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Category Archives: Attacks on Climate Science and Scientists
PEER adopts the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund
The Climate Science Legal Defense Fund, established last year to support climate scientists who are under attack by the global warming denial machine, has teamed up with a new sponsor, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. This is a good development … Continue reading
On finding one's email in the hacked climate science email files
A search of the files of climate science emails hacked from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia finds Climate Science Watch working with scientists to set the record straight in pushing back on the denial machine.
Pro-science pushback helps put release of second batch of climate scientist emails in perspective
The release this week of another 5,000 emails obtained from the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit server in the UK has been greeted, at least by some reporters, with a more judicious reserve than we witnessed in 2009. Prompt … Continue reading
Favorable Virginia court procedural ruling in Michael Mann v. global warming denialist email raid
University of Virginia After a November 1 hearing, a Virginia judge has granted a petition from the University of Virginia to alter an earlier, inappropriate agreement by university lawyers that would have allowed the radical right-wing, global warming denialist American Tradition … Continue reading
NSF IG report on Michael Mann investigation: “No research misconduct. Case closed.” Don't bother telling Rick Perry.
This is getting old. Completing yet another investigation of the co-author of a seminal study of the 1,000-year temperature record (commonly referred to as the “Hockey Stick”), the National Science Foundation Inspector General concluded: “Finding no research misconduct or other … Continue reading
Letter calling on Univ. of Virginia to prevent inappropriate open records disclosure of climate scientists’ exempt emails and documents
University of Virginia Climate Science Watch joined the American Association of University Professors, the American Geophysical Union, and the Union of Concerned Scientists in calling on the University of Virginia to revise an agreement that would needlessly and inappropriately give … Continue reading
Australian climate scientists targeted by death threats
“Australia's leading climate change scientists are being targeted by a vicious, unrelenting email campaign that has resulted in police investigations of death threats,” the Canberra Times reports. “One researcher told of receiving threats of sexual assault and violence against her … Continue reading
Washington Post editorial: Resist denialist ‘freedom of information’ harassment of climate change scientists
“Freedom of information laws are critical tools that allow Americans to see what their leaders do on their behalf. But some global warming skeptics in Virginia are showing that even the best tools can be misused,” says the Washington Post … Continue reading
Court orders U.Va. to turn over climate scientist records under seal in denialist FOIA harassment request
The University of Virginia will turn over research documents and emails of former U.Va. scientist Michael Mann. Any records the university seeks to exempt from release will be made available for review, under seal, by a judge and lawyers for … Continue reading
Climate Science Watch Update – May 16, 2011
Updates on some areas of interest: (1) America’s Climate Choices report from National Research Council prompts Washington Post editorial calling climate change deniers dangerous. (2) Plagiarism problem leads journal to retract article by Wegman, who criticized climate scientists and questioned … Continue reading
