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Obama Administration
- US Climate Change Impact Report Shows Immediate Need for Action - White House must lead in preparing
- Like a bridge under troubled waters...DOT Sec. LaHood, will you ease our minds? An open letter
- When will Pres. Obama choose a new head for NASA, and will they make Earth Science a priority?
- White House science & budget offices must lead in revitalizing federal climate research
- EPA climate endangerment finding clears White House review
- White House OMB should not be allowed to undermine EPA Clean Air Act regulation of greenhouse gases
- Earth Hour on March 28 at 8:30 pm: Will the U.S. Government be Asleep at the Switch?
- John Holdren and Jane Lubchenco confirmed as OSTP Director and NOAA administrator
- On the Obama scientific integrity directive
- "Whistleblower's Revenge"
- National Call to Action on Global Warming reflects rising expectations under President Obama
- Clinton-Gore tech advisers Kalil and Kohlenberger to join White House science and technology office
- Climate change and sustainable energy in President Obama’s proposed FY 2010 budget
- Holdren and Lubchenco sail through Senate confirmation hearing with flying colors
- Questions for Jane Lubchenco Senate confirmation hearing to become NOAA Administrator
- Questions for John Holdren Senate confirmation hearing to head Office of Science & Technology Policy
- Energy Sec. Steven Chu: Viability of California cities and farms threatened by climate disruption
- Marburger's legacy: John Holdren must restore credibility to the White House science office
- Obama government openness pledge a challenge to change federal culture, reward truth-tellers
- Getting to know John Holdren, Part 2: A compendium of CSW posts 2006-2009
- Sen. Whitehouse to EPA nominee Lisa Jackson: “Get a good IG” and watch out for OMB “bullyboys"
- Our questions for EPA Administrator nominee Lisa Jackson at her Senate confirmation hearing
- Our questions for Energy Secretary nominee Steven Chu at his Senate confirmation hearing
- CDC director Julie Gerberding ousted by Obama administration effective January 20
- James and Anniek Hansen make a personal appeal to Barack and Michelle Obama
- When Obama says climate change is "a matter of urgency and of national security" he needs to say why
- Getting to know Dr. John Holdren, Part 1: Remarks in 1997 on global climatic disruption
- Under next director CDC must participate in climate science program with health impacts research
- Jane Lubchenco for NOAA Administrator
- Obama to appoint John Holdren as President’s Science Adviser? This would be a great choice.
- Ken Salazar for Interior Sec.: Weak on scientific integrity, endangered species, global warming?
- Obama “Protect Whistleblowers” view should aid bill passage, encourage reporting of wrongdoing
- We need a strong Obama appointee to head NOAA, a key agency on climate change
- Note to Obama economic team: New infrastructure must withstand climate disruption
- What will the Obama transition do about Centers for Disease Control director Julie Gerberding?
- Obama on climate change action: Delay no longer an option, denial no longer an acceptable response
- CA Gov. Schwarzenegger to hold global climate summit: How will it mesh with Obama's climate agenda?
- Obama: "I will never sanction any attempt to subvert the work of scientists."
- Expected Obama early actions to reverse Bush on EPA greenhouse gas rules a first step
- “One minute elevator speech” on climate policy to President-elect Obama
- President-elect Obama will need top climate and energy advice in the White House
- “Science and the Next President -- Addressing the Politicization of Science”
- Congratulations to President-Elect Obama
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Climate Change Preparedness
- Letter to Congress from 22 environmental groups in support of cap-and-trade bill, preparedness
- US Climate Change Impact Report Shows Immediate Need for Action - White House must lead in preparing
- Rising sea level, rising trouble for US East Coast projected -- 5 state governors form pact
- How can we manage climate change risks in the private sector if companies won't say what they are?
- It's now open season for hurricanes: How we can make our coasts more resilient?
- It's Hurricane Preparedness Week...Are we prepared?
- Congress takes step to create a National Climate Service - but beware of shackles and poison pills
- “The concept is so broad that it may not make sense to place a climate service inside NOAA."
- Comments on the adaptation provisions in the Waxman-Markey draft climate legislation
- National Academy of Sciences releases a must-read report: Informing Decisions in a Changing Climate
- CSW weighs in with NOAA advisory board on criteria for forming a National Climate Service
- Plans are underway to create a National Climate Service - But what does that mean, exactly?
- What does it mean for me? Excellent article on regional climate assessments in "Issues in S&T"
- House Natural Resources Committee charts course that includes preparedness for climate impacts
- Our views on Senate Environment Committee's "Principles for Global Warming Legislation"
- When Obama says climate change is "a matter of urgency and of national security" he needs to say why
- Combining energy and climate advice into one White House position is not a perfect solution
- Communities call for strong federal support from President Obama to tackle climate disruption
- Western water shortages: "Clearly, we're on a collision course between supply and demand."
- "The Climate Crisis and the Adaptation Myth" -- a must read for Obama's climate change advisors
- Note to Obama economic team: New infrastructure must withstand climate disruption
- Happy Buy Nothing Day!
- CA Gov. Schwarzenegger to hold global climate summit: How will it mesh with Obama's climate agenda?
- Climate disruption can't be avoided, will require adaptation, says new study published by NAS
- National Academy of Sciences issues advice to 44th President for filling key science posts
- New Orleans Mayor Nagin: Trailers could become “projectiles” – known BEFORE deployment
- Climate science advice to next administration is good start, broader focus needed for preparedness
- US Senators go to bat for the Center for Capacity Building at NCAR
- Abrupt termination of NSF-funded climate humanitarian program raises fundamental questions
- Report for state legislators describes costly damages in 8 states from global climatic disruption
- “Beyond the Phony ‘Debate’: Government Science and the Climate Crisis”
- ICLEI local action summit on climate and sustainability underscores federal government "no show"
- Unreleased aviation report projects more than doubling of CO2 emissions from 2000-2025
- Ross Gelbspan review of new book on capitalism and the environmental crisis by Gus Speth
- EPA releases draft strategy on response to climate change impacts on water resources
- CDC House hearing witness Frumkin submits CDC Director Gerberding’s previously censored testimony
- American Public Health Association and World Health Organization: Climate change threatens health
- House subcommittee hearing April 1 on FEMA toxic trailers and mistreatment of CDC whistleblower
- FEMA's toxic-trailer ineptitude in housing Katrina victims raises concern about climate preparedness
- "Homeland security will require readiness against climate change."
- National Climate Change Preparedness Initiative -- Initial prospectus for review and comment
- Stealth release of major federal study of Gulf Coast climate change transportation impacts
- Former IPCC chairman Robert Watson says world leaders "squandered" last 10 years on climate change
- Climate change, disinformation, and the failure of preparedness
- Water Utility Climate Alliance calls on federal climate research to aid with impacts preparedness
- For a National Climate Change Preparedness Initiative
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Assessments of Climate Impacts and Adaptation
The U.S. "National Assessment"; the impacts and adaptation chapter of the U.S. National Communication required by Article 12 of the U.N. Climate Convention; and other major assessments.
- Climate change impacts in our backyards: the Great Plains
- Climate change impacts in our backyards: the Midwest
- Climate change in our backyards: the Southeast
- Climate change in our backyards: the Northeast
- "Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States" – Report Overview (Part 1 of a series)
- President Obama should lead in talking about the consequences of inaction on climate change
- Video link and key quotes from White House briefing on Global Climate Change Impacts report
- US Climate Change Impact Report Shows Immediate Need for Action - White House must lead in preparing
- US government to release “Global Climate Change Impacts in the US” - Today at 1:30 pm
- The US National Assessment of climate change impacts is now available on DVD, free of charge
- White House Science Office finally clears two delayed climate science reports for release
- New abrupt climate change report says greater sea level rise and more arid U.S. Southwest likely
- US Climate Change Science Program posts final draft report warning of rising seas, damaged coasts
- Federal climate science program ill-equipped to measure impacts: Better focus, more support needed
- Regional CO2 cap-and-trade program (RGGI) is launched: how will auction revenues be spent?
