Talk:Larisa Dobriansky

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I cut the following two paragraphs from the article page.--Bob Burton 14:21, 26 December 2007 (EST)


 * "Her sister, Paula Dobriansky, currently serves as undersecretary for global affairs in the State Department. In that role, Paula Dobriansky recently headed the U.S. delegation to a United Nations meeting on the Kyoto Protocol in Buenos Aires, where she charged that "science tells us that we cannot say with any certainty what constitutes a dangerous level of warming, and therefore what level must be avoided." Indeed, the rhetoric of scientific uncertainty has been Paula Dobrianskyâ??s stock-in-trade. At a November 2003 panel sponsored by the AEI, she declared, "the extent to which the man-made portion of greenhouse gases is causing temperatures to rise is still unknown, as are the long-term effects of this trend. Predicting what will happen 50 or 100 years in the future is difficult." Given Paula Dobrianskyâ??s approach to climate change, it will come as little surprise that memos uncovered by Greenpeace show that in 2001, within months of being confirmed by the Senate, Dobriansky met with ExxonMobil lobbyist Randy Randol and the Global Climate Coalition. For her meeting with the latter group, one of Dobrianskyâ??s prepared talking points was "POTUS [President Bush in Secret Service parlance] rejected Kyoto, in part, based on input from you." The documents also show that Dobriansky met with ExxonMobil executives to discuss climate policy just days after September 11, 2001. A State Department official confirmed that these meetings took place, but adds that Dobriansky "meets with pro-Kyoto groups as well."


 * this is all about Paula Dobriansky and doesn't really belong on a page about Larisa Dobriansky.


 * "Just to emphasize the point: Larisa Dobriansky has been intimately involved in undermining the Kyoto Treaty, and yet she heads a unit that should be active in studying the impact of global warming.  Her background and her close association with Exxon indicate that this is a most inappropriate appointment (one of a fox guarding a chicken coop).  Both Larisa and Paula Dobriansky have lobbied for Exxon."


 * this was really labouring the point of the material set out in the preceding par and didn't add anything.