Review of Censoring Science

The principals in this drama are James Hansen, who would not be suppressed, and those who tried to suppress him. The most infamous of these was George Deutsch, the misguided young partisan of Republicanism and Creationism. But he was a bit player who became a scapegoat when he was discovered to have lied about graduating from Texas A&M University. There were and are others at NASA, higher up and more influential — notably Glenn Mahone and Dean Acosta.

And there is a host of people who have been censored in some way by the Bush administration. Like Seth Shulman's book, Censoring Science names many such people, at NASA and elsewhere, who refuse to compromise the facts. As always, they are a reason for hope — the more so because they are the rule rather than the exception.

While most of this censorship took place recently, some is relatively ancient. Bowen reports (p. 52) that in 1989, when Al Gore (then a Tennessee Senator) called Jim Hansen before the Senate Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space, political appointees rewrote Hansen's conclusion in The Congressional Record to say the cause of global warming was unknown. This sort of interference was as reprehensible then as it is now. As Dr. Hansen says:

In hopes of untangling the complex story just a bit, I decided to provide a kind of scorecard for the players. I list here most of the names that Bowen weaves into his tale of censorship, with brief descriptions of their situations: heroes in blue, villains in red. Footnotes are shown in the contrasting color. Rows highlighted in yellow indicate someone who, as far as I can determine, did not participate in the drama.

The other side of the story — the climatological detective work done by Hansen and other scientists over the past thirty years or so — is more important. But I don't go into that; it is well covered in Chapters 8-10. I also have not tried to reproduce the index of the book. If you want to trace an individual's role in the censorship story, refer to that; it is mostly accurate.

