The Integrity of Science Blog provides commentary and highlights news on attacks and misuse of science, particularly as it relates to water, climate change, and environmental security.
Founded in 1987 and based in Oakland, California the Pacific Institute is an independent, nonpartisan think-tank studying issues at the intersection of development, environment, and security.
The Institute´s Integrity of Science Initiative responds to and counters the assault on science and scientific integrity in the public policy arena, especially on issues related to water, climate change, and security.
While the Pacific Institute's Integrity of Science Program is only a little over a year old, the Pacific Institute is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2007.
January 30, 2007
Category: Congressional Oversight
Today's hearing on political interference in science, hosted by House Reform Chairman Henry Waxman, looks to be the tip of the iceberg that is political interference in science ... and may lead to a showdown between Congress and the White House.
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January 29, 2007
Category: General
The IPCC will be releasing the first of four reports on Friday, including a 12-page summary of policy recommendations.
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Category: General
On Tuesday, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will be holding a hearing on "Political Interference with the work of Government Climate Change Scientists."
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January 25, 2007
Category: Australia
Life for climate scientists in Australia: Not all toast and Vegemite.
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January 23, 2007
Category: Spin
Conservative spinmeister Frank Luntz talks to Salon about tonight's State of the Union Address, touches on climate change.
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Category: Pop Culture
The climate change documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" has been nominated for two Oscars.
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January 19, 2007
Category: General
Bush's new amendments to a Clinton-era executive order are a pox on scientific policy making and not for the weak of stomach.
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January 17, 2007
Category: General
The new Congress has stepped in and prevented further closures of EPA libraries.
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Category: General
Some stories we're curious about but won't have time to blog.
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January 16, 2007
Category: General
Staying the course with unpopular science: The White House on Tuesday denied it was planning a U-turn on its climate change policy.
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President Bush is going to be signaling a "historic shift" on his administration's climate change policy? We're skeptical.
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Follow-up to last weeks' revelation that the Federal Way (Washington) School Board has placed a moratorium on the showing of "An Inconvenient Truth"in its classrooms.
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January 11, 2007
Category: General
The Federal Way (Washington) School Board has placed a moratorium on the showing of "An Inconvenient Truth" in its classrooms.
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"Under pressure from the U.S. Defense Department and contractors facing potential cleanup costs in the billions of dollars, the Bush administration in early 2003 ordered EPA scientists not to publicly discuss perchlorate pollution."
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January 5, 2007
Category: General
Union of Concerned Scientists on the tobacco/climate connection, Willard Scott, and a cure turns out to be myth.
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