase "significant and fundamental" before the word "uncertainties", and tended to produce an air of doubt about findings most climate experts say are robust, the paper reported.
(BBC)
I have some significant and fundamental doubts as to whether a former petrochem lawyer should be editing scientific papers discussing pollution. It's fair and balanced, I guess, just like Fox News!
Posted by griffjon at June 18, 2005 02:08 PM
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