Official	Role	Tenure	Action	Source
James E. Hansen	Director, Goddard Institute of Space Studies	30+ years	Consistently warned of the need for action about global warming.	1
Michael Oppenheimer	Chief atmospheric scientist, Environmental Defense Fund	? years	Recognized early how much of a setback Bush administration policies are.	1, 104
George W. Bush	President of U.S.	8 years	TBS	1, 8
Christine Todd Whitman	Director, Environmental Protection Agency	2+ years	Blind-sided by Bush on effective action to reduce CO2 emissions.	1, 102-5
Charles David Keeling	Environmental scientist	? years	Set up first CO₂ monitoring station on Mauna Kea.	1
Ralph Keeling	Environmental scientist, son of Charles	? years	TBS	2, 4
Anniek Hansen	Wife of James	? years	TBS	3
Darnell Cain	James Hansen's research assistant	? years	Fielded threatening phone calls from NASA about Hansen's Iowa speech.	3, 131
Paul Crutzen	Nobel laureate for his work on atmospheric ozone chemistry	? years	Told Hansen that his presentation was just the sort needed.	6
Leslie McCarthy	PAO, Goddard Institute of Space Studies	? years	Did her best to work around censorship orders.	6, 11, 15, 21-25, 28-32, 35+
Bill Clinton	Former U.S. president	8 years	Supported action on global warming.	8
Harlan Watson	Chief negotiator, ?	? years	Blocked action on global warming.	9, 20
Eli Kintisch	Reporter, Science magazine	? years	Requested 2005 temperature data from Leslie McCarthy. Got it from Hansen when the year's dataset was complete and checked.	11, 25
Bill Blakemore	Reporter, ABC News	? years	Reported frequently on the developing story.	11, 20, 25, 27-8, 30+
Granger Morgan	CMU physicist and science policy expert	? years	Did study of the scientific consensus on global warming.	12
Don Savage	Deputy chief PAO, GSFC	? years	Advised Bowen that climate science was the really sensitive subject at GSFC and NASA HQ.	15
George Deutsch	NASA HQ flunky	? years	Too much to cover here. Just Google it, or use the index.	16+
David Mould	NASA assistant administrator for public affairs	? years	Eventually replaced Glenn Mahone. He was better, but still a censor.	16
Dean Acosta	NASA deputy assistant administrator for public affairs	? years	Followed censorship policies.	16
Michael Griffin	NASA Administrator; former aerospace engineer	3 years & counting	Issued pledge of scientific openness, but left loopholes. Reputedly disrespected scientists generally. Unilaterally cut budgets for EOS.	17, 96, 141, 164-72, 282-4
Dr. Mary Cleave	Associate administrator, NASA HQ Science Mission	? years	Not mentioned much, but apparently a good guy.	17, 48-9
Dolores Beasley	Deputy PAO, GSFC	? years	Had frequent run-ins with Deutsch, who reported to her. When she was away for a 3-week TDY to FEMA, he... played.	17, 66-7, 81-2
Dwayne Brown	Replaced Dolores Beasley soon after Deutsch arrived.	? years	A good guy: played in a band, didn't like the "politicals." Known as a "survivor" who would "walk a tightrope" to get along.	17
Colleen Hartman	Deputy to Mary Cleave	? years	Like her boss, was officially tasked to sub for Hansen in interviews, but apparently never did.	18
Ed Campion	"News chief" at GSFC	? years	Not mentioned much, but apparently a good guy.	22
Clayton Sandell	ABC News producer	? years	Sought someone at GSFC to interview.	22
Waleed Abdalati	GSFC scientist specializing in polar ice	? years	TBS	24
E. O. Wilson	Harvard biologist	? years	TBS	27
Larry Travis	Deputy director, GISS	? years	TBS	29
Dr. Ed Weiler	Held various administrative positions at NASA HQ while serving as HST chief scientist; ultimately became director of GSFC.	30+ years	Helped loosen up PAO policies.	30-32
Jason Sharp	Assistant to David Mould	? years	TBS	31
Franco Einaudi	Earth sciences director, GSFC (Hansen's boss)	? years	TBS	33
Gavin Schmidt	Climate modeler, GISS	? years	TBS	36, 125
Mark Hess	PAO, GSFC	? years	TBS	36, 37
Dr. Laurie Leshin	Director of Science & Exploration, GSFC	? years	TBS	40
Joe Davis	Director, NASA Strategic Communications	? years	TBS	47
Spencer Abraham	Bush's first secretary of energy	? years	As a Senator from Michigan, blocked Clinton administration efforts for stronger CAFE standards.	47
Mark Morano	Writer for Cybercast News Service; former producer for Rush Limbaugh	? years	Wrote hit pieces on Hansen.	47, 183, 185
Al Gore	Senator from Tennessee	? years	Advocate of measures to control global warming	52
Scott Pelley	Reporter, 60 Minutes	? years	TBS	54
Larry King	CNN talk show host	? years	TBS	57
Norman Pearlstine	Editor in chief, Time	? years	TBS	57
Juliet Eilperin	Lead reporter on global warming, Washington Post	? years	TBS	59
David Rind	Climate modeler, GISS	? years	TBS	59
Andrew Revkin	Lead AGW correspondent, New York Times	? years	TBS	61
Makiko Sato	Scientist, GISS	? years	TBS	62
Sherwood Boehlert	Chair, House Science Committee; R-NY	? years	Advocated scientific integrity via press release and letter to Michael Griffin.	64
David Goldston	Boehlert's chief of staff	? years	TBS	64
Paul Morrell	Griffin's chief of staff	? years	TBS	64, 88
Shana Dale	NASA Deputy Administrator	? years	Announced new Office of Communications Planning, headed by Robert Hopkins.	64, 87, 180
Susan Collins	Senator from Maine; chaired Homeland Security & Government Affairs Committee	? years	In conjunction with Joe Lieberman, wrote to Mike Griffin concerning the allegations of censorship.	65, 179
Joseph Lieberman	Senator from Connecticut	? years	TBS	65, 179
Flint Wild	NASA Web designer	? years	TBS	66
Mark Kuchner	GSFC astrophysicist	? years	TBS	67
Erica Hupp	PAO employee, GSFC	? years	TBS	67
Brian Berger	Reporter, Space News	? years	TBS	68
Rick Piltz	Former CCSP employee	? years	Resigned in protest; started Climate Science Watch.	69, 162
Tom Ashbrook	Host of NPR's "On Point"	? years	TBS	70
James van Allen	Astronomy professor & pioneer space researcher, University of Iowa	? years	A mentor to James Hansen, and facilitated his "Iowa speech."	73, 129
Satoshi Matsushima	Astronomy professor, U of Iowa	? years	TBS	73
Andy Lacis	Student at U of Iowa with Hansen	? years	TBS	73
Linke	Czechoslovak astronomer	? years	Developed light-scattering theory used by Hansen to estimate output of dust & aerosols from spring 1963 eruption of Mount Agung in Indonesia. (Not indexed)	75
Benjamin Franklin	Founding father	? years	Pointed out the parasol effect in 1784. (Not indexed)	75
Carl Sagan	Space scientist and science popularizer	? years	TBS	76
Jay Zwally	Veteran climate scientist, GSFC; in 1974, began developing ways to measure polar ice by satellite. His efforts led to ICESat, launched in 2003.	30+ years	Published a study in March 2006 showing signs of warming in the polar regions. The direly-worded press release, titled "Impact of Climate Warming on Polar Ice Sheets Confirmed," sailed through the PAO obstacle course.	80, 166-72
Nick Anthis	Graduate student, Oxford	? years	Posted on blog that Geo. Deutsch had no degree from Texas A&M.	81
Johannes Loschnigg	Staff, House Science Committee?	? years	Educated Bowen about NASA budgets.	87, 310
Brian Chase	NASA assistant administrator for legislative affairs	? years	TBS	87
J. T. Jezierski	PAO employee, GSFC	? years	TBS	88, 134
Chuck Atkins	Democratic staffer, House	? years	TBS	94
James Connaughton	"unabashed" chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality	? years	Led White House Task Force on Energy Project Streamlining	106
John Marburger	Director of OSTP	? years	Marginalized	107
Katherine Seelye	NYT colleague of Andrew Revkin	? years	TBS	111
Philip Cooney	Connaughton's chief of staff	? years	TBS	112
Myron Ebell	Competitive Enterprise Institute	? years	TBS	112
Willie Soon	American Petroleum Institute-funded global warming denier	? years	Paper in Climate Research challenged IPCC results.	113
Sallie Baliunas	American Petroleum Institute-funded global warming denier	? years	Paper in Climate Research challenged IPCC results.	113
Kevin O'Donovan	Cheney's special assistant for domestic policy	? years	TBS	114
Henry Waxman	House Oversight Committee chairman	? years	TBS	114
John Yarmouth	House member from Kentucky	? years	TBS	114
Sean O'Keefe	NASA administrator (Dec. 2001-Feb. 2005)	? years	The only NASA administrator with no scientific or engineering background; his experience was in finance and budgeting. He was reputedly vice president Cheney's friend and protégé.	115
Glenn Mahone	NASA assistant administrator for public affairs (Mould's predecessor)	? years	Joined NASA as a Democrat. Switched to Republican when O'Keefe came in to save his job. A "political" par excellence.	116
David Steitz	Lead PAO for Earth Science, GSFC	10+ years	Fed up with being muzzled by Mahone, says Bowen, "Steitz decided he wanted out." (p. 119) But it's not clear whether he actually did resign.	116, 119
Jennifer Wood	Mahone's special assistant	? years	TBS	116
Dana Perino	CEQ spokesperson (now WH press sec'y)	? years	TBS	116
Tony Snow	WH press secretary (Perino's predecessor)	? years	TBS	117
