EPA cancels appearance by scientists at climate change conference - Polidicks

[QUOTE]NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has canceled plans for three of its scientists to speak on climate change at a conference in Rhode Island on Monday, an official said on Sunday. Tom Borden, program director for the Narragansett Bay Estuary Program, confirmed that the EPA had on Friday canceled the appearance by two employees and an EPA consultant. No other EPA staff or affiliates are now scheduled to speak at the event. The New York Times first reported the cancellations on Sunday. The EPA gave “no specific reason” for why the scientists were not allowed to speak, Borden said. The topics of the conference had not changed, he added. The EPA did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The Narragansett Bay Estuary Program is one of 28 such programs funded by the EPA, according to the EPA’s website. The organization is due to release a report on the state of the Narragansett Bay watershed and estuary on Monday. The three scientists scheduled to speak included Autumn Oczkowski, an EPA research ecologist, who was due to deliver the keynote address at the meeting in Providence. Rose Martin, an EPA postdoctoral fellow, and Emily Shumchenia, an EPA consultant, were due to speak on a panel about the biological implications of climate change, according to a program of the event published on Oct. 4. EPA administrator Scott Pruitt has repeatedly expressed doubts about climate change and under his leadership the agency has moved to undo dozens of Obama-era climate regulations, including Obama’s Clean Power Plan aimed at combating global warming. [/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-epa-climatechange/epa-cancels-appearance-by-scientists-at-climate-change-conference-idUSKBN1CS03O?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=59ed610d04d30154722e821e&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook"]Reuters.[/URL] Short article, so posted all of it. Also not sure if this belongs in SH or polidicks.

They've probably been let go.

Wouldn't want scientists to talk about science, what we need is some businessmen to talk about science. Then we can really get things done.

State censorship of the sciences.

[QUOTE=froztshock;52813460]State censorship of the sciences.[/QUOTE] Which as far as I'm concerned is a casus belli.

Neo-Nazis "deserve" a free speech platform but scientists are increasingly muzzled, but alt right supports won't say a thing because it doesn't align with their views. We all know those people who hide behind free speech to defend hate in the name of playing devils advocate, and we really need to start calling them out on their hypocrisy. It's the most transparent shit yet it let's shitposters get away with real fascism. This thread should be full of free speech defenders but they're too busy making threads about inane tabloid crap.

[QUOTE=CreeplyTuna;52814396]Neo-Nazis "deserve" a free speech platform but scientists are increasingly muzzled, but alt right supports won't say a thing because it doesn't align with their views. We all know those people who hide behind free speech to defend hate in the name of playing devils advocate, and we really need to start calling them out on their hypocrisy. It's the most transparent shit yet it let's shitposters get away with real fascism. This thread should be full of free speech defenders but they're too busy making threads about inane tabloid crap.[/QUOTE] You might not be aware of this but the EPA aren't responsible for setting up neo-Nazi rallies. There's a time and a place for shit, and there are no less than 3 threads on neo-nazis right now, take it where it belongs.

[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;52814418]You might not be aware of this but the EPA aren't responsible for setting up neo-Nazi rallies. There's a time and a place for shit, and there are no less than 3 threads on neo-nazis right now, take it where it belongs.[/QUOTE] You're right, I was ranting and I should have controlled myself. What Scott Pruitt is doing, along with other climate change deniers like Florida governor Rick Scott who bans the mention of the word in research in his state, is as much of an attack on free speech as it is on science and it needs to be called out.

Hi, Canada here. We let this happen to us under Stephen Harper and irreplaceable climate data records were permanently lost. Many records were saved by conscientious scientists and community volunteers, but we have objectively lost information from Canada's environmental historical record. The history of Canada's water, an important body of information when you consider we're talking about being able to track environmental changes and widespread public health statistics against the conditions of water supplies nationwide over decades, is now spotty in places where it didn't need to be but for the greed of an oilman Prime Minister delivering an anti-climate change agenda for his "real" constituents, the petrochemical industry. Don't let it happen to you. Rally in the fucking streets. Flood your Congress reps with demands to protect the integrity of the EPA starting with demanding Pruitt get kicked the fuck out. When the environmental concerns of a nation are allowed to be subverted entirely for corporate profit, there are no winners at all, except those immediately enrichened. America pays the price now, and not only will future generations of Americans pay the price, the rest of the planet will as well. For the love of God, do something to stop the EPA from being gutted and turned inside-out to dry in the sun.

So how long until literally every government agency starts doing the exact opposite of what they originally were intended for? What between the new EPA head "ending the war on coal mining" and suppressing information which supports climate change, the ATF handing firearms wholesale over to the Mexican cartels, the FCC trying to support and maintain the pseudo monopolies held by ISPs and telecommunications companies, I could go on but this shit is fucking bananas, etc... Even better, the head of FBI gets fired for managing the only agency that actually tries to do its job correctly regardless of who's in charge and not yielding to corporate shills.

[QUOTE=AlbertWesker;52817046]So how long until literally every government agency starts doing the exact opposite of what they originally were intended for? What between the new EPA head "ending the war on coal mining" and suppressing information which supports climate change, the ATF handing firearms wholesale over to the Mexican cartels, the FCC trying to support and maintain the pseudo monopolies held by ISPs and telecommunications companies, I could go on but this shit is fucking bananas, etc... Even better, the head of FBI gets fired for managing the only agency that actually tries to do its job correctly regardless of who's in charge and not yielding to corporate shills.[/QUOTE] Including the ministries of Love, Peace, Truth, and Plenty.

[QUOTE=AlbertWesker;52817046]So how long until literally every government agency starts doing the exact opposite of what they originally were intended for? What between the new EPA head "ending the war on coal mining" and suppressing information which supports climate change, the ATF handing firearms wholesale over to the Mexican cartels, the FCC trying to support and maintain the pseudo monopolies held by ISPs and telecommunications companies, I could go on but this shit is fucking bananas, etc... Even better, the head of FBI gets fired for managing the only agency that actually tries to do its job correctly regardless of who's in charge and not yielding to corporate shills.[/QUOTE] It's pretty well established that all of Trump's cabinet picks were chosen more for their ability to tear down the institutions they were appointed to rather than strengthen them. See Devos as Secretary of Education or Ajit Pai at the FCC. This isn't by accident, it's by design.