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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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Global warming and the media at the Society of Environmental Journalists conference
Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Podcast interviews on climate change with Andrew Revkin of the New York Times, environmental author Bill McKibben, and CSW Director Rick Piltz from the annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Journalists, held in Burlington, Vermont, last week. Also: Senator Inhofe’s PR hatchet man Marc Morano, communications director of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, faces off with Bill Blakemore of ABC News, Revkin, and journalism Prof. Dan Fagin of New York University.
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“Out of Balance: ExxonMobil’s Impact on Climate Change” documentary released
Posted on Monday, October 23, 2006
Joe Public Films has released its fourth documentary, "Out of Balance: ExxonMobil's Impact on Climate Change". This hour-long movie focuses primarily on ExxonMobil's support of climate change "skeptics" and its influence on the Bush administration. It includes interviews with scientists including R.K. Pachauri (IPCC chair), Robert Watson (World Bank senior scientist), Michael Oppenheimer (Princeton); authors including Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Ross Gelbspan; environmental advocates from the Union of Concerned Scientists, Exxpose Exxon, Greenpeace, and other organizations; and Climate Science Watch director Rick Piltz.
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Briefly noted: Holdren interview, Northeast Climate Impacts, BBC Climate of Fear transcript
Posted on Thursday, October 19, 2006
Interview on climate change with Prof. John Holdren, Harvard University, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (video, 6 minutes) (Windows Media)) (RealVideo))
Union of Concerned Scientists, Climate Change in the U.S. Northeast—A report of the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment
BBC Panorama, “Global Warming: Bush’s Climate of Fear”—transcript of program first aired June 4, 2006.
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Briefly Noted—Climate science and government accountability
Posted on Monday, October 09, 2006
“Heed This Warning” (Washington Post, September 28, 2006)
“Beneath its dry scientific lingo, a new analysis of global climate change by a group of NASA scientists is terrifying....Most of all, it will require an end to denial...”
“Land’s End Founder Comer Dies at 78” (AP, Oct. 5, 2006)
”Gary Comer Profile: An Entrepreneur Does Climate Science” (Science, Feb. 24, 2006, subscription; see Details)
“Accountability determined to strike in U.S.” (Tom Toles, Washington Post, Oct. 9, 2006)
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Links
Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006
In this posting, we provide links to a few key Web sites.
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