- Center for Capacity Building is resurrected by Rockefeller Foundation to create new Consortium
- Flawed communications in U.S. Climate Change Science Program
- Bush administration has run out the clock on climate change assessment and action
- Government report provides strong evidence U.S. endangered by climate change impacts
- New climate report counters Bush administration record of denial, disinformation, cover-up and delay
- CDC House hearing witness Frumkin submits CDC Director Gerberding’s previously censored testimony
- American Public Health Association and World Health Organization: Climate change threatens health
- GAP press release on stealth release of climate change transportation impacts report
- Stealth release of major federal study of Gulf Coast climate change transportation impacts
- US State Dept. request for comments on the future of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- R.I.P Bert Bolin
- Non-native jellyfish wipe out salmon fishery in Northern Ireland – another warning sign?
- Webcast and Written Testimony from Senate Hearing on U.S. Global Change Research Program
- IPCC meets on 2007 Synthesis Report amidst concerns about climate change and political pressure
- Chris Mooney on the National Assessment scandal in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Former Director of Climate Program Office: "Administration should be held to a higher standard"
- Bush-Cheney Administration spins a sound legal defeat into an affirmation of their illegal actions
- Inslee, Kerry Applaud Decision Forcing Administration to Comply with Climate Change Law
- Court Rules that Bush Admin. Unlawfully failed to produce Scientific Assessment of Global Change
- House of Representatives Passes the Global Change Research and Data Management Act of 2007
- Energy Bill Passed by House Has Many Provisions on Climate Change Impacts, Assessment, Adaptation
- IPCC 2007 final report on climate change impacts now available online
- Bush Administration submits evasive Climate Action Report to the UN
- Federal court ruling pending in lawsuit to compel new National Climate Change Assessment
- Union of Concerned Scientists Northeast climate change report does the government's job
- IPCC North America climate change impacts chapter shows evasiveness of U.S. Climate Action Report
- "Impacts and Adaptation" chapter of U.S. Climate Action Report 2007 is an evasive failure
- Public review of administration's Fourth U.S. Climate Action Report until May 18
- UPDATE on IPCC Working Group II Climate Change Impacts Assessment Report
- The IPCC scientists "Final Draft" on climate change impacts before government editing negotiations
- New IPCC report identifies observed and future impacts of global climate change
- NY Times reports on leaked IPCC assessment of climate change impacts
- Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to hold March 1 hearing on global warming
- Polar bear decision "a rare case of science actually triumphing over politics"
- Interior Secretary misrepresented agency report deeming polar bears threatened
- Polar Bears, Pt 2: "Habitat loss and inadequate regulatory mechanisms to address sea ice recession"
- Interior Dept. proposal to list polar bear as threatened due to loss of sea ice
- 24 House members call for new National Climate Impacts Assessment
- Four noteworthy articles on climate change in the Washington Post
- Michael MacCracken's 2002 letter to the ExxonMobil board of directors
- Press coverage and comment on the National Assessment lawsuit
- Sen. Kerry statement in support of lawsuit on National Assessment of Climate Change Impacts
- Conservation groups file suit against Bush administration to compel second National Assessment
- A look at EPA's new climate change Web site, unveiled after 4 years of suppression
- The "Vanishing" National Climate Change Assessment, Part 1: The Administration
- The unfinished business of the National Climate Change Assessment scandal
- Where is the U.S. Climate Action Report required under the climate treaty?
- Sen. Kerry calls for new National Climate Change Assessment
- Toward a Second U.S. National Climate Change Assessment
- Censorship and Secrecy: Politicizing the Climate Change Science Program
- On Issues of Concern About the Governance and Direction of the Climate Change Science Program
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U.S. Global Change Research Program
The public interest calls for knowledgeable, independent investigation of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, through which federal agencies coordinate $1.7 billion in annual support for research on climate and global change.
- House climate bill gives White House science office lead role in guiding climate research & services
- MIT modeling study doubles earlier projected warming, poses challenge for impacts research
- White House science & budget offices must lead in revitalizing federal climate research
- Public comment period closing for US gov't report on climate change impacts in the US
- Economic stimulus bill update: Funding for climate science at NASA and NOAA is retained
- Questions for John Holdren Senate confirmation hearing to head Office of Science & Technology Policy
- Economic stimulus bill climate change science provisions for NASA and NOAA
- Greenwire: “CLIMATE: In its final days, Bush admin released long-awaited studies”
- A grand finale (?) for climate program under Bush: Last 5 of 21 reports approved at 11th hour
- Replace Michael Griffin with a reality-based NASA leader who puts Earth Science first
- The US National Assessment of climate change impacts is now available on DVD, free of charge
- New and much improved "Unified Synthesis Report" is open for a second round of public comment
- White House Science Office finally clears two delayed climate science reports for release
- Letter to White House Science Office on delays in releasing climate science reports
- New abrupt climate change report says greater sea level rise and more arid U.S. Southwest likely
- Under next director CDC must participate in climate science program with health impacts research
- US Climate Change Science Program posts final draft report warning of rising seas, damaged coasts
- Report on ATSDR health warning failure on FEMA trailers and whistleblower retaliation
- Federal climate science program ill-equipped to measure impacts: Better focus, more support needed
- Notes on Conrad Lautenbacher’s troubled legacy on science and politics at NOAA (Part 2)
- NOAA head Lautenbacher resigns, leaving troubled legacy on science and politics (Part 1)
- Hurricanes and climate change: From the IPCC and recent US Climate Change Science Program reports
- Draft synthesis report on US climate impacts from lame duck Bush administration raises questions
- EPA report on climate change health & welfare impacts: Interview comments on Free Speech Radio News
- Media coverage of EPA release of climate change health effects assessment
- EPA releases report identifying harmful effects of climate change on human health
- Flawed communications in U.S. Climate Change Science Program
- New climate report counters Bush administration record of denial, disinformation, cover-up and delay
- Questions for Climate Change Science Program Director William J. Brennan nomination hearing
- Comments on draft federal "Coastal Elevations and Sensitivity to Sea Level Rise" report
- GAP press release on stealth release of climate change transportation impacts report
- Stealth release of major federal study of Gulf Coast climate change transportation impacts
- Water Utility Climate Alliance calls on federal climate research to aid with impacts preparedness
- Review of the Summary of Revised Research Plan for the US Climate Change Science Program
- President’s FY 2009 climate science budget proposal remains below the 2001 level
- For a National Climate Change Preparedness Initiative
- A strategy session on the future of the US Global Change Research Program
- CCSP Synthesis Reports are years behind schedule as program scrambles to meet court deadline
- "The US Global Change Research Program – What do we want from the next administration?"
- Climate Change Science Program acting director William Brennan to face Senate confirmation hearing
- Call for public comments on revised U.S. climate science research plan
- CSW director: White House under Clinton-Gore "was not at war with the mainstream science community"
- Climate Change Science Program assessment failures aired at Senate Commerce oversight hearing
- Webcast and Written Testimony from Senate Hearing on U.S. Global Change Research Program
- Senate hearing on federal climate research program will hear from OSTP director Marburger
- Kerry-Snowe global change research bill focuses on climate impacts assessment and communication
- Eileen Claussen: "The first thing the CCSP needs is strong and independent leadership"
- U.S. Climate Change Science Program has been undermined by budget cutbacks
- Examining the U.S. climate change budget -- Part 1
- Former Director of Climate Program Office: "Administration should be held to a higher standard"
- Bush-Cheney Administration spins a sound legal defeat into an affirmation of their illegal actions
- Inslee, Kerry Applaud Decision Forcing Administration to Comply with Climate Change Law
- Court Rules that Bush Admin. Unlawfully failed to produce Scientific Assessment of Global Change
- House of Representatives Passes the Global Change Research and Data Management Act of 2007
- Energy Bill Passed by House Has Many Provisions on Climate Change Impacts, Assessment, Adaptation
- House appropriations for NASA and NOAA would begin to reverse damage to climate observing system
- Federal court ruling pending in lawsuit to compel new National Climate Change Assessment
- What is a climate disinformation activist and former Cheney speechwriter doing as #2 at DOE Science?
