ExxonMobil Philip Cooney view on Global Warming

The video was cut a segment cut from an old episode of 60 minuets. Scientists James Hansen and Rick Piltz reveal how their scientific evidence was changed, in order to make climate change seem less serious. They discuss how all of their information regarding climate change was reviewed by the white house before being released to congress or the public. Words like “likely “ and “possible” were inserted with scientifically proven facts in order to make the information about climate change seem less dangerous. Furthermore, some of the information on James and Rick’s climate change reports was completely removed. Much of the changes were made by Phillip Cooney who was the editor on the counsel on environmental quality. After he resigned from the white house he was hired by Exxon Mobil.

This video was not a surprise to me, I have seen videos and articles revealing that similar information was trying to be hidden in the past. The video was from 2007, which is shocking and concerning because it is nearly 10 years later and information regarding climate change is still being hidden and improperly portrayed. In fact, many people are so convinced that climate change is a hoax that people have begun to create theories saying that scientist have been hiding the fact that global warming has stopped. Many people believe that the temperatures have stopped rising and that scientists are trying to continue a “false argument” in order to protect their reputations. What many people are not aware of, is that climate change does not always mean a warming of the full planet. European countries are actually getting colder as a result of climate change. Below is a graph of the Arctic sea ice decline since 1979, as you can see it has only gone down. This is a result of global warming. This graph shows that global warming as certainly not stopped in the past 15 years, and if anything it has sped up.

Below I have attached two articles claiming that global warming has stopped. This is concerning because many people are believing that since “global warming has stopped” we can continue using fossil fuels as our main energy source.  This is NOT the case. 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2425775/Climate-scientists-told-cover-fact-Earths-temperature-risen-15-years.html

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/05/hide-the-hiatus-how-the-climate-alarmists-eliminated-the-inconvenient-pause-in-the-global-warming/