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To direct the White House's spin on global warming, Connaughton appointed Philip Cooney as his top deputy. Cooney had the right experience for the job: He worked as "climate team leader" for the American Petroleum Institute. [SMOKING GUN memo] In 1998, the API took part in an industry coalition that created the "Global Climate Science Communications Action Plan." The plan, recently entered into evidence by the House Oversight Committee, maps out an elaborate disinformation campaign to prevent "precipitous action on climate change." The strategy was to sow doubt about global warming, disseminating industry-funded research to challenge "the science underpinning the global climate change theory."

...But for all his credentials as a master of spin, Cooney got off to a rough start. In May 2002, the administration released its Climate Action Report, a dispatch to the U.N. that documents progress on climate-treaty obligations. The report was developed by the EPA, but internal documents reveal that Cooney edited it to reflect positions advocated by the API and Ford. On the opening page of the chapter on climate impacts, Cooney inserted a litany of language in bold intended to cast doubt on the science: "the weakest links in our knowledge . . . a lack of understanding . . . uncertainties . . .considerable uncertainty . . . perhaps even greater uncertainty . . . regarded as tentative."

But the clumsy caveats weren't enough to obscure the report's real science. With the help of an EPA source, The New York Times filtered out Cooney's waffling and filed a front-page story that called the report "a stark shift for the Bush administration. " The report, the

Times observed, detailed "far-reaching effects that global warming

will inflict" and "for the first time mostly blames human actions for

recent global warming."

Cooney was horrified: An obscure government report he had tried to

whitewash now threatened to undermine his former employers in the

energy industry. Panicked, he called on an old friend for help. Myron

Ebell had been a key member of the coalition that crafted the

disinformation "action plan." In fact, casting doubt on global

warming is Ebell's full-time job: He heads the climate-denial

campaign at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a think tank that

was underwritten in part by ExxonMobil. Rove helped; [Cheney Secret Task Force? B43 promised action on GHG but CTT white paper gave cover for 180 "thanks Kathie! Olson" [When Kathie Olsen of the Office ofScience and Technology Policy forwarded the study to Cooney]

Cooney edited docs; CTW deleted section where he added global cooling, but resigned four days later wind sock dummy;

The most egregious example of cooked intelligence was a study underwritten in part by the API, Cooney's former employer. The study, which purported to show that the twentieth century was not unusually warm, was authored by two astrophysicists, [gotta be Soon and Baliunas:] Cheney and Bush saw it. ~IPCC, used in House Oversight Comm hearings. Cooney went [back?] to Exxon, Energy Act passed 2 mos later [Hallib Loophole? frack fluid secret?] "A massive giveaway for the fossil-fuel industry, the Energy Policy Act [2005]...

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A very good article in the June 28 issue of Rolling Stone, on the Bush administration global warming disinformation campaign, shows direct connections between former White House CEQ chief of staff Phil Cooney and both Vice President Cheney’s office and Karl Rove. From Cheney’s continuing statements that deny and misrepresent the scientific intelligence on human-induced global warming, to Cooney’s manipulative policing of federal climate change science communications on topics deemed politically sensitive, a lack of integrity in dealing with climate science started at the highest level of the administration and fed down directly into the working level of the federal climate research program. Federal science program officials, in requiring clearances from Cooney to publish reports, had been drawn into Cheney’s sphere of influence.

“They’ve got a political clientele that does not want to be regulated,” Rolling Stone quotes Climate Science Watch director Rick Piltz as saying. “Any honest discussion of the science would stimulate public pressure for a stronger policy. They’re not stupid.” Also from our conversation with reporter Tim Dickinson: “‘They decided they didn’t need to win the debate on climate,’ says Piltz, the former official who exposed Cooney’s tactics. ‘They just had to leave an atmosphere of uncertainty about it and dissipate the will for political action.’” This article—“Six Years of Deceit: Inside the Bush Administration’s Secret Campaign to Deny Global Warming and Let Polluters Shape America’s Climate Policy”—is a must-read for anyone concerned with this problem.

