A White House official who once led the oil industry's fight against limits on greenhouse gases has repeatedly edited government climate reports in ways that play down links between such emissions and global warming, according to internal documents.
In handwritten notes on drafts of several reports issued in 2002 and 2003, the official, Philip A. Cooney, removed or adjusted descriptions of climate research that government scientists and their supervisors, including some senior Bush administration officials, had already approved. In many cases, the changes appeared in the final reports.
The dozens of changes, while sometimes as subtle as the insertion of the phrase "significant and fundamental" before the word "uncertainties," tend to produce an air of doubt about findings that most climate experts say are robust.
Mr. Cooney is chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the office that helps devise and promote administration policies on environmental issues.
They falsify intelligence when it comes to starting a war; they falsify intelligence when it comes to poisoning the air.
And the reaction of the SCLM will be a big yawn, and because the Bush White house has so lowered standards of accountability that the media EXPECT the White House to lie and falsify documents. It isn't even news anymore that Bush lies. Everybody knows that he lies and everybody expects him to lie.
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