Rick Piltz Website Launched

For those of you who don't know of him already, Rick Piltz is one of the many science whistleblowers to run screaming from the Bush administration. I've written about him here. Formerly of the Climate Change Science Program, Piltz famously drew attention to the editing of government climate reports by White House official Philip Cooney, who subsequently resigned and, as pretty much everyone now knows, went to work for ExxonMobil. Now Piltz has launched a website, entitled "Climate Science Watch," that's full of goodies like this. For one thing, he has exposed a troubling inquiry by Senator Inhofe into the funding relationship between the National Science Foundation and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. It sounds like Joe Barton, redux. Inhofe says he's "examining the roles that the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) play in researching, analyzing, and understanding the science ...