- OSTP Director Marburger's misleading testimony on NPOESS space-based climate observations
- Letter to the House Science and Technology Committee on global change research legislation
- Senate appropriators share our distrust of NOAA and the White House on essential climate satellites
- Key points in NASA-NOAA report to White House science office on NPOESS de-scoping
- Internal report to White House on implications of NPOESS climate observations crisis
- Hansen shoots back on NASA head Griffin's "incredibly ignorant and arrogant statement"
- NASA Administrator Griffin "not sure" global warming is a problem or long-term concern
- 24 House members call for new National Climate Impacts Assessment
- Concerns raised about NOAA deputy administrator nominee stall confirmation process
- Upcoming confirmation vote a threat to the integrity of the Climate Change Science Program
- Michael MacCracken's 2002 letter to the ExxonMobil board of directors
- Press coverage and comment on the National Assessment lawsuit
- Sen. Kerry statement in support of lawsuit on National Assessment of Climate Change Impacts
- Conservation groups file suit against Bush administration to compel second National Assessment
- The "Vanishing" National Climate Change Assessment, Part 1: The Administration
- The unfinished business of the National Climate Change Assessment scandal
- Why the administration buried a NOAA scientists' statement on hurricanes and climate
- Questions about White House nominee to replace Jim Mahoney at NOAA
- Where is the U.S. Climate Action Report required under the climate treaty?
- Sen. Kerry calls for new National Climate Change Assessment
- House Government Reform Committee calls for White House CEQ climate change documents
- Changing the mission: NASA Climate Change Science Program budget has been cut by 22% since 2004
- Calling Orwell: Understanding and protecting planet Earth disappears from NASA mission statement
- The State Department's disappearing Climate Change web page
- Hurricanes and global warming: A credibility challenge for the Climate Change Science Program
- New research linking human-induced global warming to enhanced hurricane activity
- EPA's global warming communication problem - 2. Censored websites
- Questions about the new Acting Director of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program
- NOAA's misleading internal Congressional briefing points on hurricanes and global warming
- Two new studies link increased hurricane intensity to global warming
- NOAA predicts 4-6 major Atlantic hurricanes in 2006
- NPOESS weather and climate satellite crisis: Should heads roll at NOAA?
- Open U.S. Review of IPCC draft report is a good thing -- Part 2: Press coverage
- Open U.S. review of IPCC draft report is a good thing, despite criticism -- Part 1
- IPCC Draft Climate Change Assessment Report Posted for Government and Expert Review
- Washington Post reports "Climate Researchers Feeling Heat From White House"
- Temperature Trends Report Resolves Discrepancy Between Surface and Tropospheric Warming
- Senators call for National Academy auditing of government reports on climate change
- White House CEQ Chief of Staff resignation continues federal climate program leadership exodus
- Boulder Daily Camera reports on Sen. Inhofe's NCAR/UCAR inquisition
- Greenwire report: Sen. Inhofe inquiry into research group funding sparks scientists' concerns
- Senator Inhofe Launches Inquisition Probing Climate Research Organization
- Toward a Second U.S. National Climate Change Assessment
- How the White House Edits Out Global Warming
- CSW's Rick Piltz Interviewed by Government Accountability Project's Louis Clark
- Radio Open Source: Politics of Climate Change
- "Political Science" from PBS Now
- What's Up With the Weather? The Politics of Climate Change
- The Anonymous Source - an Endangered Species?
- Al Franken interviews CSW's Rick Piltz
- Blowing the Whistle on Climate Change
- Low-Ball-Warming: Chris Mooney on the Resignation of Rick Piltz
- Senators join Climate Science Watch whistleblower
- More on the White House's Editing of Climate Science Reports
- Brad Friedman Inverviews Rick Piltz
- Bush Administration Censor Resigns, Moves to ExxonMobil
- Censorship and Secrecy: Politicizing the Climate Change Science Program
- Bush Aide Edited Climate Reports: Ex-Oil Lobbyist Softened Greenhouse Gas Links (NY Times)
- On Issues of Concern About the Governance and Direction of the Climate Change Science Program
- GAO report: U.S. Climate Change Science Program not Producing Required Climate Assessments
- Resignation of Rick Piltz from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program
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Censorship of Government Scientists
The ability of our society and public officials to make good decisions about climate change depends on uncensored and unimpeded communication about the findings of scientific research and scientifically based assessments of key issues.
- “The Denial Machine” – Index on Censorship reviews the Bush record on climate science
- Whistleblower TV now available online
- Progress Report lists “The 43 Who Helped Make Bush the Worst Ever”
- Broken Government assessment of Bush administration failures includes climate change communication
- What will the Obama transition do about Centers for Disease Control director Julie Gerberding?
- New study of media policies finds some federal agencies stifle scientists' contact with reporters
- New GAP whistleblower series debuts on Free Speech TV with panel on scientific integrity
- Notes on Conrad Lautenbacher’s troubled legacy on science and politics at NOAA (Part 2)
- As Hurricane Ike careens toward Texas, we are reminded of a warning the White House silenced
- Jason Burnett confirms that Cheney’s office and CEQ censored CDC director Gerberding’s testimony
- Dr. James Hansen calls for fossil industry disinformants to be tried for "high crimes"
- "A Climate Hero: An Outspoken Truth"
- NASA internal investigation of climate science political interference let higher-ups off the hook
- Have things changed? What reforms are needed? Remarks at Whistleblower Week in Washington
- Union of Concerned Scientists study: Hundreds of EPA scientists report political interference
- GAP press release on stealth release of climate change transportation impacts report
- Stealth release of major federal study of Gulf Coast climate change transportation impacts
- AAAS honors climate scientists James Hansen and Robert Watson
- “Scientific Freedom and the Public Good” – Statement to the next president
- New Harper government policy muzzles communication by Environment Canada government scientists
- CBS News to re-air "Rewriting the Science" and other 60 Minutes climate change stories on Jan. 20
- Coming Dec. 27: "Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen"
- House Oversight approves report on political interference with climate science communication
- House Oversight Committee report contradicts NOAA Administrator Lautenbacher's testimony
- House Oversight report on administration political interference with climate change science
- Webcast and Written Testimony from Senate Hearing on U.S. Global Change Research Program
- Legal deadline today for White House to issue federal science communication principles
- CSW director ABC News Now interview on CDC climate testimony censorship
- Censored Testimony from Centers for Disease Control: Update
- Climate Science Watch in the News on Controversy over CDC Congressional Testimony
- The censored testimony of CDC Director Julie Gerberding
- White House 'eviscerated' Centers for Disease Control testimony on climate change health impacts
- Science editor Kennedy: Science community recognizes Administration puts politics before science
- House committee hearing July 31 on Administration politicization of Endangered Species Act science
- Former Surgeon General says Bush political appointees censored science communication
- NOAA bureaucrats attempt to muzzle National Hurricane Center director
- GAO report questions policies on dissemination of federal scientists' research
- Smithsonian officials altered Arctic climate change exhibit to cut link with human-induced warming
- C-Span webcast of Whistleblower Week panel on "Scientific Integrity and Individual Conscience"
- Environmental Science & Technology: Top 10 environmental policies of the Bush administration
- Wolfowitz deputy's efforts to undercut climate change text in World Bank strategy paper
- GAP and UCS call on Commerce Dept. to suspend new restrictive media policy
- Bush administration is #1 on 2007 annual list of Jefferson Muzzle "winners"
- House Science Committee takes a step toward protecting honest climate science communication
- GAP issues in-depth report on political interference at climate science research agencies
- ABCnews.com: "Exclusive: Report Charges Broad White House Efforts to Stifle Climate Research"
- House Science Committee chairs question 11 federal agencies about science media openness policies
- GAP letter to the NOAA Administrator on criteria for media policy reform
- House Oversight Committee to hold second hearing on political interference with climate science
- Panel at National Press Club agrees the public's right to know is frequently compromised
- Open the Government, Sunshine Week 2007: "Closed Doors; Open Democracies?"
- Closed Doors; Open Democracies? A national dialogue on government openness
- Major First Amendment groups condemn government censorship of science about global warming
- Investigation Documents Political Interference with Climate Science Communication
- 10,600 scientists have signed statement condemning Administration political interference in science
- "Bush administration censorship key issue in next Congress"
- "Undermining Science: Suppression and Distortion in the Bush Administration" published
- Sen. Kerry statement in support of lawsuit on National Assessment of Climate Change Impacts
- "Science Fiction" -- PBS "America's Investigative Reports" program on science reporter Paul Thacker
- NASA and Commerce Dept. Inspectors General investigating climate science censorship
- National Coalition Against Censorship free speech defender honor for Climate Science Watch
- Global warming civil disobedience protest at NOAA headquarters
- House Science Committee ranking member seeks answers on Commerce Dept. cover-up of hurricane report
- Why the administration buried a NOAA scientists' statement on hurricanes and climate
- 60 Minutes "Rewriting the Science" global warming story re-airs this Sunday, July 30
- Hurricanes and global warming: A credibility challenge for the Climate Change Science Program
- EPA's global warming communication problem - 2. Censored websites
- EPA's global warming communication problem - 1. Censored expertise
- Lieberman calls on White House and NOAA to address climate science censorship allegations
- NASA acknowledges case of censoring Jim Hansen communication
- BBC Panorama: Has the Bush administration covered up the findings of global warming scientists?