Dr. Tong Lee	JPL scientist	? years	Duped into approving WH-doctored press release	118
Gretchen Cook-Anderson	Director, NASA education division	? years	Developed school-visits plan with no input from her division. The plan, intended to sell Bush's Moon/Mars vision, was called "pointless." (But she soon began to quietly revolt.)	119, 120
Dan Carpenter	former JSC public affairs director	? years	Heard to say something should be done about the pointless plan, lost job within months.	119
Rob Gutro	Science writer at GSFC	? years	Took pride in conveying scientific ideas accurately and clearly to the public.	122
Robert Hopkins	Communications director, OSTP (a former Midwest spokesman for Bush 2000)	? years	Held weekly meetings with NASA PAO teams.	124
Drew Shindell	Climate modeler, GISS	? years	His Geophysical Research Letters paper on Antarctica, w. Gavin Schmidt, was ordered "softened."	125, 126
Krishna Ramanujan	Science writer at GSFC	? years	Took pride in conveying scientific ideas accurately and clearly to the public.	126
Ghassem Asrar	NASA deputy associate administrator for Earth science	? years	Colleagues say he "softened" press releases and presentations.	128
John McCain	Prospective Republican presidential candidate, 2000	? years	Would have been Hansen's choice, had he run in 2004.	130
John Kerry	Democratic Party candidate for president, 2004	? years	Preferred by Hansen over Bush.	130
Andrew Falcon	NASA associate general counsel	? years	Allegedly made the phone calls threatening Hansen with "Hatch Act punishment."	128
Kay Coles James	Member of NASA advisory council; former dean of Regent University school of government; former director of U.S. Office of Personnel Management	? years	Apparently involved in placing people like Deutsch and Jezierski and Goodling.	135
Monica Goodling	Regent University graduate; former White House liaison at Justice Department	? years	TBS	135
Crystal Jezierski	Director of liaison office at Justice Department; wife of J. T. Jezierski	? years	TBS	135
Jane Cherry	former assistant to Karl Rove; replaced J. T. Jezierski at NASA	? years	TBS	135
Mark Serreze	University of Colorado scientist	? years	Comments on polar cap shrinkage.	139
Svante Arrhenius	Swedish physical chemist	? years	Developed first theory of global warming, including polar-cap positive feedback.	140
Kerry Emanuel	MIT meteorologist	? years	Two weeks before Katrina, published paper in Nature that tied warmer sea water to stronger hurricanes. Later, in talk at AGU meeting, spoke of censorship at NOAA, received standing ovation.	145
Gerry Bell	NOAA's lead seasonal hurricane forecaster	? years	Stayed on message with reporters: 2005 hurricane season has nothing to do with global warming.	146
Max Mayfield	Director of the National Hurricane Center's Tropical Prediction Center	? years	Stayed on message with reporters: 2005 hurricane season has nothing to do with global warming.	146
Thomas Knutson	Scientist at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL)	? years	Co-author of 2004 paper tying greenhouse gases to increase in "highly destructive category-5 storms."	147
Robert Tuleya1	Retired from GFDL in 2002; now at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia	31 years	Co-author of 2004 paper tying greenhouse gases to increase in "highly destructive category-5 storms."	147
John von Neumann	Hungarian mathematician	? years	Helped design one of the first computers; used it for climate modeling.	147
Jerry Mahlman	Former director of GFDL	? years	Spoke out about censorship at NOAA.	148
Judith Curry	Faculty member at Georgia Tech	? years	Spoke out about censorship at NOAA.	148
Ants Leetmaa	Current director of GFDL	? years	Issued e-mail (!) correcting the previous "party line" position on hurricanes.	149
Pieter Tans	Specialist in CO2 measurement at NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado	? years	Spoke out about censorship at NOAA.	150
Kent Laborde2	Public affairs officer at NOAA headquarters	? years	Flew to Boulder, then to Mauna Loa, in order to "mind" Dr. Tans during BBC interviews at those locations.	151
Conrad Lautenbacher	NOAA administrator	? years	Attempting damage control, issued statement pledging scientific openness.	153
Paul Thacker3	Journalist	? years	Filed FOIA request that, seven months later, got him a large batch of NOAA e-mails that proved acts of censorship at NOAA, orchestrated by the White House.	153
Jana Goldman	Public affairs officer at NOAA headquarters	? years	Fielded CNBC's 19 Oct 2005 request to interview Knutson. Forwarded it up the chain, along with his probable answers.	154, 158
Chuck Fuqua	Deputy director of communications, Dept. of Commerce (oversees NOAA)	? years	Demanded to know if Knutson was "consistent with Bell and Landsea" on "global warming vs. decadal cycles."	154
Chris Landsea4	Science and Operations Director at National Hurricane Center	? years	Denies the possibility that global warming may significantly increase the frequency and/or intensity of hurricanes.	154
Jordan St. John	NOAA director of public affairs	? years	Discounted an agency scientist's research because it was "off-message."	155
Scott Smullen	NOAA deputy director of public affairs	? years	Queried a Commerce Department press officer about authorizing an interview with an "on-message" scientist.	156
Catherine Trinh	Commerce Department press officer	? years	Denied Smullen's request to allow Max Mayfield to interview. Gave no reason.	156
Catherine Trinh	Commerce Department press officer	? years	Denied Smullen's request to allow Max Mayfield to interview. Gave no reason. If I may speculate (and I may), it's fairly clear that the White House was chary of any coverage, as this refusal occurred between the impacts of hurricanes Katrina and Rita on the Gulf Coast.	156
Jim Teet	A recent addition to NOAA's public affairs staff	? years	One week after Rita's landfall, directed agency employees that all requests for interviews must go, through him, to Commerce. Added that any follow-up inquiries should be passed to him for reply by cell phone.	156-157
Rick Rosen	Head of research at NOAA	? years	Said the directive that all "significant" papers be tracked from the time they were submitted for publication would satisfy both himself and Dr. James Mahoney, Commerce Department assistant secretary for oceans and atmosphere.	158
Ronald Stouffer	GFDL climate modeler and colleague of Dr. Knutson	? years	Estimated that NOAA's "pocket veto" (the delay in approving interviews) cut his media requests by half.	159
David Baltimore	Outgoing president of CalTech; Nobel laureate; president-elect of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) — in short, eminent scientist	? years	At AAAS annual meeting, 18 Feb 2006, spoke out against "the widespread suppression of science under the Bush administration."	160
Dr. Susan Wood	Former director of the FDA Office of Women's Health	? years	At the same AAAS session, described administration meddling with science at that agency. Received a standing ovation when she told how she resigned in protest the previous August.	160
Brian Hannegan	A CEQ associate of Philip Cooney	? years	A memo from the 2007 hearings of the House Oversight Committee revealed that he and Cooney made at least 294 edits to the Strategic Plan of the Climate Change Science Program in order to magnify the uncertainty of the science and minimize the allegations of danger from human activities.	163
Louis Clark	President of the Government Accountability Project (GAP)	? years	The GAP supported Hansen's disclosures of suppression and gave him good legal advice. But eventually they began to demand too much of his time.	166
Tom Devine	GAP's legal director	? years	Told Hansen that the organization and its whistleblower clients had lost some "122 out of 123 cases."	166
John Mercer	Ohio State University scientist, mentor to Lonnie Thompson	? years	Prophetically warned in the 1960s that global warming might endanger the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.	167
Isabella Velicogna	Scientist with JPL and the University of Colorado	? years	Using the GRACE satellites, found with John Wahr of U-CO that the mass of Antarctica's ice sheets had decreased from 2002 to 2005.	172
Pannir Kanagaratnam	University of Kansas researcher	? years	With Eric Rignot of JPL, used satellite-based radar interferometry to track the movement of the Greenland ice sheets. They found that the ice sheets had begun moving faster in the previous few years, and that the change was progressing northward.	156-157
Jonathan Overpeck	University of Arizona researcher	? years	Led a study group that showed sea levels of the Eemian interglacial stage, about 130,000 years ago, were several meters higher than today's. Then, using computer simulations, they found that we are on track for temperatures as high as those of the Eemian sometime this century.	156-157
