Bushie Climate Change Denier Burrows In Obama Administration
I hate sneaky politics, tricky obstructionsim.
Its not how I run my household or my friendships or my work relationships.
So why does my government allow it?
Bush’s senior Climate Change Denier, Kathie Olsen, gamed the system to quit her political appointment job and to move into a Civil Service position from which she cannot be fired.
Yuck. Especially when Bush was looking for any way to support the oil industry.
I hate when political appointees abuse the protections of the the Civil Service union in order to save their own asses.
Talking Points Memo DC tells the story:
Remember Phil Cooney, the once and future oil industry representative who habitually erased from government documents any evidence that fossil fuels cause global warming? It was Olsen who first handed Cooney a debunked, Big-Oil-underwritten study that purported to disprove the existence of climate change. As Rolling Stone reported in 2007:
“It was sham science,” says McCarthy, the Harvard scientist. “It’s almost laughable, except that this study was held up by the administration as a definitive refutation of the temperature record.”But even as the paper was being discredited, it was causing great excitement in the White House. When Kathie Olsen of the Office of Science and Technology Policy forwarded the study to Cooney, he responded with an enthusiastic, “Thanks, Kathie!” Six minutes later, according to internal e-mails, the study was in the hands of Kevin O’Donovan, who served as Cheney’s point man on climate. The study also grabbed President Bush’s attention …
Its bad enough that she made it easy for Bush to deny that human activities contribute to global warming, but she also stood by the flawed arguments and then hid in the refuge of what Republicans HATE, a union that is meant to protect its workers from REAL inequality. She now has a safe job, while hundreds of thousands of Americans have lost theirs and endangered species and the environment have suffered from her covert actions.
Not fair.
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