Slow Motion Climate Change Denial At USGS
Trump officials deleting mentions of ‘climate change’ from U.S. Geological Survey press releases, Science
“In the case of the California coastline study, the press release went through the office of James Reilly, the director of USGS, a former astronaut who is attempting to minimize the consideration of climate change in agency decisions. Reilly is preparing a directive for agency scientists to use climate models that predict changes through 2040, when the effect of emissions is expected to be less severe. The New York Times first reported on the directive. At his 2018 confirmation hearing, Reilly promised to protect the agency’s scientific integrity.”
This illustrates an astronaut is not necessarily a good leader. To
be a hero requires more than being brave for a short period of time. We could have used some heroes to say NASA was going in the wrong direction, but Keith did that better than the original astronauts.
Nobody denies that climate changes. So your headline is really quite misleading.
It’s not misleading at all. There are plenty of Americans and plenty of people in our government that deny that the climate is in fact warming right now and that primary cause of that warming is the emission of green house gases from human activities. Further the fact that numerous agencies in the federal government have removed or are removing references to climate change and climate studies–something documented by numerous news agencies–is effectively climate change denial.
Again nobody denies that climate changes. You’re more than welcome to stick with “man-made global warming”.
It’s this type of obfuscation that does not do man-made global warming advocates service.
The real obfuscation or lying is in censoring real scientists to serve the fossil fuel industry.
So what about “man-made climate change”?
It is public knowledge that fossil fuel companies are using the strategy and even the public affairs company of the tobacco industry.
1-No global warming.
2-OK, global warming, but not caused by humans.
3-OK, global warming caused by humans, but too expensive to fix.
Continuing to censor real scientists – not those that have been brought off by the fossil fuel industry – will not make America great again. It is shameful that this superstitious nonsense has even crept into NASA.
MAGA_Ken –
I’m genuinely curious – at what point would you be willing to concede that anthropogenic climate change is “real”? What if all the mountain glaciers melted? What if we set consecutive records for average temperature 25 years in a row? What would convince you?
Or, is it the case that your mind is closed on this issue? No matter how many direct and indirect indicators of warming climate are documented, and no matter how many climate models agree with the observations, you can just slough it off as “natural variability”?
I believe there are studies which have, in effect, carbon dated the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide. That pretty clearly ties it to fossil fuels. And that means increased carbon dioxide isn’t a side effect of a naturally changing climate. How many more dots need to be connected to make that obvious, anthroprogenic climate change?
In any case, the story is about management directives to remove the phrase, “climate change,” from reports. How is that not denying climate change?
You’re being intentionally obtuse to try to distract from the fact that humans are causing catastrophic climate change.
Go troll elsewhere.