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Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006
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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).