Orwellian: Scott Walker admin. quietly scrubs mentions of climate from Climate Change website
Source: raw story
David Edwards
26 Dec 2016 at 14:41 ET
Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s administration has removed the word “climate” from a Department of Natural Resources website dedicated to climate change.
Throughout his time as governor of Wisconsin, Walker has taken a series of actions to “reduce the role of science in environmental policymaking and to silence discussion of controversial subjects, including climate change, by state employees,” according to the Scientific American.
Political writer James Rowen reported on Monday that the Walker administration had advanced their war on science by scrubbing information about climate change from a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources website that was dedicated to explaining how the agency would deal with a warming planet.
The DNR page titled “climatechange.html” originally acknowledged that “[h]uman activities that increase heat–trapping (‘green house’) gases are the main cause [of global warming.] Earth´s average temperature has increased 1.4 °F since 1850 and the eight warmest years on record have occurred since 1998.”.........................
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Read the full accounting of what was deleted from DNR’s climate change website............................
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they re-elected a complete Ayn Rand Ass**** to lead the charge to gut and cut those of us on Social Security and Medicare, and then they re-elected a complete imbecile to the U.S. Senate--------------------how do you spell stupid-----------wisCONsin.
Hell you people should move the state down to south called Kansas, you folks would fit right in with stupid. Pretty soon your highways are going to be re-named Koch Interstate 1, and whats really classic your state is more concern on privatizing the education department and getting books from Texas, that other f***K up state giving your kids books from there denying Jefferson, Climate Change
to the state of Wisconsin- and of all the horrible consequences, none are worse than what he has done to the proud history of the conservation movement in Wisconsin.
Not just Walker, of course: also the legislators who have supported him, the voters who re-elected him, and anyone else who has enabled this destruction.
