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riversedge

(69,719 posts)
Wed May 30, 2018, 07:19 PM May 2018

Nasa full of 'fear and anxiety' since Trump took office, ex-employee says

Source: theguardian



Those still at the agency fear climate science funding will be cut since it is now considered a ‘sensitive subject’

Oliver Milman in New York @olliemilman

Wed 30 May 2018 01.00 EDT Last modified on Wed 30 May 2018 01.10 EDT

Nasa’s output of climate change information aimed at the public has dwindled under the Trump administration, with a former employee claiming “fear and anxiety” within the agency has led to an online retreat from the issue.

Laura Tenenbaum, a former science communicator for Nasa, said she was warned off using the term “global warming” on social media and restricted in speaking to the media due to her focus on climate change.

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“They have stopped promoting or emphasizing climate science communication, they have minimized it. People inside the agency are concerned Trump will cut climate science funding. There is a fear and anxiety there and the outcome has been chaos.”

Tenenbaum said that around a month after Trump’s inauguration last year an “arduous review process” was put in place over every blog post, Facebook post and tweet that she put out from Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California..................................

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/may/30/nasa-climate-change-sensitive-subject-since-trump-former-employee



I can not imagine going to work day after day under these conditions.



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Laura Tenenbaum, a former science communicator for Nasa: ‘Nasa’s talking point is that it’s business as usual, but that’s not true.’ Photograph: Roberto Gonzalez/Getty Images
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Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
1. America is gone, for now. We are viewed as enemies of decency and the human race and
Wed May 30, 2018, 07:20 PM
May 2018

the environment and we ARE dangerous to the world.

Someday maybe we will take the country back, but NASA and all other government employees should consider their jobs gone eventually.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
12. My "fatalism" is meant to remind people we did NOT have to be here.
Thu May 31, 2018, 12:42 PM
May 2018

If only people would not have HELD their noses, WHINED about someone

byronius

(7,369 posts)
4. The Russians and the New American Nazis are out to destroy all that is green and good about the USA.
Wed May 30, 2018, 08:20 PM
May 2018

And they will fail. And they will suffer for it.

LudwigPastorius

(8,944 posts)
6. "NASA full of 'fear and anxiety' since Trump took office.."
Wed May 30, 2018, 09:02 PM
May 2018

Join the club, ladies and gentlemen.

We meet at the bar every day at 5:30PM.

BigmanPigman

(51,430 posts)
8. The fucking moron began this practice during his first month in office.
Wed May 30, 2018, 09:40 PM
May 2018

He has done so much harm that the media can't keep up. Science, Climate, State Dept., etc have all been drastically cut financially and the staff as well. Why do you think everyone has been protesting? He has been doing this for over a year. There is no money for research and what research they already do have has not been allowed out to the public and their research and their info has been stopped. People have been fired out right or else forced out. Our few foreign allies/scientists are kind enough to share their research with us.

The media is all about Mueller while this is continuing along the managed and designed GOP plan. This is why the GOP protects him, not only are they guilty of complicity and taking Russian and foreign money into the RNC, via Cohen who is still the Deputy Finance Chair or of the RNC, but they are getting rich off of his anti Climate Change/Science policies. CORRUPTION!!!!!

SeattleVet

(5,468 posts)
9. I'm sure that the NOAA employees are also feeling the same.
Wed May 30, 2018, 09:41 PM
May 2018

After all, they are the agency tasked with pretty much everything having to do with oceans, marine environment, climate, ice, hurricanes, weather, and all associated sciences. (NOAA is the largest agency within the Department of Commerce).

I was a contractor at a NOAA site for many years, and saw how bad it got under Dubya; I can't imagine what those poor hard-working scientists and researchers must be going through under the current mis-administration.

Crash2Parties

(6,017 posts)
10. One of the first anti-Science things the GOP did was cancel the stream of students
Wed May 30, 2018, 09:54 PM
May 2018

Mostly grad students, those placements were how the agency could entice some of the brightest & best. The students who would work their way up to be the next generation of scientists at NASA.

The GOP simply cancelled all of them.

Like many things they are doing to America, this one won't really hit for a number of years.

Sorta like how they simply aren't going to fill so many positions in the Administration. But things like hurricanes and infectious diseases, crop failures, and so on are still going to need experts, professionals, *experienced* people to respond in order to avoid tragedy on a large scale.

They don't care, and that's what scares me most.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
14. The Repubs have been cannibalizing the JPL for
Thu May 31, 2018, 06:09 PM
May 2018

decades now. I'm sorry they're so worried, but continuation of the same. Pre-reaganomics and the worse that followed, all employees, from the janitors, to the file clerks, to the professionals, to the director, were proud members of a team that took us into space.

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