10/4: Another view from The Atlantic… What dropped into 9 university leaders’ mailboxes was a document that, under different circumstances, would be canned as spam as this document is basically an ultimatum: turn over control of your campus to us, or else. The “or else” is losing access to all federal programs: student loans, federal […]| The Grumpy Geophysicist
GG seems to have found all the really depressing stuff lately, so you know, let’s indulge. How does the world end? What are the odds? Now I hear you say, well, that is pretty far off (unless there are Vogons, hyperspace bypasses, and such). This is a geological view of things; humanity is pretty incapable […]| The Grumpy Geophysicist
Hey, why read stuff on your screen when you can get a real physical book to tell you how to fight what these authors call “antiscience”? Here’s a link to a story at Ars about the …| The Grumpy Geophysicist
While polishing off a science post, would be remiss not to point you to both a book, Science under Siege, and a conversation the book’s authors had with Paul Krugman. Those authors you might …| The Grumpy Geophysicist
With everything going on, it is worth noting that the war on science continues. Despite clear indications from Congress that they intend to retain funding levels for NOAA, the Trump administration appears to plan to simply not spend money Congress allocated so that they can starve out parts of NOAA. This as weather researchers try […]| The Grumpy Geophysicist
Electoral-Vote.com took a moment to compare headlines from this past week with a 2003 checklist of indications of a fascist state…here is their scorecard: Powerful and Continuing Nationalism:…| The Grumpy Geophysicist
There were signs that the federal government wasn’t going to leave academic science entirely, but then there is increasing evidence that science would be sidelined. There was movement in the …| The Grumpy Geophysicist
Kind of an interesting conjunction of news in the science press: Science is covering yet another declaration (this from employees at the EPA) accusing the administration of undermining the agencies…| The Grumpy Geophysicist
Some of us have seen this coming down the pike, and anybody who was aware of the dishonesty of the (failed) HONEST act of 2017 (and the earlier attempts to use something like it as a cudgel against…| The Grumpy Geophysicist
Update: Well, GG wasn’t the only one disappointed with the McNutt speech; Ars Technica was more brutal (mainly because the elephant in the room was ignored). So Marcia McNutt, the National Ac…| The Grumpy Geophysicist
Who picks the science that the government funds? With the National Science Foundation, there were programs that Congress mandated and there were kind of bread and butter programs that were funding …| The Grumpy Geophysicist
