My latest Science Progress column is up: It's about two recent developments which basically prove that those of us who have been flagging abuses of climate science in the administration were right all along. The developments are these: 1) NASA's own Inspector General now backs up charges that the agency's public affairs office tried to censor James Hansen; 2) The administration itself has finally coughed up an assessment of climate change impacts on the United States, one that clearly validates the position that it is happening, human caused, and going to hurt us. (Hey, it's only four years late!) What's significant is that these statements are now coming directly out of the administration itself. All in all, as I put it in the column, I think it leaves you feeling...
...like someone who has finally won an eight-year court case, but went through incredible suffering and sacrificed untold resources in the process--it's hard to really celebrate. You're glad it's over, but you still hate and lament what you went through. You mourn the incredible waste--so much time lost, when it didn't have to be that way. Or to give NASA's inspector general the last word: "In sum...none of this course of conduct was in the public's best interest."
You can read the full column here.
