Let the Reality Stick begin its descent, and may blood and pain follow in its wake.

You don't get to embrace stupid, and not suffer the consequences.

That needs to be the refrain, repeated often.

From his Slate article yesterday:

Walker, however, claimed that doubt over the role of human activity in climate change “is a view shared by half the climatologists in the world. We need good science to tell us what the reality is and science could do that if politicians didn’t interfere with it.”

That is complete garbage. “Half the climatologists”? In reality, at least 97 percent of climatologists agree that humans cause global warming, and the data show you can’t explain the current rising temperatures without human influence.

The final wail from the ghost of Orwell is that last sentence by Walker. He’s a politician, and he’s interfering with science.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2016/11/23/trump_advisor_says_administration_will_eliminate_nasa_climate_research.html

n/t

Ocean water on both sides of it.

and see if it's empty

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If it hasn't already shrunken to pea-size, that is.

Also creating politicized science?

connectivity.. as in humans to climate change. They gave him a word most of his voters wouldn't recognize. All good!

these people are seriously insane.

What are you afraid of, Mr. asshole non-president?

Maybe our climate scientists could defect to more enlightened territories.

More like inconvenient.

fucked, we are.

(Based on a study that found 4 authors out of 70,000 published scientific papers questioning anthropogenic climate change.)

How bizarre that these people want to screw scientists and the planet and are so blatant about it. Even more bizarre, the american public lets them get away with it.

One potential (and likely) consequence of this is that other nations will pick up the space-based Earth climate analysis and will dominate the US in these areas of science. America's pre-eminence in science will be ceded to others and the U.S. will become a second or third tier nation in terms of scientific leadership and pace-setting.

I'm really looking forward to watching the loyal opposition not doing much opposing besides a few members.


How on earth did we ever get some consensus on banning CFCs, that would never ever happen today because you could find one kook with a degree who says they are fine and then the science is "disputed". Oh, I can answer my own question, that was before all Republicans were batshit crazy.

Peace

Just as long as they can spell "scientist" and are willing to parrot the GOP party line (for a fee, of course) they count as "reliable sources which contradict politically motivated results."

Everyone knew and accepted it was happening.

CO2 is like the shingles virus or something; occasional outbreaks (natural disasters), but unseen or under appreciated.

In their eyes, any agency that measures climate change is politicizing the issue. They don't believe in unbiased facts.

"Oh, NOAA? Here's some stuff we really don't want done and that we won't give you any money to do. Oh, and by the way, we are cutting your budget too!"

Watch as the shell game is used to completely destroy climate research in the USA. And it won't be just NASA, it will be all the university scientists supported by grants from federal agencies. That both kills off research and training of the next generation of scientists. 4 years is probably survivable, if Dems gain everything back and reverse things. 8 years and we will be ruined.

This is important research

But this still sucks for a lot of researchers.

He sounded half ways reasonable until he was unable to list an agency that wasn't politicized.

He also explained away the loss of NASA's satellite imagery with "NOAA has satellites too".

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-wednesday-edition-1.3864045/trump-adviser-wants-to-cut-nasa-climate-change-research-calls-it-politicized-science-1.3864051

Moron's on parade, as usual.

I doubt he even knows he's not in charge. Wonder who is. Koch bros, De Vos, who else?'

with Trump eliminating many environmental programs it will take our nation back decades. What are the Republicans thinking about the continue destruction of our country with the air, water and land quality. America must fight back against this. But it will only happen with voting for those for a clean environment. The Republicans certainly don't have this concern. My big concern is G. Bush wanted to turn many national parks over to mining and oil, just hope Trump does not do this.

bet he didn't pay attention in science class 50-60? years ago, he's not a very educated man.

This is like being the only sober person in the car and they won't let you drive.

I wouldn't be surprised if they also eliminate the requirement for peer review for federal grants. That way they can use federal funds for "their" research. They tried it before.

First Bush, now Trump. Our "democracy" appears to be a threat to humanity.

Prohibition against things against things that don't flatter the rulers tend to render those items up to a mythological importance. Political expediency is often snakebite in the making.

Surely NASA can't be under the direct control of the Executive Branch, is it? Congress votes appropriations for it, so they could starve it of funding, but how could Trump simply decide by himself what research NASA does?

except white privilege and the wealth & power of their corporate masters

Much better would be:

"Trump to scrap NASA climate research; alleges politicized science"

The Guardian (Grauniad) headline accepts Trump's allegation as if it were true.

Many people often read no further than headlines.

other than he's totally unhinged.

It's not, it has data behind it

No one would select Trump for brainpower for sure