Donald Kennedy	Editor in chief of Science magazine	? years	Editorialized in a special issue of the magazine that "accelerated glacial melting and larger changes in sea level (for example) should be looked at as probable events, not as hypothetical possibilities."	173
Hamilton Fish	President of the Nation Institute (an organization affiliated with the Government Accountability Project.)	? years	Hansen wrote to Fish explaining his reasons for declining the GAP's Ron Ridenour Truth-telling Prize. (Ridenour was the man who blew the whistle on the My Lai Massacre.)	175
Robert Cobb	NASA inspector general; also ethics advisor to Alberto Gonzalez when AG was White House Counsel	? years	Asked by Congress in the fall of 2006 to investigate the allegations of censorship. An underling to Cobb told Bowen in January 2007 that the report would be out "in a matter of weeks." Several months later, there was no sign of it. An April 2007 Associated Press story reported that Cobb was tight with high officials including Sean O'Keefe. The President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency found that he had "quashed" an embarrassing report on the Columbia shuttle disaster.	180-181
Ralph Cicerone	President of the National Academy of Sciences; atmospheric chemist	? years	Interviewed 19 March 2007 by Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes, confirmed Hansen's conclusion that global warming is happening and that humans are causing it.	182-183
George Will	Conservative columnist	? years	On ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, called global warming a creation of the liberal media. To buttress his claim, read from a decades-old article in Time that predicted an imminent ice age.	184
Robert Novak	Conservative columnist	? years	Using the time-honored technique of repetition, attacked global warming using "facts" found in Mark Morano's hit pieces and Michael Crichton's 2004 novel State of Fear.	184
Michael Crichton	Holds M.D. degree; author of several well-received science-fiction novels — and State of Fear	? years	Crichton claimed that the technical references in State of Fear were accurate. Extensive footnoting and a bibliography gave this claim superficial plausibility. Bowen observes that a deeper look shows these sources to be mostly from the denier side of the debate. Crichton stated that Hansen's 1988 prediction of the effect of global warming was "wrong by 300 percent." In fact, this "prediction" was merely the worst case of three scenarios projected by Hansen, and actual changes over the next 18 years closely matched his "business as usual" scenario.	184-185
James Inhofe	Oklahoma Senator; then chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works	? years	Called on Crichton to provide "expert testimony" in one of his fall 2005 hearings on climate science. Inhofe has stated that global warming is "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people." He was so impressed with Mark Morano's work that he hired him in June 2006 as communications director for his committee.	185
Patrick Michaels	Official climatologist for the state of Virginia	? years	Michaels was the original fabricator of Crichton's claim about Hansen's 1988 study. He presented it in testimony to Congress in 1998. Timothy Kaine, Virginia's governor, asked him in fall 2006 to make it clear that his views on climate are not endorsed by the State. This followed closely on the revelation that Michaels received more than $100,000 from a consortium of western coal companies in 2005.	187
Robert Jastrow	Influential physicist, founder of GISS	? years	Brilliant and feisty, Dr. Jastrow made important contributions to scientific understanding. But in his later years he espoused outré concepts such as the imminent replacement of humanity by artificial intelligences it created. In 1989, under the auspices of the George C. Marshall Institute (which he had helped found), he wrote an unrefereed paper with Frederick Seitz and William Nierenberg. According to Bowen, this paper asserted "that no one knew enough to say anything definite about climate" and laid the recent pattern of temperature changes to variation in the Sun's brightness.	191, 233-4
MIchael MacCracken	Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory during the Reagan administration	? years	Mistakenly criticized 1981 GISS paper by assuming low, invalid value of climate sensitivity. This criticism led Koomanoff to cut funding for GISS.	216-19, 286
Ichtiaque Rasool	Reportedly James Hansen's mentor at NASA headquarters during the Reagan years	? years	Questioned Hansen's integrity in a letter to Climatic Change. Later, at a meeting concerned with Rasool's push for an agency-wide climate change program, he made the statement that no respectable scientist would connect the current heat wave with global warming.	216, 223
Fred Koomanoff	Apparently put in charge of GISS funding in 1981	? years	Apparently very stingy with that funding. Details are few in the book. Googling is no help; it reveals only that Koomanoff is associated with the Department of Energy.	216, 222, 271
John Sununu	Chief of staff to George H. W. Bush (1989-91); former mechanical engineer; former 3-term governor of New Hampshire; co-host of Crossfire, 1992-98	? years	Opposed Hansen's outspokenness; frequently showed The Greening of Planet Earth, a film that claimed global warming would beneficially boost agriculture. The film was produced by the Western Fuels Association.	228, 237
Richard Kerr	Reporter for Science	? years	Wrote somewhat skeptical story on Hansen in 1989; by June 2007, was reporting Hansen at the head of a crowd.	229, 287
Frederick Seitz	President emeritus of Rockefeller University; past president of the National Academy of Sciences	? years	Accepted roughly $600,000 from the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company to direct $45M in RJR funding into Rockefeller University medical research on anything but the health effects of cigarette smoking.	233, 238
William Nierenberg	Director emeritus of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography	? years	Co-author of the solar variability report with Seitz and Jastrow. Sununu called him in for a briefing on it.	233-4
Richard Lindzen	Atmospheric scientist at MIT	? years	Obstinately clings to a theory that water vapor will act as a negative feedback, stabilizing the Earth's temperature. Virtually no other scientist believes this. Lindzen is a smoker, and also denies any connection between smoking and lung cancer.	234
Hugh Ellsaesser	Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	? years	A noted global-warming denier. Accepted Hansen's $100 wager that at least one of the years 1990 to 1992 would be the hottest of the previous century. Promptly lost.	241-2
Mark Cane	Expert on El Niño	? years	Told Bowen scientists are 99 percent sure of AGW. "You need a Rube Goldberg device to get you out of it."	262-3, 275
Sherwood Roland	Nobel laureate for work on atmospheric ozone chemistry	? years	One of 12 scientists (including James Hansen) joining amicus curiae brief on behalf of the plaintiffs in lawsuit filed against EPA by State of Massachusetts.	277
Mario Molina	Nobel laureate for work on atmospheric ozone chemistry	? years	One of 12 scientists (including James Hansen) joining amicus curiae brief on behalf of the plaintiffs in lawsuit filed against EPA by State of Massachusetts.	277
Sir John Houghton	Lead author of the 2001 IPCC phase I report	? years	Originated the outreach to U.S. scientists and evangelicals.	278
Joel Hunter	Pastor of Florida "megachurch" with congregation of 7,000	? years	Participant in Thomasville, GA retreat, December 2006, between U.S. scientists and evangelicals.	278
Reverend Richard Cizik	Vice president for governmental affairs, National Association of Evangelicals	? years	Participant in Thomasville, GA retreat, December 2006, between 28 U.S. scientists and evangelicals. Joined in signing "An Urgent Call to Action," the retreat's statement about global warming, but was pressured by NAE to remove name from final draft.	278
Scott Luthcke	GSFC scientist; leader of one of three groups analyzing GRACE satellite data.	? years	Developed unique method of analysis providing much finer spatial resolution of ice-sheet changes.	279
Stefan Rahmstorf	Scientist with Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany	? years	Co-author with Hansen & others of a 2007 "brevia" putting bounds on sea-level rise.	286
Robert Thomas	NASA glaciologist	? years	Strenuously proclaims a warning more dire than most about sea-level rise.	287
Edward Markey	Massachusetts congressman; head of Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming	? years	Held hearing, heard Hansen.	289
John Dingell	Democratic representative from Michigan; traditionally a friend of the auto industry	? years	First official to propose a carbon tax, summer 2007.	302
Tarek Maasarani	Staffer with Government Accountability Project	? years	Wrote the report "Redacting the Science of Climate Change".	307

