Someone Leaked a Major Federal Climate Change Report Before Trump and Pruitt Can Cook the Books

[malaise]

http://gizmodo.com/someone-leaked-a-major-federal-climate-change-report-be-1797622534
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On Monday, the New York Times published a leaked copy of the special science section of the draft 2018 National Climate Assessment, which federal climate researchers had completed but feared Donald Trump’s administration and new Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt were plotting to smother in its crib.

The draft report reflects federal scientists’ continued and unshaken belief human industrial activity is the primary driver of climate change, despite Trump’s belief that there is cold weather at all debunks the whole thing and Pruitt’s belief human CO2 emissions might not be related. It takes note of thousands of scientific studies, and particularly focuses on the rapid rise in US average temperatures since 1980. It also emphasizes research indicating the past few decades have been the warmest in 1,500 years.
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Bravo Scientists

[PearliePoo2]

1. People who have made research and seeking the truth their life's work aren't going to be silenced...

by these anti-science and fact-denying charlatans.
FIGHT these 'flat earth' fuckers.
GO SCIENTISTS!

[rickford66]

4. Too bad Galileo didn't have Twitter !

[malaise]

16. +1,000

Go Scientists

[gademocrat7]

2. Intelligent people who understand our environmental crisis.

Unlike buffoon in chief and his minion Pruitt.

[dalton99a]

3. Excellent

[paleotn]

5. It's not belief....

it's data. I hate that word when it comes to science. It's not what you believe, it's what you have evidence to support that matters and at this point there's as much evidence of anthropogenic climate change as there is germ theory. It's settled science. The only legitimate points of discussion are how bad will it get and when, since current mitigation efforts appear to be to little, to late.

Thank goodness we've still got brave, honest researchers in a government run by con men.

[n2doc]

7. +1000 n/t

[Progressive dog]

14. Yes n/t

[malaise]

17. +1,000

Empirical evidence

[Caliman73]

38. Word creep.

I agree with the idea you are expressing around "belief" and science but the word "believe" is defined as "accepting something at true" or "feeling sure that something is true"

I have always taken "belief" to mean acceptance based on faith, which is without evidence, but nowadays it is used to mean accepting as evidence as well. As in, "I believe that the witness' testimony was accurate based on the corroboration with the other testimony and forensic evidence."

[Roland99]

6. Wonder the result of the NYT had published after the Trump admin

Show how much they edited and redacted

[Achilleaze]

8. republicans will now sic the frikken KGOP Leak Police on the truth tellers

You can bet your freakin bippy. republicans will not let truth stand. They are gonna have a passion to stomp out the truth and punish the truth tellers.

[Duppers]

15. Will they fire the authors along with the leaker(s)?

IF the leaker is found? Just wondering.

Bravo for these scientists having the guts to tell the truth and buck the system!!

[spanone]

9. i agree... Bravo!!!! 👍🏼

[VaBchTgerLily]

10. and BRAVO TO THE LEAKERS! we all have aright to this information

[malaise]

18. Yes

Leak away - save America from King Con and his ReTHUG goons.

[tanyev]

11. Nice.

[MurderMittenLiberal]

12. Well Done!

I really wish I could see Trumps reactions when he hears about anything leaking out. I can't wait to hear how Sessions will try and spin this leak as something that "puts lives at risk with impunity"

[malaise]

19. Join the line

[TexasBushwhacker]

13. Trump's minions will call it fake news n/t

[malaise]

20. 73% of America does not believe anything oming from the WH according to the latest CNN poll

That should work really well

[Motley13]

21. flooding in Miami last wk

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/08/04/flooding-in-miami-is-no-longer-news-but-its-certainly-newsworthy/?utm_term=.a372e617f907

[B2G]

22. I'm seeing numerous tweets that the doc has been available

to the public online since January.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

23. The NewSpeak Big Brother Ag Dept is banning the phrase "climate change". . . . nt

[raven mad]

24. malaise, I count on you to wake me up every day...........

I realize I'm hours and hours out of "new day" posts - 8:37 a.m. here. So I look you up!

[Mountain Mule]

25. I downloaded the entire report!

Since such documents have the unfortunate habit of vanishing these days. Good for the scientists who made this vital information available. You can be sure that Dumbf would have quashed it long before it saw the light of day.

[B2G]

26. Again, it's been online since January.

Available here.

Public Comment Period
15 December 2016 – 3 February 2017

https://archive.org/details/CSSRTODALL

[Mountain Mule]

27. You are thinking of the 3rd draft - this one is the 5th draft

which needs to be signed off on by 13 different government agencies - none of which would do so in Dumpf's Whitehouse.

Note: Edited to reflect the correct draft number of the report which was already online.

[B2G]

28. The one the NYT posted as 'leaked' was the 3rd draft.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/climate/climate-change-drastic-warming-trump.html

[malaise]

32. Correct n/t

[tclambert]

29. It's the Deep State trying to undermine poor Donald's agenda by leaking the truth!

How dare they tell the truth when it is harmful to the President! Fake outrage! Fake outrage!

[malaise]

30. I can't take this madness for much longer

A madman is in charge

[Scurrilous]

31. K&R

[bucolic_frolic]

33. This is like the Civil War

when the Generals and career officers were leaving the government to sign on with the Confederacy

The people, the literati, the scientists are not with these Bozo's

The Pretend Government will fall at some point.

[malaise]

35. Excellent observation

They will fail -LOCK THEM UP!

[BigmanPigman]

34. The earth is cooking along with "the books".

Can't hide that fact for long folks....it's already happening! Gee, go figure.

[Beartracks]

36. I wonder what the response will be from the Whine House.

Oh, I meant to say, White House.

Or... did I?



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[Lucinda]

37. Thank you!

[Hekate]

39. KnR!