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[Phys-l] Climate Researchers Feeling Heat From White House



Some subscribers may be interested in Juliet Eilperin's (2006) Washington Post article "Climate Researchers Feeling Heat From White House."

For other reports of the Bush administration's manipulation of science see, e.g., Dawn (2006), Hobson (2006), Revkin (2006), and Schoenfeld (2006a,b). For reliable information on Global Warming see UCS (2006).

Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
<rrhake@earthlink.net>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi>

"Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied."
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)


REFERENCES [Tiny URL's courtesy <http://tinyurl.com/create.php>.]
Dawn, C. 2006. "Scientists Lament Administration's Attitude," New York Times, 19 February; for a copy see the APPENDIX of Hake (2006b).
Eilperin, J. 2006. "Climate Researchers Feeling Heat From White House," Washington Post, 6 April, page A27; freely online (probably for only short time) at <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/05/AR2006040502150.html?referrer=email&referrer=email&referrer=email>, or more compactly at <http://tinyurl.com/o6gak>. Also available in the APPENDIX of Hake (2006c).

Hake, R.R. 2006a. "Schoenfeld's Criticism of The What Works Clearinghouse" online at <http://lists.asu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0604&L=aera-l&T=0&F=&S=&X=3344A63FA8F00EBFB8&Y=rrhake%40earthlink.net&P=159>, or more compactly at <http://tinyurl.com/gwr5s>. Post of 2 Apr 2006 21:27:27-0700 to AERA-L, ARN-L, MathTalk, Math-Learn, and PhysLrnR.

Hake, R.R. 2006b. "Re: AAAS Meeting," PHYSOC post of 24 Feb 2006 15:28:48-0800; online at <http://listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0602&L=PHYSOC&P=R5798&I=-3&X=5E4ACE3D3E976F9415&Y=rrhake%40earthlink.net>, or more compactly at <http://tinyurl.com/f43z4>.

Hake, R.R. 2006c. "Re: Climate Researchers Feeling Heat From White House," PHYSOC post of 6 Apr 2006 15:28:26-0700; online at <http://listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0604&L=physoc&T=0&X=61EEAE50BE79258D57&Y=rrhake%40earthlink.net&P=52>, or more compactly at <http://tinyurl.com/opgbw>.

Hobson, A. 2006. "AAAS meeting" PHYSOC post of 23 Feb 2006 17:11:07-0600; online at <http://listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0602&L=PHYSOC&P=R5421&I=-3&X=0AD4403B692A5E5115&Y=rrhake%40earthlink.net>, or more compactly at <http://tinyurl.com/fqjfy>.

Revkin, A.C. 2006. "Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him," New York Times, 29 January; online at <http://tinyurl.com/r5auc>. Revkin wrote: "The top climate scientist at NASA says the Bush administration has tried to stop him from speaking out since he gave a lecture last month calling for prompt reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases linked to global warming. The scientist, James E. Hansen, longtime director of the agency's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said in an interview that officials at NASA headquarters had
ordered the public affairs staff to review his coming lectures, papers, postings on the Goddard Web site and requests for interviews from journalists. Dr. Hansen said he would ignore the restrictions. 'They feel their job is to be this censor of information going out to the public,' he said."

Schoenfeld, A.H. 2006a. "What Doesn't Work: The Challenge and Failure of the What Works Clearinghouse to Conduct Meaningful Reviews of Studies of Mathematics Curricula," Educational Researcher 35(2); online at <http://www.aera.net/publications/?id=1148>. For a discussion see Hake (2006a).

Schoenfeld, A.H. 2006b. "Reply to Comments From the What Works
Clearinghouse on 'What Doesn't Work,'" Educational Researcher 35(2);
online at <http://www.aera.net/publications/?id=1148>. Schoenfeld wrote (my CAPS: "Let me be clear about the stakes involved in this case. THE ISSUE
HERE IS THE SUPPRESSION OF A REPORT THAT CHALLENGES THE SCIENTIFIC
UNDERPINNINGS OF THE CURRENT FEDERAL POLICY AGENDA. The What Works
Clearinghouse (WWC) website claims that WWC was funded by the government 'so that you know what the best scientific evidence has to say.' The evidence suggests otherwise. IN RECENT YEARS THERE HAS BEEN MOUNTING EVIDENCE OF ATTEMPTS TO SUPPRESS RESEARCH ON GLOBAL WARMING . . .[see e.g., Revkin (2006)]. . . THAT CHALLENGES THE RATIONALE FOR FEDERAL POLICY IN THAT AREA. At stake there, and here, are the integrity of the research process and the academic freedom on which it depends. Also at stake is the public trust in results vetted by federally sponsored groups that claim to represent the best that science has to offer. The academic community must strive to preserve the integrity of the research process and its contributions to our society. In the words of John Philpot Curran, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

UCS. 2006. Union of Concerned Scientists. Global Warming Information at
<http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/>. "Global warming is one of the most serious challenges facing us today. To protect the health and economic well-being of current and future generations, we must reduce our emissions of heat-trapping gases by using the technology, know-how, and practical solutions already at our disposal."