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Academic Blames ‘Politicization Of Science’ For DOE’s Supposed Anti-Climate Policies

by Chris White
August 29, 2017, 3:45 PM
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An academic who was supposedly asked to remove references to global warming from a Department of Energy (DOE) research grant claimed Monday that the agency’s request was an example of what she called the growing politicization of climate change.

Jennifer Bowen, an ecologist whose work deals with the ecology of salt marshes, posted a letter earlier this month on Facebook from DOE requesting her to remove “climate change” references from an application for a federal grant. Bowen posted the Aug. 26 letter, which has since been deleted, because she “found it to be a stark reminder of the ongoing politicization of science.”

Another ecologist made accusations after receiving a similar letter. Scott Saleska, an associate at the University of Arizona, told reporters that the DOE sent the same request. He also said the letter is an example of President Donald Trump’s willingness to use climate change as a political weapon.

“I think it is an unfortunate symptom of the Trump administration’s decisions to use political criteria for funding science,” Saleska wrote in an email, though he added that it is “a relatively minor deal that we are being asked to clarify the wording of public abstracts of already funded projects.”

Bowen, for her part, told reporters that the DOE official who sent the letter asked her to change parts of the application’s title, not the content of her research. The Northeastern University professor also said that she has “immense respect for the civil servants who are doing a tremendous job facilitating our research under trying conditions.”

Conservatives and climate skeptics have said for years that climate science is becoming politicized. Former DOE under-Secretary Steven Koonin told The Wall Street Journal earlier this year that bureaucrats within the Obama administration regularly spun scientific data to manipulate public opinion.

Koonin, who served under Obama from 2009 to 2011, said the decision to futz data was a clear-cut example of government officials adding a political element to scientific research. If you are a scientist, he added, then your ethos should be to “tell it like it is. You’re a scientist and it is your responsibility to put the facts on the table.”

Environmentalists and activists have criticized the agency in the past for eliminating duplicative programs devoted to hashing out climate change.

Nearly a dozen members of the DOE’s Office of International Climate and Technology were released in June so the Trump administration could cut bloat from the agency. The office was opened in 2010 to help allies across the world kick-start technology reducing greenhouse gasses.

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  1. Spurwing Plover says:
    8 years ago

    Just like after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans the enviromentalists wackos blamed Global Warming and after the Boxing Day Tsunami a few years ago those wackos from Greenpeace blamed Global Warming which proves Greenpeace are a whole lot of wackos and idiots

  2. Amber says:
    8 years ago

    “ongoing politicization of climate change ” Don’t recall her claim of politicization while all a ” scientist” had to do to ensure funding was to
    mention global warming or the big scary … climate change in funding applications . She doesn’t seem to recognize the BS has ended .
    Let’s hope scientists go back to following the scientific method instead of whoring themselves for cash flow .

  3. G says:
    8 years ago

    Climate science is NOTHING BUT POLITICS from the start! How sweet that these leftist wankers have finally been hoisted on their own petard!

    How does it feel?

    • Sonnyhill says:
      8 years ago

      They’re oblivious to the irony in their protestations.
      I hope that the Democrats continue to push Climate Change. They can remain critics, relieved from the responsibility and burden of leadership.

  4. Spurwing Plover says:
    8 years ago

    Science has become too liberal political when Racheal Carson wrote her fake book SILENT SPRING and after DDT was banned becuase of this and the use of Junk Science they same gose with the Rainforests,Over Population,Etc and Climate Change/Global Warming and con-men like Al Bore and Liarnardo DiCarpio writing fake books and making fake documenties

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