A Trump Insider Embeds Climate Denial in Scientific Research
Source: NYT
An official at the Interior Department embarked on a campaign that has inserted misleading language about climate change including debunked claims that increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is beneficial into the agencys scientific reports, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.
The misleading language appears in at least nine reports, including environmental studies and impact statements on major watersheds in the American West that could be used to justify allocating increasingly scarce water to farmers at the expense of wildlife conservation and fisheries.
The effort was led by Indur M. Goklany, a longtime Interior Department employee who, in 2017 near the start of the Trump administration, was promoted to the office of the deputy secretary with responsibility for reviewing the agencys climate policies. The Interior Departments scientific work is the basis for critical decisions about water and mineral rights affecting millions of Americans and hundreds of millions of acres of land.
The wording, known internally as the Goks uncertainty language based on Mr. Goklanys nickname, inaccurately claims that there is a lack of consensus among scientists that the earth is warming. In Interior Department emails to scientists, Mr. Goklany pushed misleading interpretations of climate science, saying it may be overestimating the rate of global warming, for whatever reason; climate modeling has largely predicted global warming accurately. The final language states inaccurately that some studies have found the earth to be warming, while others have not. /snip
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Bernardo de La Paz
(48,998 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)If he continues, the Party will take charge of history and make it into anything they want it to be. The past then becomes a mutable tool for control. The move towards the digital conveyance of information and storage makes that a very easy task that would put Winston Smith out of work quickly at MiniTrue.
"Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past." - 1984, George Orwell.
Perseus
(4,341 posts)Criminals do not have any sense of consequences, if it fits their goals then its OK to them. They are only worried in the here and now.
Bernardo de La Paz
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