Official

Role

Tenure

Action

Source

James E. Hansen

Director, Goddard Institute of Space Studies

30+ years

Consistently warned of the need for action about global warming.

Michael Oppenheimer

Chief atmospheric scientist, Environmental Defense Fund

? years

Recognized early how much of a setback Bush administration policies are.

1, 104

George W. Bush

President of U.S.

8 years

TBS

1, 8

Christine Todd Whitman

Director, Environmental Protection Agency

2+ years

Blind-sided by Bush on effective action to reduce CO2 emissions.

1, 102-5

Charles David Keeling

Environmental scientist

? years

Set up first CO₂ monitoring station on Mauna Kea.

Ralph Keeling

Environmental scientist, son of Charles

? years

TBS

2, 4

Anniek Hansen

Wife of James

? years

TBS

Darnell Cain

James Hansen's research assistant

? years

Fielded threatening phone calls from NASA about Hansen's Iowa speech.

3, 131

Paul Crutzen

Nobel laureate for his work on atmospheric ozone chemistry

? years

Told Hansen that his presentation was just the sort needed.

Leslie McCarthy

PAO, Goddard Institute of Space Studies

? years

Did her best to work around censorship orders.

6, 11, 15, 21-25, 28-32, 35+

Bill Clinton

Former U.S. president

8 years

Supported action on global warming.

Harlan Watson

Chief negotiator, ?

? years

Blocked action on global warming.

9, 20

Eli Kintisch

Reporter, Science magazine

? years

Requested 2005 temperature data from Leslie McCarthy. Got it from Hansen when the year's dataset was complete and checked.

11, 25

Bill Blakemore

Reporter, ABC News

? years

Reported frequently on the developing story.

11, 20, 25, 27-8, 30+

Granger Morgan

CMU physicist and science policy expert

? years

Did study of the scientific consensus on global warming.

Don Savage

Deputy chief PAO, GSFC

? years

Advised Bowen that climate science was the really sensitive subject at GSFC and NASA HQ.

George Deutsch

NASA HQ flunky

? years

Too much to cover here. Just Google it, or use the index.

16+

David Mould

NASA assistant administrator for public affairs

? years

Eventually replaced Glenn Mahone. He was better, but still a censor.

Dean Acosta

NASA deputy assistant administrator for public affairs

? years

Followed censorship policies.

Michael Griffin

NASA Administrator; former aerospace engineer

3 years & counting

Issued pledge of scientific openness, but left loopholes. Reputedly disrespected scientists generally. Unilaterally cut budgets for EOS.

17, 96, 141, 164-72, 282-4

Dr. Mary Cleave

Associate administrator, NASA HQ Science Mission

? years

Not mentioned much, but apparently a good guy.

17, 48-9

Dolores Beasley

Deputy PAO, GSFC

? years

Had frequent run-ins with Deutsch, who reported to her. When she was away for a 3-week TDY to FEMA, he... played.

17, 66-7, 81-2

Dwayne Brown

Replaced Dolores Beasley soon after Deutsch arrived.

? years

A good guy: played in a band, didn't like the "politicals." Known as a "survivor" who would "walk a tightrope" to get along.

Colleen Hartman

Deputy to Mary Cleave

? years

Like her boss, was officially tasked to sub for Hansen in interviews, but apparently never did.

Ed Campion

"News chief" at GSFC

? years

Not mentioned much, but apparently a good guy.

Clayton Sandell

ABC News producer

? years

Sought someone at GSFC to interview.

Waleed Abdalati

GSFC scientist specializing in polar ice

? years

TBS

E. O. Wilson

Harvard biologist

? years

TBS

Larry Travis

Deputy director, GISS

? years

TBS

Dr. Ed Weiler

Held various administrative positions at NASA HQ while serving as HST chief scientist; ultimately became director of GSFC.

30+ years

Helped loosen up PAO policies.

30-32

Jason Sharp

Assistant to David Mould

? years

TBS

Franco Einaudi

Earth sciences director, GSFC (Hansen's boss)

? years

TBS

Gavin Schmidt

Climate modeler, GISS

? years

TBS

36, 125

Mark Hess

PAO, GSFC

? years

TBS

36, 37

Dr. Laurie Leshin

Director of Science & Exploration, GSFC

? years

TBS

Joe Davis

Director, NASA Strategic Communications

? years

TBS

Spencer Abraham

Bush's first secretary of energy

? years

As a Senator from Michigan, blocked Clinton administration efforts for stronger CAFE standards.

Mark Morano

Writer for Cybercast News Service; former producer for Rush Limbaugh

? years

Wrote hit pieces on Hansen.

47, 183, 185

Al Gore

Senator from Tennessee

? years

Advocate of measures to control global warming

Scott Pelley

Reporter, 60 Minutes

? years

TBS

Larry King

CNN talk show host

? years

TBS

Norman Pearlstine

Editor in chief, Time

? years

TBS

Juliet Eilperin

Lead reporter on global warming, Washington Post

? years

TBS

David Rind

Climate modeler, GISS

? years

TBS

Andrew Revkin

Lead AGW correspondent, New York Times

? years

TBS

Makiko Sato

Scientist, GISS

? years

TBS

Sherwood Boehlert

Chair, House Science Committee; R-NY

? years

Advocated scientific integrity via press release and letter to Michael Griffin.

David Goldston

Boehlert's chief of staff

? years

TBS

Paul Morrell

Griffin's chief of staff

? years

TBS

64, 88

Shana Dale

NASA Deputy Administrator

? years

Announced new Office of Communications Planning, headed by Robert Hopkins.

64, 87, 180

Susan Collins

Senator from Maine; chaired Homeland Security & Government Affairs Committee

? years

In conjunction with Joe Lieberman, wrote to Mike Griffin concerning the allegations of censorship.

65, 179

Joseph Lieberman

Senator from Connecticut

? years

TBS

65, 179

Flint Wild

NASA Web designer

? years

TBS

Mark Kuchner

GSFC astrophysicist

? years

TBS

Erica Hupp

PAO employee, GSFC

? years

TBS

Brian Berger

Reporter, Space News

? years

TBS

Rick Piltz

Former CCSP employee

? years

Resigned in protest; started Climate Science Watch.

69, 162

Tom Ashbrook

Host of NPR's "On Point"

? years

TBS

James van Allen

Astronomy professor & pioneer space researcher, University of Iowa

? years

A mentor to James Hansen, and facilitated his "Iowa speech."