- NOAA censors speech by science experts on endangered salmon
- Rep. David Wu requests GAO investigation of science manipulation and censorship
- House Science Committee Chair Calls for Reform of NOAA Public Affairs Policy
- Thomas Jefferson Center gives 2006 "Muzzle" award to Rep. Joe Barton
- Washington Post reports "Climate Researchers Feeling Heat From White House"
- Government Accountability Project memo to climate scientists on new NASA media policy
- ABC News: Was Confusion Over Global Warming a Con Job?
- Senators call for National Academy auditing of government reports on climate change
- Providence Journal: "NOAA hiding truth about hurricanes, scientists say"
- CBS News "60 Minutes" airs global warming story on "Re-Writing the Science"
- 285 NASA scientists and engineers sign statement of support for Jim Hansen and open public dialogue
- Former NOAA Lab Director: "Climate scientists within NOAA have been prevented from speaking freely"
- Senate committee lets Adm. Lautenbacher off the hook on NOAA media restrictions
- American Meteorological Society statement on freedom of scientific expression
- Sen. Mikulski's letter requesting GAO report on openness in federal science communication
- EPA continues to screen all interviews with scientists
- Jim Hansen: NOAA "by fiat" put out "biased information" on hurricanes
- The NOAA Media Policy: Political pre-approval for public communication by scientists
- Censorship of Federal Climate Scientists: The Critical Case of Jim Hansen
- BBC Radio-4: "Science Blacklist"
- How the White House Edits Out Global Warming
- Radio Open Source: Politics of Climate Change
- "Political Science" from PBS Now
- What's Up With the Weather? The Politics of Climate Change
- The Anonymous Source - an Endangered Species?
- Al Franken interviews CSW's Rick Piltz
- Blowing the Whistle on Climate Change
- Low-Ball-Warming: Chris Mooney on the Resignation of Rick Piltz
- Senators join Climate Science Watch whistleblower
- More on the White House's Editing of Climate Science Reports
- Brad Friedman Inverviews Rick Piltz
- Bush Administration Censor Resigns, Moves to ExxonMobil
- White House Responds to New York Times Exposé
- Censorship and Secrecy: Politicizing the Climate Change Science Program
- Bush Aide Edited Climate Reports: Ex-Oil Lobbyist Softened Greenhouse Gas Links (NY Times)
- On Issues of Concern About the Governance and Direction of the Climate Change Science Program
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Congress: Legislation and Oversight
- House climate bill gives White House science office lead role in guiding climate research & services
- Paul Krugman on “treason against the planet”-- “the immorality of climate-change denial”
- Funding for adaptation in the Waxman-Markey House-passed climate change cap and trade bill
- Letter to Congress from 22 environmental groups in support of cap-and-trade bill, preparedness
- Open Letter to the President and Members of Congress from 20 leading scientists and scholars
- House appropriates increased funding for climate research
- What does Rep. Broun of Georgia have against a National Climate Service?
- President Obama should lead in talking about the consequences of inaction on climate change
- House Science Cmte approves National Climate Service provisions for inclusion in Waxman-Markey bill
- Climate adaptation policy remains underdeveloped as cap-and-trade dominates the legislative debate
- Some reassurance on White House regulatory czar-nominee Cass Sunstein
- Congress takes step to create a National Climate Service - but beware of shackles and poison pills
- New climate working groups in Senate Environment Committee must address preparedness, adaptation
- Provisions in the Waxman-Markey draft bill get us closer to ensuring climate policy is science-based
- Comments on the adaptation provisions in the Waxman-Markey draft climate legislation
- A summary of the adaptation provisions in the Waxman-Markey draft climate legislation
- Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, global warming denialist du jour on Capitol Hill
- Clinton-Gore tech advisers Kalil and Kohlenberger to join White House science and technology office
- Update on the Senate hold on confirming Holdren and Lubchenco
- Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) delays confirmation of John Holdren and Jane Lubchenco
- House Natural Resources Committee charts course that includes preparedness for climate impacts
- Our views on Senate Environment Committee's "Principles for Global Warming Legislation"
- Sen. Whitehouse to EPA nominee Lisa Jackson: “Get a good IG” and watch out for OMB “bullyboys"
- Henry Waxman, champion of science integrity on climate, to chair House Energy & Commerce Committee
- Rep. Kucinich Bush impeachment Article XXXII: Climate change science and policy
- Questions for Climate Change Science Program Director William J. Brennan nomination hearing
- CDC House hearing witness Frumkin submits CDC Director Gerberding’s previously censored testimony
- House Select Committee to examine aviation's impact on global warming
- House subcommittee hearing April 1 on FEMA toxic trailers and mistreatment of CDC whistleblower
- House Science Committee chairman questions White House delay on federal science integrity principles
- Why hasn't White House science director issued required science communication integrity principles?
- House global warming committee hearing on administration's delayed decision on polar bear protection
- Climate Change Science Program acting director William Brennan to face Senate confirmation hearing
- House-Senate conferees should report strong Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act bill
- As California sues EPA on CO2 regulation, inside sources could help set the record straight
- EPA decision controlled by White House CEQ in denial of California CO2 rules?
- House Oversight approves report on political interference with climate science communication
- House Oversight Committee report contradicts NOAA Administrator Lautenbacher's testimony
- CSW director: White House under Clinton-Gore "was not at war with the mainstream science community"
- House Oversight report on administration political interference with climate change science
- Climate Change Science Program assessment failures aired at Senate Commerce oversight hearing
- Webcast and Written Testimony from Senate Hearing on U.S. Global Change Research Program
- Senate hearing on federal climate research program will hear from OSTP director Marburger
- Kerry-Snowe global change research bill focuses on climate impacts assessment and communication
- Legal deadline today for White House to issue federal science communication principles
- Senate subcommittee approves cap-and-trade bill – New climate assessment and adaptation provisions
- Screw-up at House Judiciary Committee sends whistleblower e-mail addresses to Cheney
- CSW director ABC News Now interview on CDC climate testimony censorship
- Censored Testimony from Centers for Disease Control: Update
- The censored testimony of CDC Director Julie Gerberding
- White House 'eviscerated' Centers for Disease Control testimony on climate change health impacts
- Upcoming House hearing to examine National Security Implications of Climate Change
- Inslee, Kerry Applaud Decision Forcing Administration to Comply with Climate Change Law
- Court Rules that Bush Admin. Unlawfully failed to produce Scientific Assessment of Global Change
- Congressman Markey Queries Federal Aviation Administrator on Failure to Consider Climate Change
- House of Representatives Passes the Global Change Research and Data Management Act of 2007
- Energy Bill Passed by House Has Many Provisions on Climate Change Impacts, Assessment, Adaptation
- House Science Chairmen suggest NOAA is railroading Hurricane Center Director Bill Proenza
- House appropriations for NASA and NOAA would begin to reverse damage to climate observing system
- House committee hearing July 31 on Administration politicization of Endangered Species Act science
- Former Surgeon General says Bush political appointees censored science communication
- House Oversight deadline for White House to release climate change documents
- OSTP Director Marburger's misleading testimony on NPOESS space-based climate observations
- Letter to the House Science and Technology Committee on global change research legislation
- Senate appropriators share our distrust of NOAA and the White House on essential climate satellites
- GAO report questions policies on dissemination of federal scientists' research
- Senate committee advances whistleblower protection bill but leaves out protection for scientists
- Congressional investigation into science editing of Smithsonian Arctic climate exhibit
- House Science investigations chairman calls on Exxon to account for global warming denial funding
- 15 House Committee Chairmen urge Bush to stop efforts to weaken G-8 climate change declaration
- House Science Committee takes a step toward protecting honest climate science communication
- House Science Committee hearing March 28 on media strategies to distort climate science
- House Oversight Committee hearing March 19 will be broadcast live on C-SPAN TV and radio
- House Science Committee chairs question 11 federal agencies about science media openness policies
- House approves landmark whistleblower legislation with protection for scientific freedom
- GAP press release: Monday House Hearing to Feature Cooney, Hansen, Deutsch
- Cooney, Hansen, and Connaughton testify before House Oversight Committee
- House Oversight Committee to hold second hearing on political interference with climate science
- House Committee Unanimously Approves Whistleblower Protections
- Senate Commerce climate science hearing follow-up: News reports
- Senate Commerce Feb. 7 climate science hearing follow-up: Witness testimony and archived Webcast
- House Oversight hearing follow-up: More news and editorial coverage
- House Oversight Jan. 30 hearing follow-up: News coverage
- House Oversight Jan. 30 hearing follow-up: Witness testimony and archived Webcast
- Rick Piltz testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee
- Senate Commerce Committee hearing Feb. 7 on "Climate Change Research and Scientific Integrity"
- Gore to testify on Climate Change
- House Science Committee to hold IPCC hearing
- Climate Science Watch testimony at House Oversight Hearing
- Investigation Documents Political Interference with Climate Science Communication
- CSW Director Rick Piltz will testify at House Oversight Committee hearing January 30
- Senate Commerce Committee to hold hearing on Climate Change Research and Scientific Integrity
- New House Science Oversight Subcommittee
- House Oversight Hearing Will Question Political Influence on Government Climate Scientists
- House Oversight and Reform Committee may question individuals under oath during investigations
- Congress: Ask Condi Rice, Why has the U.S. Climate Action Report been held up for more than a year?
