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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
Being a handicap event, the 14+ event is difficult to predict. Elena Huang of Hamilton East is the top seed on 14, closely followed by Carol Ainsworth of Whakatane and Neil Stantiall of Rose Gardens, both on 16. How well bisques are played, or defended against, could have a major effect on the results. The doubles events are on Thursday and Friday. There are some strong pairs in the open doubles, led by Rose Gardens club president Dennis Bulloch and John Christie of Morrinsville, closely followed by Sue and Len Lea of Wellington and the Rose Gardens pairing of Doug Van Belle and Josh Smith.
Herald on Sunday letters: Independence is not about sovereignty, it is about values and the sort of society I wish to live in
Herald on Sunday letters: Independence is not about sovereignty, it is about values and the sort of society I wish to live in MARTIN Redfern (Letters, January 3) claims that “Scottish independence, just like Brexit, is principally about sovereignty”. I beg to differ. For me, it is about values and the sort of society I wish to live in. I spent most of my adult life in England and was what could be described as a traditional Labour voter. Whilst I disagreed with some of the Blair and Brown governments’ actions, they were certainly preferable to the Tory alternative.
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It is clear that Donald Trump and his followers are deluded, unhinged and a danger to democracy. As Peter Hartcher says (‘‘Democracy is a mindset – the US is losing it’’, January 8) ‘‘the deepening bitterness, expressed in economic, race and cultural wars, is the acid eating away at American democracy’’. The gap between wealthy and poor has become more profound, as exemplified by the film Nomadland, which depicts homeless older people who are obliged to travel the US in search of menial jobs in order to survive. At the same time, the wealthy have grown their fortunes to a record of $10.2 trillion during COVID-19. Unless these injustices, and the greed of individuals and corporations are addressed in social policy terms, America is on the way to becoming a basket case.
Naomi Schalit and Ore Koren 1 POSTS 0 COMMENTS Naomi Schalit is a graduate of Princeton University with a degree in religion and Near Eastern studies, Schalit began her career at the San Jose Mercury News. She has worked as a reporter and producer at Maine Public Radio, edited the opinion pages for two Maine newspapers and, with her husband, John Christie, founded the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, a non-profit news outlet that produces investigative and accountability reporting about Maine government and public affairs.
Ore Koren (Ph.D., Minnesota 2018) is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, specializing in international relations and research methodology. Koren completed his PhD at the University of Minnesota, where he also obtained a MSc in Applied Economics. Previously, Koren was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Dickey Center at D