Bush, Kyoto, Cooney and Exxon...

Here's something interesting. There's this guy Phillip A. Cooney. He was, until last friday, Chief of Staff at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. In this capacity, he is said to have repeatedly edited government climate reports in ways that play down links between greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. It seems this "editing" may have cost him his job. And what did he do before that? Well, he was the "climate team leader" and a lobbyist at the American Petroleum Institute, the largest trade group representing the interests of the oil industry. And what is he doing now? The NYT says he has accepted a position with Exxon, the oil giant. You will recall that Bush is a bit of an oil man himself... Pity about Kyoto...