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Another day, another attempt by Trump officials to silence scientists.
The latest egregious example of censorship is the Environmental Protection Agencys last-minute move to forbid three of their scientists from speaking on climate change at a long-planned conference focusing on the health of Rhode Islands Narragansett Bay and Watershed, the New York Times reported Sunday. Of course, the health of a major coastal watershed cant be preserved without understanding and planning for climate change.
These efforts by the Trump administration to stifle scientific research inconvenient to its corporate masters threatens all of us, climatologist Michael Mann told Think Progress. It must not be tolerated.
EPA spokesperson John Konkus an anti-science hatchetman confirmed in an email to multiple outlet that EPA scientists are attending, they simply are not presenting. Konkus is a Trump political operative with little environmental expertise, who was given unprecedented oversight to vet hundreds of millions of dollars in annual EPA grants, as we reported in September. His primary focus is cutting grants that include the words climate change, and he has already axed such life-saving grants as a clean cookstove program.
https://thinkprogress.org/epa-silences-more-scientists-25a5af44a0d4/
TexasBushwhacker
(20,202 posts)I imagine God would agree we should be good stewards of Mother Earth and leave it in better, not worse, shape for future generations.
bdamomma
(63,875 posts)and to bring "God" into the narrative what a hypocrite, I hope Mother Nature bites them back hard!
Narragansett Bay, that is a beautiful area, my home state, stifling scientists to tell the truth, these climate deniers should be prosecuted.
madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,202 posts)Because we aren't going to be here long. Assholes!
lindysalsagal
(20,692 posts)If gawd continues to matter more than people, we'll perish in an environmental wasteland. Gawd and irresponsible greed are so completely intertwined, that it literally comes down to a choice.
Irrational magic thinking will be our undoing.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Esp. the old way of sacrificing someone to the volcano gods.
Who, I have heard, are now not demanding virgins, and don't mind empty minded victims.
How can we entice Pruitt to show up for that? We don't have to tell him till the last minute he will be a key figure, but how to get him there....hmmmm.
lindysalsagal
(20,692 posts)JDC
(10,129 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,479 posts)TeamPooka
(24,229 posts)Turbineguy
(37,343 posts)the Bible on this subject. But it's pretty unequivocal.
dalton99a
(81,516 posts)to kill the peasants with
mnmoderatedem
(3,728 posts)like wind and solar? Will he embrace those then?