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Race, History And The #ScienceMarch

February 6, 2017 Christopher F. Petrella, www.aaihs.org , , ,
By Christopher F. Petrella for Black Perspectives - Donald Trump is an anti-science president. In fact, his entire raison d'être -- perhaps unsurprisingly -- stands at cross-purposes with the scientific method, systematic inquiry, and even the basic notion of evidentiary support. In the few days since his inauguration, Trump has already prohibited scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from speaking to the public about their research. Moreover, the White House recently expunged U.S. National Park Service (NPS) Twitter content highlighting the threat of climate change. In the wake of Trump's dictates, concerned scientists have taken to social media to plan a protest in Washington, DC...

Scientists’ March On Washington

January 26, 2017 Staff, www.scientistsmarchonwashington.com , ,
By Staff of Scientists' March On Washington - Welcome! We want to thank you all for your incredible outpouring of support for this march. We are working to schedule a March for Science on DC and across the United States. We have not settled on a date yet but will do so as quickly as possible and announce it here. Although this will start with a march, we hope to use this as a starting point to take a stand for science in politics. Slashing funding and restricting scientists from communicating their findings (from tax-funded research!) with the public is absurd and cannot be allowed to stand as policy. This is a non-partisan issue that reaches far beyond people in the STEM fields and should concern anyone who values empirical research and science.

Climate Scientist Wins Legal Battle In War on Science

December 26, 2016 Lauren McCauley, www.commondreams.org , , ,
By Lauren McCauley for Common Dreams - Michael Mann will now be able to proceed with defamation case against conservative writers who attempted to smear his work on global warming. Amid fears over a pending war on science under incoming President Donald Trump, scientist Michael Mann won an important legal victory on Thursday against conservative writers who attempted to defame Mann for his work on global warming. A three-judge panel with the Washington, D.C. Court of Appeals ruled that Mann can proceed with his defamation claims against Mark Steyn with the conservative National Review and Rand Simberg...

2,300 Leading Scientists Send Trump A Clear Warning: We’re Watching You

December 21, 2016 Chris D’Angelo, www.huffingtonpost.com ,
By Chris D’Angelo for The Huffington Post - More than 2,300 scientists, including 22 Nobel Prize recipients, have a warning for Donald Trump: Respect science or prepare for a fight. In an open letter Wednesday to the president-elect and Congress, scientists representing all 50 states called on the incoming administration to sufficiently fund scientific research as well as “support and rely on science as a key input for crafting public policy.” Anything short of that, they stressed, is a direct threat to the health and safety of Americans and people around the world.

Climate Scientists Protest Trump Administration In San Francisco

December 15, 2016 Sarah Emerson, www.motherboard.vice.com , , , ,
By Sarah Emerson for Motherboard - With hope, exhaustion, and a fair bit of anger, dozens of scientists and climate experts met to protest the coming Trump Administration. An estimated 26,000 scientists met today at the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) annual conference in San Francisco, California. It was the first major gathering of climate experts since the election of Donald Trump, and the findings shared there were appropriately grim: Our planet is changing—for the worse—and nowhere is this more apparent than the Arctic where rising temperatures, disappearing sea ice, and dwindling species populations are evidence of our collective inaction.

Letter Regarding Climate Change From Members Of U.S. National Academy Of Sciences

September 27, 2016 Staff, www.responsiblescientists.org ,
By Staff of Responsible Scientists - On September 20, 2016, 375 members of the National Academy of Sciences, including 30 Nobel laureates, published an open letter to draw attention to the serious risks of climate change. The letter warns that the consequences of opting out of the Paris agreement would be severe and long-lasting for our planet’s climate and for the international credibility of the United States.

Science Orgs Again Urge Congress To Take Climate Change Seriously

June 29, 2016 Lisa Song, www.insideclimatenews.org , ,
By Lisa Song for Inside Climate News - Thirty-one major American scientific organizations sent a letter to Congress on Tuesday emphasizing the overwhelming consensus on climate change science and the urgent need for climate action. The letter served as a scientific counterpoint to recent actions by Congress designed to question that consensus. Reminding members of Congress that "rigorous scientific research concludes that the greenhouse gases emitted by human activities are the primary driver" of global warming, they cited nearly universal support for the scientific consensus as expressed by the U.S. National Academies, the U.S. Global Change Research Program and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Scientists Tell Largest Science Organization To Reject Exxon

February 25, 2016 Staff, www.thenaturalhistorymuseum.org , , ,
By The Natural History Museum. Cambridge, MA — On February 22, 2016, more than 100* geoscientists sent a letter (also attached) to the President of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) - the world’s largest association of Earth scientists - calling for an end to ExxonMobil sponsorship of AGU in a stand against climate science disinformation. “As Earth scientists, we are deeply troubled by the well-documented complicity of ExxonMobil in climate denial and misinformation…By allowing Exxon to appropriate AGU’s institutional social license to help legitimize the company’s climate misinformation, AGU is undermining its stated values as well as the work of many of its own members,” states the letter.