73, 129

Satoshi Matsushima

Astronomy professor, U of Iowa

? years

TBS

Andy Lacis

Student at U of Iowa with Hansen

? years

TBS

Linke

Czechoslovak astronomer

? years

Developed light-scattering theory used by Hansen to estimate output of dust & aerosols from spring 1963 eruption of Mount Agung in Indonesia. (Not indexed)

Benjamin Franklin

Founding father

? years

Pointed out the parasol effect in 1784. (Not indexed)

Carl Sagan

Space scientist and science popularizer

? years

TBS

Jay Zwally

Veteran climate scientist, GSFC; in 1974, began developing ways to measure polar ice by satellite. His efforts led to ICESat, launched in 2003.

30+ years

Published a study in March 2006 showing signs of warming in the polar regions. The direly-worded press release, titled "Impact of Climate Warming on Polar Ice Sheets Confirmed," sailed through the PAO obstacle course.

80, 166-72

Nick Anthis

Graduate student, Oxford

? years

Posted on blog that Geo. Deutsch had no degree from Texas A&M.

Johannes Loschnigg

Staff, House Science Committee?

? years

Educated Bowen about NASA budgets.

87, 310

Brian Chase

NASA assistant administrator for legislative affairs

? years

TBS

J. T. Jezierski

PAO employee, GSFC

? years

TBS

88, 134

Chuck Atkins

Democratic staffer, House

? years

TBS

James Connaughton

"unabashed" chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality

? years

Led White House Task Force on Energy Project Streamlining

106

John Marburger

Director of OSTP

? years

Marginalized

107

Katherine Seelye

NYT colleague of Andrew Revkin

? years

TBS

111

Philip Cooney

Connaughton's chief of staff

? years

TBS

112

Myron Ebell

Competitive Enterprise Institute

? years

TBS

112

Willie Soon

American Petroleum Institute-funded global warming denier

? years

Paper in Climate Research challenged IPCC results.

113

Sallie Baliunas

American Petroleum Institute-funded global warming denier

? years

Paper in Climate Research challenged IPCC results.

113

Kevin O'Donovan

Cheney's special assistant for domestic policy

? years

TBS

114

Henry Waxman

House Oversight Committee chairman

? years

TBS

114

John Yarmouth

House member from Kentucky

? years

TBS

114

Sean O'Keefe

NASA administrator (Dec. 2001-Feb. 2005)

? years

The only NASA administrator with no scientific or engineering background; his experience was in finance and budgeting. He was reputedly vice president Cheney's friend and protégé.

115

Glenn Mahone

NASA assistant administrator for public affairs (Mould's predecessor)

? years

Joined NASA as a Democrat. Switched to Republican when O'Keefe came in to save his job. A "political" par excellence.

116

David Steitz

Lead PAO for Earth Science, GSFC

10+ years

Fed up with being muzzled by Mahone, says Bowen, "Steitz decided he wanted out." (p. 119) But it's not clear whether he actually did resign.

116, 119

Jennifer Wood

Mahone's special assistant

? years

TBS

116

Dana Perino

CEQ spokesperson (now WH press sec'y)

? years

TBS

116

Tony Snow

WH press secretary (Perino's predecessor)

? years

TBS

117

Dr. Tong Lee

JPL scientist

? years

Duped into approving WH-doctored press release

118

Gretchen Cook-Anderson

Director, NASA education division

? years

Developed school-visits plan with no input from her division. The plan, intended to sell Bush's Moon/Mars vision, was called "pointless." (But she soon began to quietly revolt.)

119, 120

Dan Carpenter

former JSC public affairs director

? years

Heard to say something should be done about the pointless plan, lost job within months.

119

Rob Gutro

Science writer at GSFC

? years

Took pride in conveying scientific ideas accurately and clearly to the public.

122

Robert Hopkins

Communications director, OSTP (a former Midwest spokesman for Bush 2000)

? years

Held weekly meetings with NASA PAO teams.

124

Drew Shindell

Climate modeler, GISS

? years

His Geophysical Research Letters paper on Antarctica, w. Gavin Schmidt, was ordered "softened."

125, 126

Krishna Ramanujan

Science writer at GSFC

? years

Took pride in conveying scientific ideas accurately and clearly to the public.

126

Ghassem Asrar

NASA deputy associate administrator for Earth science

? years

Colleagues say he "softened" press releases and presentations.

128

John McCain

Prospective Republican presidential candidate, 2000

? years

Would have been Hansen's choice, had he run in 2004.

130

John Kerry

Democratic Party candidate for president, 2004

? years

Preferred by Hansen over Bush.

130

Andrew Falcon

NASA associate general counsel

? years

Allegedly made the phone calls threatening Hansen with "Hatch Act punishment."

128

Kay Coles James

Member of NASA advisory council; former dean of Regent University school of government; former director of U.S. Office of Personnel Management

? years

Apparently involved in placing people like Deutsch and Jezierski and Goodling.

135

Monica Goodling

Regent University graduate; former White House liaison at Justice Department

? years

TBS

135

Crystal Jezierski

Director of liaison office at Justice Department; wife of J. T. Jezierski

? years

TBS

135

Jane Cherry

former assistant to Karl Rove; replaced J. T. Jezierski at NASA

? years

TBS

135

Mark Serreze

University of Colorado scientist

? years

Comments on polar cap shrinkage.

139

Svante Arrhenius

Swedish physical chemist

? years

Developed first theory of global warming, including polar-cap positive feedback.

140

Kerry Emanuel

MIT meteorologist

? years

Two weeks before Katrina, published paper in Nature that tied warmer sea water to stronger hurricanes. Later, in talk at AGU meeting, spoke of censorship at NOAA, received standing ovation.

145

Gerry Bell

NOAA's lead seasonal hurricane forecaster

? years

Stayed on message with reporters: 2005 hurricane season has nothing to do with global warming.

146

Max Mayfield

Director of the National Hurricane Center's Tropical Prediction Center

? years

Stayed on message with reporters: 2005 hurricane season has nothing to do with global warming.

146

Thomas Knutson

Scientist at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL)

? years

Co-author of 2004 paper tying greenhouse gases to increase in "highly destructive category-5 storms."

147

Robert Tuleya1

Retired from GFDL in 2002; now at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia

31 years

Co-author of 2004 paper tying greenhouse gases to increase in "highly destructive category-5 storms."

147

John von Neumann

Hungarian mathematician

? years

Helped design one of the first computers; used it for climate modeling.

147

Jerry Mahlman

Former director of GFDL

? years

Spoke out about censorship at NOAA.

148

Judith Curry

Faculty member at Georgia Tech

? years

Spoke out about censorship at NOAA.

148

Ants Leetmaa

Current director of GFDL

? years

Issued e-mail (!) correcting the previous "party line" position on hurricanes.

149

Pieter Tans

Specialist in CO2 measurement at NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado

? years

Spoke out about censorship at NOAA.

