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Major First Amendment groups condemn government censorship of science about global warming
Posted on Monday, February 12, 2007
Nine prominent First Amendment organizations issued a statement warning of the consequences of suppression or distortion of information that is essential to sound public policy and government accountability and applauding the January 30 House Oversight and Government Reform hearing on political interference with federal climate scientists. The statement was organized by the National Coalition Against Censorship.
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House Oversight Jan. 30 hearing follow-up: News coverage
Posted on Sunday, February 11, 2007
Coverage of the January 30 House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on climate science by the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Australian Broadcasting, New Scientist (UK), and the Christian Science Monitor.
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House Oversight Jan. 30 hearing follow-up: Witness testimony and archived Webcast
Posted on Saturday, February 10, 2007
Witness testimony and other documents and an archived Webcast are available from the January 30 hearing on “Allegations of Political Interference With the Work of Government Climate Change Scientists” held by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
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Rick Piltz testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee
Posted on Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Climate Science Watch Director Rick Piltz’s testimony for the February 7, 2006, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation hearing on “Climate Change Research and Scientific Integrity.” The testimony also is available as a PDF file.
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Senate Commerce Committee hearing Feb. 7 on “Climate Change Research and Scientific Integrity”
Posted on Tuesday, February 06, 2007
The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation heard testimony from Bill Brennan (Acting Chairman, U.S. Climate Change Science Program), Richard Anthes (President, UCAR), Thomas R. Knutson (NOAA scientist), James R. Mahoney (former CCSP Director), Rick Piltz (CSW director), and F. Sherwood Rowland (Univ. of California). In addition, written testimony was submitted by Peter Gleick (Pacific Institute).
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Gore to testify on Climate Change
Posted on Monday, February 05, 2007
Former Vice President Al Gore has accepted an invitation to testify at a joint hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality and the House Science and Technology Subcommittee on Energy and Environment on Wednesday, March 21, 2007.
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House Science Committee to hold IPCC hearing
Posted on Sunday, February 04, 2007
The first Congressional hearing on the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report will be held Thursday, February 8, 2007.
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Interview with BBC: Keeping the Administration honest on the IPCC report conclusions
Posted on Friday, February 02, 2007
BBC World Service Radio interviewed us (in Washington, D.C.) and the leader of the U.S. delegation to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change meeting in Paris on the February 2 release of the IPCC Working Group I report Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. A transcript follows.
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Reporters: Will senior administration officials embrace the IPCC report’s key conclusions?
Posted on Thursday, February 01, 2007
Here’s a first test case: At their media availability on Friday, February 2, will Secretary of Energy Bodman, EPA Administrator Johnson, and NOAA Administrator Lautenbacher be willing to forthrightly acknowledge what the new IPCC climate change assessment report says about attribution of observed global warming over the past 50 years to human activity, in particular the burning of fossil fuels, and about projected greater 21st century warming? We’re predicting they’ll instead engage in the evasiveness that has characterized administration representatives on this subject for the past six years. Please prove us wrong.
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