Late September 2005: NOAA Asks Scientists Not to Use Term ‘Climate Change’ in Titles and Abstracts of Papers Presented at CO2 Conference

David Hofmann, a lab director at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), asks scientists who will be attending the Seventh International Carbon Dioxide Conference in Boulder not to use the term “climate change” in conference papers’ titles and abstracts. According to Pieter Tans, one of the participants, he and the other scientists ignore the request. [Washington Post, 4/6/2006]