Is there any single issue that the Bush malAdministration hasn’t lied about to the American public? They lied about their intentions on Iraq, they lied about the existence of Saddam’s WMD’s, the lied about the cost of the Medicaid prescription drug plan, they lied about the budget deficit, they lied about air quality at Ground Zero after 9/11, they lied about Jessica Lynch and Pat Tillman, they lied about prisoner and Koran abuse at Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib, they lied about Social Security going bankrupt; there seems to be no end to the mendacity, untruths, fabrications, deceit, and “disassembling” from BushCo.

Adding fuel to the fire: The New York Times gives us this report:

A White House official who once led the oil industry’s fight against limits on greenhouse gases has repeatedly edited government climate reports in ways that play down links between such emissions and global warming, according to internal documents.

In handwritten notes on drafts of several reports issued in 2002 and 2003, the official, Philip A. Cooney, removed or adjusted descriptions of climate research that government scientists and their supervisors, including some senior Bush administration officials, had already approved. In many cases, the changes appeared in the final reports.

Mr. Cooney is chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the office that helps devise and promote administration policies on environmental issues.

Before going to the White House in 2001, he was the “climate team leader” and a lobbyist at the American Petroleum Institute, the largest trade group representing the interests of the oil industry. A lawyer with a bachelor’s degree in economics, he has no scientific training.

Yeah, that makes sense – let the oil industry edit documents on global warming. Guess who’s in charge of Bush’s Office of Henhouse Security?

Even as the federal government’s own National Academy of Sciences, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) all concur with virtual global consensus that industrial emissions are leading to global warming, even as the glaciers melt and snow cover has fallen by 10% since the 1960’s, even as the planet has warmed three times more since 1976 than in the previous 100 years, Bush continues to stand by his oil buddies and deny the obvious.

He says, “we need to get more information on the problem.” He’s saying that in 2005 and he was saying that while running for president in 2000. I know the man has difficulty with English and rarely reads newspapers, but even a smirking chimp should be able to decipher “Pollution make Earth hotter. Hotter Earth bad for people.” in the course of five years. Maybe he’s reading that book that says, “Stopping pollution hurts profits.”