by James Glaser
January 25, 2005

This is a Global Warming story and to give you the whole story we have to go back a few years. It was back in April of 2002 and the Bush Administration was doing its best to get rid of Dr. Robert B. Watson, who was then the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

It seems that Bush and Exxon Oil did every thing they could to get him off the Board, because he was "too aggressive" on the issue. Watson had been in charge when a series of reports connected climate change to man's activities. Those reports upset the whole oil industry and Exxon—Mobil oil went after him, seeking help from the White House.

According to Damien Cave of Salon, "in a letter that Exxon Mobil included in a package of documents sent to the White House last year (2001), Watson was accused of leaking drafts of IPCC reports in order to further his personal environmental agenda." It took a lot of work, but Bush and American oil got rid of Watson.

In a report written by Julian Borger of the Guardian of London, "The head of the international scientific panel on climate change, which has called for urgent action to curb global warming, was deposed yesterday after a campaign by the Bush administration, Exxon-Mobil and other energy companies to get him replaced"

This all happened back in 2002 and Bush and American oil got their man in and Watson out. Their man was Dr. R K Pachauri, an Indian railway engineer and environmentalist. Pachauri got 79 votes to Watson's 49, "After a behind-the-scenes diplomatic campaign by the US persuaded developing countries to vote against Dr. Watson, according to diplomats."

The Guardian goes on, "The US campaign came to light after the disclosure of a confidential memorandum from the world's biggest oil company, Exxon-Mobil, to the White House, proposing a strategy for his removal."

Now we jump forward to today and in a report by Geoffrey Lean of the Independent/UK, Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the official intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), told an international conference attended by 114 governments in Mauritius this month that he personally believes that the world has "already reached the level of dangerous concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere" and called for immediate and "very deep" cuts in the pollution if humanity is to survive."

"His comments rocked the Bush administration—which immediately tried to slap him down—not least because it put him in his post after Exxon, the major oil company most opposed to international action on global warming complained that his predecessor was too aggressive on the issue."

At the conference Dr. Pachauri said, "Climate change is for real. We have just a small window of opportunity and it is closing rather rapidly. There is not a moment to lose."

Afterwards he said that widespread dying of coral reefs, and rapid melting of ice in the Artic, had driven him to the conclusion that the danger point the IPCC had been set up to avoid had already been reached." He concluded with "We are risking the ability of the Human Race to survive."

Now this is the Man that George Bush and Major Oil wanted in charge of the world's research on Climate Change and he is telling us what he has found out about what is happening. George Bush is owned by the big oil companies, so he will do nothing and this report is something that he will do everything he can to either hide or discredit.

The United States will do nothing to stop what is going on with the way we pollute, in fact if you look at Bush's environmental record, you will see that we are going backwards and polluting more. Change will only happen when the rich owners of major oil companies are convinced that something bad is happening and they are not about to believe the man the put in to keep everyone happy, because he wasn't supposed to make reports like this. He was supposed to go along with major Oil and the White House, but he looked and the facts and got scared for his children and grand children.

For some strange reason, Dr. Pachauri decided to throw away his future and tell the world the truth. You know right now there are meetings between Exxon and Bush, where they are deciding who they will put in charge of IPCC next.