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CSW director ABC News Now interview on CDC climate testimony censorship
Posted on Tuesday, October 30, 2007
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 Details for text of the interview.
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Censored Testimony from Centers for Disease Control: Update
Posted on Sunday, October 28, 2007
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. The Congress has stepped up the presssure; and the White House has responded. The Climate Science Watch research team documents events from Tuesday October 23rd through Friday October 26th 2007.
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Climate Science Watch in the News on Controversy over CDC Congressional Testimony
Posted on Saturday, October 27, 2007
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 that Gerberding’s testimony had been “eviscerated” by the White House. The draft subsequently was picked up by journalists covering the story and as the controversy boiled over, Climate Science Watch has continued to provide useful information and analysis to journalists and their audiences.
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The censored testimony of CDC Director Julie Gerberding
Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007
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 White House before Dr. Gerberding was allowed to testify before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on October 23. See Details for the document.
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White House ‘eviscerated’ Centers for Disease Control testimony on climate change health impacts
Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007
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, removing specific scientific references to potential health risks, according to two sources familiar with the documents….It was eviscerated,” said a CDC official familiar with both the OMB-approved testimony and the original censored draft.
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Eileen Claussen: “The first thing the CCSP needs is strong and independent leadership”
Posted on Wednesday, October 17, 2007
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 and integrated national assessment on the climate issue, who can? You cannot communicate effectively until you have something to communicate, until you can produce an up to date, integrated national assessment. And you cannot do that until you have independent leadership that is not subject to either bureaucratic or political interference.”
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Setting the record straight on purported “errors” in “An Inconvenient Truth”
Posted on Wednesday, October 17, 2007
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 the purported ‘errors’ are nothing of the sort,” Schmidt and Mann say, in a point-by-point discussion. A useful corrective, because of course global warming denial machine fossil-fool politicos and junk lawsuit filers used the UK judge’s remarks to support their usual wrong-headed hype (here and here, for example) and outright demagoguery (here, for example).
Two questions on the IPCC and Al Gore being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Posted on Friday, October 12, 2007
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 change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.” We have two questions.
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Washington Post feeds global warming disinformation campaign with Bjorn Lomborg feature
Posted on Thursday, October 11, 2007
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 its focus from outright denialism to a more complex and misleading downplaying of harmful climate change impacts and positing of misleading arguments about mitigation. And its publication, with no alternative perspective from someone with scientific credentials, or at least a stronger reputation for accuracy and intellectual honesty than Lomborg has, shows a lack of good professional judgment by the Post’s Outlook editors, in their shaping of public discussion of the climate change problem.
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RealClimate scientists take on latest manifestation of global warming disinformation campaign
Posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007
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 wealth of information debunking what they call “climate contrarian pseudo-science.”
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CSW director Rick Piltz interview with Austin Chronicle
Posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Climate Science Watch director Rick Piltz was interviewed by the Austin Chronicle on his recent visit to Austin and the Texas Hill Country to speak at the 8th annual Texas Renewable Energy Roundup & Green Living Fair.
Give the Nobel Peace Prize to the IPCC
Posted on Tuesday, October 09, 2007
We note that Betsafe.com, the Scandinavian online betting site, has the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) and its chairman Rajendra Pachauri currently listed as of this posting as the favorite for the Nobel Peace Prize, to be awarded Friday, with odds of 3.25-to-1. Al Gore is a close second at 3.35-to-1. Inuit climate change activist leader Sheila Watt-Cloutier is third, at 4-to-1. We believe it would be an excellent choice for the Nobel committee to award the prize to the IPCC.
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Environmental groups petition EPA for rulemaking to limit greenhouse gas emissions from ships
Posted on Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Earthjustice, the leading U.S. public interest environmental law firm, on behalf of a coalition of environmental advocacy groups, filed a first-ever petition with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on October 3, calling on EPA to exercise its regulatory authority under the Clean Air Act, which was clearly established by an April 2007 U.S. Supreme Court decision, to make greenhouse-gas emissions-reduction rules for ocean-going marine vessels in U.S. territorial waters, including container ships, tankers, and cruise ships, or provide a required legal justification for its inaction. California Attorney General Jerry Brown filed a similar petition.
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Hillary Clinton addresses Climate Science Watch issues on integrity of science communication
Posted on Monday, October 08, 2007
We note that, in her remarks on “Scientific Integrity and Innovation” at the Carnegie Institution for Science on October 4, Sen. Clinton took up several issues that Climate Science Watch has raised and stated positions in line with what we have been advocating—including a revived and expanded National Assessment on Climate Change, ending inappropriate political interference with climate science program reports, strengthening protections for whistleblowers who disclose political interference with science, and dealing with the emerging crisis in the space-based global climate observing system.
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GAP president Louis Clark: Whistleblowing at work now more dangerous
Posted on Monday, October 08, 2007
The protections for corporate workers established in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which was enacted in the wake of an epidemic of massive corporate fraud, have been gutted by the decisions of judges and bureaucrats.
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