{"id":133,"date":"2007-06-23T12:37:02","date_gmt":"2007-06-23T12:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dgen.net\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/06\/23\/secret-bush-campaign-to-deny-global-warming\/"},"modified":"2007-06-23T12:37:02","modified_gmt":"2007-06-23T12:37:02","slug":"secret-bush-campaign-to-deny-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/2007\/06\/23\/secret-bush-campaign-to-deny-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Bush Campaign To Deny Global Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/story\/15148655\/the_secret_campaign_of_president_george_bushs_administration_to_deny_global\" title=\"Rolling Stone article\">Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>To direct the White House&#8217;s spin on global warming, Connaughton appointed Philip Cooney as his top deputy. Cooney had the right experience for the job: He worked as &#8220;climate team leader&#8221; for the American Petroleum Institute. In 1998, the API took part in an industry coalition that created the &#8220;Global Climate Science Communications Action Plan.&#8221; The plan, recently entered into evidence by the House Oversight Committee, maps out an elaborate disinformation campaign to prevent &#8220;precipitous action on climate change.&#8221; The strategy was to sow doubt about global warming, disseminating industry-funded research to challenge &#8220;the science underpinning the global climate change theory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, with Cooney in the White House, the industry had its own anti-climate man running the disinformation campaign. As the &#8220;action plan&#8221; directed, Cooney set out to censor the EPA&#8217;s science on global warming and inject the industry&#8217;s denialist positions into government documents. &#8220;They decided they didn&#8217;t need to win the debate on climate,&#8221; says Piltz, the former official who exposed Cooney&#8217;s tactics. &#8220;They just had to leave an atmosphere of uncertainty about it and dissipate the will for political action.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from Rolling Stone &#8220;&#8230; To direct the White House&#8217;s spin on global warming, Connaughton appointed Philip Cooney as his top deputy. Cooney had the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfJFK3-29","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}