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A grand finale (?) for climate program under Bush: Last 5 of 21 reports approved at 11th hour
ClimateScienceWatch —
... The completion and approval for publication on the last working day of the Bush administration of the remaining five of 21 ”Synthesis and Assessment Products”—the centerpiece climate science reports of the ...
The four global warming impact studies Bush tried to bury in his final days
Climate Progress —
NOTE TO U.S. MEDIA: Please don’t fall for this Administration’s final climate trick — don’t ignore these important studies. Normally, when an administration wants to bury bad news — such as a government report it doesn’t like — the story gets released Friday afternoon. That ensures minimal media coverage. For news it really doesn’t like, the Friday of a three-day weekend is ideal. So what subject matter is so abhorrent it would motivate the Bush administration to release multiple reports simultaneously the Friday before the four-day weekend that culminates in their loss of power, when they can be certain the media will be ...
Buried in the Bush
Grist - the Latest from Grist —
By Joseph Romm NOTE TO U.S. MEDIA: Please don't fall for the Bush administration's final climate trick -- don't ignore these important studies. ----- Normally, when an administration wants to bury bad news -- such as a government report it doesn't like -- the story gets released Friday afternoon. That ensures minimal media coverage. For news it really doesn't like, the Friday of a three-day weekend is ideal. So what subject matter is so abhorrent it would motivate the Bush administration to release multiple reports simultaneously the Friday before the four-day ...
Surprising “Other” Website Demographics
Greenversations —
... , and even more so for web content aimed at research scientists. Learning about the demographics of our readers isn’t easy: surveys are the only way to ask about age, occupation, education, location, technological savvy and the like, and even survey results can be dogged by sample bias and low response. ...
New Guide Aims to Improve Public Climate Literacy
NOAA News Releases —
... and http://www.climatescience.gov . It is also being distributed to teachers attending the National Science Teachers Association meeting this week in New Orleans. “There is so much misinformation about climate. We want to provide an easily readable document to help everyone make the most informed decisions,” said Karl. “Having one product endorsed by the nation’s top federal science agencies, as well as leading science centers and associations, makes this document an essential resource.” The 13-page guide includes information on how people can help reduce climate change and ...
New government brochure explains climate science
Ecoearth.info Blog —
... and http://www.climatescience.gov . It is also being distributed to teachers attending the National Science Teachers Association meeting this week in New Orleans. The guide was organized by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, parent agency of the climate center, along with the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Energy, Health and Human Services, Interior, State, Transportation and the ...
Lubchenco Shifts U.S. Approach to Climate Science
Worldwatch Institute —
... As Lubchenco exited the building, she embraced several of
the attending scientists. "They clearly feel like there was a war against
climate science in the previous administration," said Rick Piltz, a former
senior associate with the U.S. Climate
Change Science Program whose ...
Provisions in the Waxman-Markey draft bill get us closer to ensuring climate policy is science-based
ClimateScienceWatch —
... The Waxman-Markey discussion draft climate bill includes a provision calling on the National Academy of Sciences to perform periodic studies of emerging and projected climate change impacts to determine whether or not greenhouse gas emissions-reduction targets need to be adjusted. While it is essential that climate change policies be based on good science, these provisions take much of what is, or should be, taking place under the Climate Change Science Program and to a lesser extent the ...
Why does the New York Times hate science? Why do deniers like Pielke shout down any talk of a link between climate change and extreme weather?
Climate Progress —
... [Note: Pielke persists in calling it the CCSP report, and while he never defines CCSP, it stands for Climate Change Science Program. But in fact, the CCSP has been replaced/subsumed by the United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) -- see here.] ...
