The continuing threat to continuity of space-based global climate data
“The United States is facing a year or more without crucial satellites that provide invaluable data for predicting storm tracks, a result of years of mismanagement, lack of financing and delays in...
View ArticleToward government accountability on climate change during Obama's second term
Congratulations to President Obama for his re-election victory last night, after a long and hard-fought campaign. Of course, while the electoral contest has concluded (finally!), the essential policy...
View ArticleObama says he will elevate national climate change 'conversation'
A New York Times reporter asked President Obama at his White House news conference today: "What specifically do you plan to do in a second term to tackle the issue of climate change?" The President's...
View ArticleHurricane Sandy, climate change, and what is to be done – Q&A with Judith...
“Why is it that the politicians have such an insufficient response to this? Do they wait until there is loss of life and billion and billions of dollars worth of damage before they do something? Do...
View ArticleMessage to enviro groups: No more co-optation by Obama on climate change
During Obama's first term environmental groups were complicit in enabling what became years of ‘climate silence,’ by allowing themselves to be co-opted by a White House messaging strategy to talk about...
View ArticleRemembering Jerry Mahlman, 1940-2012
Jerry Mahlman, a leading climatologist who for many years headed the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dyamics Lab, died on November 28. In the 1990s I saw him play a pioneering role in interpreting the science...
View ArticleMisrepresentation of leaked review draft IPCC climate assessment report shows...
“A draft of a major report on climate change, due to be published next year, has been leaked online. Climate-sceptic bloggers have seized on it, claiming that it admits that much of global warming has...
View ArticleEPA Administrator Lisa Jackson resignation
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson announced today that she will resign her position early in 2013. Jackson has been one of the brightest lights in the Obama Administration. She...
View ArticleLisa Jackson EPA resignation a refusal to support Obama Keystone XL pipeline...
Obama's EPA administrator is resigning in part over her opposition to a forthcoming decision to issue a permit to construct the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, according to two sources familiar with...
View ArticleAl Jazeera purchase of Current could improve U.S. TV coverage of climate and...
Al Jazeera's purchase of Current will give the Qatar-based 24-hour news network a greatly expanded reach into the U.S. cable and satellite TV market beyond its much more limited availability now. From...
View ArticleWhat does Obama mean by "Sustainable Energy"?
"The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult," President Obama said in his second Inaugural Address on January 21. "But America cannot resist this transition; we...
View ArticleNew National Climate Assessment draft report a reminder of the first NCA and...
The new draft U.S. National Climate Assessment report is a threat to the global warming denial machine because it takes projected global warming seriously and focuses on the implications of climatic...
View ArticleRecalling an exchange with Sen. John Kerry about climate change and the Bush...
John Kerry is for real on pushing back against climate silence and the denial machine in Washington. I had the opportunity to testify before Senator Kerry and the Commerce, Science, and Transportation...
View Article“Penny-wise and pound-foolish”: Weather Service regional director fired after...
Within days of National Weather Service Southern region director William Proenza going public in the Washington Post about budget cuts that he says threaten Weather Service capabilities, NWS acting...
View ArticleJohn Kerry and climate change: Recalling a federal lawsuit against the Bush...
In August 2007 a federal court ruled the Bush administration was in violation of the Global Change Research Act and ordered it to produce a years-overdue national climate assessment. Sen. John Kerry,...
View ArticleOn Obama's nominees for EPA Administrator and Secretary of Energy
Will the White House allow EPA to move aggressively on regulating greenhouse gases? Will the Energy Department continue President Obama's 'all of the above' approach on oil and gas development? I...
View ArticleGerman public television story on German corporate support for the denial...
A story on ZDF, the German national public television channel, talked about two German companies that contribute money to global warming denialists in U.S. politics. I told ZDF that a number of U.S....
View ArticleWhere are the Keystone XL pipeline whistleblowers?
In a new article published in the Washington Spectator I note the importance of whistleblowers in the context of the controversy over the Keystone XL pipeline. The proposed pipeline would bring up to...
View ArticleOn crossing paths with citizen Jim Hansen, and the question: What are you...
Jim Hansen had just spoken out against mountaintop removal coal mining at the Appalachia Rising rally in Washington, DC, in 2010. About 1,000 of us participants, most of whom were from the Appalachian...
View ArticleHeinzerling on Obama OMB's power grab v. EPA and science-based rulemaking
How can we get scientific integrity, transparency, and accountability in environmental and public health regulation when the President’s Executive Office appears to be the leading offender? In...
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