Shocking: former Bush officials muddying climate change waters

As if this won't come as a surprise to you: twenty-two former Bush administration officials who were responsible for climage change policy are currently employed by major industries (such as oil, gas and mining) and are lobbying against curbing climate change. A Washington based watchdog organization called Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington discovered this and documented it in a new report. Executive Director Melanie Sloan:

These alumni of the Bush climate team continue to shape and confuse the debate over global warming. They may have changed their uniforms, but they're still playing for the same team.

With a total of one hundred and twenty staff officials at the White House's Council on Environmental Quality, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the Environmental Protection Agency, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics and Washington discovered twenty-two individuals who are now employed by major industries, and fourteen of them are registered lobbyists. The most infamous circumstance in this matter involves Philip Cooney. Cooney worked for the Council on Environmental Quality, but quit in 2005 after he altered climate studies in order to minimize and curtail climate change evidence. Before joining the Council on Environmental Quality, Cooney's employer was the American Petroleum Institute, and after he left the Council on Environmental Quality, he went to work for Exxon-Mobil.

The report by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington implies that the loud and vocal skepticism (or rather incredible stupidity and ignornace) regarding climate change is a result of disinformation being promoted by industry lobbyists like Cooney:

Through lobbying and industry-manufactured 'grassroots' activities, these individuals continue to influence and confuse the debate over global warming and hamper the efforts of the current administration to help establish a public consensus on this issue.

Honestly, what sociopathic assholes. These are the kind of people that lack any kind of morals or values.