From one of the press briefings:
But no administration in American history, and none on the face of the Earth, has been more aggressive in trying to do sound science on [global warming] than this administration.
Those of us who know what "sound science" actually means couldn't agree more.
P.S.: Matt Nisbet has a fascinating post about why the IPCC report has failed to gain significant mass media coverage.
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This just in from the upcoming edition of The Journal of Zombie Studies. A must have experimental checklist for any Faculty Senate Subcommittee on Monitoring of Upper Administrative Activities.
The paranoid secrecy is one of the hallmarks of the Bush Administration. The signs are there that Obama will have the opposite approach. But how exactly?
Many physical scientists learned of the curious phenomena of the Cargo Cult from Feynman's commencement address at Caltech, as reproduced in his book, "Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!".
From ClimateTruth.org, in response to Trump gag orders on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA):
“President Trump and his administration have ignored scientific reality, and now they’re trying to hide it.
No significant mass media? The IPCC report has been in my RSS feeds every day for the past week in my news feeds from major media such as NY Times and CNN (the CNN site seems to have as many articles on it as the rest combined).
What coverage is it not getting? No TV coverage? I haven't watched TV news in years -- not worth my time.
not sure that was the best choice of words but read the nisbet post and you'll see
Walker's point is that people with critical thinking skills, provided they also have computers, have largely abandoned the news sources Nisbet is concerned to find lacking in news on AR4.