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“The American Denial of Global Warming”
Posted on Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Prof. Naomi Oreskes, of the University of California-San Diego Science Studies Program, lectures on the history of the global warming disinformation campaign, led by corporate-funded policy operatives and ideologically-driven scientists, who employed the “tobacco strategy” to manipulate public opinion to create an exaggerated sense of uncertainty about scientific evidence on global warming and climatic disruption. (See especially from 26:00 forward in this 58-minute video.)
A strategy session on the future of the US Global Change Research Program
Posted on Tuesday, February 05, 2008
A process for developing a set of recommendations to the next administration and Congress in January 2009 was kicked off on January 17 at a national conference on Climate Change: Science and Solutions, in Washington, DC. Climate Science Watch participated in and reports on the session, chaired by Dr. Robert Corell: “The US Global Change Research Program: What do we want from the next Administration?”
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CCSP Synthesis Reports are years behind schedule as program scrambles to meet court deadline
Posted on Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Geotimes reports: “Four years ago, the U.S. Climate Change Science Program agreed to prepare 21 reports on various topics related to climate change and its impacts by the end of September 2007. As of December, however, only four had been released. And now, Congress and many scientists are taking the program to task.” The program is not connecting with the real needs of society’s decisionmaking, CSW director Rick Piltz says in the article.
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