News from Around the World

It's amazing what you can discover when you read foreign newspapers. Of course the resignation of Phillip Cooney was reported in the American press, but with it a quote from the White House that said his abrupt resignation had nothing to do with the doctoring of official US policy papers on global warming. The nasty stuff just gets deeper and deeper. Not only did Phillip Cooney (not a scientist, by the way, he was a lawyer for the American Petroleum Institute, a lobbying group for oil firms) resign, but just one week later, it turns out that he took a job with...can you guess?come on I'll give you a hint...if you said Exxon Mobile, you would be correct!