- Harvard Prof. Daniel Schrag on Senator Inhofe's "gathering of liars and charlatans"
- 24 House members call for new National Climate Impacts Assessment
- "Send in the Subpoenas"
- "Bush administration censorship key issue in next Congress"
- Sen. Kerry statement in support of lawsuit on National Assessment of Climate Change Impacts
- NASA and Commerce Dept. Inspectors General investigating climate science censorship
- Senators Snowe and Rockefeller to ExxonMobil: Stop funding denialists
- House Science Committee ranking member seeks answers on Commerce Dept. cover-up of hurricane report
- The White House is stonewalling the House Government Reform Committee on climate documents
- Sen. Kerry calls for new National Climate Change Assessment
- House Government Reform Committee calls for White House CEQ climate change documents
- Lieberman calls on White House and NOAA to address climate science censorship allegations
- NASA acknowledges case of censoring Jim Hansen communication
- NOAA's misleading internal Congressional briefing points on hurricanes and global warming
- Rep. David Wu requests GAO investigation of science manipulation and censorship
- House Science Committee Chair Calls for Reform of NOAA Public Affairs Policy
- Thomas Jefferson Center gives 2006 "Muzzle" award to Rep. Joe Barton
- Senators call for National Academy auditing of government reports on climate change
- Boulder Daily Camera reports on Sen. Inhofe's NCAR/UCAR inquisition
- Greenwire report: Sen. Inhofe inquiry into research group funding sparks scientists' concerns
- Senator Inhofe Launches Inquisition Probing Climate Research Organization
- Senate committee lets Adm. Lautenbacher off the hook on NOAA media restrictions
- Sen. Mikulski's letter requesting GAO report on openness in federal science communication
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Science-Policy Interaction
Successfully confronting the challenge of climate change will require a more functional relationship between scientists and policymakers, with greater accountability and integrity in the translation of research into effective response strategies.
- Jim Hansen’s statements at Coal River Mountain protest against mountaintop removal
- Open Letter to the President and Members of Congress from 20 leading scientists and scholars
- Dr. James Hansen agrees to debate a major coal mining company CEO in West Virginia
- Michael MacCracken’s review of Roger Pielke, Sr.’s May 14 climate talk to the Marshall Institute
- John Marburger’s Bromley Lecture: Illumination or whitewash?
- EPA climate endangerment finding clears White House review
- What do we need from the National Academy of Sciences "America's Climate Choices" study?
- New Climate Law Institute to launch multipronged legal attack on causes of climate change
- Marburger's legacy: John Holdren must restore credibility to the White House science office
- James and Anniek Hansen make a personal appeal to Barack and Michelle Obama
- Jane Lubchenco for NOAA Administrator
- Obama to appoint John Holdren as President’s Science Adviser? This would be a great choice.
- First step for Obama in building integrity at EPA on climate change: Out with Administrator Johnson
- NASA's James Hansen, et al, on what's needed to avoid a total ice-melt on Earth
- President-elect Obama will need top climate and energy advice in the White House
- McCain and Palin scored political points by misrepresenting science project funding
- Jim Hansen on “Obstruction of Justice”
- In V-P debate, ask Biden and Palin for science and policy views on human-driven global warming
- Alaska Gov. Palin appears to deny global warming is due to human activity
- Did Gov. Palin misrepresent views of Alaska scientists on threat to polar bear?
- Gov. Sarah Palin on polar bears, climate change, and drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
- EPA union officials: Stephen Johnson subverted staff on global warming sound science and policy
- Canadian government mimics US “quiet release” method for major climate and health report
- EPA report on climate change health & welfare impacts: Interview comments on Free Speech Radio News
- Media coverage of EPA release of climate change health effects assessment
- EPA releases report identifying harmful effects of climate change on human health
- Jason Burnett confirms that Cheney’s office and CEQ censored CDC director Gerberding’s testimony
- Dr. James Hansen calls for fossil industry disinformants to be tried for "high crimes"
- "Rejuvenating Public Sector Science" – CSPI’s Fourth National Integrity in Science Conference
- Richard Somerville: Include climate change ethics and equity issues in science research agenda
- Bush administration has run out the clock on climate change assessment and action
- Government report provides strong evidence U.S. endangered by climate change impacts
- 4th National Integrity in Science Conference on Rejuvenating Public Sector Science - July 11, 2008
- Administration refusal to protect polar bear from greenhouse emissions "won’t hold up in court"
- How will the Interior Dept implement protection of polar bear as a threatened species?
- Use law on environmental impact statements to assess global warming implications of federal actions
- Judge orders Bush administration to stop delaying polar bear protection
- Interior Dept. announces further delay of months in decision on listing of polar bear as threatened
- Bush climate speech aligns with disinformation campaign on stonewalling courts and environmental law
- Will Bush acknowledge the harmful impacts of global climate disruption?
- House Select Committee to examine aviation's impact on global warming
- Waxman to EPA: Why is work on required greenhouse gas regulation being blocked?
- Nature editorial on EPA administrator's "reckless disregard" for law and science on climate change
- EPA unions charge Administrator Johnson violates agency's Principles of Scientific Integrity
- Former IPCC chairman Robert Watson says world leaders "squandered" last 10 years on climate change
- Sen. McCain's mockery of a significant federal scientific grizzly bear study
- Environmental groups sue Bush administration to force polar bear protection
- Water Utility Climate Alliance calls on federal climate research to aid with impacts preparedness
- John Holdren: US public opinion is near a tipping point on climate change despite deniers' strategy
- Harvard Prof. John Holdren on "Global Climate Disruption: What do we know, what should we do?""
- AAAS honors climate scientists James Hansen and Robert Watson
- An eminent climate scientist working to hold government officials accountable
- US State Dept. request for comments on the future of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Presidential Climate Action Project "State of the Climate" statement calls for federal action
- For a National Climate Change Preparedness Initiative
- Fish and Wildlife Service suspicious delay of decision on polar bear threatened status
- As California sues EPA on CO2 regulation, inside sources could help set the record straight
- EPA decision controlled by White House CEQ in denial of California CO2 rules?
- James Hansen letter to UK Prime Minister Brown: "We must solve the coal problem now."
- A climate scientist in the "reality-based community" finds science advisor Marburger talk "scary"
- CSW director: White House under Clinton-Gore "was not at war with the mainstream science community"
- IPCC Chairman Pachauri and Al Gore Nobel lectures: Climate change and government accountability
- 2007 Bali Climate Declaration by Scientists
- States and enviro groups petition EPA to regulate aviation greenhouse emissions
- Presidential Climate Action Project proposes 300-point climate action agenda for the next President
- Marburger vs. Connaughton rhetoric on need for “urgent” action on climate change
- Webcast and Written Testimony from Senate Hearing on U.S. Global Change Research Program
- Senate subcommittee approves cap-and-trade bill – New climate assessment and adaptation provisions
- Eileen Claussen: "The first thing the CCSP needs is strong and independent leadership"
- Two questions on the IPCC and Al Gore being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
- Washington Post feeds global warming disinformation campaign with Bjorn Lomborg feature
- Give the Nobel Peace Prize to the IPCC
- Environmental groups petition EPA for rulemaking to limit greenhouse gas emissions from ships
- Hillary Clinton addresses Climate Science Watch issues on integrity of science communication
- Examining the U.S. climate change budget -- Part 1
- The Iraq war and climate change mitigation: National security and cost of action
- When it comes to climate change, should we leave the FAA on auto-pilot?
