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Remarks on Accepting The Ridenhour Prize
Posted on Saturday, July 01, 2006
Remarks by Climate Science Watch director Rick Piltz on accepting the Ron Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, on April 4, 2006.
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BBC Panorama: Has the Bush administration covered up the findings of global warming scientists?
Posted on Wednesday, June 07, 2006
BBC-TV News Panorama (the longest-running public affairs television program in the world) aired “Bush’s Climate of Fear” on BBC One on Sunday, 4 June 2006, as part of their series “Climate Chaos” (archived webcast). This 40-minute documentary includes interviews with Robert Corell (Chair, Arctic Climate Impact Assessment), James Hansen (Director, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies), James Connaughton (Chair, White House Council on Environmental Quality), Thomas Knutson (NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory), Jerry Mahlman (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Frank Luntz (Republican pollster and strategist) and Climate Science Watch Director Rick Piltz.
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Climate Science Watch Director Awarded Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling
Posted on Thursday, April 13, 2006
The Third Annual Ron Ridenhour Awards were presented on April 4 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The Ridenhour Awards “seek to recognize and encourage those who persevere in acts of truth-telling that protect the public interest, promote social justice or illuminate a more just vision of society.” The 2006 awards were given to Gloria Steinem, Anthony Shadid, and Rick Piltz.
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ABC News: Was Confusion Over Global Warming a Con Job?
Posted on Sunday, April 02, 2006
On March 26 ABC News aired two back-to-back segments on global warming. One addressed the question: “The vast majority of scientists have determined global warming to be a real threat. So why has it taken so long to convince Americans?” The story included interviews with Virginia state climatologist Pat Michaels, journalist Ross Gelbspan, and Rick Piltz of Climate Science Watch. The text of the story, “Was Confusion Over Global Warming a Con Job? Some Claim Disinformation Campaign Attempted to Create the Impression Scientists Were Broadly Divided,” was posted on the ABC World News Tonight Web site.
About Climate Science Watch
Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Climate Science Watch is a nonprofit public interest education and advocacy project dedicated to holding public officials accountable for the integrity and effectiveness with which they use climate science and related research in government policymaking, toward the goal of enabling society to respond effectively to the challenges posed by global warming and climate change.
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How to make a donation
Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Climate Science Watch is dedicated to holding public officials accountable for using climate science with integrity and for effectively translating climate change research into policy and action. Working cooperatively with a network of allies and supporters we can advance this mission, but we need help from people like you to support the work of carrying out investigations and research, reporting our findings, diagnosing problems and advocating solutions, communicating with public officials, the science community, and the news media, and developing this Weblog and other projects.
Your tax-deductible donation will help make it possible to develop Climate Science Watch as a knowledgeable, low-overhead public interest education and advocacy project with an independent voice. We will not sell or trade personal information about our supporters.
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BBC Radio-4: “Science Blacklist”
Posted on Monday, January 09, 2006
Science Blacklist was aired on BBC Radio-4 in the UK and internationally on January 3 and January 8, 2006. Part of the program dealt with climate change and included interviews with Rick Piltz, Climate Science Watch; Robert Walker, lobbyist and former Republican Chair of the House Committee on Science; and Myron Ebell, Competitive Enterprise Institute.
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How the White House Edits Out Global Warming
Posted on Sunday, January 01, 2006
“Decoder: See No Evil. How the White House Edits Out Global Warming,” Sierra, January-February 2006. This article shows how Philip A. Cooney, chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, edited two 2002 draft reports by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP).
CSW’s Rick Piltz Interviewed by Government Accountability Project’s Louis Clark
Posted on Friday, December 23, 2005
A Conversation between Climate Science Watch’s Rick Piltz and Government Accountability Project President Louis Clark. Originally published in Bridging the GAP (Winter 2005), newsletter of the Government Accountability Project, Washington, DC.
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Radio Open Source: Politics of Climate Change
Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2005
Politics of Climate Change. Audio (and related blog) for 9 August 2005 broadcast from Radio Open Source, Public Radio International, WGBH-Boston and other stations. The program follows “the money trail that leads from the fossil fuel industry to political spin” and examines “why the American press, as a whole, has been pretty quiet about the issue.” Guests include CSW’s Rick Piltz.
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“Political Science” from PBS Now
Posted on Friday, July 22, 2005
From the PBS television program “NOW”: ”Political Science,” on the politicization of science by the Bush administration. Originally broadcast on 22 July 2005. 16 minute story—climate change segment from 8:54 - 16:00
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What’s Up With the Weather? The Politics of Climate Change
Posted on Tuesday, July 19, 2005
What’s Up With the Weather? The Politics of Climate Change. Audio recording of the National Radio Project’s Making Contact, originally broadcast on 20 July 2005. “On this edition, we’ll hear about whom climate is affecting, industry and government cover-ups, and those calling for action before it’s too late.”
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The Anonymous Source - an Endangered Species?
Posted on Wednesday, July 13, 2005
In The Anonymous Source - an Endangered Species?, author Philipp Steger discusses the importance of whistleblowers to journalists—and the risks they face. Published in Bridges (13 July 2005), a publication of the Office of Science and Technology at the Embassy of Austria, Washington, DC.
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Al Franken interviews CSW’s Rick Piltz
Posted on Thursday, July 07, 2005
Al Franken interview with Rick Piltz of Climate Science Watch, audio recording of the 7 July 2005 edition of the Al Franken Show (Air America Radio and Sundance Channel). The program is 1 hr 54 min long, interview is from 55:50 - 70:30.
Blowing the Whistle on Climate Change
Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2005
”Blowing the whistle on climate change: Interview with Rick Piltz, Environmental Science and Technology (ES&T) (22 June 2005) by ES&T Associate Editor Paul Thacker. “Before publishing this interview, ES&T contacted multiple government officials familiar with Piltz’s work. Although they did not agree with all his conclusions, they confirmed that his points are valid.”