Cheney Wanted Cuts In Climate Change Testimony

The story out of Washington tonight is that Cheney and the White House wanted certain climate change testimony cut.  Why?  Because they felt that Jason Burnett’s, head of the CDC, testimony would force them to further regulate greenhouse gases (GHG).  The White House said that certain deletions in testimony were made because of the science – flaws in the science.  In reality – this administration has so many friggin hands in their pockets from the different lobbies that they will do everything in their power to deny any proof of climate change.    I wonder what McBush thinks of all of this…

From the Chicago Tribune:

Burnett, until last month a senior adviser on climate change at the Environmental Protection Agency, wrote that Cheney’s office was deeply involved in getting nearly half of the CDC’s original draft testimony removed.

The White House, at the urging of Cheney’s office, “requested that I work with CDC to remove from the testimony any discussion of the human health consequences of climate change,” Burnett wrote.

Burnett also described in greater detail than previously reported the White House’s refusal in December to accept a draft EPA finding concluding that carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas, is endangering human health. 

After he sent the e-mail with the draft finding attached, he said he received a telephone call from the White House asking that he “send a follow-up note saying that the e-mail had been sent in error.”

“I explained that I could not do that because it was not true,” Burnett wrote.

Source: Chicago Tribune