- White House science director Marburger says Earth may become "unlivable" without CO2 emissions cut
- Inslee, Kerry Applaud Decision Forcing Administration to Comply with Climate Change Law
- Congressman Markey Queries Federal Aviation Administrator on Failure to Consider Climate Change
- "In These Times" says U.S. Puts Concerns about Aviation’s Climate Impacts "On Stand-by"
- House of Representatives Passes the Global Change Research and Data Management Act of 2007
- Energy Bill Passed by House Has Many Provisions on Climate Change Impacts, Assessment, Adaptation
- Science editor Kennedy: Science community recognizes Administration puts politics before science
- Bush Administration submits evasive Climate Action Report to the UN
- Washington Post coverage of aviation and global warming should look at federal NextGen program
- Climate Science Watch report: Federal NextGen aviation planning is ignoring global warming
- Exxon disavows global warming denial, endorses emissions cap and trade
- Griffin's NASA vision: Colonize outer space with American cultural values
- Hansen shoots back on NASA head Griffin's "incredibly ignorant and arrogant statement"
- NASA Administrator Griffin "not sure" global warming is a problem or long-term concern
- Rachel Carson, the Bush administration, and "the ant wars all over again"
- Critical public review comments on the administration's Fourth Climate Action Report
- 15 House Committee Chairmen urge Bush to stop efforts to weaken G-8 climate change declaration
- Comment deadline on U.S. Fourth Climate Action Report extended until June 1
- National academies of science call on G8 to address global climate change now
- IPCC North America climate change impacts chapter shows evasiveness of U.S. Climate Action Report
- "Impacts and Adaptation" chapter of U.S. Climate Action Report 2007 is an evasive failure
- Public review of administration's Fourth U.S. Climate Action Report until May 18
- PBS FRONTLINE "Hot Politics" of global warming on April 24
- UPDATE on IPCC Working Group II Climate Change Impacts Assessment Report
- The Supreme Court, global warming, clean energy, and "Everything's Cool"
- The IPCC scientists "Final Draft" on climate change impacts before government editing negotiations
- New IPCC report identifies observed and future impacts of global climate change
- Supreme Court rules Clean Air Act gives EPA authority to regulate greenhouse gases
- More on the Administration's long-withheld U.S. Climate Action Report
- Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to hold March 1 hearing on global warming
- "An Inconvenient Truth" -- Best Documentary Feature
- Vice President's global warming views at odds with majority of climate scientists
- AAAS Board Statement: Climate change caused by human activities is a growing threat
- AAAS President John Holdren urges action on climate change, energy system, and sustainability
- House Science Committee to hold IPCC hearing
- Interview with BBC: Keeping the Administration honest on the IPCC report conclusions
- Reporters: Will senior administration officials embrace the IPCC report's key conclusions?
- Polar bear decision "a rare case of science actually triumphing over politics"
- Interior Secretary misrepresented agency report deeming polar bears threatened
- Congress: Ask Condi Rice, Why has the U.S. Climate Action Report been held up for more than a year?
- Polar Bears, Pt 2: "Habitat loss and inadequate regulatory mechanisms to address sea ice recession"
- Interior Dept. proposal to list polar bear as threatened due to loss of sea ice
- ExxonMobil CEO says global warming poses significant potential risks, emissions reductions needed
- Documents in Supreme Court case on greenhouse emissions regulation
- "California's Changing Climate: The Politics of Climate Change"
- Four noteworthy articles on climate change in the Washington Post
- IPCC Chair Pachauri on the forthcoming Fourth Assessment Report
- Press coverage and comment on the National Assessment lawsuit
- Sen. Kerry statement in support of lawsuit on National Assessment of Climate Change Impacts
- Conservation groups file suit against Bush administration to compel second National Assessment
- State Dept. petitioned to issue missing and overdue Climate Action Report required by climate treaty
- A look at EPA's new climate change Web site, unveiled after 4 years of suppression
- Briefly Noted -- Climate science and government accountability
- The "Vanishing" National Climate Change Assessment, Part 1: The Administration
- The unfinished business of the National Climate Change Assessment scandal
- Why the administration buried a NOAA scientists' statement on hurricanes and climate
- New Hansen et al. study: Earth's temperature within 1 degree C of highest in past million years
- Where is the U.S. Climate Action Report required under the climate treaty?
- Jim Hansen on "The Threat to the Planet"
- Gore as Science Educator: Climate Scientist Michael MacCracken's Assessment
- Jim Hansen on the global warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth"
- The State Department's disappearing Climate Change web page
- Hurricanes and the Gulf Coast: Climate Change and Sustainable Rebuilding
- EPA's global warming communication problem - 1. Censored expertise
- Junketing Judges and Carbon Dioxide Decisions
- Canada's leading scientists: Evidence calls for going "far beyond" the Kyoto Protocol
- NOAA, global warming, and hurricanes: CSW director interview
- NOAA's misleading internal Congressional briefing points on hurricanes and global warming
- Study author accuses CEI global warming TV ads of misrepresenting science
- CEI TV spots continue global warming denial communications strategy
- "Bush doubts he'll see Al Gore's movie"
- Leading climate scientists' U.S. Supreme Court brief in states' greenhouse gas lawsuit
- Open U.S. Review of IPCC draft report is a good thing -- Part 2: Press coverage
- Open U.S. review of IPCC draft report is a good thing, despite criticism -- Part 1
- IPCC Draft Climate Change Assessment Report Posted for Government and Expert Review
- House Science Committee Chair Calls for Reform of NOAA Public Affairs Policy
- Thomas Jefferson Center gives 2006 "Muzzle" award to Rep. Joe Barton
- President claims human influence on global warming is fundamentally in question
- ABC News: Was Confusion Over Global Warming a Con Job?
- Senators call for National Academy auditing of government reports on climate change
- CBS News "60 Minutes" airs global warming story on "Re-Writing the Science"
- Former NOAA Lab Director: U.S. in "state of deep denial" on global warming
- Jim Hansen: NOAA "by fiat" put out "biased information" on hurricanes
- Censorship of Federal Climate Scientists: The Critical Case of Jim Hansen
- Toward a Second U.S. National Climate Change Assessment
- Radio Open Source: Politics of Climate Change
- "Political Science" from PBS Now
- What's Up With the Weather? The Politics of Climate Change
- Al Franken interviews CSW's Rick Piltz
- Low-Ball-Warming: Chris Mooney on the Resignation of Rick Piltz
- Senators join Climate Science Watch whistleblower
- U.S. Pressure Weakens G-8 Climate Plan
- Brad Friedman Inverviews Rick Piltz
- White House Responds to New York Times Exposé
- On Issues of Concern About the Governance and Direction of the Climate Change Science Program
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Global Climate Disruption
- A deadly conflict in Peru over a rush to drill for oil in Amazon rainforest: how culpable is the US?
- Environmental groups force "critical habitat" designation for polar bears, despite Palin's lawsuit
- Hurricanes and climate change: From the IPCC and recent US Climate Change Science Program reports
- 6,000 square mile Wilkins Ice Shelf on Antarctic Peninsula "hangs by a thread"
- "The alarm clock that all the plants and animals are listening to is running too fast."
- Environmental groups sue Bush administration to force polar bear protection
- Harvard Prof. John Holdren on "Global Climate Disruption: What do we know, what should we do?""
- New research finds escalating melt of Antarctic ice sheet
- Non-native jellyfish wipe out salmon fishery in Northern Ireland – another warning sign?
