By Anonymous, Section Interviews Posted on Wed Jun 29, 2005 at 01:38:15 PM PST
For 10 years, Rick Piltz worked for the U.S. federal program that coordinates global climate change research for NASA, the U.S. EPA, the National Science Foundation, and other federal agencies. Once called the U.S. Global Change Research Program, it was renamed by President George W. Bush as the U.S. Climate Change Science Program.
But earlier this year, Piltz--tired of climate change science being misused and abused--quit his job and started talking to the press. You can read an interview with him in the ACS journal ES&T