"A Passing: Rick Piltz, a Bush-Era Whistleblower"

"Rick Piltz, a gutsy whistleblower who revealed a pattern of politically torqued rewriting of climate science reports during the first term of President George W. Bush, died early Saturday morning after a fight with cancer.

He worked largely under the radar in his many years in the government climate science bureaucracy, but became a passionate defender of climate science and campaigner for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions as a blogger and speaker after leaving government in 2005.

A healthy democracy needs more people like Piltz. This is just as true under a Democratic administration as it was in the Bush years."

Andrew C. Revkin reports for Dot Earth in the New York Times October 19, 2014.

SEE ALSO:

"Now Congressional Republicans Are Digging Through Scientists' Grant Proposals" (Mother Jones/Climate Desk)

"The GOP Intensifies Its Attacks On The National Science Foundation" (io9)

"Scientists Leave GOP Due To Attitudes Toward Science" (Salt Lake Tribune: 8/28/13)