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Congressional Oversight

House Oversight Jan. 30 hearing follow-up: Witness testimony and archived Webcast

Posted on Saturday, February 10, 2007

Witness testimony and other documents and an archived Webcast are available from the January 30 hearing on “Allegations of Political Interference With the Work of Government Climate Change Scientists” held by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Rick Piltz testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee

Posted on Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Climate Science Watch Director Rick Piltz’s testimony for the February 7, 2006, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation hearing on “Climate Change Research and Scientific Integrity.” The testimony also is available as a PDF file.

Senate Commerce Committee hearing Feb. 7 on “Climate Change Research and Scientific Integrity”

Posted on Tuesday, February 06, 2007

The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation heard testimony from Bill Brennan (Acting Chairman, U.S. Climate Change Science Program), Richard Anthes (President, UCAR), Thomas R. Knutson (NOAA scientist), James R. Mahoney (former CCSP Director), Rick Piltz (CSW director), and F. Sherwood Rowland (Univ. of California). In addition, written testimony was submitted by Peter Gleick (Pacific Institute).

Gore to testify on Climate Change

Posted on Monday, February 05, 2007

Former Vice President Al Gore has accepted an invitation to testify at a joint hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality and the House Science and Technology Subcommittee on Energy and Environment on Wednesday, March 21, 2007.

House Science Committee to hold IPCC hearing

Posted on Sunday, February 04, 2007

The first Congressional hearing on the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report will be held Thursday, February 8, 2007.

Climate Science Watch testimony at House Oversight Hearing

Posted on Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Testimony of Rick Piltz, Director, Climate Science Watch, Government Accountability Project, Washington, DC, Before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, U.S. House of Representatives, Hearing on “Allegations of Political Interference With the Work of Government Climate Change Scientists.” The testimony also is available as a PDF file.

Investigation Documents Political Interference with Climate Science Communication

Posted on Tuesday, January 30, 2007

An investigative report by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and the Government Accountability Project (GAP) has uncovered new evidence of widespread political interference in federal climate science.

CSW Director Rick Piltz will testify at House Oversight Committee hearing January 30

Posted on Monday, January 29, 2007

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will hold a hearing on “Allegations of Political Interference With the Work of Government Climate Change Scientists” on Tuesday, January 30, at 10:00 a.m., in Room 2157, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC. We will post our testimony on this Web site at the time of the hearing.

Senate Commerce Committee to hold hearing on Climate Change Research and Scientific Integrity

Posted on Friday, January 26, 2007

The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation will hold a hearing on Wednesday, February 7, on “Climate Change Research and Scientific Integrity.”

New House Science Oversight Subcommittee

Posted on Thursday, January 25, 2007

A supporter of whistleblower protections will chair a new House Science and Technology Oversight Subcommittee that could focus on matters of science censorship.

House Oversight Hearing Will Question Political Influence on Government Climate Scientists

Posted on Wednesday, January 24, 2007

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will hold a hearing on January 30 regarding political interference in the work of government climate scientists. The Committee has requested that the White House Council on Environmental Quality provide detailed documentation on CEQ’s role under the Bush administration in influencing the communication of climate change science.

House Oversight and Reform Committee may question individuals under oath during investigations

Posted on Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Environment & Energy Daily reports: “House Democrats have granted their lead oversight committee the right to privately question witnesses under oath during investigations, adding a powerful tool to a panel poised to dig into the Bush administration’s climate change policies.” We told E&E Daily: “When you have a stonewalling administration and you have the executive branch using its evasive maneuvers, the ability to put people under oath...is potentially a very valuable tool.”

Congress: Ask Condi Rice, Why has the U.S. Climate Action Report been held up for more than a year?

Posted on Sunday, January 07, 2007

On January 11 Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice is scheduled to appear before both the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House International Relations Committee to talk about the Administration’s position on Iraq. While Iraq is certainly more than enough of a problem to consume the committees’ attention, some committee member (Committee Chair Sen. Biden? Ranking Member Lugar? Boxer? Kerry? Obama? Hagel?) might want also to ask Secretary Rice a question about why the Administration has failed to issue the fourth U.S. Climate Action Report, a national communication that is required by the climate treaty to which the U.S. is a party. U.S. stonewalling on global warming cooperation has only added to the low regard in which the Administration is held internationally and has not helped U.S. relations with allies. Prolonged holding up of the Climate Action Report exemplifies the Administration’s failure to communicate. [Editor’s Note: See also the 30 July 2007 posting, Bush Administration submits evasive Climate Action Report to the UN.]

Harvard Prof. Daniel Schrag on Senator Inhofe’s “gathering of liars and charlatans”

Posted on Saturday, December 23, 2006

Prof. Schrag testified at the Senate Environment Committee hearing December 6 on climate change and the media. “Then,” he reports, “I watched in horror as Inhofe’s witnesses spouted outrageous claims intended to deceive and distort....But amid the collegiality and decorum that is the tradition in the Senate, no one stood up and called this hearing what it was: a gathering of liars and charlatans, sponsored by those industries who want to protect their profits.” Bravo to Prof. Schrag. Scientists may regard the likes of Sen. Inhofe’s denialist witnesses as charlatans, but how many communicate this forcefully to a wider public?

24 House members call for new National Climate Impacts Assessment

Posted on Friday, December 22, 2006

On December 11, Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA), Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD), and 22 House co-signers sent a letter to William Brennan of NOAA, the Acting Director of the Climate Change Science Program, in which they say: “The failure of the CCSP to produce a National Assessment report within the time frame required by law has made it more difficult for Congress to develop a comprehensive policy response to the challenge of global climate change.” The Members are on the right track here. The National Climate Impacts Assessment is a key issue for oversight of the CCSP in the new Congress, and one we have been raising for some time.

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