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Climate change, disinformation, and the failure of preparedness
Posted on Tuesday, March 11, 2008
"The aftermath in Iraq, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina—failure of preparedness—and we’re doing the same thing on climate change, it’s just a more slow-rolling disaster.” CSW director Rick Piltz talks with the North Adams (MA) Transcript.
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“Everything’s Cool” global warming documentary TV premiere January 22-28 on the Sundance Channel
Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2008
“Everything’s Cool”—a feature-length documentary film about the efforts of global warming citizen activists and educators, and about the dangerous chasm between scientific understanding and political action, will have its television premiere tonight January 22 at 9 P.M. on the Sundance Channel’s environmental series The Green. It will play tonight and through the week.
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CBS News to re-air “Rewriting the Science” and other 60 Minutes climate change stories on Jan. 20
Posted on Thursday, January 17, 2008
On Sunday, January 20, CBS News Presents will re-air three climate change stories that were done by 60 Minutes during the past two years. These include a segment on the warming trend in the Arctic region, another on Antarctica, and a third, “Rewriting the Science,” on administration political interference with climate change communication. The latter includes interviews with Jim Hansen of NASA and CSW Director Rick Piltz.
“Everything’s Cool” global warming documentary on DVD
Posted on Sunday, January 06, 2008
"Everything’s Cool”—a film about the efforts of global warming citizen activists and educators, and about America finally “getting” global warming in the face of the right-wing disinformation campaign and the dangerous chasm between scientific understanding and political action—is now available on DVD for home and community screenings.
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Review of “Everything’s Cool” in the New York Times
Posted on Saturday, November 24, 2007
Stephen Holden of the New York Times reviewed the new global warming documentary, “Everything’s Cool,” which opened in New York and Los Angeles on November 23.
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Everything’s Cool global warming film opens for a one-week run in New York and LA Nov. 23-29
Posted on Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Everything’s Cool, a feature-length documentary film about ‘global warming messengers,’ will screen at the Cinema Village in New York City and at the Laemmle Grande 4-Plex in downtown Los Angeles November 23-29. Climate Science Watch director Rick Piltz and the filmmakers will do a Q&A session at the 7 p.m. screening on Friday, November 23, in New York.
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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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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.
Be citizens, hold public officials accountable—CSW director interviewed in San Antonio Current
Posted on Wednesday, September 26, 2007
CSW director Rick Piltz was interviewed in the San Antonio Current, in connection with his appearance at the Texas Renewable Energy Roundup & Green Living Fair in Fredericksburg, Texas, on September 29.
CSW Director to keynote at Texas Renewable Energy Roundup & Green Living Fair
Posted on Saturday, September 22, 2007
Climate Science Watch director Rick Piltz will give a keynote talk, “Breaking the Silence,” at the Texas Renewable Energy Roundup & Green Living Fair ("Come learn solutions to global warming: You can make a difference!") in Fredericksburg, Texas, in the Hill Country west of Austin, on Sept. 29 at 1 p.m. Piltz will also do a Q&A session after screenings of the global warming documentary Everything’s Cool on Sept. 29 at 8 p.m. and Sept. 30 at 10 a.m. at the Fredericksburg Stagecoach Theatre on South US Hwy 287. Hope to see some of y’all there.
CSW Director on leave
Posted on Thursday, August 09, 2007
Climate Science Watch Director Rick Piltz will be on leave working on a writing project from August 10 through September 2. During that time the Climate Science Watch research team will continue to post occasional entries (see below). Media inquiries should be directed to Dylan Blaylock, Communications Director, Government Accountability Project.
Newsweek cover story focuses on the global warming denial machine
Posted on Sunday, August 05, 2007
”Global Warming Deniers: A Well-Funded Machine,” a 4,700-word cover story in the August 13 issue of Newsweek (now available online), explores the history and current situation with what the article terms the global warming denial machine. “Killing bills in Congress was only one prong of the denial machine’s campaign,” the article says at one point. “It also had to keep public opinion from demanding action on greenhouse emissions, and that meant careful management of what federal scientists and officials wrote and said. ‘If they presented the science honestly, it would have brought public pressure for action,’ says Rick Piltz, who joined the federal Climate Science Program in 1995...Following the playbook laid out at the 1998 meeting at the American Petroleum Institute, [administration] officials made sure that every report and speech cast climate science as dodgy, uncertain, controversial -- and therefore no basis for making policy.
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Federal court ruling pending in lawsuit to compel new National Climate Change Assessment
Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2007
A federal court ruling is pending in the Center for Biological Diversity et al. lawsuit against the U.S. Climate Change Research Program and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to compel the preparation of a new National Assessment of Climate Change. In July the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, directed the parties to file a supplemental briefing in response to several questions about the content of the assessment required by the Global Change Research Act and its relationship to the CCSP research plan. The government defendants have an August 3 deadline for filing their briefing. A ruling in the case could come at any time after that. See Details for links to Plaintiffs documents in the case and the detailed Declaration of Climate Science Watch Director Rick Piltz.
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Climate Science Watch report: Federal NextGen aviation planning is ignoring global warming
Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2007
On June 18 Climate Science Watch published a white paper report criticizing the administration’s failure to address aviation’s contribution to global warming in the federal multiagency NextGen aviation planning and development program. The report highlights the administration’s inattention to quantifying greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft in strategic planning for the development of the industry, and cautions that this omission could have harmful effects on the future of U.S. aviation if action is not taken. See Details to view or download the report.
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CSW Director Rick Piltz radio interview on Quality News Network
Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2007
On July 17 Climate Science Watch Director Rick Piltz was interviewed on the America Back on Track program on the Quality News Network. We talked about climate change, the Bush-Cheney administration, national preparedness, the climate research and observations budget, the NASA administrator, the National Hurricane Center, U.S. climate change regional assessment, former Surgeon General Carmona, and the Washington culture of risk aversion to speaking up and speaking out. The interview is archived on the QNN web site.
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