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Michael Gerson’s strange and evasive spinning on the Republican war on science
Posted on Thursday, May 15, 2008
In how he dismissed the conclusion that there has been a Republican war on science, Michael Gerson, former speechwriter and senior policy advisor to President Bush, struck an ethical pose in his May 7 Washington Post op-ed column but showed that he is still a spin doctor covering up for his former boss .
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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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R.I.P. John Firor—scientist, author, former director of NCAR
Posted on Monday, November 12, 2007
The New York Times reported on November 12: “John Firor, an environmental scholar and former director of the National Center of Atmospheric Research who was an early voice linking climate change and human activity, died last Monday in Pullman, Wash. He was 80.”
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Two questions on the IPCC and Al Gore being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Posted on Friday, October 12, 2007
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 “in two equal parts” to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.” We have two questions.
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Congressman Markey Queries Federal Aviation Administrator on Failure to Consider Climate Change
Posted on Saturday, August 18, 2007
The Chairman of the House Select Committee on Global Warming and Energy Independence, Rep. Ed Markey (Democrat from Massachusetts), prompted in part by a Climate Science Watch report [PDF] and Web site post, has sent a letter [PDF] to the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration expressing concern that the FAA’s Next Generation Air Transport System (NextGen) fails to include climate change considerations in planning for future air travel challenges.
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“In These Times” says U.S. Puts Concerns about Aviation’s Climate Impacts “On Stand-by”
Posted on Saturday, August 18, 2007
An article published August 15 by the online magazine In These Times quotes CSW Director Rick Piltz and echoes concerns raised in a CSW report issued July 18 that the FAA is failing to take into account the potential climate change impacts of aircraft emissions in its long-term planning for the rapidly expanding airline industry.
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House of Representatives Passes the Global Change Research and Data Management Act of 2007
Posted on Monday, August 13, 2007
A legislative proposal repealing the US Global Change Research Act of 1990 and replacing it with a set of provisions that re-establishes an interagency Global Change Research Program passed the US House of Representatives on August 4 as part of an omnibus energy bill (see related post).
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Energy Bill Passed by House Has Many Provisions on Climate Change Impacts, Assessment, Adaptation
Posted on Monday, August 13, 2007
An omnibus energy bill (HR 3221) and a companion energy tax package (HR 2776) were passed by the House of Representatives in a rare Saturday session on August 4 2007. Both are voluminous and contain hundreds of provisions that, if signed into law, would reorient the United States toward cleaner and more efficient energy technologies and approaches, and take significant steps to address climate change. However, President Bush has already indicated he will veto both bills.
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Misleading NY Times article on Gore film gets deserved excoriation by RealClimate
Posted on Wednesday, March 14, 2007
RealClimate, a key Web site in which leading scientists set the record straight on current climate change issues, takes apart William Broad’s deplorable and widely off-the-mark March 13 article in the New York Times on “An Inconvenient Truth.” How can we expect the average newspaper to get it right, if the Times role-models this kind of second-rate reporting?
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Check out the Earth observation images newly added to this site
Posted on Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Additions to the the rotating set of Earth observation global change images in the upper left corner of pages on this Web site link to explanatory material provided by NASA’s Earth Observatory Newsroom New Images site.
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Premiering today at the Sundance Film Festival: “Everything’s Cool”
Posted on Friday, January 19, 2007
Everything's Cool, a new documentary film featuring a number of "global warming messengers on a high-stakes quest," will have its world premiere screening on January 19 at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
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“Carbon neutral”—New Oxford American Dictionary’s 2006 “word of the year”
Posted on Monday, January 08, 2007
The New Oxford American Dictionary will add “carbon neutral’’ to this year’s editions, having named it 2006 “word of the year.” The editor in chief of the dictionary says, “Our goal is to choose a word that is on the cusp of ubiquity.” We also like Merriam-Webster’s word of the year—“truthiness”—something we’ve been calling attention to here in Washington.
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Gerald R. Ford: 2 quotes
Posted on Thursday, December 28, 2006
"I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government, but civilization itself.”
--Inaugural address, 1974
“I must say to you that the State of the Union is not good.”
--State of the Union message, 1975
Maybe the next president should use these again.
Happy Holidays!
Posted on Sunday, December 24, 2006
Climate Science Watch wishes Happy Holidays and best wishes for the New Year to all our “unique visitors” (to use the terminology of our Web stats software) from all over the United States and many other countries. We’re hopeful in looking forward to 2007 and we intend to carry forward the investigation, communication, and reform advocacy that are at the heart of our government accountability strategy.
For researchers: White House CEQ “Online Reading Room” for FOIA response documents
Posted on Friday, November 24, 2006
The White House Council on Environment Quality has posted documents that CEQ has released pursuant to various requests made under the Freedom of information Act in an “Online Reading Room” on the CEQ Web site. These include documents relating to CEQ communications with the Competitive Enterprise Institute; the 2002 U.S. Climate Action Report; EPA’s Clean Air Act authority and Draft Report on the Environment; the U.S. Climate Change Science Program; and other topics.
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