To guard against political influence in science within the government, the White House announced the official launch of the Scientific Integrity Task Force.
The new initiative, announced Monday, includes 46 members from more than two dozen government agencies who are tasked with looking back through 2009, to find where political partisanship may have exacted influence over decisions that were supposed to be evidence and research-based.
The effort, which was motivated by the previous administration’s seeming aversion to all things science, whether it be climate change or the pandemic, will be led...
The new initiative, announced Monday, includes 46 members from more than two dozen government agencies who are tasked with looking back through 2009, to find where political partisanship may have exacted influence over decisions that were supposed to be evidence and research-based.
The effort, which was motivated by the previous administration’s seeming aversion to all things science, whether it be climate change or the pandemic, will be led...
- 5/10/2021
- by Peter Wade
- Rollingstone.com
The blob went unnoticed at first. In the summer of 2013, a high-pressure ridge settled over a Texas-size area in the northern Pacific, pushing the sky down over the ocean like an invisible lid. The winds died down, and the water became weirdly calm. Without waves and wind to break up the surface and dissipate heat, warmth from the sun accumulated in the water, eventually raising the temperature by 5 degrees Fahrenheit — a huge spike for the ocean.
When scientists noticed this temperature anomaly in the satellite data, they had never seen anything like it.
When scientists noticed this temperature anomaly in the satellite data, they had never seen anything like it.
- 4/2/2020
- by Jeff Goodell
- Rollingstone.com
After President Donald Trump falsely claimed in a tweet that Hurricane Dorian would hit the state of Alabama “(much) harder than anticipated,” National Weather Service staff were directed not to contradict his assertion. In an agencywide directive, employees were instructed to “only stick with official National Hurricane Center forecasts if questions arise from some national level social media posts which hit the news this afternoon” and encouraged not to “provide any opinion,” according to an email obtained by the Washington Post.
An anonymous Noaa meteorologist told the Post that the...
An anonymous Noaa meteorologist told the Post that the...
- 9/8/2019
- by Peter Wade
- Rollingstone.com
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