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On Issues of Concern About the Governance and Direction of the Climate Change Science Program
Posted on Thursday, June 02, 2005
Memo to U.S. Climate Change Science Program Agency Principals, “On Issues of Concern About the Governance and Direction of the Climate Change Science Program” (dated 1 June 2005). Rick Piltz, author of the memo and a former official of the Climate Change Science Program, says: “I believe the overarching problem is that the administration—acting primarily through key positions in the Executive Office of the President, and to some extent the State Department, and aligning itself with some of its key allies—does not want and has acted to impede forthright communication of the state of climate science and its implications for society.” The memo supports this conclusion in great detail.
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