Wolfowitz Deputy Doctored World Bank Climate Change Reports

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/25/daboub-climate-change/

Wolfowitz Deputy Doctored World Bank Climate Change Reports

Juan José Daboub, a strong advocate of the Iraq war, was rewarded with a managing director post when Paul Wolfowitz took over the World Bank. As a managing director of the World Bank, Daboub appears to have been Wolfowitz’s designate to drive the conservative agenda.

Daboub has started to come under heavy criticism from the Bank’s executive directors for pushing a hard-right agenda that stands in stark contrast to many of the Bank’s long-standing policies. In addition to his efforts to undermine family planning policies, Bank scientists are now disclosing that Daboub also tried to eliminate references to climate change in official reports:

Robert Watson, the chief scientist, said Mr Daboub tried to dilute references to climate change in the Clean Energy Investment Framework, a key strategy paper presented to the bank’s shareholder governments at its annual meeting in Singapore last September.

“He tried to water it down. He tried to take out references to climate change,” Mr Watson said. Two other officials confirmed this account.

The chief scientist said Mr Daboub, who oversees the sustainable development division, tried to remove some references to climate change completely and, in other cases, replace them with the phrases “climate risk” and “climate variability”, which convey greater uncertainty over the human impact on climate.

Mr Watson said: “My inference was that the words ¬’climate change’ to him implied human-induced ¬climate change and he still thought it was a theory and was not proved yet.”

Daboub’s efforts at the Bank bear a striking similarity to efforts by Philip Cooney, the former chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Handwritten notes on drafts of several climate reports issued in 2002 and 2003 showed Cooney repeatedly edited government climate reports in ways that play down links between such emissions and global warming.

[ck4829]

1. K&R

[Barrett808]

2. k & r

[Marnieworld]

3. I have scandal fatigue

I thought I could keep up with it all especially since the Dems have subpaena power now it's fun. But man, does it ever stop blowing your mind? :grr:

[gratuitous]

4. Our local paper supports Wolfowitz

Inexplicably, the Oregonian thinks that Wolfowitz should stay in his position (the money quote is at the end):

http://www.oregonlive.com/editorials/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/editorial/1177460739162390.xml&coll=7

"Wolfowitz's tenure at the World Bank should be evaluated in terms of his policies and management, not by a sideshow. If there are good reasons why Wolfowitz should leave the bank, this trumped-up scandal is not one of them."

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The "trumped-up scandal" being referred to is about what the Oregonian delicately calls Wolfowitz' "woman friend." Is it any wonder all these scandals, crimes, and assorted shenanigans go on and on when the bulldogs of the press are content to nap on the porch and ignore the malfeasance happening before their very eyes?

[Barrett808]

5. Word. n/t

[seasat]

6. When can we start criminal proceedings on him?

He was a chief architect of the lies that lead to the Iraq war.

In a blatant case of nepotism, he gives his a mistress a job with a huge salary.

He used his World Bank position to kill family planning in developing countries.

And now this.

[happydreams]

7. Son-of-B*tch!! A Right-Wing conspiracy to destroy the

planet??? Just so they can keep their fossil fuel interests going.

[Uncle Joe]

8. Thanks for the thread babylonsister

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