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| The U.S. Government's former chief scientist for global warming research, Michael MacCracken. |
s he wrapped up nine
years as the federal government's chief scientist for global warming research,
Michael MacCracken lashed out at ExxonMobil for opposing the advance of climate
science.
His own great-grandfather, he told the Exxon board, had been
John D. Rockefeller's legal counsel a century earlier. "What I rather
imagine he would say is that you are on the wrong side of history, and you need
to find a way to change your position," he wrote.
Addressed to chairman Lee Raymond on the letterhead of the
United States Global Change Research Program, his September 2002 letter was not
just forceful, but unusually personal.
No wonder: in the opening days of the oil-friendly
Bush-Cheney administration, Exxon's chief lobbyist had written the new head of
the White House environmental council demanding that MacCracken be fired for
"political and scientific bias."
Read the Inside
Climate News story - “Exxon Sowed Doubt About Climate Science for Decades by Stressing Uncertainty.”
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