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Internal report to White House on implications of NPOESS climate observations crisis
Posted on Monday, June 04, 2007
On June 4 the Associated Press reported on the looming crisis in the U.S. satellite-based global climate observing system. An internal “pre-decisional” report to the White House by NASA and NOAA, which Climate Science Watch provided to AP, explains how the decision by the Pentagon and NOAA to drop key climate-monitoring sensors from the National Polar-orbiting Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS)—the core of the next generation of Earth-orbiting climate-monitoring instruments—places in grave jeopardy scientists’ future ability to monitor key variables necessary for understanding climate change and its consequences. We are making the report available here NPOESS-OSTPdec-06.pdf, to encourage wider attention to this problem and to increase pressure on the President and Congress to deal with it.
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Whistleblower Week in Washington: Panel on “Scientific Integrity & Individual Conscience”
Posted on Wednesday, May 09, 2007
CSW Director Rick Piltz will participate on a panel on “Scientific Integrity & Individual Conscience” to help kick off “Whistleblower Week in Washington,” May 14-18, a week of activities designed to promote protections for government and corporate whistleblowers. This is billed as the largest gathering of whistleblowers and related public interest groups in U.S. history. We invite you to attend the events.
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Environmental Science & Technology: Top 10 environmental policies of the Bush administration
Posted on Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Environmental Science & Technology, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Chemical Society, published an online editorial May 9 “dedicated exclusively to looking back on the Bush Administration’s environmental record.” Note #1 and #2.
“Hot Politics”—PBS FRONTLINE program and extended interviews online
Posted on Thursday, April 26, 2007
The full PBS FRONTLINE hour-long program on global warming, “Hot Politics,” which aired on April 24, can be viewed online. We are in segment #6—Censorship, discussing the Bush administration’s treatment of the National Assessment of Climate Change Impacts. Extended text from a number of the interviews is also posted, including interviews with Jim Hansen of NASA and CSW Director Rick Piltz.
PBS FRONTLINE “Hot Politics” of global warming on April 24
Posted on Sunday, April 22, 2007
FRONTLINE and the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) “go behind the scenes to explore how bi-partisan political and economic forces prevented the U.S. government from confronting what may be one of the most serious problems facing humanity today.” Coming Tuesday, April 24, 2007, at 9pm (check local listings to confirm time). A CIR Web video segment deals with the Bush administration’s suppression of the National Assessment of Climate Change Impacts. [See UPDATED post, April 28, 2008: “Hot Politics” re-aired—PBS FRONTLINE program on global warming politics and online interviews]
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Upcoming screenings of global warming documentary “Everything’s Cool”
Posted on Sunday, April 08, 2007
”Everything’s Cool,,” a new documentary film that is billed on its Web site as “A Real Life Disaster Movie...about the most dangerous chasm ever to emerge between scientific understanding and political action,” is scheduled to be screened during the next month in Santa Cruz CA, Durham NC, Ashland OR, Jackson WY, Toronto, and San Francisco. CSW Director Rick Piltz will appear in connection with screenings at the Ashland Independent Film Festival April 13-15 and the annual ECO-fair in Jackson April 27-28.
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The Supreme Court, global warming, clean energy, and “Everything’s Cool”
Posted on Sunday, April 08, 2007
Juliet Eilperin writes in the April 8 Washington Post that the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Massachusetts et al. v EPA—that the agency has the authority to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act—“Marked a watershed moment for the United States...Years from now, Massachusetts v. EPA may be seen as akin to the Roe v. Wade ruling on abortion, in which the Supreme Court answered a question that U.S. politicians were unable to resolve.” We appreciate her mention in the article of the global warming film, “Everything’s Cool”—our favorite new documentary. (We’re not biased, just because we’re in it.)
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GAP issues in-depth report on political interference at climate science research agencies
Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2007
On March 27 the Government Accountability Project (GAP) released a comprehensive report, Redacting the Science of Climate Change, detailing the findings of a year-long investigation into how federal agency media policies and practices and other forms of political interference have negatively affected the flow of climate change science communication from publicly funded research. The report focuses especially on problems at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The investigation incorporated dozens of interviews and a comprehensive review of thousands of Freedom of Information Act disclosures, internal documents, and public records. See the full report here.
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Panel at National Press Club agrees the public’s right to know is frequently compromised
Posted on Tuesday, March 13, 2007
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s article on “Sunshine Week 2007”—“Rick Piltz, founder of Climate Science Watch...cited a recent study saying that polar bears are endangered because of disappearing sea ice. But the Bush administration, he said, insisted the study had nothing to do with global warming.”
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Open the Government, Sunshine Week 2007: “Closed Doors; Open Democracies?”
Posted on Sunday, March 11, 2007
Climate Science Watch will participate in a Sunshine Week 2007 program focused on access to government information, including the impact of government suppression and manipulation of scientific information on public health and safety—and accountability. The event will be held at the National Press Club on Monday, March 12, and webcast to dozens of sites around the country.
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Closed Doors; Open Democracies? A national dialogue on government openness
Posted on Tuesday, February 20, 2007
On March 12 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, Climate Science Watch will be represented on a panel addressing issues of access to government information, including the impact of government suppression and manipulation of scientific information on public health and safety—and accountability at the federal and the state and local levels. This Sunshine Week 2007 event will be Webcast to sites around the country.
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“Everything’s Cool” global warming documentary has first New York City screening on February 20
Posted on Monday, February 19, 2007
"Everything’s Cool” will be screened for the first time in New York City on February 20 at the IFC Center. The film features writer/activist Bill McKibben, author of “The End of Nature;” investigative journalist Ross Gelbspan, author of “The Heat is On” and “Boiling Point;” Heidi Cullen, the climate scientist who covers climate change on The Weather Channel; Climate Science Watch director Rick Piltz; Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, and Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, authors of “The Death of Environmentalism.” “Everything’s Cool” had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah on January 19, where it was screened as part of the juried competition for best U.S. independent documentary.
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Climate Science Watch interview on EcoTalk, Air America Radio
Posted on Monday, February 19, 2007
We were interviewed on the EcoTalk program on Air America Radio by host Betsy Rosenberg on January 19, while we were in Park City, Utah, for the premiere of the new global warming documentary film “Everything’s Cool” at the Sundance Film Festival. A link to the Webcast of the 12-minute interview is here.
Earthbeat radio: Climate science censorship and Congressional oversight
Posted on Friday, February 16, 2007
On February 13, Earthbeat (WPFW-FM in Washington, DC) interviewed CSW Director Rick Piltz and others on issues of climate science censorship and the reactivation of long-overdue Congressional oversight.
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Senate Commerce climate science hearing follow-up: News reports
Posted on Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Environment News Service ("Effects of Bush Climate Science Censorship Linger") and Wired News ("Bush Ripped on Global Warming") covered the February 7 Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing on “Climate Change Research and Scientific Integrity” with some reporting that we liked.
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