Monday, March 27, 2006
First letter. On Global Warming 6/17/05
Letter to the Editor
The time has come to take real action on this issue. As the USA Today summarized in its June 13 cover story "The debate's over: Globe is warming." We have a responsibility to leave our children a healthy, clean world.
On June 9, the heads of twenty-three global companies called for strong action to mitigate climate change. These leaders from companies such as BP, Ford and British Airways urged the world's leading industrial nations to set up a global system for curbing heat-trapping emissions.
As reported in the New York Times, a former oil industry lobbyist Philip Cooney, who once headed the oil industry's lobbying on climate change, and was the chief of staff of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, left Friday, two days after it was revealed that he had removed or adjusted administration reports on climate change/Global Warming in 2002 and 2003. Saying he left because he wanted to spend more time with his family, Cooney as been hired by Exxon Mobil who has long financed advertising and lobbying efforts that question whether warming caused by humans poses risks serious enough to justify curbing carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas emitted by smokestacks and tailpipes.
The time has come to take real action on this issue. As the USA Today summarized in its June 13 cover story "The debate's over: Globe is warming." We have a responsibility to leave our children a healthy, clean world.
On June 9, the heads of twenty-three global companies called for strong action to mitigate climate change. These leaders from companies such as BP, Ford and British Airways urged the world's leading industrial nations to set up a global system for curbing heat-trapping emissions.
As reported in the New York Times, a former oil industry lobbyist Philip Cooney, who once headed the oil industry's lobbying on climate change, and was the chief of staff of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, left Friday, two days after it was revealed that he had removed or adjusted administration reports on climate change/Global Warming in 2002 and 2003. Saying he left because he wanted to spend more time with his family, Cooney as been hired by Exxon Mobil who has long financed advertising and lobbying efforts that question whether warming caused by humans poses risks serious enough to justify curbing carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas emitted by smokestacks and tailpipes.
# posted by Florence Vincent @ 4:34 PM 