One excerpt from the much longer article:

Internal documents uncovered by Rolling Stone reveal that Cooney did far more than edit scientific reports to suit the administration’s point of view. Just as neoconservative hawk Douglas Feith funneled false intelligence on Iraq’s weapons programs to the vice president, Cooney steered industry-sponsored junk science on global warming to Cheney. “What disturbed me most,” [former EPA administrator Christie] Whitman says, “was the administration’s record of taking the most extreme of the science – what I call the ‘political science’ – and giving it the same weight as the real science.”

The most egregious example of cooked intelligence was a study underwritten in part by the API [American Petroleum Institute], Cooney’s former employer. The study, which purported to show that the twentieth century was not unusually warm, was authored by two astrophysicists [Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon], both of whom were on the payroll of the George C. Marshall Institute, a climate-denial group funded by ExxonMobil and now headed by Bill O’Keefe, Cooney’s former boss.The paper’s publication in a minor German journal in January 2003 quickly created a scandal, with the editor in chief and three other editors resigning in shame after acknowledging that the paper was fundamentally flawed and should never have been published.

“It was sham science,” says [Prof. James] McCarthy, the Harvard scientist. “It’s almost laughable, except that this study was held up by the administration as a definitive refutation of the temperature record.”

But even as the paper was being discredited, it was causing great excitement in the White House. When Kathie Olsen of the Office of Science and Technology Policy forwarded the study to Cooney, he responded with an enthusiastic, “Thanks, Kathie!” Six minutes later, according to internal e-mails, the study was in the hands of Kevin O’Donovan, who served as Cheney’s point man on climate. The study also grabbed President Bush’s attention, as revealed in an e-mail sent two days later to a high-ranking White House official: “Bob – if you din’t [sic] already have, this is the study the President was talking about.”

The study gave Cheney’s office the quasi-plausible refutation of climate science it was waiting for. According to a memo reviewed by congressional investigators, but which the CEQ refused to make public, Cooney was eager to promote the sham science. The study, he e-mailed O’Donovan, “represents an opening to potentially reinvigorate debate on the actual climate history of the past 1,000 years.” The paper, he added, “contradicts the dogmatic view held by many in the climate science community that the past century was the warmest in the past millennium….We plan to begin to refer to this study in administration communications on the science of global climate change.”

One e-mail exchange about the study underscores just how many industry foxes were guarding the climate henhouse.When Matthew Koch (a White House energy adviser who today lobbies for API) saw the study, he wrote to Cooney (the former API lobbyist who is now “corporate issues manager” for ExxonMobil) and CC’d O’Donovan (who now works for Shell Oil).

“What??!!” Koch wrote in mock disbelief at the study’s claim that the planet isn’t really heating up. “I want to grow oranges in the Arctic!”

Copyright 2007 Rolling Stone

Rick Piltz clarification/disclaimer:

The article refers to me as a “former Bush climate official,” which is not how my position should be designated. I was not a political appointee, not an administration official. I had already been working in the coordination office of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (since 2002, the U.S. Climate Change Science Program) for about five years at the start of the Bush administration. That is a science program office, established and funded by the research program participating agencies, and staffed by professionals of varying backgrounds, including both scientists and non-scientists. It is not a White House office, nor is it part of any single federal agency. The office is a coordination entity for a multi-agency program. The institutional arrangement is complex enough that, in spite of my best efforts to keep the record straight, sometimes it gets boiled down in the media and doesn’t come out quite right. It’s accurate to refer to me as a former Senior Associate in the office of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program. The office, as with other executive branch entities, works UNDER the President—but I did not work FOR the President.

The article does quote me accurately, and what I said was accurate. From my experience and understanding of the available evidence, the article gets the story straight in all of its essential points.

June 30th, 2007|Global Warming Denial Machine

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The Honorable Dr. Kathie L. Olsen is the Founder and Managing Director of KLO International, LLC, a consulting firm in Virginia. Believing research is the core foundation for innovation that will sustain global quality of life and economic vitality, she is dedicated to helping people and organizations succeed in their science and engineering research pursuits.