- White House science director Marburger says Earth may become "unlivable" without CO2 emissions cut
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Global Warming Denial Machine
- Paul Krugman on “treason against the planet”-- “the immorality of climate-change denial”
- “Confidential” GOP memo on blocking cap-and-trade bill assumes lack of focus on cost of inaction
- Reporters’ misuse of memo on EPA endangerment finding aided global warming disinformation campaign
- Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, global warming denialist du jour on Capitol Hill
- Politicians, journalists, and readers: On thinking with scientific integrity about climate
- George Will recycles global warming disinformation talking points in Feb. 15 Washington Post column
- CNN's Lou Dobbs manufactures global warming controversy in junk journalism interview
- “Bring on the Reality-Based Community”
- Michael MacCracken’s analysis of errors in Robinson, Robinson, and Soon 2007 contrarian article
- Combatting an attempt by the disinformation campaign to hijack an American Physical Society forum
- “Beyond the Phony ‘Debate’: Government Science and the Climate Crisis”
- Scott McClellan and White House global warming spin
- Organizing denial: Conservative "think tanks" and the political tactic of environmental "skepticism"
- "Conspiracy Theory" -- Will the legal strategy that brought down Big Tobacco work against Big Oil?
- Rockefellers call for change in ExxonMobil leadership
- “Hot Politics” re-aired—PBS FRONTLINE program on global warming politics and online interviews
- Bush climate speech aligns with disinformation campaign on stonewalling courts and environmental law
- Major corporations seek green image on climate policy but fund coal lobby front group
- "The American Denial of Global Warming"
- Review of "Everything's Cool" in the New York Times
- Accounting for an evolutionary shift in U.S. newspaper coverage of anthropogenic climate change
- Chris Mooney on the National Assessment scandal in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- "Out of Balance" awarded best environmental feature film at Artivist Film Festival in Hollywood
- Setting the record straight on purported "errors" in "An Inconvenient Truth"
- Washington Post feeds global warming disinformation campaign with Bjorn Lomborg feature
- RealClimate scientists take on latest manifestation of global warming disinformation campaign
- Climate contrarian Pat Michaels refused to disclose funding in Vermont court case
- Newsweek cover story focuses on the global warming denial machine
- Rolling Stone article on White House global warming denial links Cooney to V-P's office and Rove
- House Science investigations chairman calls on Exxon to account for global warming denial funding
- Greenpeace report on Exxon's continued funding of global warming denial and disinformation machine
- MacCracken on Lindzen’s misleading Newsweek Op-Ed
- "Hot Politics" -- PBS FRONTLINE program and extended interviews online
- PBS FRONTLINE "Hot Politics" of global warming on April 24
- "Dante's Inferno: Green Edition" -- The Eighth Circle
- NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman on Phil Cooney
- Vice President's global warming views at odds with majority of climate scientists
- Exxon Mobil takes first steps to accept climate change science and cut funding of the denial machine
- New report from Union of Concerned Scientists documents ExxonMobil's disinformation campaign
- Harvard Prof. Daniel Schrag on Senator Inhofe's "gathering of liars and charlatans"
- CSW letter to the Wall Street Journal
- ExxonMobil CEO says global warming poses significant potential risks, emissions reductions needed
- Four noteworthy articles on climate change in the Washington Post
- Michael MacCracken's 2002 letter to the ExxonMobil board of directors
- "The Denial Machine" airs on CBC-TV
- Anticipating the denialist attack on authors of the IPCC climate change assessment
- Global warming and the media at the Society of Environmental Journalists conference
- Senators Snowe and Rockefeller to ExxonMobil: Stop funding denialists
- "The Denial Machine" -- Canadian TV to air investigative documentary on global warming denialists
- The "Vanishing" National Climate Change Assessment, Part 1: The Administration
- Pat Michaels, Virginia "State Climatologist"? A critical perspective on the issues
- Royal Society letter to ExxonMobil: Exemplary citizen-science for public accountability
- UK science academy letter tells ExxonMobil to stop funding global warming denial machine
- Refuting a Global Warming Denier
- Junketing Judges and Carbon Dioxide Decisions
- Study author accuses CEI global warming TV ads of misrepresenting science
- CEI TV spots continue global warming denial communications strategy
- President claims human influence on global warming is fundamentally in question
- Boulder Daily Camera reports on Sen. Inhofe's NCAR/UCAR inquisition
- Greenwire report: Sen. Inhofe inquiry into research group funding sparks scientists' concerns
- Senator Inhofe Launches Inquisition Probing Climate Research Organization
- Bush Aide Edited Climate Reports: Ex-Oil Lobbyist Softened Greenhouse Gas Links (NY Times)
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- Video of Al Franken interview with climate change whistleblower Rick Piltz, 2005
- President Obama should lead in talking about the consequences of inaction on climate change
- A wittle wiki -- wif weawy wundaful wideos wegawding whistleblowah Wick (ah, Rick Piltz, that is)
- “The Denial Machine” – Index on Censorship reviews the Bush record on climate science
- "Whistleblower's Revenge"
- National Call to Action on Global Warming reflects rising expectations under President Obama
- Climate change in Vanity Fair’s Oral History of the Bush White House
- Several of our favorite journalists won major prizes in 2008 for reporting on climate change
- Earthbeat interview: Looking ahead on climate science integrity
- New GAP whistleblower series debuts on Free Speech TV with panel on scientific integrity
- Sierra: On staffing to restore integrity to the environmental and public lands agencies
- Notes on Conrad Lautenbacher’s troubled legacy on science and politics at NOAA (Part 2)
- NOAA head Lautenbacher resigns, leaving troubled legacy on science and politics (Part 1)
- CREW: “Those Who Dared: 30 Officials Who Stood Up for Our Country”
- Climate change science and government action: Interview on KPFK-FM Los Angeles
- “Beyond the Phony ‘Debate’: Government Science and the Climate Crisis”
- "A Climate Hero: An Outspoken Truth"
- "Rejuvenating Public Sector Science" – CSPI’s Fourth National Integrity in Science Conference
- Wake Up Call: Interview on WBAI-FM New York City
- Bush administration moves toward the climate science mainstream – Rick Piltz interview
- 4th National Integrity in Science Conference on Rejuvenating Public Sector Science - July 11, 2008
- Have things changed? What reforms are needed? Remarks at Whistleblower Week in Washington
- Whistleblower Week in Washington DC panel May 12 on Scientific Freedom and the Public Good
- “Hot Politics” re-aired—PBS FRONTLINE program on global warming politics and online interviews
- Will Bush acknowledge the harmful impacts of global climate disruption?
- Climate change, disinformation, and the failure of preparedness
- "Everything's Cool" global warming documentary TV premiere January 22-28 on the Sundance Channel
- CBS News to re-air "Rewriting the Science" and other 60 Minutes climate change stories on Jan. 20
- "Everything's Cool" global warming documentary on DVD
- Review of "Everything's Cool" in the New York Times
- Everything's Cool global warming film opens for a one-week run in New York and LA Nov. 23-29
- Climate Science Watch in the News on Controversy over CDC Congressional Testimony
- CSW director Rick Piltz interview with Austin Chronicle
- Be citizens, hold public officials accountable -- CSW director interviewed in San Antonio Current
- CSW Director to keynote at Texas Renewable Energy Roundup & Green Living Fair
- CSW Director on leave
- Newsweek cover story focuses on the global warming denial machine
- Federal court ruling pending in lawsuit to compel new National Climate Change Assessment
- Climate Science Watch report: Federal NextGen aviation planning is ignoring global warming
- CSW Director Rick Piltz radio interview on Quality News Network
- Letter to the House Science and Technology Committee on global change research legislation
- Upcoming screenings of "Everything's Cool" global warming film in New York City and elsewhere
- Climate Science Watch interview on Los Angeles radio
- Key points in NASA-NOAA report to White House science office on NPOESS de-scoping
- Internal report to White House on implications of NPOESS climate observations crisis
- Whistleblower Week in Washington: Panel on "Scientific Integrity & Individual Conscience"
- Environmental Science & Technology: Top 10 environmental policies of the Bush administration
- "Hot Politics" -- PBS FRONTLINE program and extended interviews online
- PBS FRONTLINE "Hot Politics" of global warming on April 24
- Upcoming screenings of global warming documentary "Everything's Cool"
- The Supreme Court, global warming, clean energy, and "Everything's Cool"
- GAP issues in-depth report on political interference at climate science research agencies
- Panel at National Press Club agrees the public's right to know is frequently compromised
- Open the Government, Sunshine Week 2007: "Closed Doors; Open Democracies?"