150

Kent Laborde2

Public affairs officer at NOAA headquarters

? years

Flew to Boulder, then to Mauna Loa, in order to "mind" Dr. Tans during BBC interviews at those locations.

151

Conrad Lautenbacher

NOAA administrator

? years

Attempting damage control, issued statement pledging scientific openness.

153

Paul Thacker3

Journalist

? years

Filed FOIA request that, seven months later, got him a large batch of NOAA e-mails that proved acts of censorship at NOAA, orchestrated by the White House.

153

Jana Goldman

Public affairs officer at NOAA headquarters

? years

Fielded CNBC's 19 Oct 2005 request to interview Knutson. Forwarded it up the chain, along with his probable answers.

154, 158

Chuck Fuqua

Deputy director of communications, Dept. of Commerce (oversees NOAA)

? years

Demanded to know if Knutson was "consistent with Bell and Landsea" on "global warming vs. decadal cycles."

154

Chris Landsea4

Science and Operations Director at National Hurricane Center

? years

Denies the possibility that global warming may significantly increase the frequency and/or intensity of hurricanes.

154

Jordan St. John

NOAA director of public affairs

? years

Discounted an agency scientist's research because it was "off-message."

155

Scott Smullen

NOAA deputy director of public affairs

? years

Queried a Commerce Department press officer about authorizing an interview with an "on-message" scientist.

156

Catherine Trinh

Commerce Department press officer

? years

Denied Smullen's request to allow Max Mayfield to interview. Gave no reason.

156

Catherine Trinh

Commerce Department press officer

? years

Denied Smullen's request to allow Max Mayfield to interview. Gave no reason. If I may speculate (and I may), it's fairly clear that the White House was chary of any coverage, as this refusal occurred between the impacts of hurricanes Katrina and Rita on the Gulf Coast.

156

Jim Teet

A recent addition to NOAA's public affairs staff

? years

One week after Rita's landfall, directed agency employees that all requests for interviews must go, through him, to Commerce. Added that any follow-up inquiries should be passed to him for reply by cell phone.

156-157

Rick Rosen

Head of research at NOAA

? years

Said the directive that all "significant" papers be tracked from the time they were submitted for publication would satisfy both himself and Dr. James Mahoney, Commerce Department assistant secretary for oceans and atmosphere.

158

Ronald Stouffer

GFDL climate modeler and colleague of Dr. Knutson

? years

Estimated that NOAA's "pocket veto" (the delay in approving interviews) cut his media requests by half.

159

David Baltimore

Outgoing president of CalTech; Nobel laureate; president-elect of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) — in short, eminent scientist

? years

At AAAS annual meeting, 18 Feb 2006, spoke out against "the widespread suppression of science under the Bush administration."

160

Dr. Susan Wood

Former director of the FDA Office of Women's Health

? years

At the same AAAS session, described administration meddling with science at that agency. Received a standing ovation when she told how she resigned in protest the previous August.

160

Brian Hannegan

A CEQ associate of Philip Cooney

? years

A memo from the 2007 hearings of the House Oversight Committee revealed that he and Cooney made at least 294 edits to the Strategic Plan of the Climate Change Science Program in order to magnify the uncertainty of the science and minimize the allegations of danger from human activities.

163

Louis Clark

President of the Government Accountability Project (GAP)

? years

The GAP supported Hansen's disclosures of suppression and gave him good legal advice. But eventually they began to demand too much of his time.

166

Tom Devine

GAP's legal director

? years

Told Hansen that the organization and its whistleblower clients had lost some "122 out of 123 cases."

166

John Mercer

Ohio State University scientist, mentor to Lonnie Thompson

? years

Prophetically warned in the 1960s that global warming might endanger the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

167

Isabella Velicogna

Scientist with JPL and the University of Colorado

? years

Using the GRACE satellites, found with John Wahr of U-CO that the mass of Antarctica's ice sheets had decreased from 2002 to 2005.

172

Pannir Kanagaratnam

University of Kansas researcher

? years

With Eric Rignot of JPL, used satellite-based radar interferometry to track the movement of the Greenland ice sheets. They found that the ice sheets had begun moving faster in the previous few years, and that the change was progressing northward.

156-157

Jonathan Overpeck

University of Arizona researcher

? years

Led a study group that showed sea levels of the Eemian interglacial stage, about 130,000 years ago, were several meters higher than today's. Then, using computer simulations, they found that we are on track for temperatures as high as those of the Eemian sometime this century.

156-157

Donald Kennedy

Editor in chief of Science magazine

? years

Editorialized in a special issue of the magazine that "accelerated glacial melting and larger changes in sea level (for example) should be looked at as probable events, not as hypothetical possibilities."

173

Hamilton Fish

President of the Nation Institute (an organization affiliated with the Government Accountability Project.)

? years

Hansen wrote to Fish explaining his reasons for declining the GAP's Ron Ridenour Truth-telling Prize. (Ridenour was the man who blew the whistle on the My Lai Massacre.)

175

Robert Cobb

NASA inspector general; also ethics advisor to Alberto Gonzalez when AG was White House Counsel

? years

Asked by Congress in the fall of 2006 to investigate the allegations of censorship. An underling to Cobb told Bowen in January 2007 that the report would be out "in a matter of weeks." Several months later, there was no sign of it. An April 2007 Associated Press story reported that Cobb was tight with high officials including Sean O'Keefe. The President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency found that he had "quashed" an embarrassing report on the Columbia shuttle disaster.

180-181

Ralph Cicerone

President of the National Academy of Sciences; atmospheric chemist

? years

Interviewed 19 March 2007 by Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes, confirmed Hansen's conclusion that global warming is happening and that humans are causing it.

182-183

George Will

Conservative columnist

? years

On ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, called global warming a creation of the liberal media. To buttress his claim, read from a decades-old article in Time that predicted an imminent ice age.

184

Robert Novak

Conservative columnist

? years

Using the time-honored technique of repetition, attacked global warming using "facts" found in Mark Morano's hit pieces and Michael Crichton's 2004 novel State of Fear.

184

Michael Crichton

Holds M.D. degree; author of several well-received science-fiction novels — and State of Fear

? years

Crichton claimed that the technical references in State of Fear were accurate. Extensive footnoting and a bibliography gave this claim superficial plausibility. Bowen observes that a deeper look shows these sources to be mostly from the denier side of the debate. Crichton stated that Hansen's 1988 prediction of the effect of global warming was "wrong by 300 percent." In fact, this "prediction" was merely the worst case of three scenarios projected by Hansen, and actual changes over the next 18 years closely matched his "business as usual" scenario.

184-185

James Inhofe

Oklahoma Senator; then chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works

? years

Called on Crichton to provide "expert testimony" in one of his fall 2005 hearings on climate science. Inhofe has stated that global warming is "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people." He was so impressed with Mark Morano's work that he hired him in June 2006 as communications director for his committee.

