Congress Seeks To Prevent Muzzling of Government Science
U.S. Senate bill aims to make sure federal scientists aren’t ‘muzzled’, Science
“Congressional Democrats are rallying behind a bill to protect federal scientists from attempts to interfere with scientific discourse and dissemination of research results. Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) yesterday introduced a bill (S.338) that would codify existing policies at some two dozen federal agencies. Those policies stem from a 2009 executive order from former President Barack Obama that required them to spell out how they would safeguard scientific integrity. The policies have dribbled out over the last 7 years.”
– S.338 A bill to protect scientific integrity in Federal research and policymaking, and for other purposes
– Confusion Over Federal Agency Public Information Guidelines, earlier post
– Just A Reminder: NASA Is Required To Tell Everyone What It Does, earlier post
Senator Nelson is taking a positive step, but we will have to see whether there are Republican supporters or it may not get anywhere.
This isn’t something an elected official would want to vote against. It would just look bad. I’d predict this bill to die in committee. That’s the traditional way to make an awkward bill go away without actually voting it down.
Like protecting this NOAA scientist who was muzzled during the previous administration?
https://wattsupwiththat.com…
He wasn’t muzzled; and he made clear in recent days no one at NOAA falsified data et al in any way. He was NOAA’s chief archivist, and he feels this paper and associated data weren’t archived properly; which, whether true or not, smacks more of intra-office politics inside a bureaucracy than anything else.
For you to reference a right-wing anti-science site does not speak well for you, sir.
So many from Congress have led the climate change denial stories for decades. “There are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling into their projects”. Denial limits liability.
It has now been shown however that is was the climate denying scientists (Spencer, Christie, …) who were the ones who manipulated the data to feed the false news–the nighttime temperatures were warmer than days violating all the physics.
Folks are really disappointed and angry that they have been lied to for years. How about you? Should they be muzzled for their lies? Costs to the future generations will be in the $Ts. There is a now an urgency to shift to renewables.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/…
The many comments following the article on the link you post show clearly that the discrepancy between the “NOAA” and “Met Office” data sets is an intentional misrepresentation in the graph presented by Anthony Watts, the author of the blog (not actually by John Bates, the NASA scientist). The temperature anomaly values for the two datasets were calculated based on different baselines.