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Hacked e-mails fuel climate change skeptics.
Hundreds of private e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on climate change. New York Times. 21 November 2009.
Bate and Switch: How a free-market magician manipulated two decades of environmental science.
Call major environmental groups and ask them about Roger Bate. The reply is always: Who? Few know he's the man who spread the myth that environmentalists, by fighting to ban DDT, have heartlessly caused millions of malaria deaths worldwide. Natural Resources News Service. 1 June 2009.
Manufacturing doubt in product defense .
What is the product-defense industry? How does it work, and who's behind it? Fast Company. 18 January 2009.
Obama offers new hope for science.
As George Bush exits and the inauguration of Barack Obama nears, few constituencies are as hopeful and relieved as American scientists. Toronto Star, Ontario. 4 January 2009.
Under Bush, science learned it must speak up.
George W. Bush will leave a legacy of increasing global warming and politicized public health. But he also leaves a generation of scientists who have found their voices at a time when our greatest policy challenges have a scientific component. First of two parts. Miller-McCune. 18 December 2008.
Cautious optimism for Obama's policy on science.
Many of the scientific troubles Barack Obama inherits in the federal government aren’t about money. They strike at deeper questions of scientific integrity and the process government uses to include science in policymaking. Second of two parts. Miller-McCune. 18 December 2008.
An eroding mission at EPA.
EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson, whose image over four years morphed from scientist to ideologue, will leave office as one of Bush's most loyal and controversial cabinet members. His decisions alarmed environmentalists, infuriated his own scientists, and led to calls from Democrats for his resignation. Philadelphia Inquirer, Pennsylvania. 7 December 2008.
EPA perchlorate decision flawed, say advisers.
The U.S. EPA’s preliminary decision not to regulate perchlorate in drinking water has elicited an outpouring of criticism, including a plea from the agency’s Science Advisory Board for more scientific transparency and a stinging critique from the agency’s Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee. Environmental Science & Technology. 4 December 2008.
Bush may introduce environmental regulations.
In its waning days, the administration of President George W. Bush may roll out a number of new environmental regulations, the effects of which could persist long after Bush leaves office on 20 January 2009. Nature. 5 November 2008.
Despite sceptics' noise, scientific consensus is growing.
Anyone keeping up with current affairs could be forgiven for thinking scientists are riven with doubt over climate change. Sydney Morning Herald, Australia. 2 August 2008.
4 Senate Dems urge EPA chief to resign.
Four Senate Democrats called on EPA chief Stephen Johnson to resign Tuesday, alleging that he gave misleading testimony to Congress and repeatedly bowed to pressure from the White House to avoid regulating greenhouse gases. San Francisco Chronicle, California. 30 July 2008.
Environmental espionage: Inside a chemical company's Louisiana spy op.
After a businessman unknowingly invested in a company involved in corporate espionage against activists working on chemical contamination, he discovered what was happening. And then he released the documents. Mother Jones. 7 June 2008.
The attack on science.
There’s a whole industry that’s working to make you, and Congress, uncertain about what science is finding about human health risks. Environment Report, Michigan. 19 May 2008.
EPA official ousted while fighting Dow.
The Bush administration has forced the head of Chicago's EPA office to quit because of her heated dispute with Dow Chemical over delays in a dioxin cleanup in Michigan. Chicago Tribune, Illinois. 2 May 2008.
Climate skeptics seize on cold spell.
Some scientists, opinion writers, political operatives and other people who challenge warnings about dangerous human-caused global warming have jumped on a rash of recent cold spells as a teachable moment. New York Times. 2 March 2008.
Judging science.
A Supreme Court ruling and subsequent case history have raised the bar on introducing scientific data into lawsuit hearings. Now some argue the standards have gone too far. Science News. 23 January 2008.
A lethal cover up: Britain's worst water poisoning scandal.
After two decades of stone-walling by the authorities, alarming facts about the Camelford water incident are beginning to emerge, and this week a coroner opened inquests into a possible cover-up. London Daily Mail, United Kingdom. 15 December 2007.
Wanted on the Hill: a few good scientists.
If ever there was a time for revenge of the (supposed) nerds, this is it. Partisan rhetoric is clouding debates on global warming, birth control, stem cell research, and evolution. US News & World Report. 10 December 2007.
Science's worst enemy: corporate funding.
The biggest threat to science has been quietly occurring under the radar. The threat is money—specifically, the decline of government support for science and the growing dominance of private spending over American research. Discover. 18 October 2007.
Climate sceptic quits over 'lack of academic freedom'.
Patrick Michaels, one of the most controversial skeptics on global warming, says he worked under a lack of academic freedom, but the university he works for counters that it was the consulting Michaels did for energy companies that got him into trouble. Nature. 4 October 2007.
Climatologist out after 28 years.
Patrick J. Michaels' role as state climatologist at the University of Virginia came to a quiet end this summer. Michaels' utility industry funding and controversial views made him a lightning rod on climate change. Charlottesville Daily Progress, Virginia. 27 September 2007.
UVa hands off duties of climatologist.
The University of Virginia has handed the duties of the climatologist’s office, but not the title, to research coordinator Philip J. “Jerry” Stenger in the wake of climatologist Patrick J. Michaels’ quiet departure from the role. Charlottesville Daily Progress, Virginia. 27 September 2007.
The 9/11 cover-up.
In the aftermath of the first explosion, the air over Lower Manhattan transformed instantly. Today New York City is still mired in a fog of cover-ups and half-truths regarding its environmental welfare. Discover. 8 September 2007.
NASA scientists challenge security rules.
Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Goddard Space Flight Center claim the new requirement by NASA that they submit to detailed FBI scrutiny of their backgrounds may be an attempt to control or silence them about issues like global warming. Nation. 4 September 2007.
The truth about denial.
If you think those who have long challenged the mainstream scientific findings about global warming recognize that the game is over, think again. Newsweek. 5 August 2007.
Ex-surgeon general says White House hushed him.
Former surgeon general Richard H. Carmona yesterday accused the Bush administration of muzzling him on sensitive public health issues. Washington Post. 11 July 2007.
The heat is on.
Like all good scientists, Scudder Mackey was skeptical 15 years ago when he began hearing predictions that increasing amounts greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would lead to global warming. But that skepticism has crumbled with mounting evidence. Detroit Metro Times, Michigan. 3 July 2007.
Smithsonian toned down exhibit on Arctic.
The Smithsonian Institution toned down an exhibit on climate change in the Arctic for fear of angering Congress and the Bush administration, says a former administrator at the museum. Associated Press. 22 May 2007.
A convenient untruth.
Like holdouts in the Alamo, the last of the climate skeptics plug away at the thousands of mainstream scientists now arrayed against them. And they bridle when asked if they take money, as nearly all do, from ExxonMobil. Vanity Fair. 17 April 2007.
Manufacturing scientific uncertainty.
The most well known (and probably best financed) campaign to manufacture scientific doubt is being waged by the fossil fuel industry in an effort to impugn scientists’ work on issues related to climate change. Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey. Opinion, 5 April 2007.
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