- Closed Doors; Open Democracies? A national dialogue on government openness
- "Everything's Cool" global warming documentary has first New York City screening on February 20
- Climate Science Watch interview on EcoTalk, Air America Radio
- Earthbeat radio: Climate science censorship and Congressional oversight
- Senate Commerce climate science hearing follow-up: News reports
- Senate Commerce Feb. 7 climate science hearing follow-up: Witness testimony and archived Webcast
- House Oversight hearing follow-up: More news and editorial coverage
- House Oversight Jan. 30 hearing follow-up: News coverage
- House Oversight Jan. 30 hearing follow-up: Witness testimony and archived Webcast
- Rick Piltz testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee
- Climate Science Watch testimony at House Oversight Hearing
- Investigation Documents Political Interference with Climate Science Communication
- CSW Director Rick Piltz will testify at House Oversight Committee hearing January 30
- Premiering today at the Sundance Film Festival: "Everything's Cool"
- New report from Union of Concerned Scientists documents ExxonMobil's disinformation campaign
- CSW letter to the Wall Street Journal
- "California's Changing Climate: The Politics of Climate Change"
- Conservation groups file suit against Bush administration to compel second National Assessment
- "The Denial Machine" -- Canadian TV to air investigative documentary on global warming denialists
- National Coalition Against Censorship free speech defender honor for Climate Science Watch
- Remarks on Accepting The Ridenhour Prize
- BBC Panorama: Has the Bush administration covered up the findings of global warming scientists?
- Climate Science Watch Director Awarded Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling
- ABC News: Was Confusion Over Global Warming a Con Job?
- About Climate Science Watch
- How to make a donation
- BBC Radio-4: "Science Blacklist"
- How the White House Edits Out Global Warming
- CSW's Rick Piltz Interviewed by Government Accountability Project's Louis Clark
- Radio Open Source: Politics of Climate Change
- "Political Science" from PBS Now
- What's Up With the Weather? The Politics of Climate Change
- The Anonymous Source - an Endangered Species?
- Al Franken interviews CSW's Rick Piltz
- Blowing the Whistle on Climate Change
- Low-Ball-Warming: Chris Mooney on the Resignation of Rick Piltz
- U.S. Pressure Weakens G-8 Climate Plan
- Brad Friedman Inverviews Rick Piltz
- Bush Aide Edited Climate Reports: Ex-Oil Lobbyist Softened Greenhouse Gas Links (NY Times)
- Resignation of Rick Piltz from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program
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Whistleblowers
- NASA climate scientist Jim Hansen arrested today for civil disobedience against WV coal mining
- Update on defense strategy in the Tim DeChristopher monkey-wrench BLM oil lease case
- GAP testifies at House hearing for government whistleblowers
- Jim Hansen rallies for monkey-wrench activist Tim DeChristopher at his arraignment today in Utah
- Ridenhour Truth-Telling Prize to whistleblower Thomas Tamm for exposing secret wiretapping program
- Should Utah student activist Tim DeChristopher go to jail for nonviolent monkey-wrench tactics?
- Whistleblower TV now available online
- National Whistleblower Assembly kicks off this weekend
- Stimulus bill gives whistleblower rights to contractor employees, fails to protect federal workers
- 262 organizations call on Obama and Congress to restore strong whistleblower rights
- Washington Post, once a beacon for whistleblowers, now attacks whistleblower protections
- Obama government openness pledge a challenge to change federal culture, reward truth-tellers
- Whistleblower Erin Brockovich to make a truth-digging trip to the TVA coal ash spill site
- Obama “Protect Whistleblowers” view should aid bill passage, encourage reporting of wrongdoing
- The “Fallen Legion” -- Whistleblower thanksgiving
- Report on ATSDR health warning failure on FEMA trailers and whistleblower retaliation
- Good riddance to Special Counsel Scott Bloch: Enemy of whistleblowers forced out of office
- Inspectors General Reform Act strengthens federal agency watchdogs
- CREW: “Those Who Dared: 30 Officials Who Stood Up for Our Country”
- Speaking Truth to Power: Why on earth is EPA whistleblower Jason Burnett standing alone?
- Dr. James Hansen calls for fossil industry disinformants to be tried for "high crimes"
- National conference on The Emerging Era in Whistleblower Rights and the Public's Right to Know
- Have things changed? What reforms are needed? Remarks at Whistleblower Week in Washington
- Whistleblower Week in Washington DC panel May 12 on Scientific Freedom and the Public Good
- Bill Moyers speech on receiving 2008 Ridenhour Courage Prize
- House subcommittee hearing April 1 on FEMA toxic trailers and mistreatment of CDC whistleblower
- House-Senate conferees should report strong Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act bill
- Screw-up at House Judiciary Committee sends whistleblower e-mail addresses to Cheney
- "The War on Whistleblowers"
- GAP president Louis Clark: Whistleblowing at work now more dangerous
- GAP to honor whistleblowers and defenders at 30th anniversary gala September 26
- Hurricane Center Director Proenza charges NOAA violated Whistleblower Protection Act
- Senate committee advances whistleblower protection bill but leaves out protection for scientists
- Wolfowitz resignation follows release of multiple documents by the Government Accountability Project
- C-Span webcast of Whistleblower Week panel on "Scientific Integrity and Individual Conscience"
- Whistleblower Week in Washington: Panel on "Scientific Integrity & Individual Conscience"
- Wolfowitz deputy's efforts to undercut climate change text in World Bank strategy paper
- House approves landmark whistleblower legislation with protection for scientific freedom
- GAP letter to the NOAA Administrator on criteria for media policy reform
- House Committee Unanimously Approves Whistleblower Protections
- House Committee set to approve landmark whistleblower rights legislation
- "Science Fiction" -- PBS "America's Investigative Reports" program on science reporter Paul Thacker
- Bush: String leakers up by the thumbs, as we do with prisoners at Guantanamo
- "Stealth repeal" of Clean Water Act whistleblower protections could affect science reporting
- "Ignoring whistleblowers is risky"
- Remarks on Accepting The Ridenhour Prize
- Senate approves whistleblower rights breakthrough
- Supreme Court Rules Against Government Whistleblowers
- Climate Science Watch Director Awarded Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling
- Washington Post reports "Climate Researchers Feeling Heat From White House"
- Government Accountability Project memo to climate scientists on new NASA media policy
- Censorship of Federal Climate Scientists: The Critical Case of Jim Hansen
- CSW's Rick Piltz Interviewed by Government Accountability Project's Louis Clark
- The Anonymous Source - an Endangered Species?
- Blowing the Whistle on Climate Change
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- Remembering Jack Eddy, 1931-2009, R.I.P.
- Climate Science Watch joins the e-fray: we post on Daily Kos, and Tweet on Twitter... what's next?
- Check out "Earth 2100" tonight on ABC, a two-hour special showing us our climate future
- Earth Hour on March 28 at 8:30 pm: Will the U.S. Government be Asleep at the Switch?
- Climate change in Vanity Fair’s Oral History of the Bush White House
- Several of our favorite journalists won major prizes in 2008 for reporting on climate change
- Happy Holidays
- Congratulations to independent media host Amy Goodman, recipient of the "Right Livelihood Award"
- Nonviolent climate action group was labeled terrorist by Maryland State Police spies
- “Science and the Next President -- Addressing the Politicization of Science”
- Congratulations to President-Elect Obama
- Phil Clapp, R.I.P.
- Michael Gerson’s strange and evasive spinning on the Republican war on science
- Everything's Cool global warming film opens for a one-week run in New York and LA Nov. 23-29
- R.I.P. John Firor -- scientist, author, former director of NCAR
- Two questions on the IPCC and Al Gore being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
- Congressman Markey Queries Federal Aviation Administrator on Failure to Consider Climate Change
- "In These Times" says U.S. Puts Concerns about Aviation’s Climate Impacts "On Stand-by"
- House of Representatives Passes the Global Change Research and Data Management Act of 2007
- Energy Bill Passed by House Has Many Provisions on Climate Change Impacts, Assessment, Adaptation
- Misleading NY Times article on Gore film gets deserved excoriation by RealClimate
- Check out the Earth observation images newly added to this site
- Premiering today at the Sundance Film Festival: "Everything's Cool"
- "Carbon neutral" -- New Oxford American Dictionary's 2006 "word of the year"
- Gerald R. Ford: 2 quotes
- Happy Holidays!
- For researchers: White House CEQ "Online Reading Room" for FOIA response documents
- Global warming and the media at the Society of Environmental Journalists conference
- "Out of Balance: ExxonMobil's Impact on Climate Change" documentary released
- Briefly noted: Holdren interview, Northeast Climate Impacts, BBC Climate of Fear transcript
- Briefly Noted -- Climate science and government accountability
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