185

Patrick Michaels

Official climatologist for the state of Virginia

? years

Michaels was the original fabricator of Crichton's claim about Hansen's 1988 study. He presented it in testimony to Congress in 1998. Timothy Kaine, Virginia's governor, asked him in fall 2006 to make it clear that his views on climate are not endorsed by the State. This followed closely on the revelation that Michaels received more than $100,000 from a consortium of western coal companies in 2005.

187

Robert Jastrow

Influential physicist, founder of GISS

? years

Brilliant and feisty, Dr. Jastrow made important contributions to scientific understanding. But in his later years he espoused outré concepts such as the imminent replacement of humanity by artificial intelligences it created. In 1989, under the auspices of the George C. Marshall Institute (which he had helped found), he wrote an unrefereed paper with Frederick Seitz and William Nierenberg. According to Bowen, this paper asserted "that no one knew enough to say anything definite about climate" and laid the recent pattern of temperature changes to variation in the Sun's brightness.

191, 233-4

MIchael MacCracken

Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory during the Reagan administration

? years

Mistakenly criticized 1981 GISS paper by assuming low, invalid value of climate sensitivity. This criticism led Koomanoff to cut funding for GISS.

216-19, 286

Ichtiaque Rasool

Reportedly James Hansen's mentor at NASA headquarters during the Reagan years

? years

Questioned Hansen's integrity in a letter to Climatic Change. Later, at a meeting concerned with Rasool's push for an agency-wide climate change program, he made the statement that no respectable scientist would connect the current heat wave with global warming.

216, 223

Fred Koomanoff

Apparently put in charge of GISS funding in 1981

? years

Apparently very stingy with that funding. Details are few in the book. Googling is no help; it reveals only that Koomanoff is associated with the Department of Energy.

216, 222, 271

John Sununu

Chief of staff to George H. W. Bush (1989-91); former mechanical engineer; former 3-term governor of New Hampshire; co-host of Crossfire, 1992-98

? years

Opposed Hansen's outspokenness; frequently showed The Greening of Planet Earth, a film that claimed global warming would beneficially boost agriculture. The film was produced by the Western Fuels Association.

228, 237

Richard Kerr

Reporter for Science

? years

Wrote somewhat skeptical story on Hansen in 1989; by June 2007, was reporting Hansen at the head of a crowd.

229, 287

Frederick Seitz

President emeritus of Rockefeller University; past president of the National Academy of Sciences

? years

Accepted roughly $600,000 from the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company to direct $45M in RJR funding into Rockefeller University medical research on anything but the health effects of cigarette smoking.

233, 238

William Nierenberg

Director emeritus of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography

? years

Co-author of the solar variability report with Seitz and Jastrow. Sununu called him in for a briefing on it.

233-4

Richard Lindzen

Atmospheric scientist at MIT

? years

Obstinately clings to a theory that water vapor will act as a negative feedback, stabilizing the Earth's temperature. Virtually no other scientist believes this. Lindzen is a smoker, and also denies any connection between smoking and lung cancer.

234

Hugh Ellsaesser

Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

? years

A noted global-warming denier. Accepted Hansen's $100 wager that at least one of the years 1990 to 1992 would be the hottest of the previous century. Promptly lost.

241-2

Mark Cane

Expert on El Niño

? years

Told Bowen scientists are 99 percent sure of AGW. "You need a Rube Goldberg device to get you out of it."

262-3, 275

Sherwood Roland

Nobel laureate for work on atmospheric ozone chemistry

? years

One of 12 scientists (including James Hansen) joining amicus curiae brief on behalf of the plaintiffs in lawsuit filed against EPA by State of Massachusetts.

277

Mario Molina

Nobel laureate for work on atmospheric ozone chemistry

? years

One of 12 scientists (including James Hansen) joining amicus curiae brief on behalf of the plaintiffs in lawsuit filed against EPA by State of Massachusetts.

277

Sir John Houghton

Lead author of the 2001 IPCC phase I report

? years

Originated the outreach to U.S. scientists and evangelicals.

278

Joel Hunter

Pastor of Florida "megachurch" with congregation of 7,000

? years

Participant in Thomasville, GA retreat, December 2006, between U.S. scientists and evangelicals.

278

Reverend Richard Cizik

Vice president for governmental affairs, National Association of Evangelicals

? years

Participant in Thomasville, GA retreat, December 2006, between 28 U.S. scientists and evangelicals. Joined in signing "An Urgent Call to Action," the retreat's statement about global warming, but was pressured by NAE to remove name from final draft.

278

Scott Luthcke

GSFC scientist; leader of one of three groups analyzing GRACE satellite data.

? years

Developed unique method of analysis providing much finer spatial resolution of ice-sheet changes.

279

Stefan Rahmstorf

Scientist with Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany

? years

Co-author with Hansen & others of a 2007 "brevia" putting bounds on sea-level rise.

286

Robert Thomas

NASA glaciologist

? years

Strenuously proclaims a warning more dire than most about sea-level rise.

287

Edward Markey

Massachusetts congressman; head of Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming

? years

Held hearing, heard Hansen.

289

John Dingell

Democratic representative from Michigan; traditionally a friend of the auto industry

? years

First official to propose a carbon tax, summer 2007.

302

Tarek Maasarani

Staffer with Government Accountability Project

? years

Wrote the report "Redacting the Science of Climate Change".

307

1 Dr. Tuleya is not part of the regular ODU faculty; he is a contractor for NOAA at the Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, which is affiliated with ODU. He works on developing the next generation of weather modeling systems.

2 In another incident, Laborde went so far in August 2005 as to cancel Dr. Knutson's appearance on Ron Reagan's MSNBC television show without his knowledge. See pp. 152-3.

3 In contrast, both Thacker and Andrew Revkin filed FOIA requests with NASA in early 2006. "NASA sources describe a large effort in a number of offices that succeeded in gathering plenty of damning evidence in response," Bowen reports, "yet Revkin received nothing of value and Thacker got nothing at all." See pp. 153-4.

4 Bowen describes Chris Landsea as "one of the more intransigent deniers of the global warming connection." In a famous January 2005 brouhaha, he demanded that the lead author of the IPCC working group report which he (Landsea) was helping to write be removed or reprimanded for telling the media that 2004's strong hurricane season "may well be a harbinger of the future." The IPCC leadership refused to bow to Landsea's demand, and he quit the group. He later claimed in his 17 January 2005 "Open Letter to the Community" (use the Wayback Machine for "http://www.lavoisier.com.au/papers/articles/landsea.html" in 2008) that this lead author (Dr. Kevin Trenberth) had irresponsibly gone beyond the science in his public statements. It's closer to the truth that Dr. Trenberth went beyond Dr. Landsea's view of the science, which does not accord with the mainstream view.

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