Welcome To The Pirate Bay Of Science

February 14, 2016 Fiona MacDonald, www.sciencealert.com , , ,
By Fiona MacDonald for Science Alert. A researcher in Russia has made more than 48 million journal articles - almost every single peer-reviewed paper every published - freely available online. And she's now refusing to shut the site down, despite a court injunction and a lawsuit from Elsevier, one of the world's biggest publishers. For those of you who aren't already using it, the site in question is Sci-Hub, and it's sort of like a Pirate Bay of the science world. It was established in 2011 by neuroscientist Alexandra Elbakyan, who was frustrated that she couldn't afford to access the articles needed for her research, and it's since gone viral, with hundreds of thousands of papers being downloaded daily. But at the end of last year, the site was ordered to be taken down by a New York district court - a ruling that Elbakyan has decided to fight, triggering a debate over who really owns science.

Hawaii Supreme Court Stops Work On Controversial Giant Telescope

December 4, 2015 Chris D'Angelo, www.huffingtonpost.com ,
By Chris D'Angelo for Huffington Post - What was to become one of the world's largest and most advanced telescopes may not be built at all. The Hawaii Supreme Court on Wednesday invalidated a construction permit for the $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope to be built atop the Big Island's Mauna Kea mountain. The justices ruled the Hawaii Board of Land and Natural Resources violated due process when it approved the permit in 2011, prior to holding a hearing to evaluate a petition by a group challenging the project. “Quite simply, the board put the cart before the horse,” Chief Justice Mark Recktenwald wrote.

EPA Finding On Fracking Disputed By Own Scientists

November 22, 2015 Neela Banerjee, www.insideclimatenews.org , , ,
By Neela Banerjee for Inside Climate News. Washington, DC - An Environmental Protection Agency panel of independent scientific advisers has challenged core conclusions of a major study the agency issued in June that minimized the potential risks to drinking water from hydraulic fracturing. The panel, known as the Science Advisory Board (SAB), particularly criticized the EPA's central finding that fracking has not led to "to widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources in the United States." The oil and gas industry has seized on the conclusion to argue that broad concerns about fracking's impact on drinking water are overblown. The SAB's 30 members, from academia, industry and federal agencies, said this and other conclusions drawn in the executive summary were ambiguous or inconsistent "with the observations/data presented in the body of the report."

The Teflon Toxin Goes To Court

September 21, 2015 Sharon Lerner, www.theintercept.com , , ,
By Sharon Lerner in The Intercept - As The Intercept reported in a three-part series last month, Bartlett’s is the first of some 3,500 personal injury and 37 wrongful death claims stemming from the 2005 settlement of a class-action suit filed on behalf of people who lived near the plant. Another trial over the chemical, which for decades was used in the production of Teflon and many other products, is scheduled for November. Together, the “bellwether” cases, six in all, are expected to give attorneys on both sides a sense of whether the rest of the claims will proceed or settle — and for how much. Bartlett’s attorneys, including Robert Bilott, who has been working on C8 since takingthe case of a West Virginia farmer named Wilbur Tennant in 1999, argue that DuPont is guilty of negligence, battery, and infliction of emotional harm for exposing Bartlett to C8 in her drinking water.

Attorney Hounding Climate Scientists Funded By Coal Industry

August 27, 2015 Lee Fang, www.firstlook.org , ,
By Lee Fang in The Intercept - Christopher Horner, an attorney who claims that the earth is cooling, is known within the scientific community for hounding climate change researchers with relentless investigations and public ridicule, often deriding scientists as “communists” and frauds. Horner is a regular guest on Fox News and CNN, and has been affiliated with a number of think tanks and legal organizations over the last decade. He has called for investigations of climate scientists affiliated with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and NASA, and inundated climate researchers at major universities across the country with records requests that critics say are designed to distract them from their work.

Monsanto Pays “Independent” GMO Researcher For Study

August 18, 2015 Cassius Methyl, www.theantimedia.org , , , ,
By Cassius Methyl in The Anti-Media - In January of 2015, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by Oakland organization U.S. Right to Know requested email records between academics, scientists, and representatives of Big Agriculture. The FOIA requests were sent to 14 scientists at four public universities, requesting information on communications and email records. The FOIA findings included communications of well-known, staunch proponents of GM crops like Kevin Folta, a professor and chairman of the Horticultural Sciences Department at the University of Gainesville, who received a $25,000 grant from Monsanto. The emails reveal the funds could “be used at [his] discretion in support of [his] research and outreach projects”. About 4,600 pages of emails, among other records, were obtained from Folta.

Key Greenhouse Gas Study “Systematically Understated” Methane Leaks

August 6, 2015 Sharon Kelly, www.desmogblog.com , , , ,
By Sharon Kelly in DeSmogBlog - The study's key contribution to the science on methane leaks was that researchers were allowed to access to oil and gas wells, including 27 wells where fracking was underway, and test individual pieces of equipment. “This is actual data, and it’s the first time we’ve had the opportunity to get actual data from unconventional natural gas development,” Mark Brownstein, an Environmental Defense Fund associate vice president, told FuelFix when theUT study was published. But the problem stems from the tool that the University of Texas study used to collect its data – which can malfunction when leaks are spewing at high rates. The “University of Texas study underestimates national methane emissions at natural gas production sites due to instrument sensor failure,” Mr. Howard, who invented the basic technology used by that instrument, wrote.
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