2008

August

• 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)

• 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)