Bolton Following in Cooney’s Footsteps?
Global Warming’s Red Pencils
Two days after Andrew Revkin’s story on Cooney’s editing escapade appeared in the New York Times, Cooney suddenly resigned to go to work for — could you guess? — ExxonMobil. Kinda like in a science-fiction movie when the alien infiltrator is found out and proudly rips off his humanoid skin and marches back toward the mothership.
Paul Rauber’s post on the Sierra Club site documents the disturbing similarities between former White House Environmental Quality advisor, Phil Cooney, and our new UN Ambassador, John Bolton. Like Cooney, Bolton has already put his grubby little red pencil to work on the Millennium Summit draft, eliminating any suggestions that the US would help the rest of the world get the global warming problem under control.
Global warming problem?
What global warming problem?
Posted by RebeccaHartong on August 29, 2005 under Uncategorized
John Boulton’s proposed amendments
The John Bolton amendments to the draft UN summit declaration makes interesting reading. The amendments are not all bad; but the US seems determined to prevent the world from facing up to the fact that we are not doing enough to meet our agreed goals…