2008

May

• Use law on environmental impact statements to assess global warming implications of federal actions (09 May 08)

• Whistleblower Week in Washington DC panel May 12 on Scientific Freedom and the Public Good (08 May 08)

• Unreleased aviation report projects more than doubling of CO2 emissions from 2000-2025 (08 May 08)

• Questions for Climate Change Science Program Director William J. Brennan nomination hearing (01 May 08)

April

• Rockefellers call for change in ExxonMobil leadership (30 Apr 08)

• Judge orders Bush administration to stop delaying polar bear protection (29 Apr 08)

• Union of Concerned Scientists study: Hundreds of EPA scientists report political interference (28 Apr 08)

• “Hot Politics” re-aired—PBS FRONTLINE program on global warming politics and online interviews (27 Apr 08)

• Ross Gelbspan review of new book on capitalism and the environmental crisis by Gus Speth (27 Apr 08)

• Interior Dept. announces further delay of months in decision on listing of polar bear as threatened (23 Apr 08)

• EPA releases draft strategy on response to climate change impacts on water resources (23 Apr 08)

• Bush climate speech aligns with disinformation campaign on stonewalling courts and environmental law (21 Apr 08)

• Will Bush acknowledge the harmful impacts of global climate disruption? (15 Apr 08)

• Comments on draft federal “Coastal Elevations and Sensitivity to Sea Level Rise” report (13 Apr 08)

• CDC House hearing witness Frumkin submits CDC Director Gerberding’s previously censored testimony (12 Apr 08)

• American Public Health Association and World Health Organization: Climate change threatens health (11 Apr 08)

• Bill Moyers speech on receiving 2008 Ridenhour Courage Prize (09 Apr 08)

• House Select Committee to examine aviation’s impact on global warming (01 Apr 08)

March

• House subcommittee hearing April 1 on FEMA toxic trailers and mistreatment of CDC whistleblower (31 Mar 08)

• FEMA’s toxic-trailer ineptitude in housing Katrina victims raises concern about climate preparedness (26 Mar 08)

• 6,000 square mile Wilkins Ice Shelf on Antarctic Peninsula “hangs by a thread” (25 Mar 08)

• “The alarm clock that all the plants and animals are listening to is running too fast.” (22 Mar 08)

• “Homeland security will require readiness against climate change.” (22 Mar 08)

• National Climate Change Preparedness Initiative—Initial prospectus for review and comment (21 Mar 08)

• GAP press release on stealth release of climate change transportation impacts report (14 Mar 08)

• Stealth release of major federal study of Gulf Coast climate change transportation impacts (13 Mar 08)

• Waxman to EPA: Why is work on required greenhouse gas regulation being blocked? (12 Mar 08)

• Nature editorial on EPA administrator’s “reckless disregard” for law and science on climate change (12 Mar 08)

• EPA unions charge Administrator Johnson violates agency’s Principles of Scientific Integrity (12 Mar 08)

• Former IPCC chairman Robert Watson says world leaders “squandered” last 10 years on climate change (12 Mar 08)

• Climate change, disinformation, and the failure of preparedness (11 Mar 08)

• Sen. McCain’s mockery of a significant federal scientific grizzly bear study (10 Mar 08)

• Environmental groups sue Bush administration to force polar bear protection (10 Mar 08)

February

• Water Utility Climate Alliance calls on federal climate research to aid with impacts preparedness (27 Feb 08)

• Review of the Summary of Revised Research Plan for the US Climate Change Science Program (26 Feb 08)

• John Holdren: US public opinion is near a tipping point on climate change despite deniers’ strategy (24 Feb 08)

• Harvard Prof. John Holdren on “Global Climate Disruption: What do we know, what should we do?"” (24 Feb 08)

• Major corporations seek green image on climate policy but fund coal lobby front group (22 Feb 08)

• House Science Committee chairman questions White House delay on federal science integrity principles (22 Feb 08)

• AAAS honors climate scientists James Hansen and Robert Watson (17 Feb 08)

• “Scientific Freedom and the Public Good” – Statement to the next president (15 Feb 08)

• Why hasn’t White House science director issued required science communication integrity principles? (13 Feb 08)

• New Harper government policy muzzles communication by Environment Canada government scientists (13 Feb 08)

• An eminent climate scientist working to hold government officials accountable (12 Feb 08)

• US State Dept. request for comments on the future of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (09 Feb 08)

• President’s FY 2009 climate science budget proposal remains below the 2001 level (08 Feb 08)

• Presidential Climate Action Project “State of the Climate” statement calls for federal action (07 Feb 08)

• For a National Climate Change Preparedness Initiative (06 Feb 08)

• “The American Denial of Global Warming” (06 Feb 08)

• A strategy session on the future of the US Global Change Research Program (05 Feb 08)