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http://gizmodo.com/someone-leaked-a-major-federal-climate-change-report-be-1797622534<snip>
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 Trumps 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 Trumps belief that there is cold weather at all debunks the whole thing and Pruitts 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
(7,768 posts)by these anti-science and fact-denying charlatans.
FIGHT these 'flat earth' fuckers.
GO SCIENTISTS!
rickford66
(5,609 posts)malaise
(275,493 posts)Go Scientists
gademocrat7
(10,993 posts)Unlike buffoon in chief and his minion Pruitt.
dalton99a
(83,358 posts)paleotn
(18,799 posts)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.
Progressive dog
(7,189 posts)Empirical evidence
Caliman73
(11,767 posts)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
(53,345 posts)Show how much they edited and redacted
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)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
(28,197 posts)IF the leaker is found? Just wondering.
Bravo for these scientists having the guts to tell the truth and buck the system!!
spanone
(137,283 posts)VaBchTgerLily
(231 posts)malaise
(275,493 posts)Leak away - save America from King Con and his ReTHUG goons.
MurderMittenLiberal
(92 posts)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
(275,493 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,591 posts)malaise
(275,493 posts)That should work really well
Motley13
(3,867 posts)B2G
(9,766 posts)to the public online since January.
Bernardo de La Paz
(50,298 posts)raven mad
(4,940 posts)I realize I'm hours and hours out of "new day" posts - 8:37 a.m. here. So I look you up!
Mountain Mule
(1,002 posts)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
(9,766 posts)Available here.
Public Comment Period
15 December 2016 3 February 2017
https://archive.org/details/CSSRTODALL
Mountain Mule
(1,002 posts)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
(9,766 posts)malaise
(275,493 posts)tclambert
(11,121 posts)How dare they tell the truth when it is harmful to the President! Fake outrage! Fake outrage!
malaise
(275,493 posts)A madman is in charge
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)bucolic_frolic
(45,874 posts)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
(275,493 posts)They will fail -LOCK THEM UP!
BigmanPigman
(52,129 posts)Can't hide that fact for long folks....it's already happening! Gee, go figure.
Beartracks
(13,240 posts)Oh, I meant to say, White House.
Or... did I?
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