Dr. Olsen served over 20+ years in the federal government in a variety scientific leadership positions, including the Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer of the National Science Foundation (NSF); Associate Director and Deputy Director for Science of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in the Executive Office of the President; Chief Scientist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Acting Associate Administrator for NASA’s Biological and Physical Research Enterprise. Dr. Olsen earned a Ph.D. in Biology (Neuroscience) from the University of California, Irvine. Her Postdoctoral Fellowship was in the Department of Neuroscience at Children's Hospital of Harvard Medical School.

At various times in her professional career, Dr. Olsen also served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the Medical School, Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology at the George Washington University and Affiliate Professor of Neuroscience at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University. Her research on neural and genetic mechanisms underlying development and expression of behavior was supported by the National Institutes of Health. She has served on review panels for U.S. federal agencies including National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, United States Department of Defense, as well as foreign governments, international research institutes, and UNESCO. Presently, Dr. Olsen is serving on boards and committees for academia and professional societies.

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Dr. Kathie L. Olsen was National Science Foundation (NSF) Deputy Director from August 2005 to January 2009. The text reflects her biography at the time she was at NSF.

Dr. Olsen became Senior Advisor in NSF's Office of Information and Resource Management on January 18, 2009. In this position, Dr. Olsen advises the Foundation's Chief Human Capital Officer as well as NSF senior management on opportunities for NSF-wide management improvement in areas such as strengthening merit review and interdisciplinary research processes, workforce planning, Program Officer training and development, and succession planning.

Prior to her current appointment, Dr. Olsen was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer of NSF in August 2005. As such, she was responsible for the day-to-day management and oversight of program creation and administration; national and international collaborations; merit review processes; strategic and long-term planning and performance; budget development, implementation and reporting; personnel; and operations.

Olsen joined NSF from the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in the Executive Office of the President where, since 2002, she had been the Associate Director and Deputy Director for Science. Her responsibilities included overseeing national and international science and education policy development and federal agency program coordination for the physical sciences, life sciences, environmental science, behavioral and social sciences and education.

Prior to OSTP, Olsen served as Chief Scientist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (May 1999-April 2002) and the Acting Associate Administrator for Biological and Physical Research (July 2000-March 2002). As Chief Scientist, she served as the Administrator's senior scientific advisor, principal advisor on budget content of the scientific programs and principal interface with the national and international scientific community. As Acting Associate Administrator during the formulation of the new Enterprise for Biological and Physical Research, she oversaw budget development and implementation, recruitment and development of professional and support staff and strategic planning.

Dr. Olsen was recruited to NASA from the NSF, where since 1997 she had been Senior Staff Associate for the Science and Technology Centers in the Office of Integrative Activities.

From February 1996 until November 1997, she was a Legislative Fellow and detailee from NSF to the Office of Senator Conrad Burns of Montana. Between 1984 and 1996, she served NSF in a variety of administrative and scientific leadership positions. At various times in her early professional career, Dr. Olsen also served as a Research Scientist at the State University of New York – Stony Brook's Long Island Research Institute and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the Medical School, as well as Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology at the George Washington University.

Dr. Olsen received a B.S. in Biology and Psychology with honors from Chatham College and Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of California, Irvine. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Neuroscience at Children's Hospital of Harvard Medical School. Her research on neural and genetic mechanisms underlying development and expression of behavior was supported by the National Institutes of Health.

Olsen holds numerous awards from foreign entities, government agencies, institutions and scientific societies. These include the Norwegian Royal Order of Merit; NASA's Outstanding Leadership Medal; the NSF Director's Award of Excellence; awards for outstanding contributions from the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society and the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology; the Barry M. Goldwater Educator Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Capital Section; the University of California, Irvine Lauds and Laurels Distinguished Alumna Award; and the Barnard College Medal of Distinction. She is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Association for Women in Science, and an elected member of the Explorers Club. She has been awarded honorary doctoral degrees from Chatham College, Clarkson University, and University of South Carolina.