Monthly Archives: October 2007

CSW director ABC News Now interview on CDC climate testimony censorship

Posted on October 30, 2007 by Rick Piltz

Climate Science Watch director Rick Piltz was interviewed October 25 on ABC News Now, as part of ABC News coverage of White House censorship of CDC director Julie Gerberding’s Senate testimony on the human health impacts of climate change. See … Continue reading →

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Censored Testimony from Centers for Disease Control: Update

Posted on October 28, 2007 by Rick Piltz

There have been several important developments since the morning of Wednesday, 24 October 2007, when we posted the uncensored draft Congressional testimony from the Center for Disease Control’s Director Julie Gerberding on the relationship between climate change and human health. … Continue reading →

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Climate Science Watch in the News on Controversy over CDC Congressional Testimony

Posted on October 27, 2007 by Rick Piltz

On Wednesday morning, 24 October 2007, we posted the uncensored draft Congressional testimony from the Centers for Disease Control’s Director Julie Gerberding on the relationship between climate change and human health.  Our posting came shortly after the Associated Press disclosed … Continue reading →

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The censored testimony of CDC Director Julie Gerberding

Posted on October 24, 2007 by Rick Piltz

Climate Science Watch has obtained a copy of the testimony on the health impacts of climate change as drafted by Dr. Julie Gerberding, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This draft testimony was substantially cut by the … Continue reading →

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White House ‘eviscerated’ Centers for Disease Control testimony on climate change health impacts

Posted on October 23, 2007 by Rick Piltz

More administration global warming censorship? The Associated Press reported that the White House “severely edited congressional testimony given [on October 23] by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the impact of climate change on health, … Continue reading →

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Eileen Claussen: “The first thing the CCSP needs is strong and independent leadership”

Posted on October 17, 2007 by Rick Piltz

Speaking at a National Academy of Sciences workshop on Future Priorities for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, Eileen Claussen, President of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, laid down this challenge: “If this program cannot produce a comprehensive … Continue reading →

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Setting the record straight on purported “errors” in “An Inconvenient Truth”

Posted on October 17, 2007 by Rick Piltz

On the RealClimate web site, scientists Gavin Schmidt and Michael Mann set the record straight on what a UK judge recently termed “errors” in the film “An Inconvenient Truth” (while approving its continued use in classrooms). “It is clear that … Continue reading →

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Two questions on the IPCC and Al Gore being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Posted on October 12, 2007 by Rick Piltz

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 “in two equal parts” to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate … Continue reading →

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Washington Post feeds global warming disinformation campaign with Bjorn Lomborg feature

Posted on October 11, 2007 by Rick Piltz

On October 7, the Washington Post Sunday Outlook section featured a 1,900-word page one article by the notorious Danish statistician, adjunct business school professor, and “skeptical environmentalist” Bjorn Lomborg. The article exemplifies how the global warming disinformation campaign is shifting … Continue reading →

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RealClimate scientists take on latest manifestation of global warming disinformation campaign

Posted on October 10, 2007 by Rick Piltz

RealClimate, an indispensable web site devoted to setting the record straight on climate science issues, reported on October 10 on a new attempt to reinvigorate the notorious 1999 “Oregon Petition.” The RealClimate site has an associated Wiki that provides a … Continue reading →

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