Wolfowitz Deputy Doctored World Bank Climate Change Reports


	Wolfowitz Deputy Doctored World Bank Climate Change Reports

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4-25-2007 4:07 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/82b51661-bf48-46d3-89b9-1979f5652a97/B3B4CB1E-02CA-4A9E-A847-20DBF9B7D594/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/25/daboub-climate-change/" href="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/25/daboub-climate-change/" style="font-size: 11px;">thinkprogress.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/25/daboub-climate-change/"><P>Juan José Daboub, a <A href="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/23/wolfowitz-iraq-bank/">strong advocate of the Iraq war</A>, was rewarded with a managing director post when Paul Wolfowitz took over the World Bank. In that role, Daboub appears to have been Wolfowitz’s designate to drive the conservative agenda.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/25/daboub-climate-change/"><P>Daboub has started to come under <A href="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/24/wolfowitz-reject-family/">heavy criticism from the Bank’s executive directors</A> for pushing a hard-right agenda that stands in stark contrast to many of the Bank’s long-standing policies. In addition to his efforts to <A href="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/13/wolfowitz-family-planning/">undermine family planning policies</A>, Bank scientists are now disclosing that Daboub also tried to <A href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/e67b4470-f2c8-11db-a454-000b5df10621.html">eliminate references</A> to climate change in official reports:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/25/daboub-climate-change/"><STRONG>“He tried to water it down. He tried to take out references to climate change,” Mr Watson said. Two other officials confirmed this account. </STRONG></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B3B4CB1E-02CA-4A9E-A847-20DBF9B7D594/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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