Whoops! Reality is Sneaking In

It is really good to see that reality is making a much needed comeback in the US. Could it be that we are going to get back to facing hard truths again instead of the ExxonMobil funded lies?

A House committee released documents Monday that showed hundreds of instances in which a White House official who was previously an oil industry lobbyist edited government climate reports to play up uncertainty of a human role in global warming or play down evidence of such a role.

In a hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the official, Philip A. Cooney, who left government in 2005, defended the changes he had made in government reports over several years. Mr. Cooney said the editing was part of the normal White House review process and reflected findings in a climate report written for President Bush by the National Academy of Sciences in 2001.

They were the first public statements on the issue by Mr. Cooney, the former chief of staff of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Before joining the White House, he was the “climate team leader” for the American Petroleum Institute, the main industry lobby.

He was hired by Exxon Mobil after resigning in 2005 following reports on the editing in The New York Times. The White House said his resignation was not related to the disclosures.

The campaign of misinformation and of sowing doubt about the deadly seriousness of Global Warming has been very, very successful with the help of the White House for years and caused irreparable harm to efforts to get the world to wake up. Big Oil and Big Coal have funded a massive campaign of lies and distortion for years and years and it well past time that the American people realize that they have been repeatedly screwed and lied to.

h/t to Americablog