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Exxon Mobil employee and former lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute Philip A. Cooney testified this week that, while employed by the White House (until 2005), he altered government climate change reports on hundreds of occasions. Speaking in front of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Cooney said that the changes he made were consistent with a 2001 report written for Mr. Bush by the National Academy of Sciences, and that he believed his changes reflected the “most authoritative and current views of the state of scientific knowledge.” The committee, which is investigating charges that the Bush Administration interfered in global warming science, has also heard testimony from officials at NASA. Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman of California said in a memo that the documents reviewed by the committee, and released to the press on Monday, “appear to portray a systematic White House effort to minimize the significance of climate change.”

Source: Andrew C. Revkin and Matthew L. Wald. Material shows weakening of climate reports. New York Times, March 20. Photo of the United States Capitol by F.Malotaux.

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