Fearing political retribution, NOAA scientists now refuse to link warming weather to greenhouse gases
Fearing political retribution, NOAA scientists now refuse to link warming weather to greenhouse gases
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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.”
