2008

September

• Hurricanes and climate change: From the IPCC and recent US Climate Change Science Program reports (02 Sep 08)

• New Orleans Mayor Nagin: Trailers could become “projectiles” – known BEFORE deployment (01 Sep 08)

August

• Alaska Gov. Palin appears to deny global warming is due to human activity (30 Aug 08)

• On third anniversary of Katrina, concerns about preparedness for Hurricane Gustav (29 Aug 08)

• Did Gov. Palin misrepresent views of Alaska scientists on threat to polar bear? (29 Aug 08)

• Gov. Sarah Palin on polar bears, climate change, and drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (29 Aug 08)

• Climate science advice to next administration is good start, broader focus needed for preparedness (25 Aug 08)

• US Senators go to bat for the Center for Capacity Building at NCAR (18 Aug 08)

• Draft synthesis report on US climate impacts from lame duck Bush administration raises questions (18 Aug 08)

• Abrupt termination of NSF-funded climate humanitarian program raises fundamental questions (08 Aug 08)

• EPA union officials: Stephen Johnson subverted staff on global warming sound science and policy (06 Aug 08)

July

• Speaking Truth to Power:  Why on earth is EPA whistleblower Jason Burnett standing alone? (28 Jul 08)

• Michael MacCracken’s analysis of errors in Robinson, Robinson, and Soon 2007 contrarian article (24 Jul 08)

• Report for state legislators describes costly damages in 8 states from global climatic disruption (24 Jul 08)

• Climate change science and government action: Interview on KPFK-FM Los Angeles (24 Jul 08)

• Canadian government mimics US “quiet release” method for major climate and health report (23 Jul 08)

• Combatting an attempt by the disinformation campaign to hijack an American Physical Society forum (20 Jul 08)

• EPA report on climate change health & welfare impacts: Interview comments on Free Speech Radio News (20 Jul 08)

• Media coverage of EPA release of climate change health effects assessment (17 Jul 08)

• EPA releases report identifying harmful effects of climate change on human health (17 Jul 08)

• “Beyond the Phony ‘Debate’: Government Science and the Climate Crisis” (14 Jul 08)

• Jason Burnett confirms that Cheney’s office and CEQ censored CDC director Gerberding’s testimony (08 Jul 08)

June

• Dr. James Hansen calls for fossil industry disinformants to be tried for “high crimes” (25 Jun 08)

• Flawed communications in U.S. Climate Change Science Program (25 Jun 08)

• “A Climate Hero: An Outspoken Truth” (20 Jun 08)

• “Rejuvenating Public Sector Science” – CSPI’s Fourth National Integrity in Science Conference (19 Jun 08)

• Scott McClellan and White House global warming spin (17 Jun 08)

• NASA internal investigation of climate science political interference let higher-ups off the hook (16 Jun 08)

• Rep. Kucinich Bush impeachment Article XXXII: Climate change science and policy (10 Jun 08)

• Organizing denial: Conservative “think tanks” and the political tactic of environmental “skepticism” (10 Jun 08)

• Wake Up Call: Interview on WBAI-FM New York City (08 Jun 08)

• Richard Somerville: Include climate change ethics and equity issues in science research agenda (08 Jun 08)

• Bush administration moves toward the climate science mainstream – Rick Piltz interview (06 Jun 08)

• National conference on The Emerging Era in Whistleblower Rights and the Public’s Right to Know (06 Jun 08)

May

• Bush administration has run out the clock on climate change assessment and action (30 May 08)

• Government report provides strong evidence U.S. endangered by climate change impacts (29 May 08)

• New climate report counters Bush administration record of denial, disinformation, cover-up and delay (29 May 08)

• ICLEI local action summit on climate and sustainability underscores federal government “no show” (24 May 08)

• “Conspiracy Theory”—Will the legal strategy that brought down Big Tobacco work against Big Oil? (19 May 08)

• 4th National Integrity in Science Conference on Rejuvenating Public Sector Science - July 11, 2008 (16 May 08)

• Have things changed? What reforms are needed? Remarks at Whistleblower Week in Washington (15 May 08)

• Michael Gerson’s strange and evasive spinning on the Republican war on science (15 May 08)

• Administration refusal to protect polar bear from greenhouse emissions “won’t hold up in court” (14 May 08)

• How will the Interior Dept implement protection of polar bear as a threatened species? (14 May 08)

• 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)