NOAA scientists refuse to link warming weather to climate change
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In a monthly reporting call on global climate, researchers from the US government’s climate and weather agency avoided mentioning rising levels of greenhouse gases

In that context, Ho is sympathetic to the reasons climate scientists may not want to mention climate change, and to focus on something like air pollution instead. “It’s a safe thing to mention because it has nothing to do with climate change,” he says. “Air pollution is not one of the key words.”

“There’s a lot of uncertainty, there’s a lot of fear,” Ho adds. “And it shouldn’t be this way. Studying environmental sciences is about studying our life support system.”

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  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    18 hours ago

    “First they came for the climate scientists, and I did not speak out because I was not a climate scientist”

    A hard truth for everyone in this thread: all of us who are doing anything less than actively resisting and defending them are complicit.

    What are you, person reading this right now, personally going to do to help?

    • Doug Holland@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      9 hours ago

      I’ve been to four protests so far, and the crowds are getting bigger. Not as big as they should be, but at the first protest there were half a dozen of us, and at the latest maybe a thousand.

      Anyone is invited. It’s invigorating to stand with other people who give a damn. Wear a warm jacket and leave your cell phone at home.

  • x4740N@lemm.ee
    7·
    19 hours ago

    This should be their wakeup call to leave america

    They need to leave if they are fearing for their lives

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    5·
    19 hours ago

    I can’t hate on NOAA scientists (or CDC scientists) but the situation is intolerable, and they’re in a really bad place. How do they keep those institutions going and also pick a fight with the deranged billionaires that can’t wait to fire and sue them?

  • TheAthena@lemmy.world
    2·
    21 hours ago

    Polution never caused any climate change. We imagined it. Just like we imagine that 2+2=4. It’s silly really.