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 Walkers 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 heattrapping (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 DNRs climate change website............................
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)They also elected that asshole sheriff and voted for Trump.
jodymarie aimee
(3,975 posts)Rs have absolute power here. We live in hell. the same thing has now happened to the country. Cheeto won with 27% of eligible voters. Rs cheat. So, yes, with the Kochs behind them it can and did happen. First to us, now to all.
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)Wisconsin should not be eligible for federal disaster relief funds, right?
Ford_Prefect
(7,875 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)The Republican War on Truth is ramping up. They really don't want anyone to know about the shit they are up to...
turbinetree
(24,688 posts)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
MBS
(9,688 posts)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.
riversedge
(70,174 posts)zippythepinhead
(374 posts)and the rest of his family.
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Mc Mike
(9,111 posts)mitch96
(13,883 posts)Can't even MENTION climate change... dickwad..
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StevieM
(10,500 posts)rigged the election, and Trump had lost, then this guy might have tricked people into voting for him in 2020.
Scott Walker is more dangerous than Donald Trump. And more unethical than Richard Nixon.