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
So over the past few months–yes, less than 1/8th of Trump’s second term–we’ve seen and experienced one of the most pervasive assaults on science in the US ever. And one of the things that makes it so head-spinning is that it seems utterly arbitrary. Is there some guiding principle behind all this? The place to […]| 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
“There’s a feeling in the air that somebody’s out to get scientists.” How carefully do you read the novel-length “terms and conditions” for some software purchase? Scroll to…| 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
Librarians and archivists are doing all that they can to collect and curate already-published web-based government information and data before it is taken offline. However, this administration’s anti-science policies and executive orders will have long-lasting negative impacts in the United States and around the world going forward and for many years to come as scientific … Continue reading → The post Trump administration shut down more than 100 climate studies first appeared on Free Go...| Free Government Information (FGI)
So we in the scientific community have been witnessing with dismay the disassembly of federally supported scientific research along with the attempts by the administration to cow universities to do…| The Grumpy Geophysicist
2 June update: The NSF budget has been revealed in all its…glory? The overall cut from ~$9B to $3.9B is gruesome. Overall proposal success rate is estimated to drop to 7%. Postdoctoral fellow…| 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