15 May 2017 (Alt NASA) – Thank you for supporting us. We have not been able to post because of our hostile working conditions. If you have a friend or family member working for NASA, EPA, or NPS, the stories they tell are true, it is truly a hard time. Officials have been trying […]
By PZ Myers14 May 2017 (Pharyngula) – I don’t normally read Dilbert — I’ve seen far too much of the benighted ignorant psyche of its creator — but this one was just laid out on a table at the coffee shop yesterday, and I knew I’d have to deal with it. In this one, Dilbert […]
4 May 2017 (RSF) – The 2017 World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reflects a world in which attacks on the media have become commonplace and strongmen are on the rise. We have reached the age of post-truth, propaganda, and suppression of freedoms – especially in democracies. Читать по-русски / Read […]
By Coral Davenport7 May 2017 WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency has dismissed at least five members of a major scientific review board, the latest signal of what critics call a campaign by the Trump administration to shrink the agency’s regulatory reach by reducing the role of academic research. A spokesman for the E.P.A. administrator, […]
By Juliet Eilperin 6 May 2017 (The Washington Post) – The Environmental Protection Agency has sidelined a website aimed at teaching schoolchildren about climate change, a public watchdog group has determined, as part of the agency’s efforts to align online content with the new administration’s values. When the EPA announced on April 28 that its […]
By Graham Readfearn3 May 2017 (The Guardian) – People don’t talk about how global warming has stopped, paused, or slowed down all that much any more – three consecutive hottest years on record will tend to do that to a flaky meme. But there was a time a few years ago when you couldn’t open […]
By Fran Spielman5 May 2017 CHICAGO (The Chicago Sun-Times) – Mayor Rahm Emanuel is accusing President Donald Trump of trying to erase what Al Gore has called the “inconvenient truth” about climate change, and doing his part to recoup that information. Emanuel has created a new city website titled, “Climate Change is Real.” It resurrects […]
By Clive Hamilton4 May 2017 (The Guardian) – After 200,000 years of modern humans on a 4.5 billion-year-old Earth, we have arrived at new point in history: the Anthropocene. The change has come upon us with disorienting speed. It is the kind of shift that typically takes two or three or four generations to sink […]
By Chelsea Harvey and Chris Mooney 4 May 2017 (The Washington Post) – As the Environmental Protection Agency proceeds with a large-scale update of its website, its climate change site has been taken down, pending review. But several climate scientists contacted by The Post argue that this is unnecessary. “If any errors were present, they […]
By Lena H. Sun 5 May 2017 MINNEAPOLIS (The Washington Post) – The young mother started getting advice early on from friends in the close-knit Somali immigrant community here. Don’t let your children get the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella — it causes autism, they said. Suaado Salah listened. And this spring, her 3-year-old […]
