World News Trust World News Trust
World News Trust World News Trust
  • News Portal
  • All Content
    • Edited
      • News
      • Commentary
      • Analysis
      • Advisories
      • Source
    • Flatwire
  • Topics
    • Agriculture
    • Culture
      • Arts
      • Children
      • Education
      • Entertainment
      • Food and Hunger
      • Sports
    • Disasters
    • Economy
    • Energy
    • Environment
    • Government
    • Health
    • Media
    • Science
    • Spiritual
    • Technology
    • Transportation
    • War
  • Regions
    • Africa
    • Americas
      • North America
      • South America
    • Antarctica
    • Arctic
    • Asia
    • Australia/Oceania
    • Europe
    • Middle East
    • Oceans
      • Arctic Ocean
      • Atlantic Ocean
      • Indian Ocean
      • Pacific Ocean
      • Southern Ocean
    • Space
  • World Desk
    • Submit Content
  • About Us
  • Sign In/Out
  • Register
  • Site Map
  • Contact Us
  • How Palestinians Defeated Netanyahu and Redefined ‘Unity’ | Ramzy Baroud
  • Transphobia | Wikipedia
  • Did Entheogens Cause Human Intelligence? | Bard
  • How To Deinstitutionalize The Practice Of Human Warfare | Bard
  • How Khader Adnan Unified Palestinians from His Prison Cell | Ramzy Baroud
  • European Cities Boycott Apartheid Israel | Ramzy Baroud
  • No Respite from the Slow-Motion US-China Collision | Nouriel Roubini

US Energy Agency Asked Scientists to Scrub References to Climate Change | Jeff Tollefson, Amy Maxmen

More items by author
Categories
Edited | Front Page Stories | All Content | Climate Change | Government | Politics | Science | North America | Commentary | Commentary -- WNT Reports | FlatWire
Tool Bar
View Comments

climate changeAug. 28, 2017 (Nature) -- Multiple researchers who received grants from the U.S. Department of Energy have been asked to remove references to “climate change” and “global warming” from the descriptions of their projects.

In one case, a lab official at the DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington, asked an ecologist to elide references to climate change from her grant proposal in order to satisfy U.S. President Donald Trump's “budget language restrictions.” The scientist, Jennifer Bowen of Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, posted an e-mail from the lab official to Facebook on 24 Aug.

“I have been asked to contact you to update the wording in your proposal abstract to remove words such as 'global warming' or 'climate change,'” the official, Ashley Gilbert, a project coordinator at PNNL's Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory. Bowen's project will examine how environmental stressors, such as climate change, affect the ecology of saltwater marshes.

Gilbert's office told Nature that she was unavailable for comment, and a PNNL spokesperson referred questions to DOE headquarters in Washington DC. Department spokeswoman Shaylyn Hynes declined to answer questions about the situation but said: “there is no departmental-wide policy banning the term 'climate change' from being used in DOE materials.

Bowen could not be reached for comment on the matter. But Jonathan Sanderman, a biogeochemist at the Woods Hole Research Center in Falmouth, Massachusetts, and co-principal investigator on the marsh project, confirmed that the e-mail came from Gilbert. Sanderman speculates that PNNL officials “are worried the grant will get zeroed out if someone sees that it lists climate change."

(more)

READ MORE: Scientific American

back to top
  • Created
    Monday, August 28 2017
  • Last modified
    Monday, August 28 2017
  1. You are here:  
  2. Home
  3. All Content
  4. Edited
  5. US Energy Agency Asked Scientists to Scrub References to Climate Change | Jeff Tollefson, Amy Maxmen
Copyright © 2023 World News Trust. All Rights Reserved.
Joomla! is Free Software released under the GNU General Public License.