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Racing to build wall of climate denial before Trump exits Source: By Scott Waldman, E&E News reporter • Posted: Tuesday, January 12, 2021
David Legates, a political appointee at NOAA, attends a Heartland Institute conference in 2019. Legates is promoting researchers who reject climate science. Heartland Institute/YouTube
A climate denier working under the purview of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is attempting to publish cherry-picked and inaccurate research so that it can be permanently archived as a government record.
David Legates, who serves in a senior role at NOAA and is heading the U.S. Global Change Research Program, was brought to the Trump administration recently to challenge consensus climate science. A geologist from the University of Delaware and an affiliate of the Heartland Institute, he has said climate scientists make false claims for money and that humans need to burn more fossil
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UNMARRIED LGBTQ PEOPLE CAN NOW FILE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROTECTION ORDERS: LGBTQ people in North Carolina can no longer be prevented from getting domestic violence protective orders, the N.C. Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. North Carolina had been the only state in the country to withhold emergency protections from people seeking protection from abuse by a same-sex partner, The News & Observer reported in 2019. That kind of protection is offered to couples of the opposite sex, and to married and divorced same-sex couples, but not for same-sex couples who are dating or who used to date. But that ban is unconstitutional, the appeals court ruled in a 2-1 opinion Thursday. Attorney General Josh Stein and Gov. Roy Cooper, both Democrats, had previously called the law unconstitutional and signed briefs supporting the plaintiff in this case.
3) is a colorless but not odorless gas. When ignited, ozone gives off a chlorine-bleach-like odor. So, obviously, based on this, there is a point at which ozone ignites, and it is when this ignition point is reached that the chlorine-bleachish smell from the ozone is produced and released. It is in this sense that temperature has a direct influence on ozone when the change in is such that it becomes high enough to cause a change in the way ozone in this particular instance behaves.
In the stratospheric layer high above the earth’s surface, ozone is an asset in that it prevents much of the ultraviolet (UV) radiation coming from the sun from reaching Earth’s surface. When it was discovered that stratospheric ozone was being destroyed by ozone-depleting substances here on Earth that made their way to the stratosphere and eventually caused a gaping hole to open up over the Antarctic region, this became tremendous cause on Earth for concern. The problem having been identified and add
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The Biden Administration Must Double Down on Science
It’s absolutely necessary if we’re going to weather the inevitable crises we’ll continue to face
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As President-elect Biden takes office, he will assume leadership of the U.S. government’s scientific enterprise that was once the envy of the world, but which has been battered and marginalized for the past four years. The Trump administration steadfastly refused to follow the lead of scientific experts during the COVID-19 crisis, promoting scam cures with no evidence and undermining public trust in measures like masks and social distancing. Their failure to heed the advice of experts has had predictably deadly effects: more than 300,000 dead Americans in the grim equivalent of a daily 9/11. Although hard to imagine, the assault on climate science and federal climate scientists has been even more severe. The Biden-Harris administration will face the unprecedented task of putting science befo