ClimateScienceWatch

Promoting integrity in the use of climate science in government

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. See Details

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Climate Science Watch Weekly Update, August 16

Posted on Monday, August 16, 2010

A brief update on research findings and events we’re keeping track of this week.

Climate Science Watch Weekly Update, August 2

Posted on Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Notes on climate and energy legislation, climate science, media, and a briefing on NOAA’s 2009 State of the Climate report. A brief update on what we’re keeping track of and writing about this week.

Incentivizing risk: the road to the Deepwater Horizon disaster

Posted on Monday, August 02, 2010

At the Netroots Nation conference, Kate Sheppard of Mother Jones magazine led panelists David Pettit, Bob Cavnar, and Van Jones in a diagnosis of the regulatory and legislative failures that made the Deepwater Horizon disaster possible.

Al Franken: “Net Neutrality is the First Amendment Issue of Our Time”

Posted on Monday, August 02, 2010

We took an excerpt from U.S. Senator Al Franken’s keynote address at the Netroots Nation closing night. In the clip, Franken speaks about net neutrality, corporate power, and democracy. We believe the themes Franken weaves together are of key significance for the mission of Climate Science Watch in holding the governmental and corporate power elite accountable to the public interest.

Part One:

(Please excuse the misalignment of the sound and visual in Part 1, we ran into some trouble with the syncing)

See Details for Part Two

Netroots Nation: On holding the Obama Administration accountable on climate and energy

Posted on Wednesday, July 28, 2010

How can the netroots and progressives most effectively hold the Obama Administration accountable for delivering on climate and energy policy? While at Netroots Nation 2010, Climate Science Watch put the question to Phil Radford, executive director of Greenpeace USA; Jason Miner, managing director of Glover Park Group; and Steve Kretzmann, executive director of Oil Change International.

Climate Science Watch Weekly Update – July 28, 2010

Posted on Wednesday, July 28, 2010

State of the Climate 2009 report; Netroots Nation 2010; ‘Mainstreaming’ federal climate change adaptation

Netroots Nation Day 2: Separation of oil and state

Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010

A panel on day two of the Netroots Nation conference asked the question: is the BP oil disaster the breaking point for communicating about clean energy? Kevin Grandia of Desmogblog.com led panelists in a discussion of whether the myth of cheap, abundant energy has finally been shattered, and how progressives can speak truth to the realities that made this disaster possible in the fight to transform our energy and climate future.

Stephen Schneider: Eulogies and Tributes

Posted on Sunday, July 25, 2010

From multiple sources, a collection of eulogies and tributes to Steve Schneider, whose untimely death at age 65 on July 19 is a profound and tragic loss — by Ben Santer, Peter Gleick, Richard Somerville, Michael Mann, Michael Oppenheimer, Richard Moss, V. Ramanathan, Roger Pielke, Sr., Lee Schipper, Curt Covey, Linda Mearns, Bud Ward, Cristine Russell, Bill Anderegg, and Bill Mckibben.

Climate Science Watch Weekly Update – July 13, 2010

Posted on Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Policy-focused reconstruction financing to rebuild the country; NY Times: Putting “the manufactured controversy known as Climategate behind us”; NASA: first half of 2010 set global temperature record; Giant ice sculpture to be unveiled outside U.S. Senate July 15; U.S. Climate Change Adaptation Task Force public outreach meeting. Taking notice of some current developments.

Climate Science Watch Weekly Update

Posted on Tuesday, June 08, 2010

A brief summary of events we are attending and tuning into this week.

Good Jobs, Green Jobs conference showcases strength of labor-environmental coalition

Posted on Thursday, May 13, 2010

We attended the third annual Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference in Washington, DC, May 4-6, organized by the Blue Green Alliance, a “national, strategic partnership between labor unions and environmental organizations dedicated to expanding the number and quality of jobs in the green economy.” The scientific case for reducing carbon emissions underlies the clean energy and climate legislation now under consideration, but it was in the background at the conference, which was attended by thousands of participants. In his speech Senator John Kerry acknowledged the course we’re on today will lead to “catastrophic” climate change. But he said of the Kerry-Lieberman American Power Act bill released May 12: “This bill is above all a jobs bill…. this revolution we’re talking about is above all a jobs revolution.”

NOAA’s Tom Karl explains temperature data supporting conclusion: ‘global warming is unequivocal’

Posted on Friday, May 07, 2010

The American Meteorological Society yesterday presented a briefing by Tom Karl in the U.S. Capitol Building on “Detecting Climate Change: The Temperature Record.” We attended and heard Karl, the Interim Director of NOAA Climate Services and Director of the NOAA National Climatic Data Center, discuss the data and methods NOAA uses to calculate global and national temperature trends and anomalies.

An overview of the briefing reads: “This includes historical changes in data coverage, processing techniques, bias corrections, and assessments of uncertainty. When viewed with independent methods and data used by other agencies and governments to track temperature and temperature-related changes, the results have provided the basis for the statement ‘global warming is unequivocal.’”

Bill McKibben: On Earth Day, the environmental movement needs repairs

Posted on Friday, April 23, 2010

“When the media and the president hail [the Senate climate and clean energy bill to be unveiled on April 26] as a ‘landmark,’ understand the shifting ground it actually defines: The environmental idea is too weak right now to win passage of a tough bill to deal with our greatest problem. It will settle for half measures, when it gets the chance to settle for anything at all,” writes author-activist Bill McKibben in an op-ed column in the April 23 Washington Post. “At least part of the problem lies within [inside-the-Beltway-oriented] environmentalism, which no longer does enough real organizing to build the pressure that could result in real change.”

Avatar director James Cameron calls out lawmakers for reluctance to talk in terms of climate change

Posted on Thursday, April 22, 2010

After speaking last week with lawmakers in Washington, ‘Avatar’ director James Cameron reportedly came away with the sense that they believe an energy and climate bill “will be a nonstarter if even it includes the word ‘climate change’ or ‘sustainability.’” Have the fossil fuel interests and the influence of the global warming denial machine on public opinion made Washington wary about telling the truth in talking about the problem? If so, “It completely ignores the elephant in the room that we’re all dealing with,” he told the LA Times.

Straight Up: Must-read book by Joe Romm of Climate Progress on climate change, policy, and the media

Posted on Thursday, April 22, 2010

We heard Joe Romm speak with John Podesta at the Center for American Progress on April 19, promoting his new book Straight Up: America’s Fiercest Climate Blogger Takes on the Status Quo Media, Politicians, and Clean Energy Solutions. Romm runs Climate Progress, a must-read blog project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund “dedicated to providing the progressive perspective on climate science, climate solutions, and climate politics.”

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