the climate change whistleblower rick piltz has died. piltz resigned from the us global change research program in 2005 and provided documents which revealed how the bush administration was editing government climate reports to downplay the threat of climate change. just days after the story broke in the new york times, philip cooney, the white house ficial who made the edits, resigned to return to his former job as an oil industry lobbyist. rick piltz later started the climate science watch blog at the government accountability project. this is piltz speaking in a video made by gap. the government accountability project. in the 2005, i started the climate science watch project watchdog in the federal government on how it is stealing the climate change problem -- on how it is dealing with the climate change problem. uni people on the inside saying, yes, this is what we were told. they all need a watchdog. >> rick piltz died over the weekend after a battle with cancer. this is democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm