goofyfish
04-22-02, 07:50 AM
Global Warming Chief Forced Out by U.S. After Secret Meeting
A report in the Financial Times reads, in part, as follows:The outspoken leader of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the leading scientific body advising on global warming, was on Friday removed as chairman after pressure from the US government and Exxon, the US oil company.
In a secret ballot in Geneva, member countries voted 57-49 to replace Robert Watson...
...In a recent leaked memo from Exxon to the White House, the company asked the administration to push for Mr Watson to be replaced.
Mr Watson, a US physicist who headed the IPCC for six years, enjoyed the confidence of many European governments, including the UK. (Full text here ( http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3SD1SJ80D))Surely Global Warming must count as one of the hottest topics for the next Congressional and Presidential elections. Why would the U.S. oust one of their own as the Climate Change Chief? Is George W. Bush really and truly just a paid toady for the oil industry, and for Exxon in particular?
As the United States suffers scorching heat followed by freezing cold, and droughts followed by floods, why do the American people put up with secret meetings which are used to promote the interests of Exxon and other big polluters while ignoring the their own sufferings?
The American people have become such wishy-washy dupes of the establishment that such goings on are ignored, even when the interests and perhaps the lives of Americans are at stake. What is especially distasteful is that the secret meeting and abrupt dismissal of U.S. physicist Robert Watson was apparently done on Friday so that it would go unnoticed over the weekend and so that by Monday it would be old news, not fit to report.
It is all a very sad and continuing commentary about the way 21st Century American press and politics works.
Peace.
A report in the Financial Times reads, in part, as follows:The outspoken leader of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the leading scientific body advising on global warming, was on Friday removed as chairman after pressure from the US government and Exxon, the US oil company.
In a secret ballot in Geneva, member countries voted 57-49 to replace Robert Watson...
...In a recent leaked memo from Exxon to the White House, the company asked the administration to push for Mr Watson to be replaced.
Mr Watson, a US physicist who headed the IPCC for six years, enjoyed the confidence of many European governments, including the UK. (Full text here ( http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3SD1SJ80D))Surely Global Warming must count as one of the hottest topics for the next Congressional and Presidential elections. Why would the U.S. oust one of their own as the Climate Change Chief? Is George W. Bush really and truly just a paid toady for the oil industry, and for Exxon in particular?
As the United States suffers scorching heat followed by freezing cold, and droughts followed by floods, why do the American people put up with secret meetings which are used to promote the interests of Exxon and other big polluters while ignoring the their own sufferings?
The American people have become such wishy-washy dupes of the establishment that such goings on are ignored, even when the interests and perhaps the lives of Americans are at stake. What is especially distasteful is that the secret meeting and abrupt dismissal of U.S. physicist Robert Watson was apparently done on Friday so that it would go unnoticed over the weekend and so that by Monday it would be old news, not fit to report.
It is all a very sad and continuing commentary about the way 21st Century American press and politics works.
Peace.