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Jim Hansen: NOAA “by fiat” put out “biased information” on hurricanes
Posted on Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Jim Hansen of NASA made a presentation (5.1 MB download) on February 10 at a conference on Politics and Science in New York City. In the talk he said: “NOAA took an official position that global warming was not the cause of hurricane intensification, and as the public was glued to their television listening to reports from the Hurricane Center, that is the main message the public received. The topic is a complex one that the scientific community is working on, but it seems that the public, by fiat, received biased information. NOAA scientists were told not to dispute the Hurricane Center conclusion in public.”
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The NOAA Media Policy: Political pre-approval for public communication by scientists
Posted on Tuesday, February 14, 2006
The official NOAA Media Policy establishes a procedure that requires pre-clearance of contacts between NOAA scientists and the media. Under this policy, the NOAA Public Affairs office is designated as responsible for coordinating and approving media communications involving NOAA, including advisories, press releases, interviews, and other related media contacts. NOAA’s policy establishes a framework for politicization of decisions about public communication by federal climate scientists.
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Censorship of Federal Climate Scientists: The Critical Case of Jim Hansen
Posted on Friday, February 03, 2006
Jim Hansen, Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, has challenged the Bush administrations effort to prevent him from speaking freely about his analysis of the dangers of global warming and the potentially catastrophic consequences of climate disruption. What Hansen is saying and doing is especially significant at this juncture, as an example of the vital public role of citizen-scientists—those who speak from a position of scientific expertise to play a role in the broader public discourse. Scientists, including federal scientists, should be supported in playing such a role, not threatened with “dire consequences.” If we can establish the principle of freedom of public communication by federal climate scientists, unimpeded by political and ideological pressure, then others may be emboldened to also come forward into a more open public discourse.
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About Climate Science Watch
Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Climate Science Watch is a nonprofit public interest education and advocacy project dedicated to holding public officials accountable for the integrity and effectiveness with which they use climate science and related research in government policymaking, toward the goal of enabling society to respond effectively to the challenges posed by global warming and climate change.
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Links
Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006
In this posting, we provide links to a few key Web sites.
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How to make a donation
Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Climate Science Watch is dedicated to holding public officials accountable for using climate science with integrity and for effectively translating climate change research into policy and action. Working cooperatively with a network of allies and supporters we can advance this mission, but we need help from people like you to support the work of carrying out investigations and research, reporting our findings, diagnosing problems and advocating solutions, communicating with public officials, the science community, and the news media, and developing this Weblog and other projects.
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BBC Radio-4: “Science Blacklist”
Posted on Monday, January 09, 2006
Science Blacklist was aired on BBC Radio-4 in the UK and internationally on January 3 and January 8, 2006. Part of the program dealt with climate change and included interviews with Rick Piltz, Climate Science Watch; Robert Walker, lobbyist and former Republican Chair of the House Committee on Science; and Myron Ebell, Competitive Enterprise Institute.
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Toward a Second U.S. National Climate Change Assessment
Posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Article by Rick Piltz of Climate Science Watch. “A second U.S. National Climate Change Assessment should be undertaken, based on advances since the 1990s in understanding the climate system and potential ecological and societal impacts of climate change in the United States. The new National Assessment should be developed as part of a process that institutionalizes a national climate change impacts assessment capability, i.e., an ongoing dialogue between scientists, policy-makers, and other stakeholders, with periodically updated, scientifically-based assessments.”
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How the White House Edits Out Global Warming
Posted on Sunday, January 01, 2006
“Decoder: See No Evil. How the White House Edits Out Global Warming,” Sierra, January-February 2006. This article shows how Philip A. Cooney, chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, edited two 2002 draft reports by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP).
CSW’s Rick Piltz Interviewed by Government Accountability Project’s Louis Clark
Posted on Friday, December 23, 2005
A Conversation between Climate Science Watch’s Rick Piltz and Government Accountability Project President Louis Clark. Originally published in Bridging the GAP (Winter 2005), newsletter of the Government Accountability Project, Washington, DC.
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Radio Open Source: Politics of Climate Change
Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2005
Politics of Climate Change. Audio (and related blog) for 9 August 2005 broadcast from Radio Open Source, Public Radio International, WGBH-Boston and other stations. The program follows “the money trail that leads from the fossil fuel industry to political spin” and examines “why the American press, as a whole, has been pretty quiet about the issue.” Guests include CSW’s Rick Piltz.
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“Political Science” from PBS Now
Posted on Friday, July 22, 2005
From the PBS television program “NOW”: ”Political Science,” on the politicization of science by the Bush administration. Originally broadcast on 22 July 2005. 16 minute story—climate change segment from 8:54 - 16:00
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What’s Up With the Weather? The Politics of Climate Change
Posted on Tuesday, July 19, 2005
What’s Up With the Weather? The Politics of Climate Change. Audio recording of the National Radio Project’s Making Contact, originally broadcast on 20 July 2005. “On this edition, we’ll hear about whom climate is affecting, industry and government cover-ups, and those calling for action before it’s too late.”
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The Anonymous Source - an Endangered Species?
Posted on Wednesday, July 13, 2005
In The Anonymous Source - an Endangered Species?, author Philipp Steger discusses the importance of whistleblowers to journalists—and the risks they face. Published in Bridges (13 July 2005), a publication of the Office of Science and Technology at the Embassy of Austria, Washington, DC.
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Al Franken interviews CSW’s Rick Piltz
Posted on Thursday, July 07, 2005
Al Franken interview with Rick Piltz of Climate Science Watch, audio recording of the 7 July 2005 edition of the Al Franken Show (Air America Radio and Sundance Channel). The program is 1 hr 54 min long, interview is from 55:50 - 70:30.