Global Climate Coalition (a/k/a ExxonMobil): Our work here is done...

the global climate coalition (gcc), an energy industry group that supported bushco in its stand on kyoto and worked to prevent senate ratification of the kyoto protocol on the basis that it "would assign such stringent targets for lowering greenhouse gas emissions that economic growth in the U. S. would be severely hampered and energy prices for consumers would skyrocket," has been "deactivated"...

well, they certainly deserve to sit back and celebrate... economic growth is soaring and energy prices haven't been this low since... ummmm... since... never mind...

ExxonMobil, as one of gcc's richest and most powerful backers, should take a bow too even though, in 2003, Exxon's head of public affairs, Nick Thomas, said: "I think we can say categorically we have not campaigned with the United States government or any other government to take any sort of position over Kyoto."

oh, really...?

In briefing papers given before meetings to the US under-secretary of state, Paula Dobriansky, between 2001 and 2004, the administration is found thanking Exxon executives for the company's "active involvement" in helping to determine climate change policy, and also seeking its advice on what climate change policies the company might find acceptable.

little by little, there will eventually be enough pieces to make a coherent picture out of the secret group that advised dick cheney on u.s. energy policy... too bad the guardian doesn't make the connection...

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