And further character assasination of Bob Watson, who Exxon/Mobil asked the White House to remove as IPCC Chairman.
"In March 2002, the media obtained a leaked copy of an ExxonMobil memo to the White House regarding U.S. climate policy and ongoing proceedings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a multinational body charged with evaluating global warming evidence. The memo, from ExxonMobil’s senior Environmental Advisor, Arthur G. Randol III, asks the Bush administration to use its influence to oust Robert Watson from his post of Chair of the IPCC. Dr. Watson, an internationally respected atmospheric chemist and director of the World Bank’s Environmental Department, had been outspoken about the urgency for action to solve global warming and criticized the United States for its lack of action. The memo, dated February 2001, charged Dr. Watson with using leaked drafts of the IPCC’s climate reports to further his “personal agenda” and further inquired, “Can Watson be replaced now at the request of the U.S.?” At the request of the United States, Watson was removed from his job at the IPCC a year later. The leaked memo also included a list of “recommendations,” including the removal of other specific people from U.S. government offices and the appointment of climate change skeptics to key positions within the Administration. All of the listed people, including Dr. Michael MacCracken, then Director, Office of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, subsequently quit or were removed from their positions."
The funny thing is: Pachauri, whom the Bush Administration wanted, turned out to be just as strong a leader of the IPCC as Watson was -- if not stronger.
Supporting link (including a link to a PDF of the actual memo):
Did Exxon Mobil Get Bush To Oust the Global Warming Chief?
The memo also requests the appointment of Christy and Lindzen to positions of increased influence on the report.
Hey Cog, good to see you are back. There was certainly more politics on the nonalarmist side. But that doesn’t mean the AGW alarmist side was free of it, or that they had no preconceived notions before writing the report (or especially the summary). In any case the science is clear: manmade CO2 causes warming. If there is any catastrophic warming due to that warming (not likely) there is zero chance that the CO2 games currently proposed will have any effect on that.