2009

September

• UNEP Climate Change Science Compendium 2009: Impacts of Climate Change Coming Faster and Sooner (25 Sep 09)

• Most US media coverage of UN Climate Summit underplayed message of why the need for action is urgent (24 Sep 09)

• CSW director Rick Piltz interview on UN Climate Summit: “We’re very far from where we need to be” (23 Sep 09)

• Pres. Obama at UN Climate Summit talks the right talk… but will the US walk the right walk? (22 Sep 09)

• Obama in UN Climate Summit speech should talk about climate change impacts and the risks of inaction (21 Sep 09)

• New report says many adaptation measures can be half as expensive as doing nothing (19 Sep 09)

• API, CEI, Heartland, listen up: Big money calls for big cuts in global carbon emissions (18 Sep 09)

• Interior Secretary Salazar on right track with new climate initiative but faces tough road ahead (16 Sep 09)

• Citizen hotline for reporting fraudulent tactics by opponents of climate and clean energy bill (13 Sep 09)

• Darwin film controversy: What is the evolutionary value of irrational anti-science ideology? (13 Sep 09)

• New Global Framework for Climate Services should strengthen preparedness (10 Sep 09)

• Peter Gleick on “New McCarthyism: Fear of science and the war on rationality” (08 Sep 09)

• What will the global warming disinformation campaign do with this new study of Arctic warming? (03 Sep 09)

• “High science should meet up with civic science” for climate adaptation says former Holdren student (03 Sep 09)

• Washington Post Capital Weather Gang agrees: “Obama Needs to Give a Climate Speech” (01 Sep 09)

August

• Pay now, or pay more later… global climate adaptation price tag climbs, says new report (31 Aug 09)

• Obama on 4th anniversary of Katrina: We must be more prepared for future disasters and challenges (31 Aug 09)

• Assessing the costs of adaptation to climate change: A critique of the UNFCCC underestimates (30 Aug 09)

• Warming in the Heartland: Is the nation’s “breadbasket” toast?—Another preparedness challenge (28 Aug 09)

• New Orleans pumps unsafe on Katrina anniversary, report concludes: Army Corps preparedness cover-up? (28 Aug 09)

• A new user-friendly computer tool for visualizing climate change (28 Aug 09)

• Senate should pass a climate bill with a comprehensive adaptation policy (24 Aug 09)

• Ocean Warming, Ocean Warning: Global ocean surface temperature in July warmest on record (21 Aug 09)

• Mercury contamination, mainly from coal plant emissions, pervasive in fish nationwide, USGS finds (19 Aug 09)

• Oil lobby and its allies manufacture ‘astroturf’ rallies against climate legislation (19 Aug 09)

• A memory of Robert Novak, 1931-2009, opponent of climate change mitigation policy (18 Aug 09)

• NY Times editorial echoes our view that Obama must speak out on climate change threat (10 Aug 09)

• Part 2: John Holdren Senate testimony on new directions for climate research and information service (09 Aug 09)

• Part 1: John Holdren Senate testimony on climate change science and policy (09 Aug 09)

• Health care death threat against Rep. Brad Miller, an ally on climate change and govt accountability (08 Aug 09)

• California draft climate change adaptation strategy a step ahead of House-passed climate bill (05 Aug 09)

July

• Oceanographer Kate Moran joining Holdren’s team at White House Science Office (21 Jul 09)

• Climate change impacts in our backyards:  the Southwest (18 Jul 09)

• Is climate change adding risks to beachgoing?  (Beware riptides, jellyfish, sharks, & the “BLOB”) (18 Jul 09)

• Denialist attack on EPA handling of Carlin document– Part 3: Govt Accountability Project statement (14 Jul 09)

• Denialist attack on EPA handling of Carlin global warming contrarian document– Part 2: The e-mails (14 Jul 09)

• Denialist attack on EPA handling of Carlin global warming contrarian document– Pt 1: The document (14 Jul 09)

• Just out: “Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future” (12 Jul 09)

• Obama talks about climate impacts and adaptation at G-8—now should take the message to U.S. public (12 Jul 09)

• Climate change impacts in our backyards:  the Great Plains (02 Jul 09)

• House climate bill gives White House science office lead role in guiding climate research & services (01 Jul 09)

June

• Video of Al Franken interview with climate change whistleblower Rick Piltz, 2005 (30 Jun 09)

• Paul Krugman on “treason against the planet”—“the immorality of climate-change denial” (29 Jun 09)

• Climate change impacts in our backyards:  the Midwest (29 Jun 09)

• Remembering Jack Eddy, 1931-2009, R.I.P. (28 Jun 09)

• Funding for adaptation in the Waxman-Markey House-passed climate change cap and trade bill (26 Jun 09)

• Jim Hansen’s statements at Coal River Mountain protest against mountaintop removal (25 Jun 09)

• Climate change in our backyards:  the Southeast (25 Jun 09)

• Climate change in our backyards:  the Northeast (24 Jun 09)

• “Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States” – Report Overview (Part 1 of a series) (23 Jun 09)