{"id":135158,"date":"2017-10-23T13:37:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T19:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135158"},"modified":"2017-10-25T17:38:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T23:38:28","slug":"creeping-planetary-disaster-dare-not-speak-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/23\/creeping-planetary-disaster-dare-not-speak-name.html","title":{"rendered":"The creeping planetary disaster that dare not speak its name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EPA has cancelled at the last moment talks by three of their researchers at a Rhode Island conference being held today on how climate change is affecting Narragansett Bay. The researchers can attend, but are under orders not to make any presentations, or show up as the open press conference. Because Scott Pruitt and Donald Trump malicious dolts who will be dead before too many of our children and grandchildren suffer from their willful ignorance<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/10\/23\/epa-cancels-scientist-climate-change-talk\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/5mY6v6VLhlxy7g7QZ0VV5-3HVEuty_1Nep92nY1XXAQEMw0MwKDsix-nLhYVvwOvq4oHvCo5fb2VQE9PgxIycmcRe-atuoIBbZ5bhDji1NsjNxQId8USpwfd_l9u9YuBYqj9vl873WVOJs4N4zljTuA4HvOkBizcLCi-Xh6yxfqq0wZZQaRS57vRwRrTUIFJIx9Q7EeBK0d1ZH1t5S-x4nIK8EZM-DNUpkJZDAt0gRyGiJBMW2ccBXaXgGJ2MxgdnklIRd98ADOrhEyYQNTICWbJzy1Zi3D-CuIjm57oMI4hEHB0qDw2EK2Ziz3ikS0fd9XMvvVYTOgrQnp12XRyL8tqQSBVQj2Rcw91vIHzVeqwxyEZq0l30XZmfXBATnb0zBeScuhZrtE42CX4PnSfuzcW-dqML8mkrVE0SZmU2-pBvJttSGELc9dQ5Apht3_lZJLVU3beShOiYeOOCJX1J6SynOt6_26mPt4bTMRvDVUNI7-c5uWmTRrWoex0WMIBoMTFFGGdiNDW9d_LTyATm9bogf-zxaICUnFF8xoCp8P23JeaTnNadN4eVAoaBr2nezJegi7QrptEEF1YrmaZrv1Tw2Swx4uwtU8qox93yt-pFKENhtE4b4xDWEdthRecP_KkBVcdUhSJu8d_wGmOI6pF2mgqKYVIpFgeoWZmgTy3JQX2ucMopPaHeycC_3K1GeqSB7O4LPnmx-3RJ4SZHcPa5RPsTr-EFrVAiaG6aYu-dFBL8LMoytzkD4uAkcuphF4DFdjsKv-IW1O7CbNv78s=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/10\/23\/epa-cancels-scientist-climate-change-talk\/\">EPA cancels scientists&#8217; climate change talk at the last minute<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe EPA is validating fears of scientific censorship by cancelling a climate change talk at the last moment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/g5znS5LAtXA\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EPA has cancelled at the last moment talks by three of their researchers at a Rhode Island conference being held today on how climate change is affecting Narragansett Bay. The researchers can attend, but are under orders not to make any presentations, or show up as the open press conference. Because Scott Pruitt and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/23\/creeping-planetary-disaster-dare-not-speak-name.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The creeping planetary disaster that dare not speak its name&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,748,1071],"tags":[233,1274,1077],"class_list":["post-135158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-weather-and-climate-change","category-trump","tag-climatechange","tag-climatedenial","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/unnamed-11.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135267,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/02\/bye-bye-pikas.html","url_meta":{"origin":135158,"position":0},"title":"Bye-bye, Pikas","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 2-Nov-17 2:48pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Pika population around Lake Tahoe, California, has vanished, following similar die-offs in Utah and Nevada over the past decade. 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